Barver

Barver
Barver
Municipality
	Coat of arms
	Location of Barver within Diepholz district
	Barver Barver
	Coordinates: 52°37′N 08°36′E / 52.617°N 8.600°E
Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
District	Diepholz
Municipal assoc.	Rehden
Government
• Mayor	Hans-Hermann Borggrefe
Area
• Total	25.9 km2 (10.0 sq mi)
Elevation	37 m (121 ft)
Population (2022-12-31)
• Total	1,091
• Density	42/km2 (110/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	49453
Dialling codes	05448
Vehicle registration	DH

Barver is a municipality in the district of Diepholz, Lower Saxony, Germany.

Geography

Barver is located midway between Bremen (54 km to the north-north-east) and Osnabrück (52 km to the south-west), northeast of the Dümmer and Rehden Geest Moor Nature Parks and south of the Wildeshausen Geest Nature Park. The village lies east of the Kellenberg ridge (77 m) and on the west bank of the Wagenfelder Aue, a south-eastern tributary of the Hunte.

History

The first written reference to Barver dates from 1219.

Town twinning

Barver has been twinned with the French commune of Lezay since August 1973.

References

^ "LSN-Online Regionaldatenbank, Tabelle A100001G: Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes, Stand 31. Dezember 2022" (in German). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen.

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[1] "LSN-Online Regionaldatenbank, Tabelle A100001G: Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes, Stand 31. Dezember 2022" (in German). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen.

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