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Papenburg
Sign in to savePapenburg (; East Frisian Low Saxon: Papenbörg) is a city in the district of Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany, situated at the river Ems. It is known for its large shipyard, the Meyer-Werft, which specializes in building cruise liners.
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Papenburg is a city in Germany, located in the Emsland district of Lower Saxony. It was established in 1631 and has a population of 38,841. The city covers an area of 118.44 square kilometers and sits at an elevation of 6 meters above sea level. Its postal code is 26871, and it uses the license plate code EL.
The city is situated next to the Ems river and the Dortmund–Ems Canal. It shares borders with Neulehe, Lehe, Surwold, and Rhede (Ems). Papenburg contains the administrative entities of Aschendorf and Tunxdorf. It is a member of the Climate Alliance and is twinned with Ruda Śląska. The local dialing codes include 04961, 04962, 04965, and 04968.
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Place details
- Locality
- Papenburg
- Region
- Niedersachsen
- Country
- Deutschland
- Population
- 0
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- German location.type
- Stadt
- German location.image_flag
- DEU Papenburg Flag.svg
- German location.image_coa
- DEU Papenburg COA.svg
- German location.image_photo
- Papenburg Rathaus 2.jpg
- German location.image_caption
- City hall in 2004
- German location.image_plan
- Papenburg in EL.svg
- German location.state
- Niedersachsen
- German location.district
- Emsland
- German location.elevation
- 6
- German location.postal_code
- 26871
- German location.area_code
- 04961, 04962, 04965
- German location.licence
- EL
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 03 4 54 041
- German location.divisions
- 6 subdivisions
- German location.website
- www.papenburg.de
- German location.mayor
- Vanessa Gattung
- German location.leader_term
- 2021–26
- German location.party
- SPD
via Wikipedia infobox
Travel guide
Understand
thumb|Thekla von Papenburg, one of the sailship replicas you may see moored in the canals or harbour
Papenburg, in the middle of the peat landscape of the Dutch-German borderland is a city of canals and the southernmost seaport of Germany. Starting as a "peat colony" in medieval times (comparable to the Dutch Veenkoloniën across the border), its history is closely related to the Ems river, peat extraction, seafaring and industrialization.
The city is really composed of several towns: in the north, in the east and in the southwest. Moreover the districts of , , and form part of the city. This has historical reasons; e.g. Aschendorf was a separate city until 1973, and at that one of the oldest known settlements in Lower Saxony.
Each of the districts has its own character, offering nature, nightlife, historical or living industrial culture, tradition or high-tech.
See
thumb|Stiefelknechthaus in the Gut Altenkamp park thumb|The large hall of the Meyer shipyard
Buy
There are shops in the districts of Untenende, Obenende and Aschendorf that are suitable both for buying things and window shopping. In all of these you can also find supermarkets. Along you can find shops in a "maritime environment".
Sleep
thumb|St. Antonius church and the Arkadenhaus building
In addition to the hotels, the tourist office can help with booking different homestays.
Connect
Many businesses offer free Wi-Fi.
If you travel west of the town (e.g. hiking or biking) it's possible that your mobile devices will connect to Dutch networks.
The German postal service (Deutsche Post) has offices in Untenende, Obenende and in Aschendorf.
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Aurich 62 km Cloppenburg 65 km Emden 50 km Leer 32 km Saterland 30 km The "thick linden", in Heede, some 16 km south of Papenburg is one of the most impressive trees in Europe. With an age of 600-800 years, its circumference is about 17.5 m.
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Districts
- History
- Population
- Transport
- Twin towns – sister cities
- Gallery
- References
- External links
Papenburg (; East Frisian Low Saxon: Papenbörg) is a city in the district of Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany, situated at the river Ems. It is known for its large shipyard, the Meyer-Werft, which specializes in building cruise liners.
==Geography==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Papenburg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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