Mayen
Mayen is a city of the Eiffel, district (Landkreis) of Mayen-Coblentz, in the Rhineland-Palatinat. With 19.428 inhabitants (June 2005) for 58 km ², the city also includes/understands the villages of Alzheim (Allenz and Berresheim), Kürrenberg, Hausen-Betzing, Hausen and Nitztal. Mayen is the chief town of the district (Verbandsgemeinde) Vordereifel.
Geography
Since Coblentz, to the east, one crosses a vast plain to arrive at Mayen which orders the access to the solid mass of the Eiffel. This last surrounds the city of south-west in north, making of Mayen the “door of the Eiffel”. The small Nette river goes down from the Eiffel and crosses Mayen then the plain in opposite direction in direction of the the Rhine in which it is thrown to Weißenthurm.
History
Already at the time Roman, Mayen was an important economic place. End of the 3rd century to the the Middle Ages, workshops of pottery exported their production in all the Central Europe. Still further in time, of the careers were exploited since prehistoric times around Mayen: basalt for construction and the tuff for the sarcophagi. One can see with the museum Genovevaburg sarcophagi with important incrustations of glass. The name Mayen probably comes from Megina, quoted for the first time into 847 to indicate the place (into Celtic: Magos ). At the 8th century, Mayen is quoted in the legend of Genoveva like the seat of the count de Palatinat Siegfried. Mayen is mentioned for the first time in the documents in 1041 and was montabaur set up downtown in 1291 by Rodolphe 1 of Habsbourg, with Welschbillig, and Saarburg (the Rhineland-Palatinat). Not of Mayen is also perhaps related with Maifeld (Field of May in the south east of the city) since Mayen is also quoted with the Moyen-âge as place chief of a larger district. During the second world war, the city is destroyed to 90% at the time of the air raids of the December 12th, 1944 and January 2nd, 1945. Mayen was place chief of the district (Landkreis) of Mayen up to 1973, date on which the district became that of Mayen-Coblentz and its administration transferred to Coblentz.
Infrastructures
- Roads: favorable situation between has 61 (Cologne, Ludwigshafen) and has 48 (Trier, Coblentz).
- Railroad: Andernach (railway along the Rhine - Rheinschiene ), Gerolstein on Transregio ( Eifelquerbahn ).
Industry
Basalt, slate, industry of paper, mechanical engineering, transformation of aluminum and the plastic.
Curiosities
- Genovevaburg, 13th century - point of disjunction the museum of the Eiffel with the German mining industry of slate,
- Parish church St Clemens with the bell-tower with twisted roof (symbol of the city, rebuilt in 1945),
- Parish church Herz-Jesu (built into 1911/12),
- Museum (park) concise,
- Station of information on the volcanicity of the park of the volcanos,
- In the vicinity in the valley of Clear, Schloss Bürresheim (Bürresheim castle),
- Swimming pool with the longest toboggan of the world (registered in Guinness book).
Demonstrations
- Lukasmarkt : annual fair in October with one week of fun fair, 2 days of cattle fair and a flea market,
- Festival of the castle at the end of spring: several weeks of stage performances in the court of the castle,
- international Secondhand trade at the beginning of May,
- Festival of the stone and the castle with craft industry and agricultural market the 2nd week of September,
Educational establishments
- School superior specialized for the public administration (FHÖV Mayen),
- 2 colleges (schooling until the baccalaureat),
- 1 " Realschule" (schooling to the third approximately),
- 2 " Hauptschule" (schooling until the fifth approximately),
- 1 vocational school,
- several elementary schools,
- 2 schools " of production" : the vocational school of the bees and the bee-keeping and the vocational school of the techniques and the work of the stone,
- 1 military academy (Bundeswehr) for the contact and the control of psychological operations (single in Germany).
Sport
- Section football of TuS Mayen plays in Fußball-Oberliga,
- Tennis since 1910.
- Equipe of tennis shoe in regional league (Landesliga).
Personalities
- Reinhard Saftig (former trainer of football of Bayern of Munich),
- Mario Adorf (actor, writer)
- Heinrich Alken (sculptor, painter)
- Christoph Friedrich Heinle (poet)
- Balthasar Krems (inventive of the sewing machine)
- Andrea Nahles (appointed at the Bundestag)
- Winfried Schäfer (footballer and trainer)
- Hans-Ludwig Schilling (type-setter)
- Anne Spurzem (politicking)
- Anton Woger (sculptor)
- Dominic Meffert (professional tennis player)
Twinnings
Others
Bonds
- Official site of the town of Mayen
- Club of tennis of Mayen
- German Museum of the slate mine
- Park of the volcanos
- webcam: Sight of Mayen