Barver is a municipality in the district of Diepholz,

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...

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Geography

Barver is located midway between

Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...

(54 km to the north-north-east) and

Osnabrück Osnabrück (; wep, Ossenbrügge; archaic ''Osnaburg'') is a city in the German state of Lower Saxony. It is situated on the river Hase in a valley penned between the Wiehen Hills and the northern tip of the Teutoburg Forest. With a population ...

(52 km to the south-west), northeast of the

Dümmer The Dümmer () or officially Dümmer See is a large lake in southern Lower Saxony (Germany). It has a surface of 13.5 km2 and an average depth of one metre. Its elevation is 37 metres. Dümmer is a popular resort for water sports, but a ...

and

Rehden Geest Moor The nature reserve of Rehden Geest Moor (german: Rehdener Geestmoor) is an extensive, open raised bog in the collective municipality of Rehden, in the county of Diepholz in Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; ...

Nature Parks and south of the

Wildeshausen Geest The Wildeshausen Geest (german: Wildeshauser Geest) is part of the northwest Germany's geest ridge, that begins near Meppen on the river Ems with the Hümmling, is broken by the Weser depression, continues with the Osterholz Geest and reaches the ...

Nature Park. The village lies east of the Kellenberg ridge (77 m) and on the west bank of the

Wagenfelder Aue Wagenfelder Aue is a river of Lower Saxony, Germany, a right tributary of the Hunte. The Wagenfelder Aue's total length is , entirely contained within the southern part of the district of Diepholz. It drains a large area of marshland. The river ...

, a south-eastern tributary of the

Hunte Hunte is a long river in north-western Germany (Lower Saxony), a left tributary of the Weser. The Hunte rises in the Wiehen Hills. In the North German Plain it flows through lake Dümmer. It flows generally northwards through the towns Bad Es ...

History

The first written reference to Barver dates from 1219.

Town twinning

Barver has been twinned with the

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Lezay Lezay () is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in western France. See also *Communes of the Deux-Sèvres department The following is a list of the 256 communes of the Deux-Sèvres department of France. The communes cooperate in the foll ...

since August 1973.

References

External links

Webseite Samtgemeinde RehdenTown twinning Barver Lezay
Diepholz (district) {{Diepholz-geo-stub