Lingen (Ems)

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Lingen (Ems)
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Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '  N , 7 ° 19'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Emsland
Height : 21 m above sea level NHN
Area : 176.13 km 2
Residents: 54,708 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 311 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes : 49808, 49809, 49811
Primaries : 0591, 05906, 05907, 05963
License plate : Tbsp
Community key : 03 4 54 032
LOCODE : DE LIG
City structure: 11 districts

City administration address : 		Elisabethstrasse 14–16
49808 Lingen (Ems)
Website : www.lingen.de
Lord Mayor : Dieter Krone (independent)
Location of the city of Lingen (Ems) in the Emsland district
Niederlande Landkreis Cloppenburg Landkreis Grafschaft Bentheim Landkreis Leer Landkreis Osnabrück Andervenne Bawinkel Beesten Bockhorst Börger Breddenberg Dersum Dörpen Dohren (Emsland) Emsbüren Esterwegen Freren Fresenburg Geeste Gersten Groß Berßen Handrup Haren (Ems) Haselünne Heede (Emsland) Herzlake Hilkenbrook Hüven Klein Berßen Kluse (Emsland) Lähden Lahn (Hümmling) Langen (Emsland) Lathen Lehe (Emsland) Lengerich (Emsland) Lingen (Ems) Lorup Lünne Lünne Meppen Messingen Neubörger Neulehe Niederlangen Oberlangen Papenburg Rastdorf Renkenberge Rhede (Ems) Salzbergen Schapen Sögel Spahnharrenstätte Spelle Stavern Surwold Sustrum Thuine Twist (Emsland) Vrees Walchum Werlte Werpeloh Wettrup Wippingenmap
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Lingen (Ems) is a town in the south of the Emsland district and in the west of Lower Saxony . The city, located on the Ems and close to the border with the Netherlands , is by far the largest city in the district with 54,708 inhabitants . Lingen has the status of a large independent city and is classified as a middle center with partial functions of a regional center in terms of spatial planning .

geography

Geographical location

Lingen is located in the southern part of the Emsland, which extends mainly in a north-south direction . East-southeast of Lingen, which is mainly on the eastern bank of the Ems , is the Lingener Höhe .

City structure

The city of Lingen (Ems) is made up of the historic core city, consisting of the old town and the districts of Reuschberge, Stroot, Damaschke, Heukamps-Tannen and Telgenkamp, ​​as well as ten localities (within the meaning of Section 90 (1) NKomVG) that enclose the core city and were formerly rural communities or joint communities . In detail, these are Altenlingen, Baccum, Bramsche, Brockhausen, Brögbern, Clusorth-Bramhar, Darme, Holthausen, Laxten and Schepsdorf.

  1. Altenlingen
  2. Baccum
  3. bee
  4. Bramsche
  5. Brockhausen
  6. Brögbern
  7. Clusorth-Bramhar
  8. Bowels
  9. Estringen
  10. Holthausen
  11. Hüvede-Sommeringen
  12. Lax
  13. Mundersum
  14. Münnigbüren
  15. Ramsel
  16. Schepsdorf
  17. Guard Village

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Neighboring communities

Lingen borders Geeste and Bawinkel to the north, Langen , Thuine and Messingen to the east, Lünne and Emsbüren to the south and Wietmarschen to the west .

climate

With an average annual temperature of 9.3 ° C and an average rainfall of 789 millimeters, the climate in Lingen is typical of the temperate, maritime climate zone in northern Germany.

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Source: wetterkontor.de
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Precipitation ( mm ) 67 51 50 54 61 69 91 86 64 59 68 74 Σ 794
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Weather station

Lingen weather station on the day of the new temperature record

Since September 1, 1990, Lingen has been near the Dortmund-Ems Canal, between the stadium and the outdoor swimming pool, a measuring station of the German Weather Service , which in earlier years was housed at various locations within Lingen city center. Today's station with the identification number 3023 is located at an altitude of 22 meters above sea ​​level and measures various weather parameters. It caused a nationwide sensation on July 25, 2019 when the highest temperature in Germany since all records began was measured. The plan is to relocate the station to the Baccum district due to difficult measurement conditions.

Extreme values

  • Highest temperature measured so far on July 25, 2019: 42.6 ° C
  • Lowest temperature measured so far on February 16, 1956: −20.5 ° C

The weather station already had several records to book. The measuring point temperature record of 37.8 ° C set on July 26, 2018 during the drought and heat in Europe in 2018 was exceeded after just one year on July 24, 2019 with 39.1 ° C. The high Yvonne set new temperature records in all of Central Europe, including in Lingen, where the highest temperature ever recorded in Lower Saxony was recorded. The old record for Lower Saxony was measured on August 9, 1992 in Faßberg and Bergen with 38.6 ° C. On July 25, 2019, a temperature of 42.6 ° C was measured by the DWD, which set a new heat record for Germany in Lingen that day .

The measured values ​​are questioned, however, since impermissible growth in the vicinity of the German Weather Service's measuring station leads to heat build-up, which is also shown by the comparison with measured values ​​from stations in the vicinity. The WetterOnline portal z. B. has therefore not recognized the heat record of July 25, 2019.

history

Lingen as part of the Lower Rhine-Westphalian Empire in the 16th century
The fortress Lingen c.1597
Lingen before the razing of the fortress (copper engraving from 1647)
Lingen as part of Prussia (1713-1810)
Lingen as part of France (1811-1813)
Lingen as part of the Kingdom of Hanover (1814–1866)
Lingen as part of Prussia (1866–1945)

According to the Roman historian Tacitus , the Germanic tribe of the Ampsivarians (Germanic "Ems men") settled in the southern Emsland on the Ems . The original settlement focus in the Lingen area was north of Lingen, in Altenlingen . What made Altenlingen interesting was its location in the regional transport network. Coming from Jutland , the Flemish Road crossed the Ems here. She met the Frisian road , which, following the river, connected Westphalia with the North Sea coast. In lifting register of the abbey are Lingen is called Linga first time 975 as the Venkigau mentioned associated site. In 975, Emperor Otto II transferred property in Liinga to Bishop Liudolf von Osnabrück as a fief . Later the place was also called Lyongo and Linge .


