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Bethen
Bethen is a small town on the edge of the German city Cloppenburg 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 ... in Lower Saxony. It is a Marian shrine, as such first mentioned in 1448. References Cloppenburg (district) {{Cloppenburg-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cloppenburg
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 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''). The town had strong cultural links with St Munchins Parish in Limerick, Ireland from the 1970s to the 1990s. During this period many groups of teens/young adults from both areas visited and were hosted by families from the other area. Economy The town is a centre for the largely agricultural region of southern Oldenburg. It i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
