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| | The rural Neustadt |
 | | The city of Neustadt am Rübenberge with its 44,000 inhabitants is actually a normal country town, but because of its extensive land area, it is remarkable. |
 | | The countryside of Neustadt with its old villages blends seamlessly with the rest of lower Saxony to form a unique landscape of forest and swamp, heath and marsh, hills, and a lake. |
 | | While in Neustadt, tourists can also visit important historical sites, for example, the Zisterzienserkloster (a monastery) in Mariensee, which was founded around 1200, or the St.-Osdag-Kirche (St. Osdag church) in Mandelsloh, the main parts of which were built around 1180. |
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