According to Hermann Abels, this probably means Altenlingen. The appended n is the plural ending for the settlement of several dwellings. In 1227 Lingen already had a town-like character; the bishops of Osnabrück and Munster agreed that after a successful conquest of Lingen the income there from customs, coins and courts would be divided among themselves. The Lingen market law of 1314 was the model for the newly established market in Friesoythe . In 1372 the Kivelinge , a vigilante group made up of youths, were founded. They defended the city and saved women, children and their elderly citizens.

In 1394, the oldest evidence of the Lingen city ​​arms with the three towers was created. In 1401, Count Nikolaus II of Tecklenburg confirmed the Lingen town charter, which was awarded around the middle of the 14th century and first mentioned in 1366. In 1493 the county of Tecklenburg was divided ; the county of Lingen came into being. Count Nikolaus IV resided at Lingen Castle until 1541 . In 1541 Konrad von Tecklenburg-Schwerin inherited the county of Lingen. He introduced the Reformation in 1543 . The county of Tecklenburg belonged to the Lower Rhine-Westphalian Empire in order to safeguard the peace and standardize coinage . The law that has been in force in Lingen from ancient times was summarized in 1555 and put into effect as Lingen's land law.

The time of the Reformation

After the defeat of the Schmalkaldic League , Konrad von Tecklenburg-Schwerin had to cede Lingen to Emperor Charles V in 1548 . As a result, Lingen became Catholic again . Count Maximilian von Egmond , who died that same year, became the feudal lord of the county . A devastating fire destroyed large parts of the city in 1548. In 1554 an imperial post office was set up in Lingen; the old post office on the market, which still exists today , was built in 1653. Maximilian's heiress was his daughter Anna von Egmond , who married Wilhelm I of Orange-Nassau in 1551 . Emperor Charles V only gave his consent to the marriage on condition that Anna sold him the County of Lingen. He passed the reign to his sister Maria of Hungary , the governor of the Netherlands . In 1555 Emperor Karl V transferred Lingen to his son Philip II , King of Spain.

During the campaign of 1597, Prince Moritz of Orange conquered Lingen for the Union of Utrecht , so that Lingen became Calvinist again. In 1605 the Lingen fortress was conquered and re-Catholicized by the Spanish general Ambrosio Spinola . Lingen was an important fortress town on the Ems during the Spanish reign . The garrison in Lingen had a troop strength of 2,000 soldiers. Due to its location on the Flämische Strasse from Zwolle to Hamburg and on the Friesische Strasse from Münster to Emden, Lingen was of great military importance in the Eighty Years' War . On February 11, 1624, the Lingen garrison advanced across the frozen moorland in Hesepe and Haren under the command of Lucas Kairo against Ter Apel in the province of Groningen . After fierce fighting, the Spaniards were pushed back as far as Groß Fullen near Meppen . Due to the loss of the fortress Oldenzaal and Wesel , the Spaniards finally withdrew from Lingen and from all German positions north of the Rhine in 1630. As a result, the fortress of Lingen was razed from 1632 to 1633. At the beginning of 1633 Lingen became the property of the liege Count Morizens, son of Friedrich.

In 1648, towards the end of the Thirty Years War , the Count of Styrum conquered Lingen again for the Orange. Lingen became Calvinist again. The Prince-Bishop of Münster, Christoph Bernhard von Galen , had declared war on the United Netherlands in January 1672 in conjunction with the Elector of Cologne and King Louis XIV of France . In the course of the Dutch War , the Prince-Bishop of Münster was able to conquer Lingen in June 1672, whereupon Lingen became Catholic again.

With the peace treaty between the Prince-Bishop and the United Netherlands on May 4, 1674, the House of Orange again took control of Lingen. In 1697 the university (Gymnasium academicum) in Lingen was founded by Wilhelm III. of Orange . The main building of the university, the professors' house , was built in 1684/1685. William III. von Orange, who was also King of England, Scotland and Ireland, died childless in 1702. Thereupon the King of Prussia , Frederick I , laid claim to the title of a close relative of the Orange. Because both Friedrichs mother, Luise Henriette of Orange , and Frederick's paternal grandmother, Elizabeth Charlotte were granddaughters of William I . In 1713 Lingen and the County of Lingen became part of Prussia as a result of the War of the Spanish Succession and the Peace of Utrecht . This also ended the time of Calvinism in Lingen. The Prussian government allowed the Lingen Catholics to set up a makeshift church . A converted stable, to which, by order of the authorities, neither bells nor a tower could be added, served as a place of worship from 1717. In 1733 the construction of the Lutheran Kreuzkirche began in the immediate vicinity of the university; the construction was completed in 1737. Compulsory schooling was regulated by the Prussian Land Law of July 1, 1794, and under the Prussian Agrarian Constitution from 1799 to 1807, the serfdom of farmers in Lingen and the county was abolished by decree. There was a decisive boost in 1807. The decree, the Stein-Hardenberg reforms , was a direct result of the Napoleonic Wars and Prussia's military defeat by the French revolutionary army.

19th century

Lingen became part of France through the annexation of north-west German areas from January 1, 1811 by the Napoleonic Empire . It belonged to the Département de l'Ems-Supérieur (Department Ober-Ems). The Napoleonic Empire brought the achievements of the French Revolution to Lingen, liberalism : legal equality , freedom of travel , freedom of trade , the separation of church and state , protection of private property and the civil code (“Code Napoléon”). In November 1813, the French rule over Lingen ended with the Wars of Liberation . When Prussia renounced the County of Lingen in 1814, Lingen became part of the Kingdom of Hanover, which was newly founded at the Congress of Vienna . On June 25, 1822, the cultural ordinance and the amendment of March 12, 1824 issued legal instructions for the simultaneous use of the Protestant churches and the Protestant schools in Lingen and the county. However, this ordinance was repealed in 1827/1830 due to the never-ending dispute about the use of the church. In addition, the Lower County of Lingen was in 1824 by Pope Leo XII. assigned to the Diocese of Osnabrück .

From 1824 the Ems-Hase Canal was built from Hanekenfähr to the Hase near Meppen . In 1833 the construction of the Bonifatiuskirche began; In 1838 a savings bank was founded in Lingen. Until 1837 the King of Hanover was also King of England. 1837, taking office I. Ernst August , it abolished the liberal state constitution, Hanover was back to the old constitution of 1819 absolutist governed. The revolution of 1848/1849 led temporarily to a liberalization of the Kingdom of Hanover. Johannes zum Sande was elected as a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly for the constituency of Lingen . He was a member of the “ Pariser Hof ” parliamentary group . In 1855 dean Johann Bernhard Diepenbrock founded the St. Bonifatius Hospital.

