Schlangen
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 to the mountain course of the Teutoburger forest southern slope.
Politics
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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:
Viitasaari, Central Finland, since 1999