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23-415: Gronau may refer to: Places [ edit ] Germany [ edit ] Gronau, North Rhine-Westphalia , a city in district Borken, North Rhine-Westphalia Gronau (Westf) railway station Gronau, Lower Saxony , a city on the river Leine in district Hildesheim, Lower Saxony Gronau (Samtgemeinde) , a Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") in

46-559: A cultural centre. In 1975, Gronau and the municipality of Epe were merged into the new municipality of Gronau. The bankruptcy of the van Delden Group  [ de ] , founded in 1854, in 1980-1981 marked the end of the era of the textile industry in Gronau. Since 1989 an annual music festival, the Jazzfest Gronau  [ de ] , takes place in Gronau. A broad range of national and international musicians have performed at

69-417: A place of remembrance and learning. Since 2018, the building has been listed as a historical monument. It is planned to make the building usable as e.g. memorial museum in 2020. The local Salzgewinnungsgesellschaft Westfalen (SGW), a joint venture between Solvay , Vestolit and Bayer , is a mining company that extracts salt ( solution mining ). It extracts more than two million tons of salt each year, from

92-877: Is around 65%. Gronau can be reached by road via the Autobahn A 30 and A 31 , the Dutch Rijksweg 35 , the Bundesstraße B 54n . Gronau (Westf) railway station connects Gronau with Enschede in the Netherlands via the Dortmund–Enschede railway and the Münster–Enschede railway . The nearest airports are Münster Osnabrück Airport and Enschede Airport Twente , although the latter has no scheduled flights. The Dutch singer Rania Zeriri lives in Gronau. The Polish tennis player Agnieszka Radwańska grew up here; her father

115-481: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Gronau, North Rhine-Westphalia Documentary evidence of Gronau dates to 1365, and of district Epe to 1188. Industrialisation took hold in Gronau with the founding of the first textile factory in 1854. Dutch investors, in particular, drove the growing textile industry. In 1875, railway lines were opened from Gronau to Münster , Dortmund , and Enschede . With

138-562: Is located on the Dutch border, approx. 10 km east of Enschede . It has been part of the municipality of Gronau since 1975. Epe has a population of about 16,000 and is located on the Dinkel River. Already in the time between 2000 and 1700 B.C. a settlement of the Eper area can be proven. Findings of weapons, jewellery and pottery bear witness to this Neolithic settlement. The finds can be found in

161-581: The Amtsvenn area. The Natural gas is stored underground at a depth of 900 to 1500 m. The working gas volume of the caverns is over 2.5 m³. This makes the facility, with around 75 caverns, the largest of its kind in Europe. The largest operators are Uniper (formerly E.ON Ruhrgas ) and Innogy (formerly RWE). Other companies that store gas are Trianel (since 2008), Nuon (Vattenfall NL, since 2007), KGE and Eneco (since 2011). The stored natural gas comes from

184-617: The Lower Rhine salt pan ( Solution mining ). The brine is sent via pipeline to locations of the chemical industry in the Ruhr area (Vestolit/Chemiepark Marl ), on the Lower Rhine (Solvay at Rheinberg ) and to Belgium (Solvay at Jemeppe-sur-Sambre ). The empty salt storages are used to store natural gas . The salt caverns of Epe are located southwest of the village in the Kottigerhook and in

207-433: The Eper gas plant was built. In 1905 the bailiff Pilatus had a central water supply network built. In 1907 the village received a Protestant school and in 1911 a Protestant church. The Eper Park was also established in 1926. On 1 April 1934, the village of Epe and the parish of Epe were united to form the new municipality Epe. In the night from 9 to 10 November 1938, also called Reichskristallnacht or Reichspogromnacht,

230-520: The First World War, Germania issued a 25 pfennig small change replacement stamp as emergency money. The plant was closed in 1992. On the night of 28 February 2009, a fire broke out in the Germania II factory building, completely destroying the building. The flourishing of the textile industry led to an increase in the population at the turn of the century. Several Catholic schools were built. In 1904

253-569: The Grand Duchy of Berg under Napoleon I's brother-in-law Murat and in 1811 fell to the Empire of France. As a result of the wars of liberation and the resolutions at the Congress of Vienna, Epe became Prussian in 1815. In 1882 a fire destroyed most of the town. In 1886 the former church Saint Agatha collapsed. In this emergency no persons were injured. In 1875 the railway line from Gronau via Epe to Dortmund

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276-521: The cemetery today, the cemetery is maintained by the town municipality. In 1828 the area belonged to Parish Epe, today to commune Gronau. In 2008 and 2009, memorial stumbling blocks were laid in Oststraße and Merschstraße to commemorate the Jews who once lived and were deported there. The "Förderkreis Alte Synagoge Epe e. V.", founded in 2017, has set itself the goal of transforming the empty synagogue building into