In 1856, with the opening of the Emden – Rheine railway, Lingen was connected to the rail network and the Lingen railway repair shop , which became the city's largest employer. Lingen experienced a promising economic boom in the first half of the 19th century, but this was slowed down by the fact that Mayor Heinrich Horkel could not prevent Rheine and not Lingen from becoming the junction of the Prussian and Hanoverian rail networks in the west. As a result, Rheine was able to outperform Lingen economically, especially since the large iron foundry and machine factory Windhoff, Deeters & Co. was ultimately unable to survive after a fire in the middle of the start-up crisis, despite rapid reconstruction.

After the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, Prussia annexed the defeated Kingdom of Hanover, which became the Prussian Province of Hanover . With the annexation, Lingen also became part of the German customs union . In 1869 the Lingen synagogue community was founded; until then, the Lingen Jews had attended the service in Freren . In 1878 the community built a synagogue and a schoolhouse on what was then Gertrudenweg . Mainly religious instruction was given there.

After the Franco-Prussian War , the city of Lingen erected a war memorial on the market square in front of the historic town hall in memory of those who took part in the war . During the Kulturkampf , the Prussian state tried to separate church and state until 1878 . This also aroused resistance from the citizens of Lingen, who predominantly belonged to the Roman Catholic Church. One of their representatives in the Reichstag was Ludwig Windthorst .

With the opening of the Ems-Vechte Canal in July 1879, which made it possible to transport goods from Nordhorn via Lingen to Emden, trade flourished in Lingen, as did the expansion of the Ems-Hase Canal into the Dortmund-Ems Canal which opened on August 11, 1899. With the construction of the Lingen – Berge – Quakenbrück small railway and its opening on May 31, 1904, the rural area west of Lingen could also be opened up for long-distance trade. Due to increasing prosperity, the Holland movement stopped .

The 20th century

In 1927 Lingen was hit by a severe cyclone, many houses in the historic city center were badly damaged. In 1934, extensive barracks were built in the Reuschberge district of Lingen, which were occupied in 1935 and used by the Bundeswehr until the end of 2007 .

During the Reichspogromnacht from November 9th to 10th, 1938, the National Socialists set fire to the Lingen synagogue . In 1944, two Allied air raids destroyed the railway repair works and parts of Lingen. Lingen was the location of an important reserve hospital of the Wehrmacht, which also included hospitals for prisoners of war in the prisoner-of-war camps in the Emsland with the many associated work details. After the end of World War II in 1945, Lingen belonged to the British zone of occupation . The British military administration set up a DP camp to accommodate so-called Displaced Persons (DP). Many of them came from Poland , Estonia , Latvia and the former Yugoslavia . On the one hand they were freed forced laborers from the Emsland camps , on the other hand they were political refugees. In February 1946 a flood of the Ems flooded the city center and caused great damage. With funds from the Marshall Plan , the construction of the Emsland oil refinery began in 1950 to process 550,000 t / a of German crude oil from the oil fields of the Emsland and neighboring areas; Commissioning followed in 1953. In 1956 Lingen became a military garrison town.

The redesign of the inner city began in 1975: Today, a pedestrian area includes the historic Looken-, Marien-, Burg- and Große Straße, the market square, the university square and the adjacent inner city streets. 1977 lost Lingen part of the Lower Saxony district reform through which the county Lingen was dissolved, the county seat , but was religious house ; since then Lingen has belonged to the district of Emsland, whose district town - because of its central location - became Meppen .

With the establishment of the institutes for management and technology, communication management and theater education at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences , Lingen became a university location again in 2000. In 2006 and 2007, the former post office between Looken- and Poststraße was converted into an inner-city shopping center (“Lookentor-Passage”). On December 31, 2007, the Bundeswehr location in Lingen was closed.

Incorporations

In the 1970s, the area of ​​the core city was enlarged through amalgamations and incorporations as part of the municipal reform . As early as 1970, the municipalities of Darme, Laxten and Brockhausen joined Lingen voluntarily. On March 1, 1974, the city grew around the areas of the previous communities Altenlingen, Baccum, Bramsche-Wesel, Brögbern, Clusorth-Bramhar, Estringen, Holthausen, Hüvede-Sommeringen, Mundersum, Münnigbüren and Ramsel as well as around the district of Schepsdorf of the dissolved community of Schepsdorf -Wages . On July 1, 1978, smaller areas of the municipality of Wietmarschen were transferred to Lingen, namely Wachendorf, Rheitlage and Herzford.

Population development

Population development of Lingen from 1810 to 2018. Red the population development of the district according to the table 'Individual districts', blue the population development of the city changing territories according to the table 'Stadt Lingen from 1960'
City of Lingen from 1960
year 1960 1961 1970 1977 1980 1990 2000
Residents 24,700 29,515 31,493 43,671 44,000 48,700 51,684
year 2002 2004 2006 2009 2010 2011 2012 2015 2016 2017 2018
Residents 51,423 51,318 51,417 51.292 51,098 51,821 51,832 53,011 53.905 54,117 54,422

(1960, 1977 to 2007, 2012 on December 31, 1961 on June 6, 1970 on May 27, census results including the places incorporated in 1970); 2009 on June 1, 2010 on January 1; 2011 on May 9th (2011 census); primary residence only

