Wielen is a small village in the district of
Grafschaft Bentheim
County of Bentheim (german: Grafschaft Bentheim) is a district (''Landkreis'') in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the Dutch provinces of Overijssel and Drenthe, the district of Emsland, and the districts o ...
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
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, and belongs to the Joint Community (''Samtgemeinde'') of
Uelsen
Uelsen () is a community in the district of Grafschaft Bentheim in Lower Saxony.
Geography
The community of Uelsen lies in westernmost Lower Saxony, on the border with the Kingdom of the Netherlands, roughly 30 km north of Enschede and 15&n ...
. Wielen has 614 inhabitants. Within the village is found the Lower County’s oldest maintained school, ''het Schöltien''.
Constituent communities
Along with the namesake ''
Ortsteil
A village is a clustered human settlement or Residential community, community, larger than a hamlet (place), hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population t ...
'', there are outlying centres named Balderhaar, Striepe and Vennebrügge.
References
External links
WielenJoint Community’s webpage
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County of Bentheim (district)