Narrower

This article describes the location, for the actor see Adolphe Engers .

Narrower City of Neuwied
Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 26 ″  N , 7 ° 32 ′ 39 ″  E
Height :	70 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	5292  (June 30, 2016)
Incorporation :	November 7, 1970
Postal code :	56566
Area code :	02622
Location of Engers in Rhineland-Palatinate
Aerial view, view of the Rhine from Engers

View of the Rhine in Engers

Engers was an independent town until 1970 and is now a district of Neuwied . Engers is considered to be the oldest Roman settlement on the right bank of the Rhine.

geography

Engers is located on the right bank of the Middle Rhine at Rhine kilometer 601, at the foot of the Westerwald , between Neuwied and Bendorf , approx. 12 km north of Koblenz in the Neuwied basin .

The most south-easterly point is roughly at the level of the Sayn estuary, Engers extends downstream to Engerser Feld at Block and Neuwied and north to federal highway 42 .

history

Place name

Engersgau: In the name of the Engersgau , Engers appears for the first time in written history. The Gau is named after its main town and finally disappears from the files around 1100.

Engers: The Old High German name Angar, which means something like "free level", seems to be the most original word form for Engers. The vowel alternations are due to the effects of the primary umlauts as well as the consequences of the final syllable weakening: ahd. Angar → ahd. Anger → mhd. Narrower . In Middle High German, the term Anger still refers to a village meadow owned by the municipality and suggests the rural basis of the settlement of Engers; see. the second part of Carmina Burana : "Uf dem Anger" by Carl Orff .

Engersbach: The name of the place is probably due to the Engersbach, which can be put together by the Old High German words “Angar” (Engers) and “Isa” (Bach).

Cunen-Engers: The Trier Elector Kuno von Falkenstein transformed in the 14th century, the image and the importance of Passengers by its actions for the place, palace, customs and ramparts, so Engers temporarily gets this nickname.

Kaltenengers : This place does not belong to Engers, but is on the opposite side of the Rhine. He ismentioned in documents and files in1302 as Klein-Engers and in 1438 as Callen-Engers.

Iron age

Engers celebrated its 600th anniversary in 1957, but the area has been inhabited for much longer. The oldest traces of settlement date from the Neolithic Age , the oldest burial ground consisting of 40 graves and some Bronze Age objects date from 800–600 BC. Classify.

Antiquity

Under Julius Caesar , the historically significant bridge from Urmitz across the Rhine was probably built here in 55 BC in order to punish the Germanic Sugambrians . The exact place at which the bridge was built is controversial, but in 1885 remains of oak piles were excavated from the Rhine with a steam excavator , which were later dated to the middle of the 1st century BC with the help of modern methods. Could be determined.

At the time of the Roman occupation there was already a port near Engers, the remains of which can still be seen today. Around 1800 one could discover pile remains of it at low water.

A Roman fort was built in Engers in the fourth century. The remains of the so-called Burgus Neuwied-Engers can still be found in the Rhine complex today. These were uncovered and researched in 1951 by Josef Röder from the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier .

The Limes ran only a few kilometers away , where a reconstructed Roman watchtower can still be seen in the forest near Sayn .

middle Ages

Former watchtower "Duckesje"

In Franconian times, Engers was the eponymous capital of the Carolingian administrative district of Engersgau , which was first mentioned on June 24, 773 in the Lorsch Codex .

This Gau bordered in the north on the Ripuarian landscapes Ahrgau and Auelgau on the Sieg . From the south of today's town of Bad Honnef, the border followed the watershed between Sieg and Wied as far as the Wiedquelle, jumped over to the Gelbachquelle and followed this brook to the mouth of the Lahn in Langenau. Lahn and Rhine enclosed the Gau to the south and west.

On February 7, 1357, the town was granted city rights by Emperor Charles IV .

In 1371 Archbishop Kuno von Falkenstein began building the castle and building a city fortification, in a semicircle from the customs station still standing today, the so-called "Gray Tower" (construction started around 1378), to the "Duckesje" at the other end.

In 1412, under Werner von Falkenstein , the Rhine toll was moved from Stolzenfels Castle near Koblenz to Engers. Due to the unfavorable water conditions, it later falls back to Koblenz.

Modern times

Engers in an engraving by Merian around 1650

During the Thirty Years War, Engers and Sayn were occupied by Swedish troops (1632 or 1633), but after three years they had to give way to the imperial troops. They shot at Kunostein Castle so hard that it was then dilapidated.

