Marmagen is a German tradesmen's village in the
Eifel with a population of about 1,600. The formerly independent parish has been part of the municipality of
Nettersheim
Nettersheim is a municipality in the district of Euskirchen in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country ...
in the
district of Euskirchen since 1969. Marmagen is the oldest village in the former
district of Schleiden and goes back to the Roman ''
vicus
In Ancient Rome, the Latin term (plural ) designated a village within a rural area () or the neighbourhood of a larger settlement. During the Republican era, the four of the city of Rome were subdivided into . In the 1st century BC, Augustus ...
'' of
Marcomagus on the
Roman road from Trier to Cologne which is recorded in Roman itineraries of the 2nd to 4th centuries. After a 700-year history as an abbey village owned by the nearby
Premonstratensian Abbey of Steinfeld since the early 1900s Marmagen has developed a distinct culture of trades in the building sector. Today Marmagen sees itself as a 'nature experience village' and is the site of the well known clinic, ''Eifelhöhenklinik AG Marmagen''.
References
Literature
* Friedrich Milz: ''Eifeler Dorfgeschichten. Erlebtes und Gehörtes in Marmagen.'' Düren o. J.
* Gemeinde Nettersheim (publ.): ''So war’s in Nettersheim.'' Nettersheim 1983 (collection of historical photographs ''inter alia'' from Marmagen).
* Erich Froitzheim: ''Marmagen.'' In: ''Kleine Kunstführer No. 1478.'' Munich, 1984 (Geschichtlicher Abriss des Ortes und der Pfarrkirche).
* Felix Bretz: ''Marmagen 2000 – Eine Chronik mit Bildern zur Dorfgeschichte.'' Kall, 2000.
External links
*
Information about MarmagenPhoto-report about Marmagen
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Former municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia
Euskirchen (district)