Schlangen Explained

Schlangen
Image Coa:Wappen von Schlangen.svg
Coordinates:51.8167°N 8.8331°W
Image Plan:Schlangen in LIP.svg
State:North Rhine-Westphalia
Region:Detmold
District:Lippe
Elevation:169
Area:75.97
Gemeindeschlüssel:05 7 66 064
Postal Code:33189
Area Code:05252
Licence:LIP
Website:www.schlangen-online.de
Mayor:Marcus Püster[1]
Leader Term:2020 - 25
Party:CDU

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 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
CDUChristian Democratic Union of Germany36,6810
SPDSocial Democratic Party of Germany43,8011
FDPFree Democratic Party (Germany)7,142
GRÜNEAlliance '90/The Greens12,383
Total100,026
Poll in %63,1

(conditions: Local election 2014)

Sister cities

The following cities are twinned with Schlangen:[2]

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.wahlergebnisse.nrw/kommunalwahlen/2020/index_bm.shtml Wahlergebnisse in NRW Kommunalwahlen 2020
  2. Web site: Ystävyyskunnat. City of Viitasaari. 2012-06-01. fi. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120604101456/http://www.viitasaari.fi/fi/yleista/ystavyyskunnat/?id=366. 2012-06-04.