Löningen () is a town in the district of Cloppenburg, in

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 ...

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. The town is situated on the river

Hase The Hase () is a river of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Ems, but part of its flow goes to the Else, that is part of the Weser basin. Its source is in the Teutoburg Forest, south-east of Osnabrück, on the north slope ...

, approx. 25 km southwest of

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 ...

History

Löningen originally appeared in 822 as Loingo. The name Löningen was mentioned first in 1147 in a letter to the Bishop von Hildesheim, when the area of Löningen belonged to the Corvey Abbey. Beginning in 1200 Löningen belonged to the Count von Tecklenburg. The diocese Münster absorbed Löningen beginning in 1400. In 1803, church rule ended and Löningen belonged to the Duchy of Oldenburg. From 1810 to 1813 Löningen belonged to the Arrondissement Quakenbrück. After the battle of Leipzig, Löningen returned to Oldenburg. In 1814 the Duchy of Oldenburg was divided into 25 offices, one of which became Löningen. This was dissolved 1879 and Löningen was assigned to the district of

. During the World War II, the first bombs in the Löningen area fell in 1940, and in 1945 the Löningen district courthouse was destroyed by bombing. On the 10th and 11 April 1945 British troops arrived and surrounded the German troops on three sides — after which the German troops retreated.Jansen: ''Löningen in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart'', 1998, S. 203 ff The municipal laws of Löningen were codified on 1 March 1982.

Population

Mayors

*1951–1952: Bernard Berges *1952–1960: Wilhelm Bischoff, ( CDU) *1960–1972: Adolf Richard, (CDU) *1972–1986: Kurt Schmücker, (CDU) *1986–1991: Heinrich Wesselmann, (CDU) *1991–1997: Clemens Winkler, (CDU) *1997–2001: Hermann Vorholt, (CDU) *2001-2014: Thomas Städtler, Independent *2014–2021: Marcus Willen, (CDU) *since 2021: Burkhard Sibbel

Notable people

* Kurt Schmücker (1919-1996), politician (CDU) *

Silvia Breher Silvia Maria Breher ( Lucke; born 23 July 1973) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a Member of the Bundestag for the constituency of Cloppenburg – Vechta since the 2017 federal e ...

(born 1973), politician (CDU) * Torge Hollmann (born 1982), football player * Marco di Carli (born 1985), swimmer

References

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