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1 Ostfriesische 4 Oldenburg Stone Age, with megalithic
Inseln (East Road map B2. * 160,000. £ graves from 3,500 to 1,800 BC,
Frisian Islands) n Schloßplatz (0441 36 16 13 66). _ including the 80-m (262-ft) long
Hafenfest (7 days after Whitsun); grave known as “Visbeker
Road map B2. g Emden-Borkum, Altstadtfest (end Aug); Kramermarkt Bräutigam” (bridegroom) and
Norden-Norddeich to Juist and (Sep/Oct). ∑ oldenburg.de the even larger, 100-m (321-ft)
Norderney, Nessmersiel-Baltrum, long “Visbeker Braut” (bride).
Bensersiel-Langeoog, A thousand years old, and once
Neuharlingersiel-Spiekeroog, part of Denmark, this town E Museumsdorf Cloppenburg
Harlesiel-Wangerooge. n Leer, remained the seat of a duchy Bether Straße 6. Tel (04471) 948 40.
Ledastraße 10. (0491) 91 96 96 60. Moormuseum in Elisabethfehn, Ostfriesland until 1918. Open Mar–Oct: 9am–6pm daily,
∑ ostfriesland.de
The Lambertikirche, in the Nov–Feb: 9am–4:30pm daily. &
Along the North Sea Coast visiting Wangerooge, another has a ceiling with sun ken central market square, is a
extends the belt of East Frisian island where cars are banned. panels, and next to the parish late-Gothic hall-church with a
Islands consisting of, from Three lighthouses – Westturm, church the wood and stone Neo-Classical rotunda added in A windmill in the open-air museum 6 Osnabrück
west to east: Borkum, Juist, Alter Leuchtturm and Neuer tomb of the Frisian leader Edo 1797. The Schloß, the ducal in Cloppenburg Road map B3. * 157,000. £
Norderney, Baltrum, Langeoog, Leuchtturm – indicate the Wiemken, made in 1561–4 by residence, displays a similar n Bierstraße. 22–23 (0541-32 32
Spiekeroog and Wangerooge. island’s role in the navigation master craftsmen from Antwerp. marriage of styles, particularly 5 Cloppenburg 202). _ Herbstjahrmarkt (early Nov).
All around them is the National­ of the Weser River estuary. Baroque and Neo-Classical. Road map B3. * 29,000. n Esch- ∑ osnabrueck.de
park Niedersächsisches E Kunsthalle Emden The Landesmuseum für Kunst straße 29 (04471-152 56). _ Mariä
Wattenmeer, a large national 2 Ostfriesland Hinter dem Rahmen 13. Tel (04921) und Kulturge schichte (state Geburtsmarkt (Sep). This Westphalian town has been
park established to protect 975 00. Open 10am–5pm Tue–Fri, museum of art and culture), a bishop’s see since the time of
the unique ecosystem of the (East Frisia) 11am–5pm Sat & Sun; 10am–9pm first based in the castle, is known The small market town of Charlemagne. In 1648, nego-
shallow seas. At low tide it turns Road map B2. £ Emden, Leer, Tue of month. & mainly for its collection of Cloppenburg boasts the tiations took place here between
into vast mud-flats, extending Norden. n (0491) 91 96 96 60. E Moor­ und Fehnmuseum paintings assem bled by Wilhelm Museumsdorf, the oldest open- representatives of Sweden and
to the horizon. This is the time _ Kiewittmarkt (Jever, end Mar); Oldenburger-Straße 1. Tel (04499) Tischbein, who lived here air museum in the Protestant duchies
to tour the Watt, as it is known Altstadtfest (Jever, Aug). 22 22. Open Apr–Oct: 10am–5pm for 25 years. The affiliated Germany, established of the Reich. The
locally, either by horse-drawn ∑ ostfriesland.de Tue–Sun. Augusteum, a Neo-Renaissance in 1934. On a vast site, signing of the Peace of
carriage or barefoot – always building in a picturesque spot, 50 architectural Westphalia in 1648,
making sure to return before East Frisia is a peninsula near holds the museum’s modern monuments from all which ended the Thirty
the tide comes in! the border with the Netherlands 3 Clemenswerth collection. over Lower Saxony Years’ War, was announ-
The islands themselves, with and the Jadebusen bay, at Road map B2. £ Sögel or Lathen. have been assembled. ced from the town hall
their beautiful sandy beaches, Wilhelmshaven. This is a land n Ölmühlenweg 21, Rathausstraße 2 E Landesmuseum für Kunst There are houses, steps. It was also the
sand dunes and healthy of flat meadows, grazing cows (04961-839 60). Schloß: Tel 05952-93 und Kulturgeschichte including charming birthplace of the writer
climate, are among the most and windmills. 23 25. Open Apr–Oct: 10am–6pm Damm 1. Tel (0441) 220 73 00. examples of the half- Erich Maria Remarque
popular holiday destinations Emden, the region’s capital, Tue–Sun. Closed winter. Open 10am–6pm Tue–Sun. timbered style of in 1899.
