Location

Engden lies between Nordhorn

Nordhorn

Nordhorn is the district seat of Grafschaft Bentheim in Lower Saxony's southwesternmost corner near the border with the Netherlands and the boundary with North Rhine-Westphalia.- Name's origin :...

 and Schüttorf

Schüttorf

Schüttorf is a town in the district of Grafschaft Bentheim in southwesternmost Lower Saxony near the Dutch border and the boundary with Westphalia . The town of Schüttorf forms with the surrounding communities the Joint Community of Schüttorf. It is the district’s oldest town...

. 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

Catholicism

Catholicism is a broad term for the body of the Catholic faith, its theologies and doctrines, its liturgical, ethical, spiritual, and behavioral characteristics, as well as a religious people as a whole....

 church milieu, and as such, markedly few Engdeners opted for the NSDAP in Nazi

Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...

 times.

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

Bundesautobahn 31

is a German Autobahn that connects the coast of the North Sea near Emden to the Ruhr area. It is also known as Emsland-Autobahn or East Frisian Skewer....

 and A 30

Bundesautobahn 30

is a highway in northwestern Germany. It runs from west to east, starting at the Dutch border. On the border it connects with the Dutch A1 motorway, hence, the A 30 is part of the important European connection Berlin - Amsterdam...

 lie 6 km from the community and are easily reached.

Curiosity

Children from Engden go to school or kindergarten in Emsbüren

Emsbüren

Emsbüren is a municipality in the Emsland district, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Ems, approx. 15 km south of Lingen, and 15 km northwest of Rheine.It has a railway station: Leschede....

, in another district.

Further reading

• Herbert Wagner: Militär in der Region. Dokumentation über den Artillerieschieß- und Bombenabwurfplatz Engdener Wüste/Nordhorn-Range. Selbstverlag, Bad Bentheim 1989, ISBN 3-88683-010-1
• Herbert Wagner: Die Gestapo war nicht allein Politische Sozialkontrolle und Staatsterror im deutsch-niederländischen Grenzgebiet 1929-1945. LIT, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7448-6 (contains, among other things, the Catholic community’s resistance to the Nazis)

External links

• Joint community’s webpage