Sankt Augustin (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 Divine Word Missionaries, Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430). The Missionaries established a 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 eight km northeast of Bonn and three km southwest of Siegburg.
Sankt Augustin | |
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 Town hall | |
 Coat of arms | |
Location of Sankt Augustin within Rhein-Sieg-Kreis district  | |
  Sankt Augustin  Sankt Augustin | |
| 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 (2022-12-31)[2] | |
| • Total | 56,369 |
| • Density | 1,600/km2 (4,300/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 |
Mayors edit
Twin towns – sister cities edit
Sankt Augustin is twinned with:[4]
Grantham, England, United Kingdom
Mevaseret Zion, Israel
Szentes, Hungary
Government organizations edit
- West Regional Command German Federal Police (Bundespolizei), headquarter of the Police tactical unit GSG 9 (Grenzschutzgruppe 9)
- Logistics of unified armed forces of Germany (Bundeswehr)
- Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance
- The „Zwischenarchiv Sankt Augustin-Hangelar“; one of the two "interim deposit" branches of the Bundesarchiv (the other one 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 2022 – Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes auf Basis des Zensus vom 9. Mai 2011" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
- ^ Augustin, Stadt Sankt (2019-03-01). "Unsere Stadt". Content Management System (in German). Retrieved 2021-05-15.
- ^ "Unsere Partnerstädte im Ausland". sankt-augustin.de (in German). Sankt Augustin. Retrieved 2021-03-19.
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