The plague had 1,662 survive only five families in Engers. From the neighboring Reil, which was unpaved and was often looted, people moved into the empty houses, so that in 1684 there were again 59 families in Engers.

With the arrival of the French revolutionary troops in 1794, Clemens Wenzeslaus of Saxony fled Koblenz and Engers was occupied.

Engers became Prussian in 1815 and remained so until 1945. Since 1863, Engers Castle had a Prussian war school , which existed until the First World War.

After the First World War , Engers came under US occupation until 1922, then under French occupation until 1926. On March 17, 1933, Mayor Darius, who had ruled since the First World War, was declared deposed by the Nazi regime . On November 9, 1938, during the Reichspogromnacht , there were also attacks on Jewish families in Engers. During the Second World War , the Allies carried out numerous air raids on Engers. After the Ludendorff Bridge near Remagen was taken on March 7, 1945, the railway bridge between Engers and Urmitz was blown up on March 9 at 7:30 a.m., although hundreds of people - mostly German soldiers in retreat - were still on the bridge.

Half-tracks of the US 9th Armored Division advance through Engers (March 27, 1945)

When this bridge was blown up by German pioneers , all connections to the left bank of the Rhine were interrupted. Allied troops reached Engers on Palm Sunday, March 25, 1945, ending direct fighting in this section of the front.

In 1995, the Rhineland-Palatinate State Foundation took Villa Musica in Schloss Engers on their Academy operation. In 2003 the Landesmusikakademie Rhineland-Palatinate got its new home in the Engerser Meisterhaus near the Heinrich House .

Former town of Engers

Engers was part of the mountain maintenance department in the Electorate of Trier until 1803 . In 1803 the former Electoral Trier territories on the right bank of the Rhine were assigned to the Principality of Nassau-Weilburg , which in 1806 became part of the Duchy of Nassau . Due to the treaties concluded at the Congress of Vienna , Engers came to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 . Engers became the seat of the mayor's office in the Koblenz district and the Koblenz district . In 1822 Engers was assigned to the Neuwied district .

On June 2, 1957, the state government returned the town charter that had been formally lost by the Rhenish town council of 1856.

In the course of the Rhineland-Palatinate territorial and administrative reform that began in the mid-1960s , the “Eighth State Law on Administrative Simplification in the State of Rhineland-Palatinate” of July 28, 1970, which came into force on November 7, 1970, made the town of Engers der assigned to the new town of Neuwied. With the resolution of the Neuwied City Council on January 22, 1971, Engers became a district. A town council and a mayor representing it for the 2,001th

coat of arms

	Former city arms
	Blazon : "In silver a (growing) left-turned gold-nimbed and gold-haired silver Roman soldier in a gold tunic and blue tunic, the same cross-breasted belt and helmet with a red plume, wrapped in a long, wide, red cloak, with his left hand lifting the hem, with the On the right parting the cloak with a silver, almost concealed sword, on the left a small, kneeling, gripping the cloak, unclothed, gold-haired, silver man, in the center of the shield base covered with a silver label with a continuous red cross in it. "
	Justification of the coat of arms: The former coat of arms represents St. Martin , the patron saint of the Church of Engers, in a charitable act as a Gallo-Roman officer, the Electorate of Trier coat of arms in the base of the shield .

politics

Local advisory board

The local advisory council in Engers consists of 8 council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the local advisory board:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	total
2019	3	4th	1	8 seats
2014	3	4th	1	8 seats
2009	4th	3	1	8 seats

• FWG = Free Voters' Group Neuwied e. V.

Mayor

Dieter Neckenig (CDU) has been the honorary mayor since 2014. He was confirmed in office in the local elections on May 26, 2019 .

Attractions

Engers Castle

Engers Castle

Johann Philipp von Walderdorff , Archbishop and Elector of Trier and Prince-Bishop of Worms , built Engers Castle , located directly on the banks of the Rhine, between 1759 and 1764 as a hunting , pleasure and summer castle according to plans by Johannes Seiz .

Old town hall and castle tavern

The old town hall from 1642 and the castle tavern from 1621 are in the center of the village opposite the castle courtyard.

Old city fortifications

Parts of the city fortifications begun in 1371 are still preserved. The "Gray Tower" is on the promenade along the Rhine, the "Duckesje" and another fortified tower are by the Catholic Church. Parts of the city wall have also been preserved.

