Bendorf

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Bendorf
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Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '  N , 7 ° 34'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Mayen-Koblenz
Height : 115 m above sea level NHN
Area : 24.07 km 2
Residents: 16,888 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 702 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 56170
Primaries : 02622, 02601 (Stromberg)Template: Infobox municipality in Germany / maintenance / area code contains text
License plate : MYK, MY
Community key : 07 1 37 203
City structure: 4 districts

City administration address : 		In Stadtpark 1–2
56170 Bendorf
Website : www.bendorf.de
Mayor : Michael Kessler ( CDU )
Location of the city of Bendorf in the Mayen-Koblenz district
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Bendorf, aerial photo (2016)

Bendorf [ ˈbɛndɔrf ] is an association-free city in the Mayen-Koblenz district in Rhineland-Palatinate and lies on the right bank of the Rhine between Koblenz and Neuwied . Bendorf is a state-approved tourist destination and designated as a medium-sized center according to state planning .

Bendorf is on the German Limes Road . The Bendorf fort was located there on the Upper German Limes , but nothing can be seen of it.

geography

Districts

Districts of Bendorf are Sayn , Mülhofen and Stromberg . Other parts of the community are Albrechtshof, Meisenhof, Ziegelei, Sonnenhof and Hof Zwei Tannen.

climate

The annual precipitation is 658 mm. The precipitation is in the lower third of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower values ​​are registered at 32% of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is February, with the most rainfall in July. In July there is 2.2 times more rainfall than in February. The rainfall varies moderately. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at 61% of the measuring stations.

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Precipitation ( mm ) 43 37 46 51 60 78 81 70 51 52 56 50 Σ 675
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Rainy days ( d ) 16 15th 13 15th 14th 13 15th 15th 13 14th 15th 15th Σ 173
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history

On July 31, 1743, the worst recorded disaster to date occurred in Bendorf: in the afternoon around five o'clock, a major fire broke out in the eastern part of the community. According to a report by the administrator at the time, Johann Anton Rhodius, to the government in Altenkirchen , the fire broke out in the brandy distillery of the hammer smith Bartholomäus Syré in Steinstrasse. According to another version, it is said to have erupted in the forester's house, which was also located in Steinstrasse.

The place was surrounded by a city wall, narrow and irregularly built-up, the house roofs were thatched. The fire destroyed 77 houses, 44 barns, 61 stables and 24 wine press houses within two hours. With a total of 206 buildings, the entire northern half of the town fell victim to the flames. 70 families (approx. 200-300 people) lost their shelter and almost the entire inventory, including the hay and grain that had already been brought in, as well as 1,700 barrels of wine, which was the main source of income for the population at that time. Only the cattle and all people could be saved. Most of the population of Bendorf lived from agriculture and viticulture. A large number of the citizens were therefore outside the city gates in the fields during the fire.

On October 1, 1928, the municipality of Sayn was incorporated into the district of Mülhofen due to economic problems. While the service sector was mainly based in Bendorf, Mülhofen had taken the path of an industrial monoculture with the Bendorfer ironworks . Among other things, because of the unfavorable location for raw material procurement, the orders for the smelters fell. In 1931 the budget of the community of Bendorf closed with a deficit of 476,551 marks. As a result, there was an unprecedented level of mass unemployment. In the winter of 1931/32 and in the following winter, charities got involved.

In 1934 the volunteer fire brigades in Bendorf, Mülhofen and Sayn formed an official service. The voluntary fire brigade of the city of Bendorf today consists of the fire engines from the districts of Bendorf, Mülhofen, Sayn and Stromberg.

On March 16, 1974, the previously independent community of Stromberg was incorporated into Bendorf.

