Rengsdorf
Rengsdorf is a municipality and health resort in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It is the administrative center of the municipality Rengsdorf who it belongs too.
- 3.1 municipal
- 3.2 Partner community
- 4.1 Attractions
- 4.2 Music
- 4.3 Club Life
- 5.1 traffic
- 5.2 Established businesses
- 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
- 6.2 personalities who were active in the city
Geography
Climate
The annual rainfall is 834 mm. The rainfall is in the upper third of the detected values in Germany. At 69% of the stations of the German Weather Service lower values are registered. The driest month is February, the most rainfall comes in July. Fall in July 1.7 times more precipitation than in February. Precipitation varies moderately. At 51% of the monitoring stations, lower seasonal swings are recorded.
History
The oldest document about Rengsdorf comes from the time in which Theutgart Archbishop of Trier was ( 847-868 ). In this made to the boundaries of the 857 certificate Rengsdorfer parish tithe district have been described, which belonged to Koblenz Kastorstift.
The development of the population of Rengsdorf, the values from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:
Policy
Parish council
The local council in Rengsdorf consists of 20 council members, who were elected at the municipal election on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
Allocation of seats in the elected municipal council:
Partner community
The partnership with the located in the French region of Burgundy commune of Saint -Pierre -le- Moûtier exists since 2005.
Culture and sights
Attractions
→ Main article: List of cultural monuments in Rengsdorf
At Kaiser oak square there is the 13 meters high column Bismarck, which was inaugurated in 1903 in honor of the first German Chancellor Prince Otto von Bismarck ( 1815-1898 ).
Music
Rengsdorf is known by the summer annual meeting of the rock Rengsdorf friends. In recent years, there are, among others, Bill Wyman, Roger Chapman and the band Uriah Heep occurred.
Club Life
- Emergency services and civil protection: the volunteer fire brigade, the German Red Cross and the DLRG.
- Sport and leisure: alternative sports and gaming community ( ASA), the gymnastics club, sports club Rengsdorf ( football), the TC- Rengsdorf, the rock friends Rengsdorf eV as the organizer of the annual Rengsdorfer Rock & Blues Festival and the boys club Rengsdorf which festivals the as the fair or carnival organized.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
Directly by the municipality of the B 256, which connects Neuwied and old churches and about which there is also a regional bus service runs. Currently, a bypass is created. The expected cost is around 35 million euros. The construction project was officially started on July 3, 2006 by the Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Transport Achim Grossmann.
The nearest motorway junction is Neuwied / Old churches on the A 3
The nearest railway station is in Neuwied with connection to the rights Rhine line. The stations in Andernach and Koblenz are within easy reach for the remote traffic on the Left Rhine line. In the immediate vicinity of the high-speed line Cologne-Rhine/Main runs. The nearest stop on the route, in Montabaur.
Established businesses
Nationwide -known companies are Lohmann & Rauscher, manufacturers of dressing and Medikalstoffen, as well as the company Berge & Meer ( associate company of TUI Germany ), the bathrooms operator monte mare and the " meta GmbH & Co KG ", which sells Trennwandanlagen internationally. For all four Rengsdorf is the main or headquarters. The manufacturing facilities engineering Runkel GmbH and Winkler and thin beer Confectionery Machinery GmbH are also based in Rengsdorf.
Next Rengsdorf is the headquarters of FEMAX Group Europe and its subsidiaries.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Gerhard Curdes ( born 1933), Professor of Urban and Regional Planning;
- Norbert van Heyst ( b. 1944 ), General of the Bundeswehr;
Personalities who were active in the city
- Friedrich Karl Henkel (1848-1930), German entrepreneur and founder of the Henkel Group, had his retirement home in Rengsdorf and died in Rengsdorf;
- Curt Karl Rüschhoff (1887-1969), German architect, planned, inter alia, the Schlosshotel Buhlerhohe;
- Richard Winkler (1898-1972), senior partner and general partner of the company W beer, honorary citizen of the city of Neuwied.