Meppen – It's all green. It's all good.
Unlock your creative potential in Meppen's "Koppelschleuse" international cultural network. ! It's worth looking beyond the network itself as well. Experience art and history - from yesterday until tomorrow, from Meppen to neighbouring Holland. Or, if you like your holidays to be more strenuous, discover the diverse scenery of the Emsland, for instance on a canoe or bike tour.
Leisure activities in/at the Youth Hostel
- Cafeteria with billiards at the Hostel
- Multi-sensory relaxation room
- Barbecue area
- Area for ball games
- Boat jetty
- Playground
- Beach volleyball court
- Basketball hoop
- Table tennis (indoors and out)
- "Café Koppelschleuse" at the Koppelschleuse
- Theatre room
- Sculpture park
- Digital camcorder and camera
- Multimedia cube with microphone
- Piano
Leisure activities in the vicinity
- Canoe rides on the Ems and Hase, boat jetty at the Hostel
- Bike tours, bicycle hire nearby
- "Familienbad Meppen": open-air and indoor pool
- Lake for bathing at Schlagbrückener Weg
- Modern track and field stadium opposite the Youth Hostel
- Outdoor sports facilities at Versener Straße with numerous sports grounds
- Skater park behind Nagelsdorf town sports hall, with mini-pipe, fun box and quarter pipe
- Koppelschleuse lock: An incredible feat of engineering
- Art centre: Home of the "Meppener Kunstkreis", with "Grafotek" & School of Art
- "Alte Schule" ("Old School") Bokeloh: Permanent exhibition looking back at when Otto Pankok stayed here
- Church in Bokeloh: One of the oldest churches in the Emsland
- Cooling tower of the decommissioned gas power station, with what the Guinness Book of Records recognises as the largest world map on the planet, painted by Swiss artist Christoph Rihs.
- Archaeological Museum: Special exhibitions and educational museum programmes
- Arenberg'sche Rentei: Museum charting Meppen's past
- Stone burial site in Apeldorn: Huge boulders left behind by glaciers from the last ice age
- Jewish memorial: Commemorating the destroyed synagogue
- Museums of mills and maritime transport
- Emsland Moor Museum in Groß Hesepe
- Historic Town Hall: Meppen's famous landmark
- Gymnasialkirche: Jesuit church designed by Abbot Karl Immendorf
- Propsteikirche: Triple-naved late Gothic hall church made of sandstone blocks
- Residenz: Former refectory with magnificent baroque hearth and stucco ceiling
- Stadthaus: Regular exhibitions on the ground and upper floors
- Heyl'sches Haus, built in 1809 for the Arenberg ducal councillor Heyl
Sightseeing and excursions
- Day trip to Osnabrück
- Day trip to Oldenburg
- Excursions to the Netherlands
- Fort Bourtange (NL)
- Clemenswerth Palace in Sögel