page_title: Munster, Lower Saxony
section_title: Main sights
hierarchical_section_title: Munster, Lower Saxony / Main sights
caption_attribution_description: Schafstallkirche St. Martin in Munster (Örtze)
context_page_description: Munster, also called Munster, is a small town in the district of Heidekreis, in Lower Saxony, Germany almost equidistant from Hamburg and Hanover. The town is home to the German Army's largest garrison and is situated between the two training areas of Munster North and Munster South. It is also the fourth largest garrison in the German Armed Forces. The Bundeswehr Research Institute for Protective Technologies and NBC-Protection is located in Munster.
  The town's make up is shaped by the soldiers and other government employees who make up the majority of its population, and the surrounding military zones restrict the town's growth, retaining its rural character.
context_section_description: German Tank Museum, (Deutsches Panzermuseum) - Germany's largest armoured fighting vehicle museum
  St. Urban's Church (St.-Urbani-Kirche) - a 13th-century church
  The Ollershof is a free open-air museum
  St.Martin's sheep pen church is an old sheep pen that was converted to a church
  Town library
  St. Stephen's Military Church (St.-Stephanus-Militärkirche) - the only church entirely allocated to a military parish in Germany and the highest building in Munster
  Lower Saxony Spring (Niedersachsenbrunnen) - with 8 horses, that symbolise the formerly independent parishes in the borough, by Jos Pirkner (1991)
caption: St.Martin's sheep pen church
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