Cloppenburg

Cloppenburg is the county seat and at the equal time the most important metropolis of the named after her district Cloppenburg in Lower Saxony. Through the location of the metropolis of Cloppenburg leads a protracted-distance direction, that's stated to have existed already inside the Bronze Age and which leads from the Netherlands through the Ems and the Weser to the Luneburg Heath. The section of the route within the vicinity of the municipality Emstek and the city Cloppenburg changed into known as after 1563 with the aid of the populace Herzog Erich way.

The avenue known as Herzog-Erich-Ring fashioned till currently the southern improvement boundary of the city Cloppenburg. Cloppenburg grew out of originally two by means of age and history different settlement nuclei. About the older, on the Gee strand grown settlement Krapendorf there are first written information of 819; the founding of the parish Krapendorf become carried out via the undertaking cell in Visbek. After nine missionary clergymen have been erected by using Charlemagne from 780 AD on the Christianization of the conquered Saxons, the first ecclesiastical units in the vicinity were based by using Abbot Gerber Castes - the apostle of the Olden burger Munster land.