Statistics on population development

The development of the number of inhabitants in relation to today's urban area; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year population
1774 1,369
1787 1,506
1815 2,463
1835 3,890
1871 5,296
1880 3,985
1905 9,794
1925 6,700
year population
1939 11,275
1950 12,627
1961 14,784
1970 15,828
1987 15,354
2005 17,458
2017 16,863

politics

City council

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The city ​​council in Bendorf consists of 32 honorary council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the full-time mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the city council:

choice SPD CDU GREEN FDP WUM total
2019 8th 12 6th 3 3 32 seats
2014 11 15th 3 1 2 32 seats
2009 11 14th - 5 2 32 seats
2004 10 17th - 2 3 32 seats
Notes:
WUM = Free Voting Group Bendorf of the Mittelrhein eV environmental alternative

mayor

The lawyer Michael Kessler (CDU) has been mayor since 2015, who won the election on June 15, 2014 with 54.6% of the vote.

His predecessor is Michael Syré (CDU), who was elected on September 10, 2006 with 53.4% ​​of the votes cast. On July 27, 2011, the city council decided with a ¾ majority to initiate a voting procedure in accordance with To initiate § 55 para. 1 of the Rhineland-Palatinate municipal code against Mayor Michael Syré. A referendum was then carried out on September 25, 2011, but the voting failed due to the insufficient number of votes for the voting. For voting out, more than 30 percent of those eligible to vote, i.e. H. at least 3794 citizens must vote. 34% of those eligible to vote had taken part in the referendum, of which 65.4% (2820 citizens) had voted for the vote.

Town twinning

Monument at Yzeurer Platz to the town twinning

Bendorf has had a partnership with the French town of Yzeure in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region since 1986 . In Bendorf, Yzeurer Platz bears witness to this partnership, in Yzeure the Place de Bendorf (Bendorfer Platz).

Sights and culture

Protestant church

The Medardus Church in Bendorf 2012

The church, originally consecrated to St. Medardus , was a three-aisled, vaulted pillar basilica, which was largely destroyed in 1944. After the war, the remaining parts of the nave, the west facade and the north aisle were demolished. Of the old church, only the tower, the choir apse, the choir square and parts of the southern nave wall and the southern aisle remain. The new building from 1954 to 1956 (by Wolfgang Mentzel ), a high quality and typical building of the architecture of the 1950s, was oriented with the altar to the west and integrated the Romanesque remains. In the mid-1990s, the congregation reoriented the interior to the east by moving the altar from the new building into the Romanesque choir. A heavily restored 13th century fresco has been preserved in the apse (Christ as judge of the world with symbols of the evangelists). The Protestant Church is at right angles to the Catholic. Parish church of St. Medardus, with which it forms a structural unit.

Catholic Church

Catholic parish church of St. Medardus with the historic Reichardsmünster. Today's church was built in 1864–1867 by Hermann Nebel (Koblenz) instead of a building from 1790 as a three-aisled basilica with a transept in neo-Romanesque forms. In 2008, remains of painting (around 1870) were uncovered in the apse. Part of the cath. The parish church is the so-called Reichardsmünster , which was added to the two east bays of the south aisle and the south tower of the Protestant church around 1230. It is a kind of double chapel with two small south towers and remarkable architectural sculptures. 1864/67 one opened the south wall to the cath. Parish church and built the organ gallery inside.

Main article: Medardus Church (Bendorf) with a carillon / glockenspiel in the tower

additional

Well house in the cloister of the abbey

Economy and Infrastructure

Bendorfer Bridge with the Rhine Harbor behind it
Transmitter Bendorf four winch height

Bendorf has been shaped by mining and metallurgy since the 18th century. The most imposing relic from this time is the Sayner hut. The ores for the Bendorfer huts came from the Trierische Loh brown iron stone mine . The Rhine port of Bendorf dates back to 1900. In addition to the handling of clay and basalt, the port houses the largest mineral oil warehouse between Mainz and Cologne.

Today the former industrial city is home to many retail stores. The advertising community Blickpunkt Bendorf is an association of businesses in the city of Bendorf, which has set itself the goal of promoting the location.

The publishing house an der Isenburg is based in town. There is a shopping center and various supermarkets in Bendorf .

