Welcome to Mettingen!

In Mettingen, THE GOOD LIFE comes together in a historic town on the edge of the Teutoburg Forest with good transport links. The 12,000 inhabitants of the municipality live in the town centre and several rural hamlets.

On the border between Münsterland and Lower Saxony

Mettingen is located between Osnabrück and Rheine in the district of Steinfurt, on the border with Lower Saxony. Osnabrück and Münster/Osnabrück Airport (FMO) can be reached by car in half an hour, and Münster and the district town of Steinfurt are around 50 minutes away. You can be in the Netherlands almost as quickly, for example in the popular shopping city of Enschede. Via the nearby motorways you also have a direct connection to the North Sea coast and can be at the sea in a good hour and a half.

Tip: Münsterland is a cycling region! 4,500 kilometres of cycle paths offer you almost unlimited possibilities in the city and in the countryside: you can commute to work comfortably by bike and go on great tours with friends and family.

Living in Mettingen

Most of the approximately 12,000 inhabitants of Mettingen live in the main town, and the municipality also includes twelve rural hamlets.

The pretty town centre is characterised by a number of very different historical buildings. The village's landmark is the neo-Gothic St Agatha's Church of the Catholic community, not far away is the Protestant Church - the oldest building in Mettingen. There are also a number of historic half-timbered and sandstone buildings as well as many Tüöttenvillen - the magnificent houses of the Tödden, travelling merchants who used to deliver goods to neighbouring countries.

Even though rental and purchase prices are following the general property trend overall, there are still numerous niches to be discovered in Münsterland for building, buying or renting. Here you can find the average purchase and rental prices for a house or flat in rural Münsterland.

If you would like to build a house in Mettingen, you can find information on new building sites on the municipality's website and can register on a list of interested parties for building plots.

Shopping in Mettingen

You can buy groceries, household goods and many other things in Mettingen at various supermarkets and on Thursdays at the weekly market. In the town centre there are other shopping opportunities, for example a drugstore, a bookstore, an optician, shoe and fashion shops. Of course, you can also get everything you need for your bike or e-bike in specialist bike shops in Mettingen.
Tip for bargain hunters: The Designer Outlet Ochtrup is only 45 minutes away by car.

Childcare and schools in Mettingen

There are a total of around eight nurseries and daycare centres in Mettingen, one of which is located in the Schlickelde district. You can also find free childcare places in daycare centres or childminders online at "STEP - Kreis Steinfurt Elternportal".

With the educational offer in the municipality, children, young people and adults are well catered for - from the first day of school to the Abitur:

Two primary schools
One secondary modern school
One secondary school
One grammar school
Two special schools (specialising in learning and physical and motor development)
Two further education colleges

Did you know...?!

In Mettingen you can also try out unusual sports in several clubs: At the Mettingen Artistic Gymnastics School, children and young people train on Olympic apparatus, at the Mettingen Soap Box Derby youth club everything revolves around the fastest speed, at the Diving Club you can go down into unknown water worlds - and with the Balloon Club up into the airy heights.

Working in Mettingen

Many residents of the municipality commute to work in the surrounding towns, for example to Ibbenbüren and Osnabrück. Mettingen itself is home to various craft and catering businesses, an event technology provider, a traditional grain distillery and a few retailers. The largest employer in the town is the administrative and production site of the Coppenrath & Wiese confectionery.