Essen (Oldenburg) is a municipality in the district of Cloppenburg, in

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. It is on the river

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, about north of

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and southwest of

Cloppenburg Cloppenburg (; nds, Cloppenborg; stq, Kloppenbuurich) is a town in Lower Saxony, 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 Bre ...

Essen consists of the following villages:

Addrup Addrup is a village in the district of Cloppenburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Geography Addrup borders the villages of Gut Lage, Uptloh, Bevern, Calhorn and Stadtsholte within the Essen (Oldenburg) municipality. To the east, Addrup borders Lüs ...

, Ahausen, Barlage, Bartmannsholte, Beverdiek, Bevern, Bokel, Brokstreek, Calhorn, Darrel, Essen proper, Felde, Gut Lage, Herbergen, Hülsenmoor, Nordholte, Osteressen, Sandloh and Uptloh. The reference to Oldenburg serves to allow disambiguation with the much larger Essen (Ruhr). It is part of the official name as stated in the town constitution, which also prescribes the styling using parentheses. The mayor of Essen is Heinrich Kreßmann, first elected in 2016,Kreßmann neuer Bürgermeister
NWZ Online, 26 September 2016. and re-elected in 2021.

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