Engers
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District
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of Neuwied
Neuwied
Neuwied is a town in the north of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, capital of the District of Neuwied. Neuwied lies on the right bank of the Rhine, 12 km northwest of Koblenz, on the railway from Frankfurt am Main to Cologne...
on the right banks of the river Rhine in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
located next to Koblenz
Koblenz
Koblenz is a German city situated on both banks of the Rhine at its confluence with the Moselle, where the Deutsches Eck and its monument are situated.As Koblenz was one of the military posts established by Drusus about 8 BC, the...
in Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate is one of the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has an area of and about four million inhabitants. The capital is Mainz. English speakers also commonly refer to the state by its German name, Rheinland-Pfalz ....
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Engers has 5,367 inhabitants. It is highwater-endangered by its direct contact with the river Rhine.
City history
- The eldest evidences for settlements reach back to 800 - 600BC. A cemetery of the Iron AgeIron AgeThe Iron Age is the archaeological period generally occurring after the Bronze Age, marked by the prevalent use of iron. The early period of the age is characterized by the widespread use of iron or steel. The adoption of such material coincided with other changes in society, including differing...
was discovered nearby Engers.
- An important historic event was the military activity under Julius CaesarJulius CaesarGaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman and a distinguished writer of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the gradual transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....
in 55 BC at the town UrmitzUrmitzUrmitz is a municipality in the district of Mayen-Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany....
with the goal to punish the Germanic SicambriSicambriThe Sicambri were a Germanic people living on the right bank of the Rhine river, near where it passes out of Germany and enters what is now called the Netherlands at the turn of the first millennium....
s.
- Around 400 AC a Roman castellum was built. Its ruins can still be seen today.
- 1357 Engers received market rights by German imperatorImperatorThe Latin word Imperator was originally a title roughly equivalent to commander under the Roman Republic. Later it became a part of the titulature of the Roman Emperors as part of their cognomen. The English word emperor derives from imperator via Old French Empreur...
Charles IVCharles IV, Holy Roman EmperorCharles IV , born Wenceslaus , was the second king of Bohemia from the House of Luxembourg, and the first king of Bohemia to also become Holy Roman Emperor....
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- 1412 Engers received river tax rights, but they were soon given back to Koblenz because of the adverse position of the Rhine-banks at Engers.
- In 1662 the pestilenceBubonic plaguePlague is a deadly infectious disease that is caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis, named after the French-Swiss bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin. Primarily carried by rodents and spread to humans via fleas, the disease is notorious throughout history, due to the unrivaled scale of death...
killed nearly all families of Engers except six of them. Families from the nearby village Reil relocated to Engers afterwards, thus Engers started expanding again.
- 1938 Under the Nazi regime Jewish families were banished from Engers.
- 1945, the German army destroyed in 1945 the Engers bridge, ignoring the fleeing people still crossing the bridge.
- Until 1970, Engers was an independent minor city, but in this year it was forced to become in-municipated as a district of Neuwied. With this act Engers lost its independence and its city-status.
- 1995 the Villa Musika trust of the Engers-chateau opened its own academy of music. In the year 2003 the country's academy of music of MainzMainzMainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire...
was relocated to Engers.
Tourist attractions
A well known tourist attractions in the region of Neuwied and Koblenz is the Engers chateau. It was built around 1760 by the aristocrat Johann Philip von Waldersdorff as a summer-residence and hunting lodge. Today it is a popular touristic attraction for its music-events and touristic guidings.The old city hall (built around 1642) and the princely inn "Schloss-Schenke" (built 1621) are placed directly in front of the Engers chateau.
Engers station
Engers station
Engers station is a through station and a former railway junction in the district of Engers in the town of Neuwied in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate...
was built 1869 as an importance junction for passenger and freight transport on the East Rhine Railway between Koblenz and Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
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Miscellaneous
Nocturnal guided walkings through the town are conducted twice a month. Their invention was a surprising success.It's an old tradition of hikers to throw clippies into the Rhine at the Engers banks.
Literature
- Arbeitskreis 650 Jahre Stadtrechte Engers (Editor): Engers. Der Ort. Seine Geschichte. Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar 2007, ISBN 978-3-86595-186-1.
External links
- Engerser Convent - biggest barock-concert in Rhineland-Palatinate
- Engers chateau
- Engers associations - homepage
- Short documentation on Engers by the SüdwestrundfunkSüdwestrundfunkThe Südwestrundfunk is a public broadcasting company for the southwest of Germany, specifically the states of Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate. The company has main offices in three cities: Stuttgart, Baden-Baden and Mainz, with the director's office being in Stuttgart. It is an...
television