Cappeln (Oldenburg)

If you are considering Cappeln (Oldenburg) as a travel destination, you can plan your stay around its landscapes, architectural heritage or local history. The following sections will help you prioritize these themes according to your interests.

Nature and Landscapes in Cappeln

Cappelner Bruch covers 145 hectares and is a protected landscape where you can go hiking. Tenstedter Bruch in Cappeln-Tenstedt spans 470 hectares and is a floodplain and marsh forest with small bodies of water and meadows. The Bakumer Bach stream flows through the area, which provides a habitat for numerous endangered plant and animal species. The two areas offer different highlights: you can hike in Cappelner Bruch, while the floodplain and marsh forest landscape, with its stream, bodies of water and meadows, defines the character of Tenstedter Bruch. They also differ considerably in size, giving you another way to choose a nature theme for your stay.

Architectural Heritage and Local History

The parsonage in Cappeln is a half-timbered building with delicate ornamentation. It was built in 1711, extensively renovated in 2001 and stands opposite St. Peter and Paul Church. Horse breeding is another local theme: Gestüt Vorwerk in Cappeln is Europe’s oldest private stallion breeding station and is known well beyond the region.

Quatmannsburg, an early to high medieval castle complex, is located in Elsten in the district of Cloppenburg. It is considered the best-preserved and most impressive complex of its kind there; the entire site is a listed monument. In Sevelten, the granite monument by artist Nickels from Cloppenburg commemorates the Eberborg story of 1929. Together, the parsonage, castle complex and monument offer different historical points of reference: from the Middle Ages, through the construction and renovation of the half-timbered building, to the story commemorated from 1929.

Landgarten Hof Sontag in Nutteln

Landgarten Hof Sontag can be visited by prior arrangement; please coordinate the details with the garden in advance. The garden lies among woodland, meadows and fields and features old oak trees, various garden rooms and colorful flower beds. This brings the surrounding landscape together with landscaped garden areas. Unlike the extensive marshlands, the garden rooms and flower beds also shape the nature experience here.

In the wider destination of Cloppenburg

The wider destination of Cloppenburg adds its own regional context. The Museumsdorf Cloppenburg – Lower Saxon Open-Air Museum offers a vivid insight into the living conditions of the rural population of northwestern Germany, from the late Middle Ages to the 1980s, through around 60 historic buildings. This time span offers a different perspective from the individual architectural and commemorative sites in Cappeln.

The Thülsfelder Talsperre reservoir is also part of the wider destination of Cloppenburg. Fed by the Soeste, the reservoir was built between 1924 and 1927 and is located in the town of Friesoythe and the municipalities of Garrel and Molbergen. The area and its surroundings have been protected since 1938 and have also been designated a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) since 1999. The Thülsfelder Talsperre Discovery Trail has 14 interactive stations. The open-air museum and reservoir complement Cappeln’s local themes with additional perspectives on history and landscape in the wider destination of Cloppenburg.

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