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Town in Lower Saxony, Germany

Meppen

Meppen is a town in and the seat of the Emsland district of Lower Saxony, Germany, at the confluence of the Ems, Hase, and Nordradde rivers and the Dortmund–Ems Canal (DEK).

Meppen
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The place

Meppen is a town in and the seat of the Emsland district of Lower Saxony, Germany, at the confluence of the Ems, Hase, and Nordradde rivers and the Dortmund–Ems Canal (DEK). The name stems from the word Mappe, meaning "delta".

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Meppen

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Hänsch-Arena

    Hänsch-Arena is a stadium in Meppen, Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is used as the home stadium of SV Meppen and has a capacity of 13,241.

    1.7 km · German football stadium · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Exhibition Centre for the Archaeology of the Emsland

    The Exhibition Centre for the Archaeology of the Emsland is an archaeological museum in Meppen in Lower Saxony, Germany. It portrays the cultural history of the region of Emsland from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages.

    1 km · museum in Germany · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Meppen

Airports
Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 67 km · Münster Osnabrück (FMO), 68 km · Bremen (BRE), 108 km
Stations
Meppen station, 500 m
  • Greven → Meppen
    69 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · €10–14
  • Bremen → Meppen
    110 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · €13–18
  • Dortmund → Meppen
    131 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · €19–26
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Meppen

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Meppen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    168 km
  2. 02
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    511 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    633 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    743 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    836 km

If you know how people move in Meppen – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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