Individual districts
Inhabitants / year 1810 1880 1900 1925 1933 1939 1950 1961 1970 2008 2010 2012 2017
Altenlingen k. A. 236 255 315 299 283 420 876 1,050 2,873 2,922 2.986 2,988
Baccum k. A. 308 335 385 390 387 567 679 909 1,763 1,731 1,730 1,746
bee k. A. 357 389 437 555 607 952 k. A. k. A. 2,375 2,329 2,335 2,377
Bramsche k. A. 227 288 320 372 395 693 607 762 2,243 2,204 2,180 2,269
Brockhausen k. A. 117 132 k. A. 169 150 186 k. A. k. A. 176 170 178 167
Brögbern k. A. 350 412 506 537 536 772 1,380 1,982 3,043 3,040 3,015 3,046
Clusorth-Bramhar k. A. 383 449 520 475 505 659 564 652 898 889 869 879
Bowels k. A. 255 300 609 714 824 1,290 k. A. k. A. 4,190 4.111 4,109 4.123
Estringen Polle k. A. 224 273 k. A. 233 254 378 315 313 250 248 252 244
Holthausen k. A. 234 226 308 324 342 476 1,675 2.233 1,035 1,001 997 992
Hüvede-Sommeringen k. A. k. A. k. A. 256 313 315 407 338 359 263 271 266 229
Lax k. A. 501 680 1,203 1,217 1,377 1,515 k. A. k. A. 7,061 7,256 7.123 7.144
Lingen 1,829 5,825 7,048 10,914 11,591 12,854 20.164 k. A. k. A. 26,758 26,882 26,699 27,819
Mundersum k. A. 297 308 137 139 137 213 131 124 86 83 80 81
Münnigbüren k. A. 171 220 243 238 241 262 250 220 209 195 196 193
Ramsel k. A. 224 262 296 292 289 381 365 574 712 702 690 706
Schepsdorf k. A. 1,069 1,246 1,730 2,022 2.131 2,820 922 1,194 1,974 1,950 1,896 1,870
Guard Village k. A. 87 k. A. 115 140 121 159 195 201 115 117 112 108

religion

The 57,239 residents of Lingen on March 1, 2019 belonged to the following denominations or did not provide any information:

Denomination number proportion of
Roman Catholic 31,070 54.28%
Lutheran 10,766 18.81%
reformed 2.184 3.82%
Old Catholic 11
other 96
without specification 13,112 22.91%

politics

City council

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The council of the city of Lingen consists of 42 members and the directly elected mayor. The members of the council come from four parties and a community of voters, with the CDU holding the absolute majority of the seats. The last local election was held on September 11, 2016.

Allocation of seats for City Council Lingen 2016
     
A total of 42 seats
  • SPD : 9
  • Greens : 3
  • FDP : 2
  • CDU : 24
  • The citizens close : 4

The official final result of the 2016 city council election can be seen in the diagram opposite:

This results in the following distribution of seats for the 43 seats:

City Directors

During the time of the two-pronged administration (1945-2000) the city of Lingen had the following city directors and senior city directors:

mayor

Mayor of Lingen

Lord Mayor of Lingen

In the runoff election on September 26, 2010, Dieter Krone, who was supported by the SPD and the Greens, won 56.6% of the votes against the CDU candidate, Geester Mayor Hans-Josef Leinweber, who received 43.4% of the votes . As Lord Mayor, Krone succeeds Heiner Pott (CDU), who was appointed State Secretary of the Lower Saxony Ministry for Social Affairs, Women, Family, Health and Integration in April 2010 .
In the Mayor election on April 22, 2018, Dieter Krone received 73.93% of the vote. The only competitor, Robert Koop from the electoral association “Die Bürgerernahen”, received 26.07% of the vote.

Local councils

In the formerly independent districts of Altenlingen, Baccum, Bramsche, Brögbern, Clusorth-Bramhar, Darme, Holthausen-Biene, Laxten and Schepsdorf, there are local councils that can decide on the development of their localities. In the local elections on September 11, 2016, the CDU won a majority of the seats in all local councils.

Children's and youth parliament

Child-friendly linging

In Lingen there is a children's and youth parliament (KiJuPa), whose members are elected for two years. All young people from Lingen between the ages of 11 and 17 can take part. The KiJuPa currently consists of 57 members and 14 advisors. 61% of the eligible children and young people took part in the elections in autumn 2010; the last election took place in autumn 2012. The KiJuPa has its own annual budget, which was reduced from € 9,300 to € 9,000 in 2011 in the course of savings measures by the city of Lingen (Ems) and is earmarked for the promotion of child and youth work in the city of Lingen (Ems) . The chairman of the KiJuPas is Matthias Vehring, grandson of the honorary citizen and former city director Karl-Heinz Vehring .

coat of arms

Blazon : “In a red field three floating golden towers with column-shaped bases, of which the middle one protrudes above and below the sides. The shield is topped with a golden crown (crown of rank) and flanked by two golden, standing lions (shield holders) that stand on tendrils that extend from a shell. The lion's tail is shown either single or double. "

Reason: The towers point to the city gates: Burg, Looken and Mühlentor. The crown of rank is a so-called marquis or margrave crown (headband with three leaf and two pearl prongs, on each of which three pearls sit). Their use in the city arms of Lingen possibly indicates the county of Lingen and the Counts of Tecklenburg . According to heraldry, the shield holders belong to the splendid or showpieces of the coat of arms, do not provide any further explanation of the coat of arms owner and are purely decorative.

flag

The colors of the city of Lingen are red and golden yellow.

Town twinning

The city of Lingen (Ems) currently has five city partnerships in other European countries and in Saxony.

Culture and sights

historical town hall
Cyclists in front of the old post office
Street in the old town
Saint Boniface Church
Kreuzkirche on Universitätsplatz

Sights and buildings

The Lingen market square is considered the best parlor in town. Here is u. a. the historic town hall from 1555, which with its stepped gable from 1663 is to be regarded as the city's landmark; Today it is used for representative purposes and is available for civil weddings. Every day at 12 p.m., 3 p.m. and 6 p.m., a figure and carillon appear and sound from the gable of the town hall.

There are numerous gabled houses on the market square and in the adjacent old town. The oldest were rebuilt after the great fire in Lingen in 1548. One of them is the Alte Posthalterei, a two-story half - timbered house with a hipped roof , which was Lingen's post office from 1653 to 1851 and which now houses a restaurant. The oldest town house in the city (Am Markt 8), dating from 1653, is now owned by the Kivelinge . The Schmitz family's house is also located on the market square. The parents of the famous actor Theo Lingen lived in the house (Am Markt 20). Today a café is operated here.

The humorous group of figures of the market fountain, which is located in the immediate vicinity of the historic town hall, comes from Hanns Joachim Klug .

To the east of the market square and connected to it by the narrow Clubstrasse is the university square with the seminar building built between 1678 and 1680 (today the art school of the Kunstverein Lingen), the professors' house from 1684/85 (today the theater pedagogical center , TPZ Lingen ) and the baroque Protestant-Lutheran Kreuzkirche, which was built from 1733 to 1737 and expanded in 1888 in the neo-Romanesque style.

