- Engden
Infobox Ort in Deutschland
Wappen =
lat_deg = 52 |lat_min = 23 |lat_sec = 59
lon_deg = 07 |lon_min = 10 |lon_sec = 59
Lageplan =
Bundesland = Niedersachsen
Landkreis = Grafschaft Bentheim
Samtgemeinde = Schüttorf
Höhe = 29
Fläche = 44.29
Einwohner = 440
Stand = 2006-12-31
PLZ = 48465
Vorwahl = 0 59 26
Kfz = NOH
Gemeindeschlüssel = 03 4 56 003
Gliederung = ? centres
Bürgermeister = Gerhard Theißing
Partei = CDUEngden is a community in the district of
Grafschaft Bentheim in Lower Saxony.Geography
Location
Engden lies between
Nordhorn andSchüttorf . It belongs to the Joint Community ("Samtgemeinde") of Schüttorf, whose administrative seat is in the like-named town.Politics
Engden was and is dominated by a Catholic church milieu, and as such, markedly few Engdeners opted for the
NSDAP in Nazi times.Mayor
The honorary mayor Gerhard Theißing was elected on
9 September 2001 .Culture and sightseeing
Buildings
The "Katholische Kirche Abt St. Antonius" (church) was built in
1899 as aneo-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
Transport
Autobahn en A 31 and A 30 lie 6 km from the community and are easily reached.Curiosity
Children from Engden go to school or kindergarten in
Emsbüren , in another district.Further reading
*
Herbert Wagner : "Militär in der Region. Dokumentation über den Artillerieschieß- und Bombenabwurfplatz Engdener Wüste/Nordhorn-Range." Selbstverlag, Bad Bentheim 1989, ISBN 3-88683-010-1
*Herbert Wagner: "Die Gestapo war nicht allein Politische Sozialkontrolle und Staatsterror im deutsch-niederländischen Grenzgebiet 1929-1945." LIT, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7448-6 (contains, among other things, the Catholic community’s resistance to the Nazis)External links
* [http://www.schuettorf.de/ Joint community’s webpage]
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