Mettingen is a municipality in the
district of Steinfurt, in
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inha ...
,
Germany
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.
Geography
Mettingen is situated approximately 25 km east of
Rheine and 20 km west 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 ...
.
Neighbouring places
Neighbour villages of Mettingen are
Recke in the west,
Neuenkirchen, (
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 ...
) in the north,
Ibbenbüren in the south and
Westerkappeln
Westerkappeln is a municipality in the district of Steinfurt, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe ...
in the east.
Economy
The production site of the frozen cakes manufacturer
Coppenrath & Wiese is based in Mettingen. Until 2018 Mettingen had one of the last two active coal mines in Germany.
Sons and daughters of the community
* Tobias "Bobi Bückfing" Bücker (*1985)
* Clemens
Brenninkmeyer (1818-1902), co-founder of the garment company
C&A in the Netherlands
* August Brenninkmeyer (1819-1892), his brother co-founder of the company C&A
* Josef Wiese (1932-2009), co-founder of Coppenrath & Wiese
*
Kasper König
Kasper König (born 1943) is a German museum director and curator.
Career
König was born in Mettingen. In 1965 he traveled to New York as a courier on behalf of the Robert Fraser Gallery, where he lived intermittently until 1978. From 1973 t ...
(born 1943), from 2000 until the end of October 2012 director of the ''Museum Ludwig'', art professor and curator
*
Peter Niemeyer (born 1983), German footballer
*
Annika Suthe (born 1985), German spearhead, 2004 Olympian and Junior European champion
Honorary citizens
* Tobias Bücker (2003)
* Clemens Brenninkmeyer (1932)
* Franz Brenninkmeyer (1969)
* Theodor Kersting (1973)
* Josef Wiese (2005)
References
External links
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Steinfurt (district)
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