The most beautiful street in Lingen is probably Burgstrasse. From the market square you can first find the Hellmannsche Haus from 1641 with its richly ornamented half-timbered gable and the Catholic Bonifatius Church, built from 1832 . A little further you can find the Palais Danckelmann from 1646, which has housed the district court for centuries; part of the local history museum is located in the associated coach house (servants' house) from the early 18th century. For some years now, civil weddings have also been possible here.

Also worth seeing are the Evangelical Reformed Church (tower from 1250, choir from 1629 and nave from 1772) on Kirchstrasse and the Pulverturm (Strasse Am Pulverturm) , which was rebuilt in 1961 by the Kivelinge . He is the last witness of the Lingens fortress, which was demolished in the 17th century. The original powder tower dates from the late Middle Ages. The baroque gate system on the grounds of the Powder Tower comes from the former house of the Orange Drosten Rutger von Haersolte on Lookenstrasse.

Outside the city center, Herzford Castle in the south and the 180-hectare Geester reservoir in the north of the city , which was built in the 1980s as a cooling water reservoir for the Emsland nuclear power plant and is a popular local recreation area, should be mentioned.

In the northeast of the city, the NDR operates a transmission system for VHF , TV and MW . A 227 meter high, grounded tubular steel mast with a trap antenna for medium waves is used as the antenna carrier.

There is also a 158 meter high telecommunications tower owned by Deutsche Telekom AG in the Schepsdorf district.

Illuminated pedestrian underpass at the train station

In February 2006, a renovation of the Lingen train station began . First, an underpass for pedestrians and cyclists was built between Bernd-Rosemeyer-Straße (to the city center) and Kaiserstraße (to the Stroot area) on the east side of the station, which opened in 2007. In addition to the simplified crossing of the tracks, this underpass also improves the connection between the technical college and the IT center to the city center. A new bicycle station was built between the train station and the underpass . At the location of the previous track 3, a new side platform was built on track 2 in 2009 , which is barrier-free through the underpass. Furthermore, the previous platform on track 1 was raised and modernized. The ZOB, which was rebuilt in autumn 2010, is right next to the train station .

Cultural institutions

Emsland Museum on Burgstrasse

Sports

Approx. 22,500 of Lingen's residents are organized in more than 80 sports clubs. With 18 sports halls, 4 gymnastics halls and a dance hall, the city of Lingen (Ems) covers the requirements for indoor sports, in particular for school sports, club sports, but also for non-organized sports.

There are also 12 sports centers in Lingen with 40 grass pitches and one artificial turf field (soccer). In this context, the Emsland Stadium deserves special mention, as it has athletic facilities that conform to standards, in particular a 400-meter synthetic running track.

Soccer

In the 3rd district class Emsland-Süd plays the RB Lingen, the successor club of the former upper division TuS Lingen . The SV Holthausen / Biene is active in the Landesliga Weser-Ems. With currently 29 youth teams, five men's and one women's team, Olympia Laxten has the largest football department in the Emsland.

Further sports offers

  • 18-hole golf course directed by "Golfclub Emstal e. V. "
  • Tennis facilities with a total of 60 playing fields; four tennis halls (twelve playing fields)
  • Equestrian center with an indoor arena and riding stadium as well as an Icelandic horse riding stadium that meets international requirements
  • Leisure, sports and adventure pool LINUS with sauna and outdoor pool area
  • three rowing clubs with boathouse, located directly on the Dortmund-Ems Canal in the city center
  • Sailing and surfing facility on the Geeste reservoir in the north of Lingen
  • five skate tracks and designated street routes
  • four shooting ranges, including the central shooting range on Wilhelmshöhe with 30 air rifle lanes and nine shooting lanes for small caliber
  • Bowling center
  • a canoe rental and climbing park at the canoe climbing camp
  • Kung Fu School
  • A billiards and darts café (venue of the PBC Lingen )
  • Schachverein Lingen 1959 , plays in the 1st Bundesliga in the 2019/20 season

Regular events

The following recurring cultural events take place in Lingen:

  • Every year at the end of January the flower show "Garden Dreams" takes place in the Emslandhallen.
  • Every two years in April or May (most recently in 2018) International Pedigree Dog Show CACIB (FCI) in the Emslandhallen.
  • On the first weekends in May and October the spring and autumn fair takes place on the festival grounds at the Emslandhallen.
  • Every three years at Whitsun , most recently in 2017, the Kivelinge organize the Kivelingsfest and transform the city center into a medieval market.
  • In June the dragon boat regatta takes place on the Dortmund-Ems Canal at the LRG boathouse.
  • The Children's Theater Festival World Children's Theater Festival has been held every four years since 1990 . It is considered the world's first international festival for children by children.
  • Since 1981, the high school graduates from Lingen's high schools have organized the free-and-outside festival every year shortly before the Lower Saxony summer vacation . Abifestival . The organizer has been the non-profit Abifestival since 1981 e. V. The venue has been a meadow on Schüttorfer Strasse, in the shadow of the old nuclear power plant , since the early 1990s .
  • In August, the landlords music festival in the old town
  • Harbor festival at the old harbor
  • Every year on the third weekend in September, the old town festival is celebrated in the city center. Numerous clubs, associations and organizations offer an attractive program on several stages from Friday to Sunday and take care of the physical well-being of up to 80,000 visitors.
  • since 2006 apple festival in the district of Clusorth-Bramhar
  • The Christmas market takes place in front of the historic town hall every year during Advent. One of the main attractions is the open-air ice rink.
  • From 1999 to 2013 the world's elite dressage riders came to the International Dressage Festival in Lingen every year .

  • "Garden dreams 2018"

  • View in east direction from the city festival ferris wheel

  • Presentation of rare apple varieties at the Clusorther Apple Festival

  • Ice rink and Christmas market in front of the town hall

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Petroleum industry

The refinery seen from the canal

Lingen developed the oil reserves in the Emsland , which are the largest in Germany, and the natural gas reserves in the north German lowlands . At the end of the forties the Deutsche Schachtbau- und Tiefbohrgesellschaft mbH settled in Lingen, which was one of the most important employers in the city in the seventies and eighties. After numerous takeovers, the company has been operating under the name GDF Suez E&P Deutschland GmbH since November 2008 . In 2008, production was 1.696 billion cubic meters of natural gas and 456,000 tons of oil .

