Engden
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Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ' N , 7 ° 11' E |
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| State : | Lower Saxony | |
| County : | County of Bentheim | |
| Joint municipality : | Schuettorf | |
| Height : | 29 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 44.29 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 421 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 10 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 48465 | |
| Area code : | 05926 | |
| License plate : | NOH | |
| Community key : | 03 4 56 003 | |
| Mayor : | Gerhard Theissing ( CDU ) | |
| Location of the municipality of Engden in the county of Bentheim | ||
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Engden (old: Engne ) is a municipality in the Samtgemeinde Schüttorf in the Grafschaft Bentheim district in Lower Saxony . The place is mentioned in 1267 when Friedrich v. Egne is named as Bentheimer Edler.
geography
location
Engden lies between Nordhorn and Schüttorf . The municipality belongs to the Schüttorf joint municipality , which has its administrative seat in the city of Schüttorf.
Waters
The Vechte tributary, Lee, arises in the Engden desert as a confluence of several drainage ditches.
Neighboring communities
The town of Nordhorn (in the west and north), the town of Wietmarschen (in the extreme northeast), the town of Emsbüren (in the east), the town of Schüttorf (in the extreme south-east), the town of Quendorf (in the south) and the Isterberg municipality (in the southwest).
Community structure
The community is divided into the villages of Engden and Drievorden .
Incorporations
On the occasion of the municipal reorganization, the towns of Engden and Drievorden were merged on March 1, 1974 to form the new municipality of Engden, which belongs to the Schüttorf joint municipality formed in 1970. With its 421 inhabitants, Engden is the smallest municipality in the Grafschaft Bentheim district.
religion
In contrast to the vast majority of the Grafschaft Bentheim district, the community of Engden is very Catholic, as during the Reformation it was on the one hand in the Grafschaft Bentheim, on the other hand it belonged to the parish of Emsbüren in the Duchy of Münster.
politics
Municipal council
In the municipal elections in Engden on September 11, 2016, with a turnout of 86.15%, the CDU received 72.9% of the valid votes and thus provides five councilors. For the first time since this election there has been a second parliamentary group in the municipal council, the newly founded Engden Citizens' Initiative (BIE) . The BIE won two seats with 27.1% of the vote.
- BIE : 2
- CDU : 5th
| Parties and constituencies | percent | Seats | |
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| CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | 72.9 | 5 |
| BIE | Engden citizens' initiative | 27.1 | 2 |
| total | 100 | 7th | |
| Turnout in percent | 86.15 | ||
After the local elections on September 11, 2016, the distribution of seats is as follows:
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| fraction | CDU | BIE | total | |||||
| Seats | 5 | 2 | 7th | |||||
mayor
The honorary mayor Gerhard Theissing was first elected on September 9, 2001 . In the respective constituent meetings of the municipal council, he was confirmed in his office after the two subsequent municipal elections and is currently mayor of the municipality of Engden.
Buildings
The Catholic Church of Abbot St. Antonius was built in 1899 as a neo-Romanesque brick building. It was renovated in 2010.
The Dobbe warehouse was probably built around 1800 and is the oldest preserved building of a rural grain distillery in north-west Germany and is therefore an important industrial monument.
The iron house was built because the farmers only wanted to give the client the small area between two paths. Due to the unusual cut, there is no right angle in the house. Construction of the house began around 1900, but was not completed until after the First World War .
traffic
The junctions to the A 31 (Emden-Bottrop) and A 30 (Bad Bentheim-Bad Oeynhausen) motorways are 15 and eight kilometers from the community, the B 403 is around four kilometers away. The next passenger stations are in Leschede / Gem. Emsbüren (Münster-Norddeich), in Bad Bentheim and Schüttorf (Amsterdam-Berlin) and in Quendorf (Neuenhaus-Bad Bentheim), each about nine to twelve kilometers away.
Special
The children mostly attend schools and kindergartens in Emsbüren in the Emsland district.
literature
- Ernst Kühle: Engden, history of a rural community . In: Heimatverein der Grafschaft Bentheim (ed.): Between the castle and the drilling tower. The Grafschaft Bentheim in the course of the times , born 1974. Nordhorn 1974, pp. 25-29.
- Herbert Wagner : Military in the region. Documentation about the artillery firing and bombing area in the Engden Desert / Nordhorn Range. Self-published, Bad Bentheim 1989, ISBN 3-88683-010-1 .
- Herbert Wagner: The Gestapo was not alone ... Political social control and state terror in the German-Dutch border area 1929-1945. LIT, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7448-6 (contains, among other things, resistance of the Catholic community against the Nazis).
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).
- ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 254 .
