Qualla: Wietmarschen https://qualla.com/wietmarschen en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:34 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Wietmarschen https://qualla.com/wietmarschen Wietmarschen: Introduction https://qualla.com/wietmarschen/ The town hall is in Lohne. The name is in Wietmarschen. This is the kind of arrangement that happens when six villages decide to merge into a single municipality but cannot quite agree which one gets the honors. Lohne is bigger and gets the bureaucracy. Wietmarschen is older and keeps the name on the road signs. The result is a unified municipality of about 12,000 people scattered across six Ortsteile in the Grafschaft Bentheim district, sitting on terrain so flat that the highest point - the Rupingberg in Lohne - reaches 50 meters above sea level and the locals are still talking about building a viewing tower on it.

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/m/4/wietmarschen-wp/u1m4-wietmarschen-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Wietmarschen: The Catholic Anomaly https://qualla.com/wietmarschen/ Religious geography in this corner of Lower Saxony tells a story about borders the maps no longer show. The Grafschaft Bentheim district is overwhelmingly Protestant - mostly Evangelical Reformed, a legacy of the Dutch border running a few kilometers west. Wietmarschen breaks the...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/m/4/wietmarschen-wp/u1m4-wietmarschen-the-catholic-anomaly.mp3 0:06 2 full Wietmarschen: Remarque in Lohne https://qualla.com/wietmarschen/ In 1919, a young teacher named Erich Maria Remarque took a posting at the school in Lohne. He was 21 years old, fresh out of military service in the trenches, and not yet famous. He would not publish All Quiet on the Western Front for another ten years. While in Lohne he became f...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/m/4/wietmarschen-wp/u1m4-wietmarschen-remarque-in-lohne.mp3 0:06 3 full Wietmarschen: The Bog Iron Memory https://qualla.com/wietmarschen/ Outside the Stiftskirche stands a statue called the Urbrecker - a depiction of a bog iron miner, bent over his work. For most of Wietmarschen's history this was the economy. The peat bogs of the Emsland contained low-grade iron deposits that could be dug, dried, and smelted into ...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/m/4/wietmarschen-wp/u1m4-wietmarschen-the-bog-iron-memory.mp3 0:06 4 full Wietmarschen: Sports, Tractors, and a Gliderport https://qualla.com/wietmarschen/ Modern Wietmarschen is the kind of place where the cultural inventory tells you almost everything. Three local museums - one in Lohne, one in Wietmarschen's old Packhaus, and the Treckermuseum, dedicated entirely to vintage tractors. Ten sport fields, four beach volleyball courts...

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