The Emsland refinery ( BP Lingen) in the Holthausen district, which has been in existence since 1953, produces, among other things, fuels , light heating oil and liquefied petroleum gas from German and foreign crude oil , with around 700 employees and a capacity of around 4.1 million tons .

The Rosen Group was founded in Lingen. The family company with its current headquarters in Stans (Switzerland) specializes in the research, development , manufacture and use of inspection devices for pipelines and other complex technical systems . It offers its services and products worldwide for the oil and gas industry and other industries . In addition, the group of companies develops and manufactures “intelligent plastics” or functional polymers for various applications. In 2016, more than 2,800 people worked for the company worldwide, in Lingen there are more than 1,000 (as of the end of 2015).

Power plants

Power plants in Lingen
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Lingen nuclear power plant
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Emsland nuclear power plant
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Emsland natural gas power plant


In 1968, the VEW Group put the Lingen nuclear power plant into operation in the then still independent municipality of Darme . It was one of the first commercial nuclear power plants in Germany. Due to numerous incidents it was shut down again in 1977. In 1989/90 it once again gained a certain prominence when whey powder was decontaminated there that had been contaminated after the Chernobyl disaster .

Since 1972 and 1975, respectively, two blocks of the Emsland natural gas power plant with a total output of 820 megawatts have been generating electricity in the vicinity of the nuclear power plant .

In 1988, the Emsland nuclear power plant with an output of 1400 megawatts went into operation. It is one of the last German nuclear power plants to go into operation. Since 2002 there has been an interim storage facility for spent fuel elements from the KKE in the immediate vicinity .

All of these power plants originally belonged to the VEW group. They have been part of RWE Power AG since its merger with RWE . Over 400 people are employed in the Lingen power plants.

In June 2007, RWE AG began building a combined cycle power plant block with an output of 876 megawatts (block D of the natural gas power plant), which went online in 2010. A natural gas pipe storage facility is part of the new power plant. The investment totaled more than 500 million euros.

The three power plants together provide around 3,200 megawatts and can thus supply electricity for around six million households.

Lingen-Süd industrial park

An industrial area developed near the power plants. There are among other things

  • the Lingen fuel assembly plant from Advanced Nuclear Fuels , which has manufactured around 25,000 fuel assemblies for nuclear power plants since 1977
  • the electric steel plant of Benteler with an annual capacity of 560,000 tons of steel, which is produced from scrap
  • the Dralon GmbH (formerly: Monsanto 1971–1983 and fiber works 1983–2006) of the Italian group Fraver with around 190 jobs that produces acrylic fibers
  • a Baerlocher plant with around 250 employees that produces additives for the plastics industry
  • a plant of the Swedish industrial goods group Atlas Copco for the production of road milling machines , which was closed at the end of 2010. The halls have been used as storage by a Dutch chemical company since mid-2011.
  • Mail order EMP Merchandising ( merchandising with sound carriers, fan articles, accessories, textiles and films),
  • a regional branch of the discounter company Aldi -Nord , plus a large central warehouse.

University and IT center

On the former site of the Lingener Eisenbahnausbesserungswerk (EAW) on Kaiserstraße, a transformation from an industrial wasteland to a location for business and science has been taking place for two decades.

In 1990 the city of Lingen acquired the area and gradually prepared the centrally located, listed industrial wasteland for reuse. After the hasty demolition of a number of buildings directly along Kaiserstraße in March 1992, the outer shell of the so-called Hall IV was repaired and renovated until finally, after an ideas competition, the interior work was also pushed forward from the mid-1990s. After all, the original EAW was able to restore a total of five halls and, since 1995, have housed office and work rooms at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences in Lingen, a studio of the Ems-Vechte-Welle open channel , the regional television station emsTV (formerly: EV1.TV), which Kunsthalle Lingen and under the roof of the IT Center Lingen many other companies from the IT and service sectors as well as conference rooms. Since 2007, an underpass has been connecting the area of ​​the former EAW and the adjacent Stroot area with Theo-Lingen- Platz to the west of the railway line , the train station and the city center. Since the beginning of the 2012/13 winter semester, the completely renovated Lokrichthalle I / II as the 'Campus Lingen' of the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences in Lingen has completed the transformation of the former factory premises. The total costs of the new Lingen university campus, on which more than 2500 students can complete their studies, are estimated at 45 million euros. It was officially inaugurated on October 8, 2012. A modernly designed new building in the area of ​​the former boiler shop houses the campus cafeteria , which was completed in spring 2014 and operated by the Osnabrück student union .

retail trade

The retail trade has settled in the historic city center in particular. The main pedestrian zone includes Lookenstraße, Marienstraße, Große Straße and Burgstraße as well as the market square. The retail trade is characterized by owner-managed shops, but many chain stores have set up shop in Lookenstrasse and Marienstraße in particular. The Lookentor shopping arcade was opened on March 22, 2007, with a total of 50 shops on a total sales area of ​​around 15,000 square meters. It connects the pedestrian zones of Lookenstraße and Marienstraße. In addition to the city center, there is a shopping center on Rheiner Straße, which, in addition to full-range groceries, includes a hardware store and a furniture store. A country bakery is located in Lingen-Biene.

Other important industries

The Erwin Müller Group Lingen (around 550 employees in Lingen): Stapling technology (brand NOVUS) and bathroom, building and air conditioning technology (brand EMCO), companies for plant construction and agriculture are also located .

tourism

In 2010, 225,299 overnight stays were registered in Lingen. The main tourist catchment area results from a radius of 200 kilometers. Since the completion of the Emsland Autobahn A 31 , guests from the Ruhr area have been visiting the region more and more.

In 2010, the Lingen tourist information center recorded around 20,000 customer contacts. It has established itself as a point of contact for tourist issues, but also as a ticket sales point for events for guests and locals.

As elsewhere in the north, cycle tourism has increased in recent years. The steadily expanding network of cycle paths now includes over 220 kilometers on regional and supraregional routes. The paths along the Ems and the Dortmund-Ems Canal are particularly attractive .

Natural parts of the Ems near Lingen are often used by canoeists for excursions.

Where the waterways Ems - Dortmund-Ems-Canal - Ems-Vechte-Canal cross, is the local recreation area Hanekenfähr . Here are u. a. fifteen guest berths for motor boats available. Excursion boats and liners are available for tours on the water. There are also three yacht clubs in Lingen with guest berths for passing water sports enthusiasts.