Old half-timbered houses on the Rhine

Popularly known as Engers' oldest house, built around 1617. Half-timbered house consisting of two structures; At Heinrichhaus 9 and Helle 2, built around 1617, in the basement area and ground floor remains of the city wall and a city wall tower (Rheintor) around 1370.

Catholic parish church of St. Martin

The parish church of St. Martin was built in neo-late Romanesque form in 1896 on the site of a previous church. Impressive architectural structures with Rhenish characteristics made of brick and tuff. It has been a listed building since 2003.

Evangelical parish church

The Evangelical Parish Church was built in 1900 in neo-late Gothic forms. The church is dominated by a tower with a pointed pyramid roof. It has been a listed building since 2003.

Engers station

The Engers station with the former station building was built in 1869 and served as a hub for passenger and freight rail traffic until the end of the 20th century.

Water tower

The water tower was built in 1900 and supplied the whole of Engers with the water stored in it.

The gray tower

The gray tower from the 14th century also served as a customs tower on the Rhine. Today it's an office. It is also used as a lookout point.

• See also: List of cultural monuments in Neuwied

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  Town Hall (1642)

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  Watchtower next to the St. Martin Church

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  Parish Church of St. Martin

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  Protestant church

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  Plague chapel

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  Fountain

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  Engers' oldest house

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  Engers Castle , viewed from the opposite side of the Rhine (Kaltenengers)

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  Aerial view of Engers

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  Water tower, aerial view

Club life

Engers offers a large and colorful variety of clubs, from sports to choirs, social clubs and various small clubs to traditional clubs.

Most of the clubs are represented in the umbrella association of the Engers citizens' association.

The fair years, which appear alternately in green-white and red-white, are in competition with each other.

The FV Engers 07 currently plays in the Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz / Saar.

Events

Appointments of interest to tourists are the carnival season from heavy Thursday to Ash Wednesday, the Engers tribute to the Heddesdorf Whitsun fighters on Whitsun Tuesday, the Engers fair (10 days after Corpus Christi), the Engers Convent that takes place every two years and the nutcracker market on the first weekend of Advent.

There are also numerous open-air concerts and music events offered by the numerous choirs and the Villa Musica.

The night watchman tour by Engers, which takes place at least twice a month due to the high demand, has proven to be a surprising success.

traffic

The Engers station is located on the East Rhine Railway . It is used by the RB 27 ( Koblenz - Neuwied - Bonn-Beuel - Cologne / Bonn Airport - Cologne - Grevenbroich - Mönchengladbach ), which is operated every hour according to the Rhineland-Palatinate cycle . Due to the location of Engers in the district of Neuwied , the tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel VRM applies . The closest stop for long-distance rail transport is Koblenz Central Station.

Personalities

• Georg von Viebahn (1840–1915), 1883–1888 commander of the Engers War School, buried in Engers in 1915 (the tombstones of the former Viebahn family cemetery have been on the north side of the Evangelical Church since 1952)
• Heinrich Zimmermann (1915–1980), Roman Catholic theologian and New Testament scholar
• Otto Bach (1924–2010), educator and local history researcher
• Hans Trees (1925–2005), politician and member of the state parliament (SPD), 1964–1966 mayor of the city of Engers, 1966–1970 of the Engers office, 1971–1990 of the city of Neuwied
• Laurentius Klein (1928–2002), Abbot of the Benedictines
• Karl-Heinz Böckstiegel (* 1936), legal scholar
• Wolfram Maas (* 1950), diplomat

literature

• Working group 650 years of city rights Engers (Ed.): Engers. The place. His story . Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar 2007, ISBN 978-3-86595-186-1 .
• Engelbert Lüssem (ed.): Chronicle of Engers . 2nd expanded edition. 1955.

Web links

Commons : Engers  - Collection of Images

Wikisource: Engers in the Topographia Colonia et al. (Matthäus Merian)  - Sources and full texts

• Citizens' Association Engers e. V. - With its night watchmen, member associations and the events in Engers
• Short portrait with a film about Engers ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on Hierzuland , SWR television

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 5), Certificate 3604, June 24, 773 - Reg. 097. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 226 , accessed on March 14, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 173 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
3. ↑ 10 years local advisory board in Altwied (2001–2011). ( Memento from October 26, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
4. ↑ ^{a b} Local election 2019 - election results. Retrieved June 24, 2019 . 
5. ↑ A memory of General von Viebahn . In: The message . No. 93 , 1952, pp. 74-76 .
6. ↑ Laurentius Klein. Order online, accessed June 25, 2019 .