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Country
  
Elevation
  
29 m (95 ft)

Postal codes
  
48465

Area
  
44.29 km²

Local time
  
Friday 7:21 PM

District
  
State
  
Time zone
  
CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

Dialling codes
  
0 59 26

Population
  
432 (31 Dec 2008)

Postal code
  
48465

Municipal assoc.
  
Engden

Weather
  
8°C, Wind S at 2 km/h, 68% Humidity

Engden is a community in the district of the County of Bentheim in Lower Saxony.

Contents

Map of 48465 Engden, Germany

Location

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

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.

Buildings

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.

Transport

Autobahnen 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.

References

Engden Wikipedia


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