The city of Lingen offers through the association Lingen Wirtschaft + Tourismus e. V. (LWT) tours through the city, u. a. with “Bürgerin Brigitte”, the Kivelingen or a guided tour in Low German . In 2010 there were around 250 city and kiveling tours.

On the regular Sunday shopping, guests from the surrounding area visit the city. The Lookentor shopping center and the old town with its smaller shops are heavily frequented. Most of the visitors come from the district of Emsland, the county of Bentheim and the neighboring Netherlands.

traffic

Rail transport

Lingen station building

Lingen is located on the Hanover West Railway, which opened in 1855 . The Emsland section of this route is known today as the Emsland route . At Lingen (Ems) train station, the two-hourly intercity lines 35 Norddeich - Koblenz and the hourly " Emsland-Express " Münster - Emden (RE 15) stop . In freight traffic, the freight yards Holthausen ( oil refinery ) and Hanekenfähr (industrial area Lingen-Süd) play a bigger role, there are also several freight transport tracks and a loading ramp at the station.

From 1904 to 1952, the narrow- gauge Lingen – Berge – Quakenbrück small- gauge railway also ran from Lingen in passenger and freight traffic , but its station was located in a different location than that of the state railway .

Lingen repair shop

During the construction of the Hanoverian Westbahn Löhne - Emden , the central workshops were set up in Lingen and put into operation in 1856. At times this was the place of work for a third of Lingen households, as it was Lingen's only major industrial enterprise for a long time. After a long period of shrinking, the Lingen Federal Railway Repair Shop was closed in 1985.

The wagon factory was demolished; in its place are now the Emslandhallen , where markets and events take place. After years of vacancy and the dilapidation of the locomotive works located directly at the station, Hall IV was first renovated. A center for business, media and art has been located there since 1997. The remaining halls have been expanded into an IT center since 2003 , into which the institutes of the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences will also move in autumn 2012 .

Road traffic

Lingen is close to the Emsland motorway ( A 31 ) and at the intersection of federal highways 70 , 213 and 214 , which have been bypasses around the city since the late 1970s.

The German-Dutch holiday route Oranier Route (B 213) runs through Lingen .

Northern bypass: A possible connection from Holthausen / Biene to the city center leads through the Emsland oil refinery . At the request of the Emsland oil refinery, efforts are now being made to bypass the refinery to the south. This southern bypass of the refinery is planned as the simultaneous northern bypass of Lingen. A junction of the federal road 213 before Lingen-Damaschke is planned as the route (to get the through traffic from Damaschke), which via the current Altenlingen exit of the B 70 , south of the refinery or north of the Altenlingen district, a new bridge over the Dortmund -Ems Canal required for connection to Meppener Straße. A continuation to the A-31 junction in Wietmarschen, initially parallel to the current L 48 (Dalumer Straße) until just before the Emsbrücke, from there on to the current course of the K 321 (Mühlengraben) is being discussed.

Bus transport

In and around Lingen, city and regional buses run by the Emsland-Süd transport association , which connect the individual districts and the surrounding cities with Lingen. Line 165 (Lingen — Nordlohne — Lohne — Klausheide — Nordhorn) runs every hour Monday to Saturday and every two hours on Sundays until 6 p.m.

In September 2011, the “Lili-Bus” city bus (line for Lingen) was also introduced, expanding the range of public transport. Since then, four minibuses have been in use on routes 111 (Central Bus Station [ZOB] —Damaschke — Brögbern) and 121 (ZOB — Stroot — Gauerbach). The two lines run every hour: during the week from 6 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., on Friday and Saturday evenings until 11:30 p.m. - regardless of school or vacation days. The route over Wilhelmstrasse and Konrad-Adenauer-Ring enables passengers to comfortably reach numerous public facilities, such as the music school, hospital, medical center, theater and cinema. "Lili" is a pilot project of the city of Lingen together with the Emsland-Süd transport association.

Two years later, the offer was expanded: since then, eight city bus routes have been operating. The price per trip is a uniform € 1.50.

Line 101: Clusorth / Bramhar – Neue Heimat – ZOB, Line 11: Brögbern – Damaschke – ZOB, Line 21: Gauerbach – Stroot – ZOB, Line 31/131/132: Baccum – Ramsel – ZOB Line 41: Bramsche – Darme – ZOB , Line 61: ZOB – Reuschberge – Schepsdorf – Reuschberge – ZOB, Line 71/171: Holthausen / Biene – Altenlingen – ZOB, Line 74: ZOB – Telgenkamp – Heukampstannen – ZOB

Bicycle traffic

In Lingen, as in other parts of the Emsland and the areas neighboring the Netherlands, there is traditionally a lot of cycling. More precise data are not available. Individual conceptual approaches to promoting cycling are available in the form of a study for the Federal Environment Agency .

Several long-distance cycle routes lead through the urban area :

Air traffic

The city of Lingen is a shareholder in the Nordhorn-Lingen airfield ( Klausheide airfield ), about 14 kilometers away; the nearest international airport is Münster / Osnabrück Airport, around 78 kilometers away.

Shipping

Emswehr Hanekenfähr ("waterfall") near Lingen

The Ems near Lingen is navigable on a short stretch, but is only used for leisure traffic today. Freight traffic has been circumnavigating the numerous loops of the Ems between Lingen and Meppen on a canal that was initially called the Ems-Hase Canal and has been part of the Dortmund-Ems Canal for over a hundred years since 1829 .

Lingen has seven ports for inland shipping. The oil refinery in Holthausen and the Benteler steelworks in Hanekenfähr have their own ports; Bulk goods are unloaded in the Darmer port. In contrast, the old port and the new port, located near the city center, have lost their importance for the economy, but are increasingly gaining importance for leisure traffic.

media

A daily newspaper appears in Lingen, the Lingener Tagespost as the headline of the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung . Lingen also has a regional radio studio for the NDR and Hitradio Antenne as well as a studio for the community radio Ems-Vechte-Welle . With ems.tv also a regional television station in Lingen is located, which can be received in the local cable network and via Internet stream.

education

Lingen has numerous general education schools, including a. two grammar schools: the traditional grammar school Georgianum , into which the grammar school Johanneum was integrated in 2009 , and the Franziskusgymnasium in the district of Laxten, a Catholic school sponsored by the order of the Thuiner Franciscan Sisters .

