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The city is at the rivers Hunte and Haaren, in the northwestern region between the cities of Bremen in the east and Groningen (Netherlands) in the west. It has a population of 170,000 (November 2019). [3] Oldenburg is part of the Northwest Metropolitan Region, with 2.37 million people.
Website. oldenburg-kreis.de. The district of Oldenburg (German: Landkreis Oldenburg, not to be confused with the cities of Oldenburg and Oldenburg in Holstein) is a district in the state of Lower Saxony, Germany.
Oldenburg, city, Lower Saxony Land (state), northwestern Germany. Situated at the junction of the Hunte River and the Küsten Canal, which links the Hunte and Ems rivers, about 25 miles (40 km) west of Bremen, Oldenburg lies at the eastern approach to the North Sea coastal district of Leer, East.
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- Lambertikirche. The tallest building in the city, the Lutheran St Lambert’s Church has five towers, the highest of which measures 86 metres above the western facade.
- Horst-Janssen-Museum. The multitalented 20th-century artist Horst Janssen grew up in Oldenburg and lived here most of his life, becoming an honorary citizen in 1992.
- State Museum for Art and Cultural History. When the land Grand Duke of Oldenburg abdicated in 1919, the Duchy’s art collections and valuable ensembles of decorative arts were made available to the public.
- Augusteum. Oldenburg’s first art museum goes back 1867, making it one of the oldest purpose-built museum buildings in North Germany. The Augusteum now holds the Galerie Alte Meister, showing Dutch, Italian, French and German Old Masters from the 1400s to the 1700s.
Oldenburg. Categories: college town, big city, major regional center, urban municipality in Germany, urban district of Lower Saxony and locality. Location: Western Plains, Lower Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe. View on OpenStreetMap.
Oldenburg is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a pleasant town with an old center full of restaurants, cafes, and pedestrian streets, between Bremen and the Netherlands .
Oldenburg, former German state, successively a countship, a duchy, a grand duchy, and a Land (state) before it became a Regierungsbezirk (administrative district) of Lower Saxony Land in West Germany in 1946. As a result of the administrative reorganization in 1977, Oldenburg became part of the.
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