New research on the history of the Jewish cemetery in Meppen Lecture by Manfred Fickers (in cooperation with the Initiativkreis Stolpersteine Meppen)

Stadtmuseum Meppen An der Koppelschleuse 19a, Meppen

The Jewish cemetery in the street "An der Hütte" is the oldest and only surviving evidence of Jewish life in Meppen. The first Jews settled in the town of Meppen around 1700. They acquired an elongated plot of land east of the town near the Hasen to bury their dead here according to Jewish rites. [...]

Poetry and music at the Arenbergische Rentei Reading with Christian Quaing, Jan Bernd Müller and Gesche Gloystein

The town museum and the Meppen local history association cordially invite you to a cozy literary evening with old and new local history poems in the Biedermeier room in the Arenbergische Rentei. In the impressive historical ambience of a Meppen bourgeois parlor from around 1900, the guests first fortify themselves with chicory coffee and buckwheat [...]

The Nordhorn artist Hans Ohlms – Five Act Fantasy with Raphael Oettel, Carsten Krabbe and Anselm Oettel (Compilation: Franco Zapondi (Accademia di Belle Arti) Assistance and lecture: Ulrich Oettel)

Stadtmuseum Meppen An der Koppelschleuse 19a, Meppen

Hans Ohlms was one of the most influential artists in the region in the 1960s. He created landscape paintings, portraits, commercial graphics and caricatures, as well as sculptural works and public art. In Meppen, he designed the windows of the Gustav Adolf Church, among other things. From the end of the 1930s onwards, he created [...]

History before eight: The Varus Battle? What was going on in Kalkriese?

Emsland Archäologie Museum

Lecture evening on excavations in the Kalkrieser-Niewedder depression, finds and their interpretation   Was it in the Osnabrück region, the legendary last battle of Publius Quinctillius Varus, or was it at one of the other more than 700 places where the slaughter is believed to have taken place? The fact is that the Cheruscan prince [...]

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