Monheim am Rhein
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Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ N , 6 ° 54 ′ E |
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| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Administrative region : | Dusseldorf | |
| Circle : | Mettmann | |
| Height : | 40 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 23.05 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 40,948 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 1777 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 40789 | |
| Area code : | 02173 | |
| License plate : | ME | |
| Community key : | 05 1 58 026 | |
| LOCODE : | DE MHM | |
| City structure: | 2 districts | |
City administration address : |
Rathausplatz 2 40789 Monheim am Rhein |
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| Mayor : | Daniel Zimmermann ( PETO ) | |
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Monheim am Rhein [ ˈmoːnhaɪ̯m ] is a medium-sized town in the Mettmann district in the North Rhine-Westphalian administrative district of Düsseldorf .
geography
Monheim is located on the Rhine and, with around 40,000 inhabitants, is a small medium- sized town and the sixth largest in the Mettmann district. In the north it borders on Düsseldorf , in the east on Langenfeld , in the west - separated by the Rhine - on Dormagen and Cologne and in the south on Leverkusen .
The urban area is largely part of the Benrath Rhine Plain. Monheim is the lowest-lying town in the Mettmann district, which is otherwise predominantly characterized by the hilly landscape of the Niederberg region.
Baumberg , the oldest district of Monheim, is located in the north of the urban area. In Monheim there are several settlements such as Blee , an old district, Zaunswinkel, the Henkelsiedlung, the Sandberg, the Berlin district of LEG or the Musikantenviertel in Monheim-Süd and the Österreichviertel in Baumberg.
climate
The climate of Monheim am Rhein essentially corresponds to the climate of Düsseldorf , which is only a few kilometers to the north.
history
The Blee district was mentioned as early as the 10th century in connection with an Oberhof for farms in Monheim, Richrath and Rheindorf. Monheim was first mentioned in a document in 1157. During the reign of the Duchy of Berg , Monheim was the seat of the administration of the Bergisch Office Monheim .
Monheim was raised to freedom in 1390 . This is likely to have occurred in the area of tension between the Archbishops of Cologne and the Counts of Berg because of the strategically important location on the Rhine.
1275 Monheim received from Count Adolf a city attachment , in return for fixing Worringen by the Archbishop .
Just four years later, Count Adolf had to grind the fortifications again, and Monheim was not given a new fortification until 1415, which only lasted two years. The last fortification took place in 1423, of which the rogue tower is still preserved today.
In 1806 the Monheim office ceased to exist after Napoleon I founded the Rhine Confederation . The Grand Duchy of Berg was newly founded , where a municipality of Monheim with Baumberg, Hitdorf and Rheindorf was established. The mayor's office in Monheim continued to exist when, after the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Rhine Province was assigned to Prussia . From 1904 to 1908 the trackless railway Monheim – Langenfeld ran between the city and the neighboring town of Langenfeld, then from 1908 to 1963 a small train on rails in standard gauge . In 1929 Monheim was part of the newly founded Rhein-Wupper district . In 1951 Monheims and Baumbergs merged to form one community; Hitdorf joined in 1960 and had had its own town charter since 1857 . Monheim has also had town status since 1960. On January 1, 1975, the town of Monheim as part of the nationwide was territorial reform to Dusseldorf incorporated, the district Hitdorf separated and in the city of Leverkusen was incorporated. After a successful lawsuit before the State Constitutional Court in Münster , the city became independent again on July 1, 1976. The former Hitdorf district, however, remained with Leverkusen.
Since October 15, 1993, the official place name has been Monheim am Rhein .
