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 | Max Leitterstorf (CDU) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 34.22 km2 (13.21 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 65 m (213 ft) |
| Population (2019-12-31)[1] | |
| • Total | 55,847 |
| • Density | 1,600/km2 (4,200/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 |
Sankt Augustin 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 city centre in 1913. Sankt Augustin is situated about eight km north-east of Bonn and three km south-west of Siegburg.
Mayors
- 1969–1984: Karl Gatzweiler (CDU)
- 1989–1994: Wilfried Wessel (CDU)
- 1994–1995: Anke Riefers (SPD)
- 1995: Hans Jaax (SPD) (temporary)
- 1995–1999: Anke Riefers (SPD)
- 1999–2020: Klaus Schumacher (CDU)
- Since 2020: Max Leitterstorf (CDU)
International relations
Sankt Augustin is twinned with:[2]
Grantham, United Kingdom
Mevaseret Zion, Israel
Szentes, Hungary
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Birlinghoven Castle
Government Organizations
- West Regional Command German Federal Police, (Bundespolizei) headquarter of Border Guards, Group 9 GSG 9 (Grenzschutzgruppe 9)
- Logistics of unified armed forces of Germany (Bundeswehr)
- Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance (German: Institut für Arbeitsschutz der Deutschen Gesetzlichen Unfallversicherung), abbreviated as IFA
- 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
Personalities
- Erich Hampe (1889–1978), Army Officer
- Helmut Rohde (1925–2016), german politician (SPD), federal minister of education
- Carl Adam Petri (1926-2010), computer scientist, led an institute in the GMD Research Center for Information Technology from 1968 to 1991
- Gábor Benedek (born 1927), Hungarian Olympic champion in modern pentathlon
- Klaus Förster (1933–2009), tax fraud investigator in Sankt Augustin
- Klaus Kinkel (1936-2019), lawyer and politician (FDP), former German Minister of Justice and Foreign Affairs
- Ute Wessel (born 1953), Olympic gold medal winner in fencing
- Bettina Bähr-Losse (born 1967), politician (SPD) and former member of the Bundestag
- Oliver Masucci (born 1968), actor, grew up in Mülldorf
- Luciana Diniz (born 1970), Brazilian horsewoman, lives in Sankt Augustin
- Benedikt Fernandez (born 1985), former soccer goalkeeper, played for TuS Buisdorf
- Patricia Hanebeck (born 1986), footballer, born and grew up in Sankt Augustin, former footballer of the ASV Sankt Augustin
- Lukas Kübler (born 1992), soccer player, played in his youth at VfR Hangelar
References
- ^ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden Nordrhein-Westfalens am 31. Dezember 2019" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
- ^ "Unsere Partnerstädte im Ausland". sankt-augustin.de (in German). Sankt Augustin. Retrieved 2019-11-28.