Imgenbroich

Imgenbroich City of Monschau
Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 25 ″  N , 6 ° 15 ′ 49 ″  E
Height :	545 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.45 km²
Residents :	2010  (December 31, 2006)
Population density :	213 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1972
Postal code :	52156
Area code :	02472
Location of Imgenbroich in North Rhine-Westphalia

Imgenbroich [ 'ɪm.ʃɛn.bʀʊx ] is a district of Monschau in the Aachen city region and is located directly above Monschau on the Eifel Heights.

Until 1972 Imgenbroich belonged as an independent municipality to the also dissolved Monschau district and this to the also dissolved administrative district of Aachen (see Aachen Law ).

history

Imgenbroich is mentioned for the first time in an exchange document dated June 25, 1361, in the spelling "Ymgenbroich" at that time. The settlement belonged to the Monschau office in the Duchy of Jülich . The local cloth making family around Matthias Offermann (around 1670) played a key role in the development. The heyday was between 1770 and 1790. The few but important Protestant families of cloth makers built a cemetery and a church in Menzerath (1683). In 1838 Imgenbroich got its own Protestant church, shortly before that a Protestant school was established. Today's Catholic Church goes back to a chapel building from 1690.

Like the entire Monschauer Land, Imgenbroich belonged to the Duchy of Jülich until the end of the 18th century . After the entire Left Bank of the Rhine was occupied during the First Coalition War in 1794 , the area belonged to France from 1798 to 1814 . Imgenbroich belonged to the canton of Montjoie in the Arrondissement of Aachen in the Rur-Département and was the seat of a Mairie from which the communities of Konzen , Mützenich and Eicherscheid were administered. Due to the agreements reached at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 , the area was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia . From 1816, Imgenbroich was the seat of a mayor's office (renamed to Amt in 1927) in the Montjoie district in the administrative district of Aachen, and from 1822 until the end of the Second World War it was part of the Rhine province .

An agricultural winter school was run between 1883 and 1966 . At the end of the Second World War, Imgenbroich was almost completely destroyed by grenades, especially the patrician houses of the cloth-making era. Since the 1970s, there has been an increased number of industries in Imgenbroich.

On January 1, 1972 Imgenbroich was incorporated into the city of Monschau.

Economy and Infrastructure

HIMO

Imgenbroich is the shopping and industrial center of Monschau. The industrial area includes the HIMO (Handwerker-Innovationszentrum Monschau), which offers young companies and start-ups office and production space at favorable conditions, as well as one of the largest German offset printing companies, "Weiss Druck", which is one of the region's most important employers . The second youth hostel in Monschau is located in the Hargard district.

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Monschau

Born in Imgenbroich

• Carl Delius (1846–1914), entrepreneur

Web links

• Association for local history Imgenbroich e. V.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Information system of the archives in North Rhine-Westphalia - administrative affiliation city of Monschau
2. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 309 .