Coat of arms, flag and logo
The city has a city coat of arms, a flag and an official seal as well as a logo. The right to use a coat of arms was granted to the city in a certificate dated January 4, 1939 by the Upper President of the Rhine Province in Koblenz .
coat of arms
flag
coat of arms
Blazon : “A silver (white) clad barefoot virgin, standing in blue on green ground, holding a golden (yellow) branch of leaves in her right hand and putting her left index finger on her mouth; on the left in front of her a silver (white) goose running to the left; in the left upper corner a silver (white) shield; in it a blue crowned, tongued and armored red lion . "
Since 1939 Monheim am Rhein has had a gosling in its coat of arms, which was designed by heraldist Wolfgang Pagenstecher in 1791 based on the model of the seal of Bailiff Johann Wilhelm Aschenbroich with the motto "NOCET ESSE LOCUTUM" (chatter harms). The old identification mark, the Bergische lion shield of the former sovereigns, is added to this symbol .
flag
The city's flag shows the colors green and white with the city's coat of arms.
population
In 2011 Monheim am Rhein was ranked 49th among the 100 most densely populated municipalities in Germany . The following table shows the development of the population in the area of the city.
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1 Municipality of Monheim with Baumberg
2 City of Monheim am Rhein
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4 Population figures in North Rhine-Westphalia for 2018 and 2019
politics
mayor
- 1852–1877 Wilhelm Friesenkoten
- 1877-1896 Theodor Grein
- 1897–1925 Philipp Krischer (Krischerstraße is named after him)
- 1926–1934 Heinrich Schürholz
- 1934–1945 Josef Grütering ( NSDAP )
- 1945–1946 Hugo Goebel (SPD) (for the Monheim office and municipality of Monheim, 1946 to 1970 office and city director)
- 1946–1951 Peter Oebels
- 1951–1954 Konrad Thelen (SPD)
- 1955–1961 Josef Jenniches (CDU)
- 1961–1964 Peter Zinzius ( CDU )
- 1965–1974 Heinrich Häck ( SPD )
- 1975–1976 Lord Mayor Klaus Bungert (SPD), since Monheim was part of Düsseldorf at the time
- 1976–1997 Ingeborg Friebe (SPD)
- 1997–1999 Hans-Dieter Kursawe (SPD)
- 1999–2009 Thomas Dünchheim (CDU)
- since October 21, 2009 Daniel Zimmermann ( PETO )
Mayor Daniel Zimmermann was re-elected in the election on May 25, 2014 with 94.6% of the vote. He only had one opponent from Alliance 90 / The Greens. The big parties CDU and SPD had not put up their own candidates because of the poor chances.
City council
Monheim am Rhein was ruled by the SPD between 1964 and 1998, with an absolute majority for many years.
From 1999 to 2009 the CDU ruled, until 2004 with an absolute majority, until 2009 with changing majorities according to the distribution of seats in the city council.
Between 2009 and 2014, PETO ruled with varying majorities. Since the 2014 election, PETO has governed with an absolute majority .
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| 2014-2020 | 7th | 17.8% | 3 | 8.9% | 26th | 65.6% | 2 | 4.3% | 1 | 1.7% | 1 | 1.6% | - | 40 | 56.3% | |
| 2009-2014 | 12 | 30.17% | 8th | 20.27% | 12 | 29.56% | 3 | 6.52% | 3 | 6.36% | 1 | 2.74% | 1 | 3.81% | 40 | 52.3% |
| 2004-2009 | 18th | 43.9% | 11 | 28.7% | 7th | 16.6% | 2 | 6.3% | 2 | 4.5% | - | - | 40 | 56.88% | ||
| 1999-2004 | 20th | 50.87% | 13 | 31.18% | 3 | 6.33% | 2 | 6.09% | 1 | 2.34% | - | - | 40 | 56.87% | ||
| 1994-1999 | 17th | 37.02% | 24 | 49.54% | - | 4th | 9.95% | - | - | - | 45 | 81.49% | ||||
Others
Since 2013, Monheim has been one of the few German cities whose municipal budgets have no debt. The city has cut fees for daycare and open all-day care. The place pays the NRW record amount of 22 or 23 million euros annually for the municipal solidarity contribution.
