Sankt Augustin (German pronunciation: [zaŋkt ˈaʊɡʊstiːn] ⓘ; Ripuarian: Sank Aujustin) is a town in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is named after the patron saint of the Steyler missionaries, Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430). The missionaries established the "Saint Augustine Monastery" near the current town centre in 1913. The municipality of Sankt Augustin was established in 1969, and on September 6, 1977, Sankt Augustin acquired town privileges (German: Stadtrechte).[3] Sankt Augustin is situated about 8 km northeast of Bonn and 8 km southwest of Siegburg. Sankt Augustin belongs to the economic region of Bonn/Rhein-Sieg as well as the scientific region of Bonn. With over 59,000 inhabitants, it is the second-largest town in the Rhein-Sieg district.[3]
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 Town hall | |
 Coat of arms | |
Location of Sankt Augustin
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| Coordinates: 50°46′12″N 7°11′12″E / 50.77000°N 7.18667°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Admin. region | Köln |
| District | Rhein-Sieg-Kreis |
| Subdivisions | 8 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–25) | Max Leitterstorf[1] (CDU) |
| Area | |
• Total | 34.22 km2 (13.21 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 65 m (213 ft) |
| Population (2024-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 56,521 |
| • Density | 1,652/km2 (4,278/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 53757 |
| Dialling codes | 02241 |
| Vehicle registration | SU |
| Website | www.sankt-augustin.de |
Visits
editMargaret Thatcher visited on Wednesday 9 November 1983, with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. A KGGS former schoolfriend had proposed visiting the German town to Mrs Thatcher. There was a six-monthly Anglo-German summit in Bonn, eleven miles away. Ivan Dawson attended, chairman of the Grantham twinning association.[4][5][6]
Mayors
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Twin towns – sister cities
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Federal Government organizations
edit- Headquarters of the Federal Police Regional Directorate (Bundespolizeidirektion)
- Headquarters of the GSG 9 (Grenzschutzgruppe 9) since 1972; the counter-terrorism tactical unit of the Federal Police, formerly the Federal Border Guard (Bundesgrenzschutz)
- Federal Police Air Group (Bundespolizei-Fliegergruppe)
- Logistics Agency of the Federal Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) since 1957, relocated to Koblenz at the end of 2012
- Federal Agency for the Personnel Management of the Federal Armed Forces
- Information and Media Centre of the Federal Armed Forces (dissolved in 2014)
- Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance
- Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv); one of the two "interim deposit" branches of the Bundesarchiv (the other located at Hoppegarten near Berlin), used for temporary storage of federal government documents
Notable people
edit- Erich Hampe (1889–1978), army officer, died here
- Helmut Rohde (1925–2016), politician (SPD), died here
- Gábor Benedek (born 1927), Hungarian modern pentathlete, Olympic champion, lives here
- Klaus Förster (1933–2009), tax fraud investigator in Sankt Augustin
- Klaus Kinkel (1936–2019), lawyer and politician (FDP), died here
- Ute Kircheis-Wessel (born 1953), fencer, Olympic winner, works here
- Bettina Bähr-Losse (born 1967), politician (SPD) and former member of the Bundestag, works here
- Oliver Masucci (born 1968), actor, grew up in Mülldorf
- Luciana Diniz (born 1970), Brazilian horsewoman, lives here
References
edit- ↑ Wahlergebnisse in NRW Kommunalwahlen 2020, Land Nordrhein-Westfalen, accessed 29 June 2021.
- ↑ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden Nordrhein-Westfalens am 31. Dezember 2024 – Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes auf Basis des Zensus 2022" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW.
- 1 2 Augustin, Stadt Sankt (2019-03-01). "Unsere Stadt: Stadtportrait" [Our Town: Town portrait] (in German). Stadt Sankt Augustin – Der Bürgermeister.
- ↑ November 1983 visit
- ↑ Times Thursday November 10 1983, page 6
- ↑ Grantham Journal Friday 18 November 1983, page 1
- ↑ "Unsere Partnerstädte im Ausland". sankt-augustin.de (in German). Sankt Augustin. Retrieved 2021-03-19.
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