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 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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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.
- 01Hänsch-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 - 02Exhibition 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
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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 → Meppen69 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · €10–14
- Bremen → Meppen110 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · €13–18
- Dortmund → Meppen131 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · €19–26
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
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If you know how people move in Meppen – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Meppen
- Emsland Districtdistrict (Landkreis) in Lower Saxony, Germany3.9 km