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Eiffel Square, Marmagen

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Cologne District

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Nettersheim

Eiffel Square, Marmagen

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Eiffel Square, Marmagen

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Location: Nettersheim, Euskirchen, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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3. View of Steinfeld Abbey – Galgenberg Ancient Tree loop from Marmagen

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R.Bungartz

July 18, 2020

In memory of Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, the builder of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the square in the center of Marmagen was named "Eiffelplatz". There is also a memorial plaque about the ingenious constructor's roots in Marmagen.
One of his ancestors named Bönickhausen emigrated to France from Marmagen at the beginning of the 18th century. There he called himself "Eiffel" after the landscape of his homeland to make it easier to pronounce. Alexandre Gustave was born in Dijon in 1832 and trained as an engineer in Paris.
Eiffel planned bridges, department stores, train stations and other structures in all parts of the world, his specialty were ingenious iron structures. Among other things, the 'skeleton' of the Statue of Liberty comes from him! Source: nettersheim.de/home/wissenswertes/alexandre-gustave-eiffel.html

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JakobusPilger

June 22, 2023

The fact that there is an Eiffelplatz in the village of Marmagen in the Eifel is not a typographical error. The designer of the world-famous Paris "Eiffel Tower", GUSTAVE EIFFEL, has his family roots here. Its most famous building can be found as a hiking highlight here: komoot.de/highlight/99285

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Frank Rmr

April 4, 2021

the place itself is not a special attraction. However, the information board on the history of the Bönickhausen / Eiffel family and the connection to the Eiffel Tower in Paris is interesting

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Cornelia

August 25, 2021

A beautiful place steeped in history. Very few people know that the ancestors of the Eiffel Tower builder actually come from the Eifel.

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December 28, 2023

You can read about what the Eifel has to do with Eiffel here: eifel-hautnah.de/index.php/themen/42-der-eiffelturm-und-die-eifel

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Location: Nettersheim, Euskirchen, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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1. Entrance to Steinfeld Abbey – Galgenberg Ancient Tree loop from Marmagen

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