Wirtschaftsstandort Oldenburg

Wer die Region besucht, sollte sich eine Wattwanderung
nicht entgehen lassen.
Visitors to the region should certainly experience a walk through the mud flats.
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museum village taking visitors on a journey in time
through the area’s rural history. Pure nature can be found
at the southern edge of the Oldenburger Münsterland,
with the Dammer Berge and the watersport paradise
Dümmer See. All conceivable kinds of mobility are pos -
sible here: by car or motorhome, on a bicycle or horse,
in a canoe – visitors will be spoilt for choice, depending
on their personal preferences. Really ambitious cyclists will
enjoy the Boxenstopp Route (pit stop route) that covers
about 300 kilometres offering countless insights into the
rural way of life.
The journey around Oldenburg continues into the Wil des -
hauser Geest, a highly varied landscape with Lower
Saxony’s largest nature park covering 1,500 square kilo -
metres at the heart of it. If you love walking, then this is
the place for you. Rivers, forests and meadows are just
waiting to be discovered, together with avenues and little
villages. One of these is Visbek which is a good example
of the effects of recent transformation. For a long time,
Visbek and all the surrounding region was almost purely
agricultural, but its economic life is meanwhile much more
varied. While fruit, arable and vegetable farming together
with poultry and pig breeding remain elementary factors,
numerous companies have settled here in branches such
as electrical engineering, machine and plant construction
or wood processing, enjoying the favourable location
close to the A 1 motorway.
It now makes sense to continue on into the adjoining
Wesermarsch. Here good there is plenty for day trippers
to discover, or holidaymakers may stay in the region for
longer, particularly in the coastal area. On the way to
the North Sea, why not take a break at the Flieger-Horst-
Museum (Airfield Museum) in Lemwerder for a look at the
region’s aircraft construction history? Visitors to Brake will
enjoy the Schifffahrtsmuseum (Shipping Museum), while
the historical department store Abbehausen in Nordenham
still actually has goods on sale. Finally, in Butjadingen
visitors can spend time at the Nationalpark-Haus (National
Park House) and in Butjadingen Museum to find out about
Lower Saxony’s Wadden Sea, which adjoins the Wesermarsch
in the north and is a home to many birds and sea
creatures. If you want to see and discover other animals,
you won’t have far to go: all generations will enjoy a visitor
to the Jaderpark in Jaderberg/Wesermarsch with its zoo
and amusements providing plenty of entertainment.
If all this activity leaves you with burning feet, you can
cool them off again in the water at Dangast, which is only
20 kilometres from the Jaderpark. And if the tide just
happens to be out again, it’s time to head off into the
Wadden Sea! Dangast belongs to the Nationalpark
Wattenmeer (Wadden Sea National Park); walking through
the mud flats is the best way to combine pleasure, recreation
and activity. And that is simply typical for the North
West.