Wallenhorst

Wallenhorst
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Wallenhorst within Osnabrück district
Wallenhorst Show map of Germany Wallenhorst Show map of Lower Saxony
Coordinates: 52°21′N 8°1′E
Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
District	Osnabrück
Subdivisions	4 districts
Government
• Mayor (2021–26)	Otto Steinkamp[1] (Ind.)
Area
• Total	47.18 km^2 (18.22 sq mi)
Elevation	88 m (289 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	22,989
• Density	490/km^2 (1,300/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	49134
Dialling codes	05407
Vehicle registration	OS, BSB, MEL, WTL
Website	www.wallenhorst.de

Wallenhorst is a municipality in the district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the Wiehengebirge, approx. 10 km north of Osnabrück.

Johannes church in Rulle district

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

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

1. "Direktwahlen in Niedersachsen vom 12. September 2021" (PDF). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen. 13 October 2021.
2. "LSN-Online Regionaldatenbank, Tabelle A100001G: Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes, Stand 31. Dezember 2022" (in German). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen.

External links

• Media related to Wallenhorst at Wikimedia Commons