299-459: The church patronage. The name Epe is derived from the Ur-Germanic Apa ("place at the river/water"). In 1325 the manor house 'Droste Wüllen Epe' was first mentioned in a document. It was in the possession of the lords of Keppel zu Nienborg, who had the patronage right over the parish for a long time. Heinrich von Wüllen was enfeoffed with the court of Epe in 1380. Thus the house became Wüllen. It

322-671: The district of Hildesheim, Lower Saxony Groß Grönau , a municipality in the district of Lauenburg, Schleswig-Holstein Gronau (Pinnau) , a river of Schleswig-Holstein Gronau (Sinn) , a river of Hesse Greenland [ edit ] Gronau Nunataks People with the surname [ edit ] Ernst Gronau (1887–1938), German stage and film actor Hans von Gronau (1850–1940), Prussian general Jürgen Gronau (born 1962), German football player Reuben Gronau (born 1937), Israeli American economist Wolfgang von Gronau (1893–1977), German aviation pioneer Topics referred to by

345-539: The festival, including Jan Garbarek , McCoy Tyner , Klaus Doldinger ’s Passport , Blood, Sweat & Tears , Al Di Meola , Avishai Cohen , Al Jarreau , Ian Anderson , Richard Galliano , Ron Carter , Mother's Finest , Gregory Porter , Maceo Parker , Stefanie Heinzmann . The Jazzfest is currently funded to a large extent by local and regional sponsors and enjoys a constantly growing audience. The annual number of visitors swings between 12,000 and 18,000 visitors (incl. open-air events). The share of foreign visitors

368-515: The growth of the textile industry and the founding of the Gronauer Bauverein (homebuilding) in the eastern part of the city (1893), an expansion of the settlement area began. By the time of World War I, a new town hall, the district court, the parish church of St. Antonius  [ de ] , schools, hospitals, an indoor swimming pool, waterworks, an electricity plant, and the city park had been built in Gronau. On 27 December 1897, Gronau

391-608: The museum in Münster. The church, built around 1175, was probably a stone building. The baptismal font from this period, which is still preserved today, indicates this. The church seems to have stood on the floor of the Epe courtyard and was therefore a church of its own. In 1188 the village Epe was mentioned for the first time in the list of goods of Count Dale zu Diepenheim (today in the Rijksarchief Utrecht). The count owned one third of

414-500: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Gronau . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gronau&oldid=1253943368 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description

437-471: The synagogue Wilhelmstraße was desecrated and set on fire. Finally all Jews from Epe (the families Pagener, Eichenwald, Lebenstein, de Witte, Rothschild, Andriesse) were deported to the extermination camps. The Jewish cemetery was built in the district ‘Eilermark’ in 1828 and used until 1936 for the burial of the Jewish deceased from the communities of Gronau, Epe and Nienborg. There are still 54 grave monuments on

460-533: Was a tennis coach at the local club. Blaise Nkufo , a Swiss footballer with African roots, former player of the Dutch football club FC Twente , lived in Gronau. Klaus Vogelgesang  [ de ] , a German artist, grew up in Gronau. (in German) Gronau is twinned with: Epe, North Rhine-Westphalia Epe is a village in the district of Borken in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany . It

483-475: Was granted town rights. On the night of 9 to 10 November 1938, also known as “Reichsprogromnacht”, the synagogue in Wallstraße was desecrated in connection with the persecution of the Jewish population. Eventually, most Jews from Gronau and Epe were deported to the extermination camps. There is still a Jewish cemetery in Gronau today. In the Epe district, the former Jewish synagogue is currently being rebuilt as

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506-643: Was located near to the Dinkel (today Schepers Mühle). In 1400 the first mention of farm communities in the districts Lange Seite and the Gerdingseite took place. Ten years later Herr von Plettenberg expanded and embellished Epe. During the Eighty Years' War fires broke out in 1583, 1588 and 1593. 1803 Epe fell according to the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss to the county Salm-Horstmar. In 1806 Epe came to

529-500: Was opened. 1881 saw the foundation of the first textile factory, the weaving mill of Gebr. Laurenz from Ochtrup, with 500 mechanical looms. A spinning mill was put into operation in 1904/1905. This was followed by a dyeing plant. The factory was closed in 1967. The ‘Germania Epe’ cotton spinning mill was founded in 1897 by the Jannink family from Enschede NL.  Plant II was put into operation in 1910. Up to 700 workers were employed. After

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