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A great, cozy beer garden with a small menu of delicious dishes. It's worth a stop.

Nicely laid out for relaxation and with a great playground for children

Drinks and ice cream for a short break

Very quiet, clean, and plenty of space for dogs. A great place to stay.

Dörpen's village square features a fountain and artificial watercourses. It borders the market square. Benches invite you to take a break or listen to the water. A few small playground equipment for children is also available.

The two peat boat pullers on the Splitting Canal, even if they are only cast in cast iron, depict the tradition of towing ships, in which a man pulled up to ten barges along the towpath behind him on a rope. They tell of the long-gone fen culture in the Emsland region.

Trans Rapid route. Very interesting - and a shame that it was scrapped after the accident.

In 1629 Dietrich von Velen bought the dilapidated Papenburg on the edge of East Frisia from Friedrich von Schwarzenberg, and in 1631 he was also granted feudal rights. There he founded the first moor colony on German soil, following the Dutch model. To do this, he had a new canal dug that drained the moor colony into the Ems. On the Ems he had this canal protected from flooding with a sluice gate. During the Thirty Years' War, the new colony suffered greatly from military influence. The occupation of the Emsland from 1633 to 1638 almost brought this plan to failure. But after the conclusion of the Peace of Westphalia, the settlement quickly recovered. In 1657, Papenburg was granted the status of a lordship by the Prince-Bishop of Münster, Christoph Bernhard von Galen. Today, the Von Velen open-air museum in Papenburg commemorates the founding of the moor colony. In 1987, a monument to Dietrich von Velen was erected on the grounds of the open-air museum.