Quakenbrück (

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: ''Quokenbrügge'') is a town 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 ...

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. It is situated on the river

Hase The Hase is a long river of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Ems, but part of its flow goes to the Else, that is part of the Weser basin. Its source is in the Teutoburg Forest, south-east of Osnabrück, on the north s ...

. It is part of the ''

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'' ("collective municipality") of

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History

Quakenbrück was founded in 1234 by the

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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 ...

, according to the earliest documents, although the area had been settled previously. It served as a border to the north of

. On 29 May 1916, a nail man made from French poplar was given to the town by

Clemens Freiherr von Schorlemer-Lieser Clemens August von Schorlemer-Lieser (29 September 1856 – 6 July 1922) was a German politician. Historical background Freiherr von Schorlemer was born in Horstmar. After he graduated from the Gymnasium Dionysianum in Rheine in 1874, he studied ...

and placed in the meeting room of the town hall. Revenue from the statue, which depicted a 13th-14th-century knight clad in armor and holding a shield and a sword and has come to be known as the Quakenbrück iron Knight (''Quakenbrücker Eiserner Burgmann''), were used to fuel the war effort. The statue was built by two soldiers from Schorlemer's Battalion.

Climate

Temperate coastal climate is affected by damp NW winds from the North Sea. The long term average air temperature in Quakenbrück is with an average rainfall of . Between May and August, there are about 20–25 days during which temperatures may reach over .

Sport

Quakenbrück has a professional basketball team, the

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Mayors

* till 1968: Aloys Geers (SPD) * 1968–1972: Karl Möller (CDU) * 1972–1979: Horst Magnus (CDU) * 1979–1988: Werner Korfhage (FDP) * 1988–1991: Jürgen Gadeberg (SPD) * 1991–2000: Klaus Alves (CDU) * 2000–2011: Wolfgang Becker (CDU) * 2011–2014:

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(SPD) * 2014–2016: Paul Gärtner (SPD) * 2016–2017: Matthias Brüggemann (CDU) * Since 2017: Claus Peter Poppe

Twin towns – sister cities

Quakenbrück is twinned with: *

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, France * Conway, United States * Dobre Miasto, Poland * Wesenberg, Germany

Notable people

Dietrich Hermann Hegewisch Dietrich Hermann Hegewisch (15 December 1746 – 4 April 1812) was a German historian who was a native of Quakenbrück. He was the father of political publicist Franz Hermann Hegewisch (1783-1865). Hegewisch studied theology and history at the Un ...

(1746–1812), historian *

Heinrich Beythien Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Beythien (13 February 1873, in Quakenbrück – 17 March 1952, in Berlin-Wilmersdorf) was a German politician and functionary of the DVP and Nazi Party (NSDAP). He was a member of the IV. German Reichstag of the Weima ...

(1873–1952), economist and politician *

Wilhelm Martin Wilhelm Martin (20 June 1876 – 10 March 1954) was a German- Dutch art historian.R.E.O. Ekkart, 'Martin, Wilhelm (1876–1954)', in Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederlan12 November 2013 Wilhelm Martin was born in 1876 in Quakenbrück, Germany a ...

(1876–1954), German-Dutch art historian * Gustav Engel (1893–1989), historian *

Enno Patalas Enno Patalas (15 October 1929, in Quakenbrück – 7 August 2018, in Munich) was a German film historian, collector, and expert film preservationist. A former head of the Munich Film Museum (1973–1994), his restorations include films such as ' ...

(1929–2018), film historian and critic * Helmut Berding (1930–2019), historian *

Ulrike Rodust Ulrike Rodust (born 4 June 1949) is a German politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2008 until 2019. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. Between 1993 and 2008, ...

(born 1949), politician (SPD) * Justus Haucap (born 1969), economist, professor at

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Christian Brand Christian Brand (born 23 May 1972) is a German football coach and former player who coaches Werder Bremen youth teams. Playing career A midfielder, Brand began his career at VfB Oldenburg and made his debut for the club on 27 August 1991 in a m ...

(born 1972), football player and manager *

Cinta Laura Cinta Laura Kiehl (; ; born August 17, 1993) is a German actress, singer, and model based in Indonesia. She was appointed ambassador of anti-violence against women and children by the Ministry of Women Empowerment and Child Protection, Indone ...

(born 1993), Indonesian actress

Associated with the town

Wilhelm Bendow Wilhelm Bendow (29 September 1884 – 29 May 1950) was a German film actor who appeared in many films during his career. Bendow made his debut in the 1913 film '' Aus eines Mannes Mädchenzeit''.Elsässer p.106 Selected filmography * '' Lust for ...

(1884–1950), actor, was 1905/06 pupil of the Realgymnasium *

Holger Czukay Holger Schüring (24 March 1938 – 5 September 2017), known professionally as Holger Czukay (), was a German musician best known as a co-founder of the krautrock group Can. Described as "successfully bridg ngthe gap between pop and the avant-g ...

(1938–2017), musician, was a music teacher at the Artland-Gymnasium in Quakenbrück *

Friedrich Ebert Friedrich Ebert (; 4 February 187128 February 1925) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the first president of Germany from 1919 until his death in office in 1925. Ebert was elected leader of the SPD on t ...

(1871–1925), politician (SPD), worked in the spring of 1891 in Quakenbrück in a saddlery *

Klaus von Klitzing Klaus von Klitzing (, born 28 June 1943, Schroda) is a German physicist, known for discovery of the integer quantum Hall effect, for which he was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics. Education In 1962, Klitzing passed the Abitur at the A ...

(born 1943), Nobel laureate for physics, left his Abitur in Quakenbrück in 1962, a street is named after him *

Andreas Maurer Andreas Maurer may refer to: * Andreas Maurer (tennis) * Andreas Maurer (Austrian politician) * Andreas Maurer (German politician) Andreas Maurer (russian: Андреас Маурер; born 5 January 1970) is a German mail carrier and local po ...

(born 1970), local politician convicted of electoral fraud, member of the town council 2006–2019 *

(born 1948), politician and member of the Lower Saxony Landtag, headmaster of the Artland-Gymnasium in Quakenbrück in 1995–2003 * Hans-Gert Pöttering (born 1945), politician (CDU), president of the

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, graduate of the Artland-Gymnasium

References

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