Vechta

Vechta is the county seat and on the equal time the largest city of the district of the identical call in western Lower Saxony and an independent municipality. The known as equestrian metropolis University City is with Cloppenburg one of the two district cities inside the Oldenburger Munster land and is led within the spatial making plans of Lower Saxony as a middle. Since 1994 Vechta bureaucracy the so called metropolis quartet with the cities of Damme, Diepholz and Lohne. Since 2006 Vechta belongs to the metropolitan area of Bremen Oldenburg.

The Rheinische road as a trade route became inside the Middle Ages from Osnabruck coming north from Lohne west at the foot of the Dammer mountains and crossed the lowlands on each sides of the Vechtaer Moorbachs among the compression end of the Dammer mountains inside the south and the Cloppenburg Geest plate in the north at the narrowest after which precise satisfactory region. This vital transition over the swampy Vechtaer Moorbach is already cited in files for the 12 months 851. The exchange path led through the port towns of Bremen and Hamburg to the Baltic Sea metropolis of Lubeck.