Sage (Grossenkneten)

legend Municipality Großenkneten Coordinates: 52 ° 58 ′ 1 ″  N , 8 ° 14 ′ 53 ″  E
Height :	37 m
Residents :	619  (Oct 1, 2015)
Postal code :	26197
Location of Sage in Lower Saxony

Sage is part of the community of Großenkneten in the district of Oldenburg in Lower Saxony . The place is 2.5 km west of the center of Großenkneten. The A 29 runs 2 km to the west.

One of the world's largest, most modern and environmentally friendly natural gas processing plants operated by Exxon Mobil is located in Sage. There the sour gas , which occurs frequently in northern Germany, is cleaned by removing the hydrogen sulfide .

Sage War Cemetery

The Sage War Cemetery , a British memorial cemetery for fallen soldiers from Commonwealth countries, was established in Sage after the Second World War .

literature

• Dirk Fass : Sager Heide . Isensee, Oldenburg (1996)
  • Volume 1: Sager Heide. A local reader.
  • Volume 2: Sager Heide and surroundings. A local reader . 1996
• Heinz Edzards: The interested forest in the parish of Großenkneten. The history of logging in the Ahlhorn, Döhlen, Grossenkneten and Sage farming communities. Isensee, Oldenburg 1993, ISBN 3-89442-138-X

Individual evidence

1. ^ BVB-Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (ed.): Großenkneten . Signpost for the community. Specialized publisher for municipal information, 2015, p. 7 ( findcity.de [PDF; accessed on April 26, 2017]).