Getelo is a community in the district of

Grafschaft Bentheim County of Bentheim () is a districts of Germany, district (''Landkreis'') in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the Netherlands, Dutch provinces of Overijssel and Drenthe, the district of Emsland, and the distri ...

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony is a States of Germany, German state (') in Northern Germany, northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ' of the Germany, Federal Re ...

Geography

Location

Getelo lies west of

Nordhorn Nordhorn (; Northern Low Saxon: ''Nothoorn'', or ''Notthoarn'', ''Netthoarn,'' and Dutch: ''Noordhoorn'') is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the district seat of Grafschaft Bentheim, located in the southwest corner of the state, near th ...

on the border with the

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. It belongs to the Joint Community (''Samtgemeinde'') of

Uelsen Uelsen () is a community in the district of Grafschaft Bentheim in Lower Saxony. Geography The community of Uelsen lies in westernmost Lower Saxony, on the border with the Kingdom of the Netherlands, roughly 30 km north of Enschede and 15&n ...

, whose administrative seat is in the like-named community.

Constituent communities

The community’s two centres are Getelo and Getelomoor.

Politics

Mayor

The honorary mayor Jan-Hindrik Schipper was elected on 9 September 2001.

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings

''Söven Pölle'', barrows from the

Bronze Age The Bronze Age () was a historical period characterised principally by the use of bronze tools and the development of complex urban societies, as well as the adoption of writing in some areas. The Bronze Age is the middle principal period of ...

, are found in the community. The name gives the number as seven, although there were once as many as 26.

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

Various state highways and district roads join the community to ''

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'' 403, about 10 km away.

References

External links

Joint community’s webpage
{{Authority control County of Bentheim (district)