Varel

Varel
Varel
	Pedestrian area in Varel
	Coat of arms
	Location of Varel within Friesland district
	Varel Varel
	Coordinates: 53°23′49″N 08°08′10″E
Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
District	Friesland
Subdivisions	32 districts
Government
• Mayor	Gerd-Christian Wagner (SPD)
Area
• Total	113.53 km2 (43.83 sq mi)
Highest elevation	12 m (39 ft)
Lowest elevation	0 m (0 ft)
Population (2018-12-31)[1]
• Total	24,001
• Density	210/km2 (550/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	26316
Dialling codes	04451
Vehicle registration	FRI
Website	www.varel.de

Varel ([ˈfaːʁəl]) is a town in the district of Friesland, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated near the Jade River and the Jade Bight, approximately 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) south of Wilhelmshaven and 30 kilometres (19 mi) north of Oldenburg.

Castle church

The castle church is the oldest building in Varel. The first part of the church is believed to have been built in 1144.[2] The tower was added between 1200 and 1250, originally as twin towers, which were rebuilt in today's form first in 1651 and then in 1737. The altar, font and pulpit were carved in 1613 – 1618 by Ludwig Münstermann. The altar is nearly 10 metres (33 ft) high and is one of the main works of Northern German Mannerism.

Before the Protestant Reformation, the patron saint was Saint Peter. Today, the castle church is a Lutheran church, with no patron saint. The church was formerly one of the buildings of the castle, which was demolished in the 19th century soon after a fire destroyed most parts of it.

Notable natives

Charlotte Sophie Bentinck (1715-1800), confidante of Voltaire and Frederick the Great
Johann Gerhard Oncken (1800-1884), founder of the German and continental European Baptist churches
Lothar Meyer (1830-1895) developed about the same time and independent of Dmitri Mendeleev modern periodic table of the elements
Oskar Emil Meyer (1834-1909), physicist
Wilhelm Hegeler (1870-1943), writer
Carl Carls (1880-1958), chess champion
Erich Heckel (1883-1979), painter
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884-1976), expressionist painter and printmaker
Friedrich Wegener (1907-1990), pathologist
Hildegard Behrens (1937-2009), singer (dramatic soprano)
Hans-Paul Bürkner (born 1951), CEO of the Boston Consulting Group
Heiko Daxl (1957-2012), media artist, exhibition curator, art gallery owner and design / art collector
Ines Varenkamp (born 1963), cyclist
Markus Eichler (born 1982), cyclist
Massiv in Mensch (founded in 1996), industrial musical duo

International relations

Varel is twinned with:

Jackson, Michigan (United States)[3]

References

Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen, LSN-Online Regionaldatenbank, Tabelle 12411: Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes, Stand 31. Dezember 2018.
"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-03-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
Greater Jackson Chamber of Commerce Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine, 5 June 2002; retrieved on 11 September 2009.

External links

Official site (in German)

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[1] Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen, LSN-Online Regionaldatenbank, Tabelle 12411: Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes, Stand 31. Dezember 2018.

[2] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-03-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[3] Greater Jackson Chamber of Commerce Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine, 5 June 2002; retrieved on 11 September 2009.