Cloppenburg
Sign in to saveCloppenburg (; ; ) is a town in Lower Saxony, in north-western Germany, capital of Cloppenburg District and part of Oldenburg Münsterland. It lies 38 km south-south-west of Oldenburg in the Weser-Ems region between Bremen and the Dutch border. Cloppenburg is not far from the A1, the major motorway connecting the Ruhr area to Bremen and Hamburg. Another major road is the federal highway B213 being the shortest link from the Netherlands to the A1 and thus to Bremen and Hamburg.
Key facts
- German location.type
- Stadt
- German location.name
- Cloppenburg
- German location.image_photo
- Panorama Cloppenburg.jpg
- German location.image_caption
- Panorama of Cloppenburg
- German location.image_flag
- Flagge Cloppenburg.svg
- German location.image_coa
- DEU Cloppenburg COA.svg
- German location.image_plan
- Cloppenburg in CLP.svg
- German location.state
- Niedersachsen
- German location.district
- Cloppenburg
- German location.elevation
- 39
- German location.area
- 70.86
- German location.postal_code
- 49661
- German location.area_code
- 04471
- German location.licence
- CLP
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 03 4 53 004
- German location.website
- www.cloppenburg.de
- German location.mayor
- Neidhard Varnhorn
- German location.leader_term
- 2021–26
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Cloppenburg (; ; ) is a town in Lower Saxony, in north-western Germany, capital of Cloppenburg District and part of Oldenburg Münsterland. It lies 38 km south-south-west of Oldenburg in the Weser-Ems region between Bremen and the Dutch border. Cloppenburg is not far from the A1, the major motorway connecting the Ruhr area to Bremen and Hamburg. Another major road is the federal highway B213 being the shortest link from the Netherlands to the A1 and thus to Bremen and Hamburg.
==History== thumb|left|17th-century view of the town Under Nazi Germany, it was the location of a forced labour subcamp of the prison in Vechta and a camp for Sinti and Romani people (see Romani Holocaust).