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Engden Ortskern
Engden is a community in the district of the County of Bentheim in Lower Saxony. Geography 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. Culture and sightseeing 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 resulte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Of Bentheim (district)
County of Bentheim (german: Grafschaft Bentheim) is a district (''Landkreis'') in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the Dutch provinces of Overijssel and Drenthe, the district of Emsland, and the districts of Steinfurt and Borken in North Rhine-Westphalia. History The District has roughly the same territory as the County of Bentheim, a state of the Holy Roman Empire that was dissolved in 1803. Geography The district's north-western region named (''low county'') protrudes into Dutch territory, and borders it to the north, west and south. The Vechte River (Dutch ''Vecht'') traverses the district from south to north and flows into the Netherlands. Coat of arms The arms are identical to the arms of the historic County of Bentheim The County of Bentheim (''Grafschaft Bentheim'', Low German ''Benthem'') was a state of the Holy Roman Empire, located in the south-west corner of today's Lower Saxony, Germany. The county's borders correspo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
