Schlangen
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Schlangen | |
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Location of Schlangen within Lippe district | |
Coordinates: 51°49′00″N 08°49′59″E / 51.81667°N 8.83306°E | |
Country | Germany |
State | North Rhine-Westphalia |
Admin. region | Detmold |
District | Lippe |
Government | |
• Mayor (2020–25) | Marcus Püster[1] (CDU) |
Area | |
• Total | 75.97 km2 (29.33 sq mi) |
Elevation | 169 m (554 ft) |
Population (2023-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 9,391 |
• Density | 120/km2 (320/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
Postal codes | 33189 |
Dialling codes | 05252 |
Vehicle registration | LIP |
Website | www.schlangen-online.de |
Schlangen is a municipality in the Lippe district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Schlangen has about 9.000 inhabitants (2013) and enjoys relative prosperity. Located a few kilometers away from Detmold, the municipality stretches from the edge of the sandy Sea [clarification needed] to the mountain course of the Teutoburger forest southern slope.
Politics
[edit]This section needs to be updated.(June 2021) |
The town council of Schlangen consists of 26 members:
Parties and voter communities | % 2014 |
seats 2014 | |
CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | 36,68 | 10 |
SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany | 43,80 | 11 |
FDP | Free Democratic Party (Germany) | 7,14 | 2 |
GRÜNE | Alliance '90/The Greens | 12,38 | 3 |
Total | 100,0 | 26 | |
Poll in % | 63,1 |
(conditions: Local election 2014)
Sister cities
[edit]The following cities are twinned with Schlangen:[3]
- Viitasaari, Central Finland, since 1999
References
[edit]- ^ Wahlergebnisse in NRW Kommunalwahlen 2020, Land Nordrhein-Westfalen, accessed 21 June 2021.
- ^ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden Nordrhein-Westfalens am 31. Dezember 2023 – Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes auf Basis des Zensus vom 9. Mai 2011" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. Retrieved 2024-06-20.
- ^ "Ystävyyskunnat" (in Finnish). City of Viitasaari. Archived from the original on 2012-06-04. Retrieved 2012-06-01.
External links
[edit]- Official website (in German)
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