Wallenhorst

{{Infobox German location

|type = Gemeinde

|name = Wallenhorst

|image_coa = Wappen der Gemeinde Wallenhorst.svg

|coordinates = {{coord|52|21|N|8|1|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

|image_plan = Wallenhorst in OS.svg

|state = Lower Saxony

|district = Osnabrück

|elevation = 88

|area = 47.18

|postal_code = 49134

|area_code = 05407

|licence = OS, BSB, MEL, WTL

|Gemeindeschlüssel = 03 4 59 033

|divisions = 4 districts

|website = [https://www.wallenhorst.de/ www.wallenhorst.de]

|mayor = Otto Steinkamp{{cite web|url=https://wahlen.statistik.niedersachsen.de/KW2021/reports/DW/20210912_DW_Uebersicht.pdf|title=Direktwahlen in Niedersachsen vom 12. September 2021|date=13 October 2021|publisher=Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen}}

|leader_term = 2021–26

|party = independent

}}

Wallenhorst is a municipality in the district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the Wiehengebirge, approx. 10 km north of Osnabrück.

File:27 Johannes Kirche in Rulle - Außenaltar.jpg

The New St. Alexander Church serves as a reference height for all other heights in the German Mean Height Reference System (Normalhöhennull).

Notable people

  • Georg Budke (1900–1994), politician CDU
  • Hubert Müller (1936–1995), Catholic priest, theologian and church lawyer
  • Johanna Voß (born 1957), politician (The Left)

= Other personalities =

  • Clemens Lammerskitten (born 1957), politician CDU
  • Stefan Niggemeier (born 1969), media journalist, grew up in the Wallenhorster districts of Rulle and Lechtingen
  • Horst Georg Pöhlmann (born 1933), German evangelical theologian, lives in Wallenhorst
  • Irmgard Vogelsang (born 1946), politician CDU

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