In addition to the state vocational schools (subject areas: industrial and technical, agricultural, domestic and commercial), many private educational institutions are involved in vocational training. In the state vocational schools, among other specialized vocational and technical schools full-time forms of vocational preparation year , basic vocational training year , Berufsaufbauschulen in the dual system (part time) offered and vocational school.

Since 1988, there Berufsakademie Emsland which the bachelor programs Business Administration , Economics computer science , engineering technical systems and industrial engineering offering.

In 1995 the Lingen location of the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences was founded, which includes today's Faculty of Management, Culture and Technology with the institutes of Management and Technology, Communication Management, Theater Education , and dual study programs. In autumn 2012 the university moved to the former railway repair halls I and II. The impressive former industrial hall was equipped according to the house-in-house principle with eight small, white houses that accommodate offices, classrooms, lecture halls, laboratories and a library.

In the area of ​​non-formal learning there are various providers, for example an adult education center with an integrated training center for information technology (bit), the Ludwig-Windthorst-Haus , the Catholic adult education and the vocational training and technology center (BTZ) des Handwerks GmbH.

With the non-profit association “Research and Technology e. V. “there is a so-called Makerspace in Lingen , which offers everyone interested a platform to exchange ideas on a wide variety of topics from the field of technology and to work together on projects. The clubhouse has been on the premises of the Rosen company since January 2018 .

Healthcare

Bonifatius Hospital Lingen

The Bonifatius Hospital Lingen (until summer 2014 St. Bonifatius Hospital) is an academic teaching hospital of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster with an attached geriatric clinic and the elderly care center Mother Teresa House behind the hospital. The Bonifatius Hospital Lingen with its 17 specialist departments in the city center was completely restructured for around 40 million euros. In addition to renovation measures, several new buildings were built; u. a. A new entrance hall, a new bed wing and a new underground car park with 200 parking spaces were built. Since the completion of the work, the 19th century hospital building on Gymnasialstrasse is no longer needed for hospital operations.

Hedon Clinic

The Hedon Clinic is a specialist clinic for physical medicine and rehabilitation, neurological early rehabilitation, neurology and orthopedics. The clinic with around 300 beds is located in the Laxten district. Mediclin AG is the sponsor .

Kursana domicile

Attached is the Kursana Domizil nursing home of the Dussmann Group, which, with 140 rooms, is one of the largest in the area and the only one that also offers special care for young people.

Medicus Wesken

The Medicus Wesken is a health center in the middle of the city center, in which 26 general practitioners and specialists from 14 specialties have settled.

Further medical care

Under the name “GENIAL eG Health Network in the Altkreis Lingen”, more than 40 general practitioners and specialists have come together to ensure that patients in the region are provided with local care.

With the Christophorus factory, Lingen also has a large facility for rehabilitation and care for people with learning, mental and multiple disabilities.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • Martin Kruse, awarded 1992, bishop
  • Ruth Forster-Heilbronn, awarded in 1993, survivor of the Holocaust
  • Bernard Grünberg, awarded 1993, Holocaust survivor
  • Karl-Heinz Vehring , awarded 2000, senior city director retired D.
  • Ursula Ramelow, awarded 2006, retired Lord Mayor D.

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities who have worked or are still working in the city

literature

  • Lower Saxony Office for State Planning and Statistics - Statistical Yearbook 1950 , Hanover 1950
  • Wilfried Ehbrecht [Ed.]: Lingen: 975–1975; on the genesis of a city profile. Acken, Lingen (Ems) 1975
  • Andreas Eiynck : Markt 20 - A house tells stories. From old half-timbered houses, citizens of Lingen and Theo Lingen. media factory Werbeagentur & Verlag GmbH, Lingen 2005, ISBN 3-9809898-3-6 .
  • Manfred Fickers: Disappointed Expectations - The Railway and the Economic Development in Southern Emsland from 1804 to 1880 . In: Emsländische Geschichte , Volume 19. Ed. By the Study Society for Emsländische Regionalgeschichte, Haselünne 2012, pp. 63–216. ISBN 978-3-9814041-4-2
  • Baldur Köster: Lingen. Architecture in transition from a fortress to a citizen and university town to an industrial town (until around 1930) . Munich 1988
  • Lingen Economy + Tourism e. V .; Annual report 2010; Lingen (Ems) May 2011
  • German city atlas ; Volume: II; 8 part band. Acta Collegii Historiae Urbanae Societatis Historicorum Internationalis - Series C. On behalf of the Board of Trustees for Comparative Urban History e. V. and with the support of the German Research Foundation, ed. by Heinz Stoob †, Wilfried Ehbrecht, Jürgen Lafrenz and Peter Johannek. City map Lingen, author: Wilfried Ehbrecht. ISBN 3-89115-319-8 ; Dortmund-Altenbeken, 1979.
  • Werner Kaemling: Atlas on the history of Lower Saxony . Gerd J. Holtzmeyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1987, ISBN 3-923722-44-3
  • Teachers' association of the Diocese of Osnabrück: The Lingen district (= contributions to local studies in the Osnabrück administrative district, issue 1). R. van Acken publishing house, Lingen / Ems 1905.
  • Statistics of the German Reich - results of various censuses , Berlin 1883–1944
  • Benno Vocks: Lingen groundbreaking - 99 streets, paths and squares: portraits and stories . Anno-Verlag, Ahlen (Westphalia), 2015, ISBN 978-3-939256-31-1
  • Herbert Wagner : Municipal educational organization: determinants of residential area-specific educational structures as the basis for spatial educational planning. Bad Bentheim work reports and studies on socio-spatial educational research, vol. 1. Bad Bentheim 1980 (educational comparison Lingen - Nordhorn; school development). ISBN 3-88683-000-4 .
  • Herbert Wagner: The Gestapo wasn't alone ... - Political social control and state terror in the German-Dutch border area 1929–1945 . LIT-Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7448-6 ( online ).
  • Karl-Heinz Vehring : Lingen - center of a region - structural change and modernization. Verlag Edition Virgines , Düsseldorf 2013, ISBN 978-3-944011-09-7 .

Web links

Commons : Lingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Lingen  - travel guide
Wikisource: Lingen in the Topographia Westphaliae (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts
Wikisource: Lingen in the Topographia Circuli Burgundici (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

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