--- title: "Meppen – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Meppen, Germany: 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…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/meppen" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/meppen.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Meppen-Helte%2C_bushalte_IMG_7130_2020-08-07_09.34.jpg/1920px-Meppen-Helte%2C_bushalte_IMG_7130_2020-08-07_09.34.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- 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](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Meppen-Helte%2C_bushalte_IMG_7130_2020-08-07_09.34.jpg/1920px-Meppen-Helte%2C_bushalte_IMG_7130_2020-08-07_09.34.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Meppen · Michielverbeek 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". Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meppen), CC BY-SA 4.0. 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A4nsch-Arena) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhibition_Centre_for_the_Archaeology_of_the_Emsland) 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. Go there ## 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/greven-to-meppen) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Greven&to=Meppen) - Bremen → Meppen 110 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · €13–18 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bremen-to-meppen) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bremen&to=Meppen) - Dortmund → Meppen 131 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · €19–26 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/dortmund-to-meppen) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Dortmund&to=Meppen) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Meppen) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. 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. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 168 km 2. [Helsingborg and the Öresund crossing](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/helsingborg) SE 6 ways of moving, 13 sources 511 km 3. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 633 km 4. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 743 km 5. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 836 km If you know how people move in Meppen – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cmeppen&title=Meppen&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fmeppen), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Meppen - [Emsland District](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/emsland-district) district (Landkreis) in Lower Saxony, Germany 3.9 km [The place page for Meppen](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/meppen) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Germany](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-DE) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/meppen, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt