Schlangen

Municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Coat of arms

Location of Schlangen within Lippe district

(2020–25) Marcus Püster^[1] (CDU)Area

• Total75.97 km² (29.33 sq mi)Elevation

169 m (554 ft)Population

(2022-12-31)^[2]

• Total9,357 • Density120/km² (320/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codes

33189

Dialling codes05252Vehicle registrationLIPWebsitewww.schlangen-online.de

Schlangen is a municipality in the Lippe district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Schlangen has about 9.000 inhabitants (2013) and enjoys relative prosperity. Located a few kilometers away from Detmold, the municipality stretches from the edge of the sandy Sea ^{[clarification needed]} to the mountain course of the Teutoburger forest southern slope.

Politics

The town council of Schlangen consists of 26 members:

Parties and voter communities		% 2014	seats 2014
CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	36,68	10
SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	43,80	11
FDP	Free Democratic Party (Germany)	7,14	2
GRÜNE	Alliance '90/The Greens	12,38	3
Total		100,0	26
Poll in %		63,1

(conditions: Local election 2014)

Sister cities

The following cities are twinned with Schlangen:^[3]

Viitasaari, Central Finland, since 1999

References

^ Wahlergebnisse in NRW Kommunalwahlen 2020, Land Nordrhein-Westfalen, accessed 21 June 2021.
^ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden Nordrhein-Westfalens am 31. Dezember 2022 – Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes auf Basis des Zensus vom 9. Mai 2011" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
^ "Ystävyyskunnat" (in Finnish). City of Viitasaari. Archived from the original on 2012-06-04. Retrieved 2012-06-01.