Engers

City history

• The eldest evidences for settlements reach back to 800 - 600BC. A cemetery of the Iron Age was discovered nearby Engers.
• An important historic event was the military activity under Julius Caesar in 55 BC at the town Urmitz with the goal to punish the Germanic Sicambris.
• Around 400 AC a Roman castellum was built. Its ruins can still be seen today.
• In 1357, Engers received market rights by German imperator Charles IV.
• In 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 pestilence 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.
• In 1938, under the Nazi regime Jewish families were banished from Engers.
• In 1945, the German army destroyed the Engers-Urmitz bridge, ignoring fleeing comrads and civilians 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.
• In 1995, the Ensemble Villa Musica trust of the Engers-chateau opened its own academy of music. In 2003, the state's academy of music of Mainz, the Hochschule für Musik Mainz, was temporarily relocated to Engers.

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Literature

• Arbeitskreis 650 Jahre Stadtrechte Engers : Engers. Der Ort. Seine Geschichte. Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar 2007,.