Nordhorn

Nordhorn is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the district seat of the County of Bentheim in Lower Saxony's southwesternmost corner near the border with the Netherlands and the boundary with North Rhine-Westphalia.
Geography
Place
The town is in southwesternmost Lower Saxony, near the border with the Netherlands and the boundary with North Rhine-Westphalia, on the river Vechte. The nearest major city is Hengelo in the Netherlands, some southwest of Nordhorn. The nearest German cities are Munster, about to the southeast, and Osnabruck, about to the east.
The landscape in and around Nordhorn is marked by the Vechte, the Vechtesee (lake), through which the Vechte flows, and three canals: the Sud-Nord-Kanal, the Nordhorn-Almelo-Kanal and the Ems-Vechte-Kanal.
Extent of the municipal area
Through various combinations the town's area has grown to 14 959 ha, only slightly smaller than the Principality of Liechtenstein.
Neighbouring communities
North of Nordhorn is the town and joint community (Samtgemeinde) both called Neuenhaus, while the communities of Engden and Isterberg are in the south. The town's western limit is also part of Germany's border with the Netherlands.
Constituent communities
Nordhorn is subdivided into 17 quarters ("Stadtteile").
Twin towns - sister cities
Nordhorn is twinned with:
Coevorden, Netherlands (1963)
Montivilliers, France (1963)
Reichenbach im Vogtland, Germany (1987)
Malbork, Poland (1995)
Rieti, Italy (2010)
References
Further reading
(English-French-Dutch-German)
Heinrich Specht, Burgerbucher der Stadt Nordhorn von 1396-1913, Nordhorn 1939
Heinrich Specht, Wappen und Siegel der Stadt Nordhorn, aus Nordhorner Nachrichten Nr. 213, 194 (1941): Altere Nordhorner Wappenzeichen,
Alfred Dietrich, Nordhorn - Textilstadt im Grunen, Oldenburg 1966
Bernd-Andreas Knoop + Jorg-Uwe Seifert, Nordhorn - Gesichter einer Stadt, 1976
VHS Grafschaft Bentheim (publisher), Nordhorn nach 1945, Nordhorn, 1977
Heinrich Specht, Nordhorn - Geschichte einer Grenzstadt, Nordhorn 1941; 1979. publisher: Heimatverein der Grafschaft Bentheim.
Clemens v. Looz-Corswarem + Michael Schmitt (publisher), Nordhorn - Beitrage zur 600 jahrigen Stadtgeschichte, 1979
Bernd-Andreas Knoop + Fritz Schobel, Das war die Festwoche - 600 Jahre Stadt Nordhorn, 1979
VHS Grafschaft Bentheim (publisher), 35 Jahre Volkshochschule der Stadt Nordhorn, Bad Bentheim, 1983
Gerhard Plasger, Nordhorn in alten Ansichten, 1983
Gerhard Plasger, Nordhorn - Bilder der Vergangenheit, 1986
VHS Grafschaft Bentheim (publisher), Muhlen und Muller, Nordhorn, 1987
Wilfried P. Delissen et al., Nordhorn - Spuren und Notizen, Nordhorn 1988
Herbert Wagner: Militar in der Region, Dokumentation uber den Artillerieschiess- und Bombenabwurfplatz Engdener Wuste / Nordhorn - Range, Bad Bentheim, 1989
neomdedia GmbH (publisher), Nordhorn - Grenzstadt ohne Grenzen, 1989
VHS Grafschaft Bentheim (publisher), Nordhorn im 3. Reich, Nordhorn, 1991
Bernd-Andreas Knoop, Das grosse Buch der Grafschaft, Lage 1994
VHS Grafschaft Bentheim (publisher), Nordhorn - eine Zeitreise, Nordhorn, 1998
Schwester M. Willibaldis, St. Augustinus Nordhorn, Nordhorn 2003
Herbert Wagner: Die Gestapo war nicht allein... Politische Sozialkontrolle und Staatsterror im deutsch - niederlandischen Grenzgebiet 1929 - 1945, Munster 2004
Other websites
County of Bentheim (district)