Schlangen
Municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Coat of arms
Location of Schlangen within Lippe district
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(2020–25) Marcus Püster[1] (CDU)
(2023-12-31)[2]
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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
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
The following cities are twinned with Schlangen:[3]
Viitasaari, Central Finland, since 1999
References
- ^ 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
- Official website (in German)
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Towns and municipalities in Lippe
- Augustdorf
- Bad Salzuflen
- Barntrup
- Blomberg
- Detmold
- Dörentrup
- Extertal
- Horn-Bad Meinberg
- Kalletal
- Lage
- Lemgo
- Leopoldshöhe
- Lügde
- Oerlinghausen
- Schieder-Schwalenberg
- Schlangen
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