Engden
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Location of Engden
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| Country | Germany |
| State | Lower Saxony |
| District | County of Bentheim |
| Municipal assoc. | Schüttorf |
| Subdivisions | 2 centres |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Gerhard Theißing (CDU) |
| Area | |
• Total | 44.3 km2 (17.1 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 29 m (95 ft) |
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| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 48465 |
| Dialling codes | 0 59 26 |
| Vehicle registration | NOH |
Engden (German pronunciation: [ˈɛŋdn̩]) is a community in the district of the County of Bentheim in Lower Saxony.
Geography
[edit | edit source]Location
[edit | edit source]Engden lies between Nordhorn and Schüttorf. It belongs to the Joint Community (Samtgemeinde) of Schüttorf, whose administrative seat is in the like-named town.
Politics
[edit | edit source]Engden was and is dominated by a Catholic church milieu, and as such, markedly few Engdeners opted for the NSDAP in Nazi times.
Mayor
[edit | edit source]The honorary mayor Gerhard Theißing was elected on 9 September 2001.
Culture and sightseeing
[edit | edit source]Buildings
[edit | edit source]The Katholische Kirche Abt St. Antonius (church) was built in 1899 as a neo-Romanesque brick structure.
The Dobbe warehouse may have been built about 1800 and is said to be northwest Germany’s oldest maintained rural grain distillery building, and as such it is an important industrial monument.
The Bügeleisen-Haus, or Clothes Iron House, came to be because the farmers would only relinquish to the house builder a narrow, tapered lot whose odd layout has resulted in the house's having no right angles at all. Building work began on the house “about 1900”, but it was finished only after the First World War.
Economy and infrastructure
[edit | edit source]Transport
[edit | edit source]Autobahnen A 31 and A 30 lie 6 km from the community and are easily reached.
Curiosity
[edit | edit source]Children from Engden go to school or kindergarten in Emsbüren, in another district.
References
[edit | edit source]Further reading
[edit | edit source]- Herbert Wagner: Militär in der Region. Dokumentation über den Artillerieschieß- und Bombenabwurfplatz Engdener Wüste/Nordhorn-Range. Selbstverlag, Bad Bentheim 1989, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Herbert Wagner: Die Gestapo war nicht allein Politische Sozialkontrolle und Staatsterror im deutsch-niederländischen Grenzgebiet 1929-1945. LIT, Münster 2004, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (contains, among other things, the Catholic community’s resistance to the Nazis)
External links
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