Twin cities
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Wiener Neustadt (Austria), since 1971 -
Tirat Carmel (Israel), since 1989 -
Delitzsch (Saxony), since 1990 -
Bourg-la-Reine (France), since 2000 -
Malbork (Marienburg) (Poland), since 2005 -
Ataşehir (Turkey), since 2015
Attractions
Rogue Tower
The 26 meter high rogue tower is Monheim's landmark. It was built around 1425 and was the eastern city gate of the former fortifications of the Counts of Berg. In the 16th and 17th centuries it served as a city prison. The tower was renovated in 1972 and has been used as a cultural meeting place ever since. Concerts are played and works of art are exhibited in the rogue tower, and the registry office also conducts weddings here.
St. Gereon
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Gereon is located near the Old Market. It was built between 1951 and 1953, but the Romanesque tower was built around 1300.
Lady Chapel
The Marienkapelle is a late Gothic pilgrimage chapel from 1514.
Deusser House
The Deusser House, named after August Deusser , was built around 1848 and is located south of the Marienkapelle. The manor house is now home to the Museum of the Heimatbund Monheim e. V.
House Bürgel
House Bürgel was first mentioned in 1019 as a castrum in Burgela . It is a remnant of the late Roman Burungum fort from the 4th century. Some remains of the wall from Roman times have been preserved. Interestingly, Haus Bürgel used to be on the other side of the Rhine before the river looked for a new bed . It once belonged to the city of Zons . The Maternus Church, which was responsible for the Zons area , stood in the courtyard of the Bürgel house .
The Archaeological Museum shows exhibitions about the Roman history of Monheim. There are also various venues for cultural events. The Biological Station for the Urdenbacher Kämpe nature reserve is also located at Haus Bürgel.
Marienburg Park
The Marienburgpark, probably created before 1880, is the castle park that surrounds the privately owned Marienburg Monheim , built in 1879–1880 . In contrast, it is owned by the city and accessible to the public. As part of the cross-border Euroga plus 2002 it was renovated and in 2004/2005 it was finally added to the street of garden art between the Rhine and the Maas .
Gänselieselbrunnen
The Gänselieselbrunnen with two water-spouting geese is in front of the town hall. It was designed in bronze in 1937 by the Düsseldorf sculptor Julius Haigis . Since 1955, each year a lively forms Gänseliesel together with the legendary figure of the minstrel , the traditional pair of Rhine community.
Joseph Chapel
The Josef chapel dates from 1707 and is located at Vogtshof on Bleer Straße. It has been a listed building since 1983. It is the smallest church in Monheim and the only usable court chapel in the Rhineland. Thanks to the association founded in 2000 and a comprehensive restoration, it has been open to the public again since 2002.
Friedenskirche
The Evangelical Peace Church was inaugurated in the Baumberg district in 1971. The striking concrete building is an excellent example of the Brutalist architectural style and was created based on designs by the Swiss architect Walter Maria Förderer . The altar and baptismal font were made by the Baumberg artist Hans Schweizer (1925–2005).
Monberg
The Monberg is an artificial hill about 20 meters high on the Rhine promenade and the highest elevation in the city of Monheim. In 2007 a viewing platform was opened on the hill, which can be reached via a staircase with 106 steps. In the same year, the restaurant of the same name MonBerg opened with a beer garden, beach bar and event area with pagoda tents.
education
There are six primary schools and three secondary schools in Monheim.
Elementary schools
Of the six primary schools, the Astrid Lindgren primary school, Hermann Gmeiner primary school and the school on Lerchenweg as well as the Catholic Lottenschule are located in the Monheim district .
In the Baumberg district there is the Armin-Maiwald Primary School, each with a location on Humboldtstrasse, the former Humboldt School and the former Geschwister-Scholl- School on Geschwister-Scholl-Strasse and the Catholic Winrich-von-Kniprode -primary school.
The second location of the Armin-Maiwald- Grundschule on Geschwister-Scholl-Straße was given up in the 2013/14 school year and all students moved to the Humboldtstraße location. The Armin Maiwald School on Humboldtstrasse was therefore supplemented by an extension that was built from January 2013.
Further training
The Anton-Schwarz- Hauptschule and the Lise-Meitner- Realschule, of which there was a branch in Baumberg from 1975 to 1987, have not accepted any new ones since the school year 2012/13 and have ceased to exist since the school year 2016/17. The 60 students in the last 10th grade of the Lise Meitner Realschule were taught at the Theodor Litt Realschule in Düsseldorf in the 2016/17 school year.
Secondary schools are the Peter Ustinov comprehensive school, a secondary school that was newly founded in the 2012/13 school year and the Otto Hahn grammar school . The secondary school will no longer accept any new entry classes from the 2019/20 school year; instead, a second comprehensive school will be founded in 2019.
Speech therapy school
In addition, Monheim is the school for the speech-impaired in the Mettmann district: Leo-Lionni- School on Geschwister-Scholl-Straße in Baumberg, which has a branch at the location of the former Comenius School ( special school ) on Krischerstraße. Since January 2011, students from the former Pestalozzi School from Langenfeld have also been taught at the main location of the Leo Lionni School in Baumberg.
From the 2013/14 school year, the main location of the Paul Maar School from Hilden, which is based there on the grounds of the Graf Recke Foundation , was relocated to the school building on Geschwister-Scholl-Strasse in Baumberg and there until 2017 can use half of the space. In 2017 the school building on Geschwister-Scholl-Straße is to be demolished.
Controversy over the establishment of a secondary school
In 2011, the city council passed the resolution with a majority of PETO, SPD and FDP to found a secondary school by merging the secondary and secondary schools for the 2012/13 school year.
A parents' initiative to maintain the secondary school then collected around 2,500 signatures, so that a referendum had to be carried out on the retention of the secondary school, in which all EU citizens living in Monheim am Rhein were entitled to vote from the age of 16.
Since the supported by the CDU referendum for obtaining the secondary school on 13 November 2011 4750 supporters and 2,569 negative votes on quorum failed by 6560 votes (20% of voters), the Anton Black secondary school run and Lise -Meitner-Realschule in the next few years, as they no longer form any new entry classes. With the 2012/13 school year, the newly founded secondary school will be accepting students who have recommended secondary and secondary schools, as well as other interested students, and will cooperate with the Otto Hahn Gymnasium. As a result, Monheim has only three secondary schools since the 2017/18 school year.
Adult education
The private 'Academy for Corporate Management' is located in Rheinpark Monheim.
The city of Monheim am Rhein is the sponsor of the Monheim am Rhein adult education center. This offers around 18,300 hours of teaching annually in nine subject areas, which are mainly aimed at adults. In cooperation with the youth welfare office, professional training courses are offered for educational specialists. It is the only provider of integration courses in the city and operates a second educational path (secondary school and secondary school).
traffic
The city is easily accessible due to its location on the Rhine, surrounded by a dense motorway network and close to two major airports ( Düsseldorf and Cologne / Bonn ). In this respect, Monheim is well connected to the national transport network.
Monheim is in the immediate vicinity of the Autobahn 59 . In addition, the A 3 can be reached in around five minutes via the A 542 .
In the local public transport system in Monheim there are various bus routes to neighboring cities. They are operated by the railways of the city of Monheim , which also runs a 9.2 km long track network for goods transport and occasional special trips with a company car . The stations Langenfeld (Rhld) , Langenfeld-Berghausen , Düsseldorf-Hellerhof , Düsseldorf-Benrath , and Leverkusen Mitte on the Cologne – Duisburg railway line are served by the S-Bahn line S 6 (Cologne – Düsseldorf – Essen) . They are located in the neighboring cities and can be reached with the bus lines NE13, NE14, SB79, SB23, 777, SB33, SB59, 788, 789, 790, 791 and SB78. The city of Monheim and its transport company belong to both the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR) and the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (VRS). The VRS tariff applies to journeys in the direction of Leverkusen and Cologne, and the VRR tariff applies to journeys in the direction of Düsseldorf and the neighboring towns in the Mettmann district.
Since April 1, 2020, the use of local public transport in the Monheim / Langenfeld tariff area has been free for residents of Monheim for an initial period of three years. Citizens of Monheim who have a season ticket to commute to Düsseldorf or Cologne, for example, receive a subsidy of 40 euros per month.
Monheim is connected to several long-distance cycle routes , including a. on the Rhine Cycle Route , which is important for tourists. To promote bicycle traffic, the city has created a bicycle traffic concept and set up the post of a bicycle officer.
hospital
The St. Josef Hospital, which was responsible for the medical care of the Monheim residents for a long time, was closed in August 2013. Medical care is insured against the nearby hospitals immediately adjacent Dusseldorf, primarily by four kilometers beyond the city limits in Düsseldorf- Benrath lying Sana Hospital . The former St. Josef Hospital is to be demolished and a new medical center built in its place.
Culture
As the largest cultural organizer in Monheim, Kulturwerke Monheim is responsible for concerts, cabaret events, theater performances and much more.
Under the patronage of Ulla Hahn and Klaus von Dohnanyi , the Marienkapellen-Verein organizes an approximately one-hour concert with free admission in the Marienkapelle every first Sunday of the month at 4 p.m. Oliver Drechsel is the artistic director .
Youth culture events take place in Soyuz 7.
On the open-air stage , films are shown in the open-air cinema and open-air theater performances are presented.
In Marienburgpark you can see open-air operas and visit the festival in the mirror tent.
The auditorium in the Otto Hahn Gymnasium on the Berliner Ring offers theatrical performances by touring theaters , the adjoining “backdrop” is used to serve guests, but it can also be rented. Since autumn 2009 there has been a cinema show once a week.
The operetta "Napoleon en Monnem" conceived by Emil Drösser for the 30th anniversary of the Panikorchester Monnem am Rhing in 2008 was a humorous look back at the history of Monheim and a great success in front of 3,500 spectators.
Every year since 1955, a goose loaf and the legendary character of the minstrel have formed the “traditional couple” of the Rhine community.
In the community center Baumberg sharing and civic festivals are held. Comedians also perform there.
Monheim am Rhein is the main filming location for the fictional town of Büdringhausen in the Münsterland of the ARD television series Heiter bis tödlich: Henker & Richter , which has been broadcast on Thursday at 6:50 p.m. since November 10, 2011 with initially 16 episodes. Only a small part of the scenes is filmed in Haltern am See . Scenes for the film Satte Farben vor Schwarz were also shot in Monheim. The first four seasons of the RTL series Die Camper was filmed at the Gut Oedstein campsite . Various programs were shot in the information studios in Monheim-Baumberg. For the crime scene: Explain Chimera was filmed in the closed St. Josef Hospital on Alte Schulstrasse. From June to October 2015, the series Club der rote Bänder was filmed in the office complex on Mittelstrasse. One episode of SOKO Cologne was partly filmed in Monheim in 2018.
Since 2012, the Ulla Hahn Author Award , named after the Monheim author Ulla Hahn and initially endowed with 6000 euros, has been awarded every two years . The first prize winner was the poet Nadja Küchenmeister , who was awarded for her volume of poetry, Alle Lichter . In 2014, the prize went to Lara Schützsack for her novel Und auch so bitterkalt, which was also translated into Danish under the title Hvaler under isen , and in 2016 Shida Bazyar received the prize, now worth 10,000 euros, for her debut novel Nachts ist leise in Tehran . In 2018 Karoline Menge received an award for her debut novel Waiting for Snow .
leisure
swimming pool
The city's own swimming pool mona mare is an all-weather pool . It consists of an indoor swimming pool combined with an outdoor pool , which is complemented by a sauna and wellness area as well as its own gastronomy.
From 1971 to 1998 there was an indoor swimming pool , which was opened in 1978 alternating with the outdoor swimming pool from autumn to spring. It was demolished, the property was sold and residential buildings were built on.
From 1978 to 2000 there was an outdoor swimming pool with a diving platform , which was open in the summer months and was abandoned for cost reasons, although more than 40% voted in a referendum for the expansion of the outdoor pool and the preservation of the diving platform; More than 40% were also in favor of repairing and maintaining the outdoor swimming pool and less than 20% were in favor of closing it without replacement. Part of the site was sold in order to secure the future of the swimming pool and provided with residential development. The remaining part of the site was made inaccessible to visitors by expanding the sauna area of the all-weather pool. At the beginning of 2017 it was cleared and the diving tower and the non-swimmer pool removed in order to expand the sauna area and a differently arranged outdoor pool of the mona mara for 2.5 million euros . In addition, two day-care centers and a mosque are to be built on the rest of the property.
Green spaces
There are various green spaces in Monheim that are used for recreation, leisure activities and sports.
Dog zones are designated in the following areas: on Kapellenstrasse, on Alfred-Nobel-Strasse, on a fenced-in area on Wendehammer Grunewaldstrasse, on Baumberger Bürgerwiese and in an area northeast of Bonhoefferstrasse and Ulrich-von-Hassell-Strasse, the is bounded in the north by the allotment gardens Baumberger Feld and extends in the east to the Holzweg garden and in the south to the Holzweg. In the rest of the city, leash is mandatory .
nature
The Knipprath Forest, which borders Langenfeld, is suitable for horse riding (own bridle paths ), cycling, jogging and walks.
Since the early 1980s, the Knipprath Forest has been crossed by a railway line operated by the city of Monheim, which begins at the former location of the Shell refinery, which was closed in 1987, and then leads through an industrial area to the forest.
Originally the railway line ran along Krischerstraße and Opladener Straße north of the settlement in Monheim-Süd.
The Rhine dike is also popular with walkers, cyclists and joggers.
carnival
As everywhere in the Rhineland , many people celebrate Carnival in Monheim and in the Baumberg district . There are several clubs. The oldest is the Große Monheimer Karnevalsgesellschaft 1902 e. V., also known as " Gromoka ".
Baumberg experiences a Veedel szoch on Carnival Sunday, in which, as with the Cologne Veedelszöch, the foot groups dominate and the Baumbergers celebrate among themselves. On the following day, the Rose Monday procession with several carnival floats and many foreign visitors drives through Monheim.
The Monheim Schwalbe revelers organize every year on the Saturday before Carnival Monday the " swaying Sandberg Hall ". For the costume session where well-known musicians such as B. Brings or Ne Knallkopp occur, the gym of the Peter Ustinov Comprehensive School will be rebuilt.
Sports
Monheim am Rhein has a wide range of active sports clubs . The 1. FC Monheim ( Oberliga Niederrhein ) and Sportfreunde Baumberg ( Oberliga Niederrhein ) represent the city in football . Other popular and team sports are covered by the SGM Monheim (especially in athletics ), the Baumberger Turn- und Sportclub 1897 , the BG Monheim (in basketball ) and the SG Monheim Skunks (in skater hockey ). The STAG Monheim is a swimming club. There are also the three tennis clubs Blau-Weiß Monheim , Rot-Gelb Monheim and Baumberger TC . Due to its location on the Rhine, the city is also home to the two water sports clubs Ruderverein Monheim 1986 and Monheim Canoe Club 1972 .
Regular events
- The city festival has been taking place every year since 2010 under a different motto at the end of May in downtown Monheim. The main attractions are the Gänselieselmarkt flea market, a fun fair and Sunday shopping, which together form a meeting point for several thousand visitors.
- In June, a bathtub race is organized in Monheim's old town at irregular intervals.
- The solstice festival is celebrated every year in June on the Baumberger Bürgerwiese.
- Every summer, the rock music festival Rhein-Rock Open Air is organized by a volunteer organization team on the Baumberger Bürgerwiese.
- The Mondscheinkino, an open-air cinema , has been taking place on the open-air stage on Kapellenstrasse since 2005.
economy
Well-known companies in Monheim am Rhein are apt Sedant , the former Bayer CropScience , as well as Bayer Animal Health GmbH and Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH, the specialty chemicals companies BASF Personal Care and Nutrition GmbH and OXEA , EPLAN Software & Service , Jenoptik Robot , the Belgian pharmaceutical company UCB SA (formerly Schwarz Pharma ), Thum + Mahr GmbH, Uniferm , the German headquarters of Ecolab , TML Technik GmbH, Schukat electronic Vertriebs GmbH, Odermath Stahlwerkstechnik GmbH and InovisCoat GmbH. The municipal electricity and gas company MEGA (Monheimer Elektrizitäts- und Gasversorgung GmbH), which is 100% owned by Monheimer Versorgungs- und Verkehrs-GmbH, Monheim am Rhein, achieved sales of 42.08 million euros in 2013.
The Creative Campus Monheim extends on Alfred-Nobel-Strasse, an industrial park on the former Schwarz-Pharma site, on which start-up companies are based in addition to UCB and Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH.
For decades, the industrial area between Monheim and Baumberg was home to a Royal Dutch Shell oil refinery that shaped the cityscape . The railroad traffic to her ran over the railways of the city of Monheim , whose tracks ran through the middle of the city until 1983. The refinery was shut down in 1987. Some of the tracks of the former “Shellbahn” are still visible, for example on the western shoulder of Krischerstraße.
Bayer AG's CO pipeline for the transport of carbon monoxide between Uerdingen and Dormagen also runs through the city, and there has been strong resistance to putting it into operation. With the exception of the SPD parliamentary group, the city council voted for a resolution against the CO pipeline. In May 2011, a work of art was set up against the CO pipeline, depicting a pipe with a knot. On the accompanying information board, all parties represented in the city council (including the SPD) confirm that they are against the CO pipeline.
The St. Josef Hospital in Monheim, which last belonged to the Kplus Group , was closed in August 2013 and served as a filming location for a Münster crime scene in October 2014 .
shop
The shops in Monheim am Rhein are mainly concentrated in Rathaus-Center I and II (8,500 m²) as well as Monheimer Tor (7,000 m²) and its immediate surroundings: Ernst-Reuter- Platz, Krischerstraße and Alten Schulstraße. In the Baumberg district there is the shopping center on Holzweg and Hauptstrasse as the main shopping street. The main focus is on everyday goods.
Tax competition and criticism
The trade tax assessment rate was reduced to 300 points in April 2012 and has been the lowest in North Rhine-Westphalia since then. As a result, more and more companies settled in Monheim, so that ultimately the city's trade tax income rose sharply. The city has been debt free since June 2013. By 2017, a reserve of 100 million euros is to be built up from the budget surpluses so that economic fluctuations can be balanced out. In 2014, the business tax rate was reduced to 285 points, as of January 1, 2016 to 265 points. As of January 1, 2018, the trade tax was reduced from the 260 points applicable in 2017 to 250 points. The Handelsblatt reported in 2016 that Monheim's success was at the expense of other NRW cities. The North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament member Stefan Zimkeit (SPD) criticized Monheim's tax policy in 2016 and warned against a “competition between the municipalities”. In 2019, 21 North Rhine-Westphalian municipalities signed the "Zons Declaration" in order to prevent a further race towards lower business tax rates.
Personalities
The highest honor in Monheim am Rhein is the ring of honor.
Bearer of the ring of honor
- Hans Barwitzius (1914–2005), former mayor of Wiener Neustadt (1991)
- Ingeborg Friebe , 1976–1997 Mayor of Monheim am Rhein, 1990–1995 President of the North Rhine-Westphalian Parliament (1996)
- Hans Kurt Peters (1914–2004), Honorary Chairman of the Heimatbund Monheim (2000)
- Rolf Schwarz-Schütte (1920–2019), Senior Director of Schwarz Pharma AG (2000)
- Karl König, Deputy Mayor 1979–2009 (2003)
- Emil Drösser , Maestro of the "Panikorchester Monnem am Rhing", holder of the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (2003)
- Martin Brüske, Deputy Mayor 1969–1974 (2009)
- Eli Fedida, deputy head of the "Shifman High School" in Tirat Carmel (2009)
Personalities born in Monheim am Rhein
- Winrich von Kniprode (1310–1382), Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
- Hester Jonas (around 1570–1635), so-called Witch of Neuss
- Reinhard Hauschild (* 1949), former mayor of the city of Dormagen
- Buddy Casino (* 1955), musician
- Olaf Breidbach (1957-2014), science historian (University of Jena)
- Wolfgang Schmitt (* 1959), CEO and politician, (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen)
- Jan-Gregor Kremp (* 1962), actor
- Joachim Schlömer (* 1962), dancer, choreographer and director (Stadttheater Freiburg and Heidelberg)
- Reiner Heugabel (* 1963), former wrestler
- Andreas Kaiser (* 1964), soccer player
Connected to Monheim am Rhein
- August Deusser (1870–1942), painter and art politician, lived in Monheim from 1906 to 1912
- Franz Boehm (1880–1945), Catholic priest and resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Paul Janes (1912–1987), soccer player, lived in Monheim
- Hans Schweizer (1925–2005), sculptor and painter, lived in Monheim from 1954 to 2005
- Klas Ewert Everwyn (* 1930), writer, has lived in Monheim since 1981
- Ingeborg Friebe (* 1931), politician (SPD), former president of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, lives in Monheim
- Heinz-Josef Muhr (1934–2015), civil rights activist, opponent of Bayer AG's CO pipeline
- Ulla Hahn (* 1945), writer, wrote a book about her childhood in Monheim
- Lilo Friedrich (* 1949), politician, Member of the Bundestag, lives in Monheim
- Holger Franke (* 1955), actor, lives in Monheim
- Christian Gramsch (* 1959), journalist, grew up in Monheim
- Ulla van Daelen (* 1962), harpist, grew up in Monheim
- Stefan Jeworski (* 1966), singer and songwriter, lives in Monheim
- Jürgen Schulte (* 1967), producer (ARD, Hart aber fair ), owner of two production companies, lives in Monheim
- Oliver Drechsel (* 1973), concert pianist and composer, lives in Monheim
- Philipp Wagner (* 1973), herpetologist, grew up in Monheim and went to school
- Stefan Kießling (* 1984), soccer player, lives in Monheim
- Shelley Thompson (* 1984), soccer player, grew up in Monheim
- Gideon Jung (* 1994), soccer player, grew up in Monheim
literature
- Fritz Hinrichs: Monheim - From the old freedom to the young industrial city. Self-published by the city of Monheim am Rhein, 1962
- Theodor Prömpeler: History of the former freedom Monheim. Publishing house Jean König, Monheim am Rhein 1981, ISBN 978-3-9800279-0-8
- Elfi Pracht-Jörns: Monheim (Rhenish City Atlas). Verlag Böhlau Cologne, ISBN 978-3-412-22524-7
- Karl Heinz Hennen: History of the Jews in Monheim. Monheim am Rhein 2014
Web links
Individual evidence
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- ^ Fritz Hinrichs: "Altenberger Höfe between Wupper and Dhünn", published in 1955 by the Rhein-Wupper-Kreis
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