Strempt

Strempt City of Mechernich Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 53 "  N , 6 ° 37 ′ 2"  E
Height :	306 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	944
Postal code :	53894
Area code :	02443

Stripped Pieta

Strempt is a place in the Eifel that belongs to the city of Mechernich in the Euskirchen district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

Strempt is a former mining village west of Mechernich. The Rath house was between Strempt and Roggendorf . Strempt formed a community in the Vussem mayor of Schleiden district since the 19th century . The municipality of Strempt was incorporated into the municipality of Mechernich in 1914 . The Catholic Church of St. Rochus is in Strempt and has a wooden pieta from the 15th century. This makes this one of the oldest figures in the Mechernich urban area.

Actions

Strempt attracted nationwide attention with the “Gallisches Dorf” campaign, a symbolic referendum on the planned EU constitution on June 13, 2004, the day of the election to the European Parliament.

Web links

• Local homepage of Strempt

Individual evidence

1. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland . Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1888, p. 206 ff. (PDF; 1.3 MB)
2. ^ History. In: Mechernich Mining Museum. P. 4 , archived from the original on January 6, 2015 ; Retrieved July 2, 2017 . 
3. ^ EU referendum in Strempt. (No longer available online.) Mehr Demokratie, June 13, 2004, archived from the original on March 9, 2016 ; Retrieved July 2, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.