Schuttorf

Schuttorf is a town in the area of Grafschaft Bentheim in southwesternmost Lower Saxony close to the Dutch outskirt and the limit with Westphalia. The town of Schuttorf shapes with the encompassing networks the Joint Community of Schuttorf. It is the area's most seasoned town. It lies on the stream Vechte, about 5 km east of Bad Bentheim, and 20 km southeast of Nordhorn. A lovely floodplain scene is the Grobe Maate northwest of town. In this marsh zone by the Vechte are numerous pools renewed again and again by flooding. Many butterfly and other bug species are found here, and furthermore the uncommon kingfisher.

The Holmer Maate is another of Schuttorf's floodplain scenes, where lapwings and incredible peaked grebes might be spotted. Close to the inside is the Vechteniederung Recreation Area, which is a floodplain and contains stormwater bowls. Schuttorf's town lobby was struck by a flying bomb in 1945 in the Second World War's last days and was totally gutted. The flame likewise wrecked the town chronicle and numerous significant verifiable records, making investigation into Schuttorf's history exceptionally troublesome. Numerous things, in any case, have been reproduced from that point forward.