Norden, Lower Saxony

Norden
Ludgeri-Church
Coat of arms
Norden
Location of Norden within Aurich district
Coordinates: 53°35′48″N 07°12′20″E / 53.59667°N 7.20556°E / 53.59667; 7.20556Coordinates: 53°35′48″N 07°12′20″E / 53.59667°N 7.20556°E / 53.59667; 7.20556
Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
District	Aurich
Government
• Mayor	Heiko Schmelzle (CDU)
Area
• Total	106.33 km2 (41.05 sq mi)
Elevation	7 m (23 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)[1]
• Total	25,117
• Density	240/km2 (610/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	26506, 26492–26496, 26501, 26519–26520
Dialling codes	04931
Vehicle registration	AUR, NOR
Website	www.norden.de

Norden (East Frisian Low Saxon: Nörden) is a town in the district of Aurich, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the North Sea shore, in East Frisia.

Cemeteries

• 
  In Marienhafe, a neighboring village

Emigrants

• Pieter Claesen Wyckoff

See also

• Norddeich
• Norden also hosts the launch point of the worlds longest submarine cable, SEA-ME-WE 3

Personality

Hermann Conring

• Hermann Conring (1606–1681), German physician and politician
• Johann Cramer (1905–1987), German politician (SPD), member of the German Bundestag
• Wilhelm von Freeden (1822–1894), German mathematician, scientist and oceanographer and founder of the North German Naval Observatory
• Recha Freier (1892–1984), writer, winner of the Israeli State Prize
• Wilhelm Gnapheus (1493–1568), a humanist and Reformed Protestant scholar
• Otto Ites (1918–1982), Rear Admiral of the Federal Navy, support the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and the Federal Order of Merit
• Marco Kutscher (born 1975), show jumping
• Herbert Müller (born 1953), painter
• Johann Schröder (1925–2007), German mathematician
• Heiko Schwartz (1911–1973), water polo player
• Barbara Schlag (born 1951), teacher, mayor of Norden from 1998-2016

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Norden, Lower Saxony.

• Official site (in German)
• Norddeich, a District of Norden (in German)