Oberlangen

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Oberlangen
Coat of arms Location
Coat of arms of Oberlangen
Oberlangen (Germany)
Oberlangen
Administration
Country Flag of Germany Germany
State Lower Saxony
District Emsland
Municipal assoc. Lathen
Mayor Heinrich Rolfes (CDU)
Basic statistics
Area 22.12 km² (8.5 sq mi)
Elevation 9 m  (30 ft)
Population 985  (31/12/2006)
 - Density 45 /km² (115 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate EL
Postal code 49779
Area code 05933
Website www.oberlangen.de

Coordinates: 52°51′00″N 07°16′59″E / 52.85, 7.28306

Oberlangen is a municipality in district (Landkreis) Emsland, Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), north-western Germany. Population 916 in 2005.

This was the location of the Prisoner-of-war camp Stalag VI-C. There is a cemetery with mass graves of Soviet prisoners, and individual graves of other prisoners.

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