Wallenhorst

Municipality in Lower Saxony, Germany

Coat of arms

Location of Wallenhorst within Osnabrück district

(2021–26) Otto Steinkamp^[1] (Ind.)Area

• Total47.18 km² (18.22 sq mi)Elevation

88 m (289 ft)Population

(2022-12-31)^[2]

• Total22,989 • Density490/km² (1,300/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codes

49134

Dialling codes05407Vehicle registrationOS, BSB, MEL, WTLWebsitewww.wallenhorst.de

Wallenhorst is a municipality in the district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the Wiehengebirge, approx. 10 km north of Osnabrück.

The New St. Alexander Church serves as a reference height for all other heights in the German Mean Height Reference System (Normalhöhennull).

Notable people

Georg Budke (1900–1994), politician CDU
Hubert Müller (1936–1995), Catholic priest, theologian and church lawyer
Johanna Voß (born 1957), politician (The Left)

Other personalities

Clemens Lammerskitten (born 1957), politician CDU
Stefan Niggemeier (born 1969), media journalist, grew up in the Wallenhorster districts of Rulle and Lechtingen
Horst Georg Pöhlmann (born 1933), German evangelical theologian, lives in Wallenhorst
Irmgard Vogelsang (born 1946), politician CDU

References

^ "Direktwahlen in Niedersachsen vom 12. September 2021" (PDF). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen. 13 October 2021.
^ "LSN-Online Regionaldatenbank, Tabelle A100001G: Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes, Stand 31. Dezember 2022" (in German). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen.