Menden (Sankt Augustin)
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Menden
City of Sankt Augustin
Coordinates: 50 ° 47 '18 " N , 7 ° 9' 57" E
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| Incorporation : | 1st August 1969 |
| Postal code : | 53757 |
| Area code : | 02241 |
 Menden town sign
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Menden is a district of the city of Sankt Augustin in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia . Until 1969 it belonged to the municipality Menden (Rheinland) for Office Menden . The head of the district is Karl-Heinz Baumanns.
development
history
Continuous settlement that has not been interrupted to this day can be assumed for Menden since the Franconian times. The settlement advance came from the Rhine , not from the uninhabited and desolate mountainous region in the east or south.
In the Siegburg Bay and on the edge of the mountainous country there were a number of castles, including Menden Castle, from which the Sieg could be controlled.
Only in the 11th century can the history of Menden be traced in the following situation: The land and people in Siegburg Bay belonged to the church and the nobility. The house of the Rhenish Count Palatine stands out among this. Today's Michaelsberg and the adjacent area certainly belonged to it. The old church of Menden was also in the hands of the Count Palatine. It was built in the middle of the 12th century, a so-called single-nave hall church with a four- story choir tower , in which the choir was located below. After several extensions and additions, the church was demolished in 1896 because it was in disrepair. The new Catholic parish church of St. Augustine was built between 1890 and 1892.
However, there were also assumptions about an earlier building history of the church, which was confirmed by excavations in 1986/87: A previous building, a wooden church, is found due to discoloration in the earth. The chemical examination of the oldest grave find, a skeleton, has proven that Menden owned a wooden church as early as the 8th century, during the local Christianization period. The foundation walls of the "old Menden church" have been built up. The various construction phases can be understood using the floor plans. Old grave crosses, mostly from the 18th century, from the cemetery that was next to the old church, are still in the vicinity of the complex today.
Menden consisted of Niedermenden and Obermenden, probably two villication districts in different hands, which developed into two villages. In 1935 they were combined to form the municipality of Menden (Rhineland) .
The inhabitants lived, miserably like all rural dwellers in the Middle Ages , as unfree workers and artisans at the manor houses. This remained so until the 19th century. It was not until industrialization in the Siegburg-Troisdorf area that life in the village changed fundamentally.
During the municipal reorganization of the Bonn area ( Bonn Law ), the municipality of Menden (Rhineland) was combined with all municipalities of the Menden office except Holzlar on August 1, 1969 to form the municipality of Sankt Augustin . Friedrich-Wilhelms-Hütte , which until then belonged to the municipality of Menden, was assigned to Troisdorf .
Timeline
| 50,000 BC Chr. | The oldest grave and broken fragments that were found in Menden date from this time. These belonged to nomadic relatives of the Neanderthals. |
| 600 BC Chr. | Around this time, Menden, then known as "Menedon", was founded, making it, along with Niederpleis, the oldest settlement in Sankt Augustin. |
| 50 BC Chr. | The Romans founded the "Castra Bonnensia" camp in what is now Bonn. Then they ruled Bonn and the entire region around it for over 400 years. |
| 400 | The Roman legions withdrew from the area around Bonn. Subsequently, Germanic and Frankish tribes settled the Siegburg area. |
| 700 | At this point in time Menden already had a small wooden church (to be judged after excavations from 1986). |
| 1070 | The first written mention of Menden: Anno II transferred the rights and ownership of "Menedon" to Siegburg Abbey. |
| 1100 | Construction of the Niedermenden Castle. This was the seat of the von Menden family of knights. The family coat of arms, designed in silver and blue, is still included in the city arms of Sankt Augustin. The old Menden church was also built in the 12th century. |
| 1388 | Heinrich von Menden sells Johann von Landsberg's house in Menden on the Sieg with its accessories (arable land, water, meadows and pastures) located within the Menden parish, namely 7 acres of land and a farmstead; then 14 wood paintings located within the parish of Lomar for 2,000 rhein. Gulden. |
| 1400 | From this point on, the entire part of today's right bank of the Rhine-Sieg district belonged to the Grand Duchy of Berg . |
| 1725 | Opening of the first school in Menden. |
| March 15, 1806 | During the Napoleonic Wars, the entire Grand Duchy of Berg was ceded to France . |
| 1813 | The French withdrew from the area and left the administration to their allies. These set up a provisional government. |
| 1815 | As part of the Congress of Vienna, today's urban area was awarded to Prussia by Sankt Augustin . The area belonged to the Siegburg district in the Jülich-Kleve-Berg province. |
| 1820 | The Niedermenden castle was destroyed by the French, but was completely rebuilt in the same century. |
| 1854 | The start of construction work on the railway line on the right bank of the Rhine. |
| 1871 | The last section of the right Rhine route from Bonn-Oberkassel to Troisdorf via Menden and Friedrich-Wilhelms-Hütte was opened, but without a stop in today's Menden. The people of Menden had to cross a narrow bridge to Friedrich-Wilhelms-Hütte. |
| 1890 | The Catholic St. Augustine Church, which still stands today, is built. |
| 1896 | The old Menden church will be demolished after numerous extensions because of severe dilapidation. |
| 1926 | The Menden mayor's office became the Menden office (with the same areas) |
| November 10, 1929 | The bridge still standing today between Sankt Augustin-Menden and Troisdorf-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Hütte over the Sieg is inaugurated. |
| June 15, 1935 | Merging of the communities of Niedermenden and Obermenden to form the community of Menden (Rhineland). |
| 1934-1936 | Failed attempt to amalgamate all municipalities of the Menden office due to the opposition of the Prussian interior minister |
| 1940 | The family company Kuhne , which is known worldwide for its mechanical engineering, was founded in the 1940s . The company's headquarters are in Menden. |
| 1958 | The second attempt to amalgamate all municipalities of the Menden office also failed. |
| 1969 | The large parish of Sankt Augustin is established |
| 1977 | The large municipality of Sankt Augustin is granted city rights. |
Population development from 1829 until today
The parts of Niedermenden and Obermenden to the left of the Sieg correspond to today's area of Menden. The parts to the right of the Sieg ( Friedrich-Wilhelms-Hütte ) were given to Troisdorf in 1969.
For comparison, the right column shows the population of the entire area of today's city of Sankt Augustin.
| year | Obermenden | Niedermenden | Menden
(O- & N-Menden) |
Menden Office (until 1969)
Sankt Augustin (from 1969) |
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| 1829 | 496 | 260 | 746 | 2,767 |
| 1831 | 502 | 288 | 790 | 2,799 |
| 1835 | 569 | 339 | 908 | 3.126 |
| 1837 | 513 | 316 | 829 | 3,053 |
| 1840 | 553 | 337 | 890 | 3,248 |
| 1845 | 595 | 317 | 912 | 3,440 |
| 1849 | 592 | 305 | 897 | 3,512 |
| 1855 | 667 | 321 | 988 | 3,740 |
| 1858 | 910 | 379 | 1,289 | 4.140 |
| 1864 | 1,064 | 415 | 1,479 | 4,538 |
| 1870 | 1,176 | 643 | 1,819 | 5,309 |
| 1877 | 1,221 | 668 | 1,889 | 5,341 |
| 1880 | 1,221 | 670 | 1,891 | 5,635 |
| 1888 | 1,215 | 654 | 1,869 | 5,963 |
| 1890 | 1,159 | 639 | 1,798 | 6,018 |
| 1895 | 1,264 | 653 | 1.917 | 7,071 |
| 1900 | 1,480 | 734 | 2.114 | 8,119 |
| 1906 | 1,649 | 996 | 2,645 | 9,799 |
| 1910 | 1,463 | 1,033 | 2,499 | 8,932 |
| 1920 | 1,848 | 2,246 | 4,094 | 11,524 |
| 1923 | 2.146 | 2,596 | 4,742 | 11,782 |
| 1928 | 1,922 | 2,659 | 4,581 | 11,674 |
| 1948 | 4,958 | 14,469 | ||
| 1950 | 5,144 | 15,142 | ||
| 1961 | 6,355 | |||
| 1969 | 8,144 | 32,277 | ||
| 1975 | 9,317 | 42,733 | ||
| 1985 | 10,426 | 47,403 | ||
| 1990 | 10,426 | 56,678 | ||
| 1992 | 10,405 | 57,410 | ||
| 2001 | 10,598 | |||
| 2002 | 10,554 | 57,258 | ||
| 2003 | 57,500 | |||
| 2010 | 57,100 | |||
traffic
Public transport
Menden is connected to the rest of Sankt Augustin and the neighboring cities of Bonn , Siegburg , Hennef (Sieg) , Troisdorf and Cologne through its 16 bus stops, one DB stop, three bus lines and two train lines. In addition, you can use the train lines without changing u. a. Reach Mönchengladbach , Königswinter , Linz am Rhein , Neuwied and Koblenz . The current railway bridge has replaced the previous bridge from Sankt Augustin-Menden to Troisdorf-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Hütte since the end of the Second World War.
Street
Main streets
There are two main streets through Menden. The Siegstraße ( L 143 ) branches off from the B 56 in the center of Sankt Augustin and runs on the eastern edge through Menden to Troisdorf. At a roundabout in the south of Menden, this meets the second main road. Meindorfer Strasse ( L 16 ) leads from Siegstrasse on the southern edge through Menden and continues through Sankt Augustin-Meindorf to Bonn.
Federal highways
The A 59 motorway runs along the western edge and the A 560 motorway at the northern edge . The latter has a motorway exit for Menden, which ends in Einsteinstraße, which was expanded to 4 lanes at the end of 2005 in order to be able to cope better with the oncoming traffic at this traffic junction. At this point the A 560, the B 56 (which is briefly interrupted and continued there) and the commercial center of Menden meet.
Current construction projects
Two major construction projects are currently being implemented in Menden. On the one hand, the existing railway line, which currently consists of two tracks, has been expanded to three tracks since around 2017. This is necessary because the already congested route will soon also be used by the S 13 railway line, which currently only runs to Troisdorf . For this reason, not only has the line to be expanded by one track, but an additional Victory Bridge must be built next to the old one. On the other hand, the existing platform will be modernized and adapted to a S-Bahn. Due to the additional stop of the S 13, the stop of the lines RB 27 and RE 8, and thus a connection without changing to Koblenz and Mönchengladbach, is in question.
The old Melan arch bridge is also to be replaced by a new building (planning approval 3rd quarter 2018 [obsolete] ).
Public facilities
Educational institutions
- Max and Moritz School (community elementary school) Menden (building in Siegstrasse and Mittelstrasse)
- Fritz Bauer Comprehensive School Menden (Siegstrasse), former secondary and advanced school Menden and Augustinus secondary school Menden
Religious institutions
- Evangelical Emmaus Church
- Roman Catholic Church of Saint Augustine
sports clubs
- SV Menden 1912 eV
- TV Menden
- FC Kosova Sankt Augustin
- SV Tower Sankt Augustin e. V.
- Sankt Sebastianus Schützenbruderschaft 1642 eV
Personalities
- Sven Plöger , meteorologist and moderator
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hermann J. Roggendorf: Menden in the Middle Ages : In: Fanfare and Tambour Competition May 1st, 1975 / Menden (festival brochure).
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 85 .
- ↑ https://www.ksta.de/region/rhein-sieg-bonn/troisdorf/menden-troisdorf-zwei-jahre-umweg-fuer-autos-und-radler-wegen-neubau-melanbogenbruecke-26673788
