Vechta
Vechta is the capital and largest city of the Vechta district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is home to the University of Vechta. It is known for the 'Stoppelmarkt' fair, which takes place every summer and has a history dating back to 1298.Places of Interest
Highlights: Vechta station and Gulf house.
Gulf house
Community center
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Langförden and Bakum.
Bakum
Village
Bakum is a municipality in the district of Vechta, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Bakum is situated 7 km west of Vechta.
Lohne
Town
Lohne is a town in the district of Vechta, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Lohne is situated 8 km southwest of Vechta.
Vechta
- Type: Town with 32,100 residents
- Description: town in the German state of Lower Saxony, and capital of Vechta District
- Categories: independent community, urban municipality in Germany, district capital, Einheitsgemeinde of Lower Saxony, and locality
- Location: Vechta, Lower Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
52.73107° or 52° 43′ 52″ north
Longitude
8.28732° or 8° 17′ 14″ east
Population
32,100
Elevation
35 metres (115 feet)
UN/LOCODE
DE VEC
Open location code
9F4CP7JP+CW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Vechta” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فشتا”
- Aragonese: “Vechta”
- Asturian: “Vechta”
- Basque: “Vechta”
- Belarusian: “Фехта”
- Bulgarian: “Фехта”
- Catalan: “Vechta”
- Cebuano: “Vechta”
- Chechen: “Фехта”
- Chinese: “費希塔”
- Chinese: “费希塔”
- Czech: “Vechta”
- Danish: “Vechta”
- Dutch: “Vechta”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فشتا”
- Esperanto: “Vechta”
- Estonian: “Vechta”
- Finnish: “Vechta”
- French: “Vechta”
- German: “Vechta”
- Greek: “Φέχτα”
- Hungarian: “Vechta”
- Interlingue: “Vechta”
- Irish: “Vechta”
- Italian: “Vechta”
- Japanese: “フェヒタ”
- Kazakh: “Фехта”
- Kirghiz: “Фехта”
- Kurdish: “Vechta”
- Ladin: “Vechta”
- Low German: “Vechte”
- Malay: “Vechta”
- Moksha: “Фэхта”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vechta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vechta”
- Norwegian: “Vechta”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Vechta”
- Persian: “فشتا”
- Polish: “Vechta”
- Portuguese: “Vechta”
- Romanian: “Vechta”
- Russian: “Фехта”
- Serbian: “Фехта”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vechta”
- Slovak: “Vechta”
- South Azerbaijani: “فشتا”
- Spanish: “Vechta”
- Swedish: “Vechta”
- Tatar: “Фехта”
- Tumbuka: “Vechta”
- Turkish: “Vechta”
- Ukrainian: “Фехта”
- Urdu: “ویچٹا”
- Uzbek: “Vechta”
- Vietnamese: “Vechta”
- Volapük: “Vechta”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vechta”
- Welsh: “Vechta”
- “Vechta”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Klingenhagen and Vechta-Innenstadt.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Four7 Pilates Reformer Club and Building H University Vechta.
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Worth a closer look: Hanover and Göttingen.
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