in Germany. has an attractive town hall Closed 1 Jan, Good Friday, Easter, Wehlburg, windmills Despite damage in
The car-free island Juist, a resembling that in Antwerp, Emsland, to the south of East 1 May, 24, 25 & 31 Dec. & and a small World War II, Dom St
17-km (11-mile) strip of land less and a town centre crossed by Frisia, extends along the Dutch 17th-century church Epitaph for Albert von Peter, Osnabrück’s
than 500 m (1,640 ft) wide, and many canals. The Kunst halle border, a poor area since time Environs from Klein-Escherde Bevessen in the Dom 13th-century cathedral,
Norderney, with its main town Emden, founded in the early immemorial, with moors and The town of Bad Zwischenahn near Hildesheim. in Osnabrück is worth visiting. It has
of the same name, are the most 1990s by Henri Nannen, boglands. Only the discovery is worth a visit. Its star attraction To the east of a bronze baptismal
interesting islands. Neo-Classical publisher of the magazine of oil in the 20th century is the Gothic St Johannis kirche Cloppenburg lies Visbek. Here font and enormous triumphal
villas recall the days when such Stern, holds a remarkable engineered its progress. Sögel, with frescoes from 1512. the visitor is taken back to the cross, and the late-Gothic
figures as Heinrich Heine and collection of 19th-century 33 km (21 miles) south of Snetlage-Altar of the Crucifixion.
Otto von Bismarck spent their paintings, including the works Greater Papenburg, has the From here a short walk takes
holidays here. It is also worth of many German Expressionists region’s greatest attraction, the visitor to the market square,
such as Emil Nolde, the palatial hunting lodge or Marienkirche and the Gothic
Max Beckmann and Schloß Clemenswerth, built Rathaus (town hall), with a
Oskar Kokoschka. from 1737–49. In search of sculpture of Charlemagne.
Another attraction is solitude, the elector and
the Moor­ und archbishop of Cologne Clemens Environs
Fehnmuseum (moor August commissioned the South of Osnabrück is the
and fen museum) in lodge from Johan Conrad western part of the Teutoburger
Elisabethfehn, which is Schlaun. The design was Wald (Teutoburg Forest). The
dedicated to the extrac- modelled on the pavilion- spa town of Bad Iburg, 12 km
tion of peat. Its exhibits pagoda of Nymphenburg in (8 miles) to the south of
include the world’s Munich. Altogether it comprises Osnabrück, has a monumental
largest plough, as well seven pavilions with mansard Benedictine monastery and
as the story of Jever, the roofs and a chapel. All the brick bishop’s palace. The Rittersaal
local beer. Also worth buildings were laid out on a (knights’ hall) has a giant
visiting are the green lawn, creating a star ceiling fresco depict ing an
Nationalpark Niedersächsisches Wattenmeer in the Renaissance palace shape around the palace. Inside architectural fantasy of fore-
Greefsiel area whose reception hall there is a museum of the region. The Schloß in Oldenburg, featuring Baroque and Neo-Classical styles shortened perspectives.
For hotels and restaurants in this area see pp501–502 and pp529–31

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