Wallenhorst is a municipality in the district of Osnabrück, in

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 ...

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

. It is situated in the

Wiehengebirge The Wiehen Hills (german: Wiehengebirge, , also locally, just ''Wiehen'') are a hill range in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony in Germany. The hills run from west to east like a long finger away from the main upland area of the Lower Saxon ...

, approx. 10 km north of

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 ...

27 Johannes Kirche in Rulle - Außenaltar

The New St. Alexander Church serves as a reference height for all other heights in the German Mean Height Reference System (''

Normalhöhennull ' ("standard elevation zero") or NHN is a vertical datum used in Germany. In geographical terms, NHN is the reference plane for the normal height of a topographical eminence height above mean sea level used in the 1932 German Mean Height Refe ...

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Notable people

* Georg Budke (1900–1994), politician CDU * Hubert Müller (1936–1995), Catholic priest, theologian and church lawyer * Johanna Voß (born 1957), politician ( The Left)

Other personalities

* Clemens Lammerskitten (born 1957), politician CDU * Stefan Niggemeier (born 1969), media journalist, grew up in the Wallenhorster districts of Rulle and Lechtingen * Horst Georg Pöhlmann (born 1933), German evangelical theologian, lives in Wallenhorst * Irmgard Vogelsang (born 1946), politician CDU

References

External links

* Osnabrück (district) {{Osnabrück-geo-stub