The Bendorf four-winch transmitter for VHF radio is located on the four -winch height .

Bendorf is a state-approved tourist destination .

traffic

  • Bendorf has a connection to the federal highway 48 as well as to the federal highway 42 and to the federal highway 413 .
  • There are also numerous bus connections to Koblenz, Neuwied, Höhr-Grenzhausen, Dierdorf and Montabaur.
  • As part of a nationwide station offensive, a railway stop for Bendorf is to be built on the right-hand Rhine route at the Rheinstrasse level crossing. The construction costs are estimated at 1.5 million euros.

Bike trails

education

  • Wilhelm-Remy-Gymnasium , state high school with the integration of physically handicapped students, sponsored by: Mayen-Koblenz district
  • Karl-Fries-Schule, Realschule plus , sponsored by: Mayen-Koblenz district
  • Medardus School, elementary school for the Bendorf district
  • Bodelschwingh School, elementary school for the districts of Sayn and Mülhofen, specialty school with an expanded educational mandate for the inclusion of disabled children
  • Stromberg elementary school, elementary school for the Stromberg district, sponsor: City of Bendorf
  • Theodor-Heuss-Schule, special school with a special focus on learning, sponsor: Mayen-Koblenz district
  • Adult Education Center Bendorf, sponsor: City of Bendorf

societies

The city of Bendorf has a pronounced club life. There are numerous clubs in the fields of sport, music and singing, carnival and customs, hobbies and leisure, as well as support groups. This includes B. the Kirmes- und Karnevalsgesellschaft (KuK), which organizes the carnival in Bendorf in cooperation with the Bendorfer Narrenzunft , but also the TS Bendorf , which offers gymnastics, martial arts and athletics, as well as handball. After being promoted in the 2011/2012 season, the first men's team will play in the Rhineland League of the Rhineland handball association from the 2012/2013 season. In addition, KuK Bendorf organizes the annual fair in Bendorf. In addition to various fire engines from the voluntary fire brigade, there is also a local association of the Federal Agency for Technical Relief .

Personalities

literature

  • The Remys. Ironworkers with body and soul. Ed .: Museumsverein Wendener Hütte e. V. u. City administration of Bendorf. Authors: Ulrike Hoppe-Oehl, Monika Löcken, Adelheid Simon-Schlagberger. - Weneden, Bendorf 1998 (= writings of the museum association Wendener Hütte e.V., vol. 2; writings of the city museum Bendorf, vol. 7). ISBN 3-930271-64-8
  • Manfred Böckling: Drank at Benndorf with Mr. remin a thee. July 18, 1774 or Goethe in Bendorf. - In: Yearbook for West German State History. 29th year, 2003, pp. 135–171. ISSN  0170-2025
  • Sayner Hut. Architecture, cast iron, work and life. Contributions by Paul-Georg Custodis, Barbara Friedhofen, Dietrich Schabow. Publisher: Sayn Abbey Association. - Koblenz: Görres Verlag 2002. ISBN 3-935690-12-6
  • Bendorf and its residents yesterday - today Peter Wacker Publisher: Kulturverein Bendorf - Koblenz: Görres Verlag 2006. ISBN 3-935690-57-6

Web links

Commons : Bendorf  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ a b State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
  3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 38 (PDF; 3 MB).
  4. ↑ www.bendorf-geschichte.de The great fire of 1743
  5. ↑ Mülhofen school chronicle
  6. ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 171 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
  7. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
  8. ↑ Local elections Rhineland-Palatinate 2014, city and municipal council elections
  9. ↑ Article from September 25, 2011 at www.rhein-zeitung.de: The election of the mayor of Bendorf failed
  10. ↑ How the Kemperhof came to Bendorf
  11. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate
  12. ↑ until December 31, 2020 according to Section 19 of the Rhineland-Palatinate Health Resort Act
  13. ↑ Horchheim, Goldgrube, Bendorf: New train stops are planned rhein-zeitung.de, July 26, 2016, accessed on September 23, 2016