Bad Bentheim

Bad Bentheim
Town
Bad Bentheim with its castle
Flag Coat of arms
Location of Bad Bentheim within Grafschaft Bentheim district
Bad Bentheim Bad Bentheim
Coordinates: 52°18′11″N 07°09′35″E
Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
District	Grafschaft Bentheim
Government
• Mayor (2021–26)	Volker Pannen (SPD)
Area
• Total	100.16 km2 (38.67 sq mi)
Elevation	49 m (161 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)
• Total	16,251
• Density	160/km2 (420/sq mi)
Demonym	Bentheimer
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	48455
Dialling codes	05922; 05924 for Gildehaus
Vehicle registration	NOH
Website	http://www.stadt-badbentheim.de/index/

Tower (the Pulverturm) of Burg Bentheim

Bad Bentheim (German: [baːt ˈbɛnthaɪm] (listen); Dutch Low Saxon: Beantem) is a town in the southwestern part of Lower Saxony, Germany, in the County of Bentheim on the borders of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Netherlands about 15 km south of Nordhorn and 20 km northeast of Enschede.

Geography

Extent of the municipal area

The town limit is 49 km, with a north–south reach of 14 km and an east–west reach of 12 km. The area under Bad Bentheim's power, along with all its constituent communities, has a total area of 100.16 km².

Neighbouring communities

Bad Bentheim, a town shaped by the Evangelical Church, belongs to Lower Saxony's district of Bentheim. It borders on two other towns in Lower Saxony, Schüttorf and Nordhorn as well as on the Catholic towns of Gronau and Ochtrup in North Rhine-Westphalia's Steinfurt and Borken districts respectively. Bad Bentheim is right on the Dutch border, its immediate neighbours on the other side being de Lutte and Losser, both Catholic places in the province of Overijssel (Twente region). Not far away is the Dutch cities of Almelo, Enschede and Hengelo, and on the German side Lingen, Rheine, Münster and Osnabrück.

Constituent communities

The town has the centres of Achterberg, Bardel, Gildehaus, Hagelshoek, Holt und Haar, Sieringhoek, Waldseite and Westenberg.

Further reading

• Weiss, Helmuth (2005). Grafschaft Bentheim: Bad Bentheim - Nordhorn - Schüttorf -Neuenhaus -Uelsen - Emlichheim - Wietmarschen. Bremen: Edition Temmen. ISBN 3-86108-941-6. (English-French-Dutch-German)
• Hubert Titz (publisher): Bad Bentheim - Aspekte einer Stadtgeschichte. Schriftenreihe der Volkshochschule des Landkreises Grafschaft Bentheim Bd. 21/Schriftenreihe des Heimatvereins Grafschaft Bentheim Bd. 138, Bad Bentheim 1996.
• Herbert Wagner: Die Gestapo war nicht allein… Politische Sozialkontrolle und Staatsterror im deutsch-niederländischen Grenzgebiet 1929-1945. (Gestapo und Grenzpolizeikommissariat Bentheim), LIT-Verlag, Münster 2004.

Other websites

• Internet presence of the Town of Bad Bentheim (in German and Dutch)
• Bardel Franciscan Monastery Archived 2022-04-19 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
• picture gallery at the Bardel Franciscan Monastery (in German)
• Site of the Prince of Bentheim (in German)
• Site of Bentheim Castle (in German)
• Site of the Sandstone Museum (in German)