Emsland (region)

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Emsland is the name of a region on the Ems River in western Lower Saxony and northern North Rhine-Westphalia. It is divided into the so-called Hanoverian and Westphalian Emsland.


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Papenburg Place in Lower Saxony, Germany

Papenburg is a city in the district of Emsland in Lower Saxony, Germany, situated at the river Ems. It is known for its large shipyard, the Meyer-Werft, which specializes in building cruise liners.

Salzbergen Place in Lower Saxony, Germany

Salzbergen is a municipality in the Emsland district, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Ems, approx. 25 km south of Lingen, and 10 km northwest of Rheine.

Oberlangen Place in Lower Saxony, Germany

Oberlangen is a municipality in district (Landkreis) Emsland, Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), north-western Germany.

Emsland test facility

The Emsland Transrapid Test Facility is a testing site for Transrapid maglev trains in Emsland, Germany. The single track line runs between Dörpen and Lathen. Turning loops are at each end. The track is elevated for almost its entire length to allow continued farming and grazing of the land occupied.

Dörpen Place in Lower Saxony, Germany

Dörpen is a municipality in the Emsland district, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Dörpen is the seat of the Samtgemeinde Dörpen.

Esterwegen Place in Lower Saxony, Germany

Esterwegen is a municipality in the Emsland district, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Handrup Place in Lower Saxony, Germany

Handrup is a municipality in the Emsland district, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Hüven Place in Lower Saxony, Germany

Hüven is a municipality in the Emsland district, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Lähden Place in Lower Saxony, Germany

Lähden is a municipality in the Emsland district, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Lathen Place in Lower Saxony, Germany

Lathen is a municipality in the Emsland district, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the location of the Emsland Transrapid Test facility, a testing site for Transrapid maglev trains.

Lehe, Lower Saxony Place in Lower Saxony, Germany

Lehe is a municipality in the Emsland district, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Vrees Place in Lower Saxony, Germany

Vrees is a municipality in the Emsland district, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Walchum Place in Lower Saxony, Germany

Walchum is a municipality in the Emsland district, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Emslandlager

Emslandlager were a series of 15 moorland labor, punitive and POWs-camps, active from 1933 to 1945 and located in the districts of Emsland and Bentheim, Lower Saxony, Germany. The central administration was set in Papenburg where now a memorial of these camps, the Dokumentations- und Informationszentrum (DIZ) Emslandlager, is located.

Esterwegen concentration camp

The Esterwegen concentration camp near Esterwegen was an early Nazi concentration camp within a series of camps first established in the Emsland district of Germany. It was established in the summer of 1933 as a concentration camp for 2000 so-called political Schutzhäftlinge and was for a time the second largest concentration camp after Dachau. The camp was closed in summer of 1936. Thereafter, until 1945 it was used as a prison camp. Political prisoners and so-called Nacht und Nebel prisoners were also held there. After the war ended, Esterwegen served as a British internment camp, as a prison, and, until 2000, as a depot for the German Army.

Hümmling

The Hümmling is a ground moraine landscape, up to 73 m above sea level (NN), in the Emsland region on the North German Plain in the western part of the German state of Lower Saxony.

Mittelems (electoral district)

Mittelems is an electoral constituency represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 31. It is located in western Lower Saxony, comprising the Grafschaft Bentheim district and the southern part of the Emsland district.