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23-576: A Gänseliesel is also situated in Monheim am Rhein , Hanover 's Steintor Square and Berlin 's Nikolsburger Square. As early as the 18th century, a fountain was located on the current site of the Gänseliesel. However, the old fountain was partially pulled down in the early 19th century due to deterioration. In 1898, the city council decided to construct a new fountain, for which sculptors from all over Germany presented their proposals. From all designs,

46-622: Is home of the football team Bayer 04 Leverkusen , who won its first Bundesliga title in the 2023–24 season. It is also home of the basketball team Bayer Giants Leverkusen , which is the German record holder of national basketball championships . As of 2019, the team plays in the German ProA league and plays its home games in the Ostermann-Arena . The Ostermann-Arena, previously known as Wilhelm Dopatka Halle and Smidt-Arena ,

69-621: Is made up of former villages, originally called Wiesdorf, Opladen, Schlebusch, Manfort, Bürrig, Hitdorf, Quettingen, Lützenkirchen, Steinbüchel, Rheindorf and Bergisch-Neukirchen. On 27 July 2021, an explosion at the Chempark site in the city killed 7 people and injured 31 others. Population development since 1832: The current mayor of Leverkusen is Uwe Richrath of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), elected in 2015 and re-elected in 2020. The most recent mayoral election

92-596: Is now Leverkusen was Wiesdorf, a village on the Rhine , which dates back to the 12th century. With the surrounding villages which have now been incorporated, the area also includes the rivers Wupper and Dhünn , and has suffered a lot from flooding, notably in 1571 and 1657, the latter resulting in Wiesdorf being moved East from the river to its present location. During the Cologne War , from 1583 to 1588 Leverkusen

115-567: The Rhine Confederation in 1806. Monheim, Baumberg and Hitdorf were then combined into a municipal corporation . Monheim gained city status in 1960, ten years after it finally incorporated the neighbouring villages Baumberg and Hitdorf. At the end of 1974 Monheim was incorporated by Düsseldorf as part of a major municipal corporation reform. After a successful complaint in the federal state's constitutional court in Münster ,

138-505: The district of Mettmann – with the southern suburbs of Düsseldorf to the north, and the Bergisches Land to the south. It consists of the city districts (from north to south) Baumberg (about one third) and Monheim (two thirds). The following cities and districts border Monheim am Rhein: to the north Düsseldorf , to the east Langenfeld (also part of the district of Mettmann ), to the south Leverkusen and (both divided by

161-529: The neo-gothic proposal "Im Geiste der Alten/Tugendbrunnen" ("In the Spirit of the Ancients/Fountain of Virtue") by the sculptors Mehs and Jehs was favoured, while the goose girl, designed by architect Heinrich Stöckhardt and sculpted by Paul Nisse, was ranked second place. However, after the official ranking the three best designs were put on public display. The citizens of Göttingen widely preferred

184-646: The Kahlberg in Wiesdorf in 1861, and called the emerging settlement "Leverkusen" after his family home in Lennep . The factory was taken over by the Bayer company in 1891; Bayer moved its headquarters to Wiesdorf in 1912. After asset confiscation at the end of the First World War, it became IG Farben . The city of Leverkusen proper was founded in 1930 by merging Wiesdorf, Schlebusch, Steinbüchel and Rheindorf, and

207-484: The city became independent again on 1 July 1976, but lost Hitdorf to Leverkusen . Since 1994 the official city name has been Monheim am Rhein . Monheim is part of both of the public transport associations Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR) and the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (VRS), situated on their borders. There are several bus lines running between the city districts, neighbouring towns, and

230-561: The closest S-Bahn railway stations on the border with Langenfeld , Langenfeld-Berghausen station and Langenfeld (Rheinland) station , as well as Düsseldorf . The Monheim ticket has enabled citizens of Monheim to use public transport free of charge within Monheim am Rhein and the neighbouring town Langenfeld (VRR tariff zone 73) as well as to the near train station in Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf-Hellerhof station since 1 April 2020. This

253-522: The eastern bank of the Rhine . To the south, Leverkusen borders the city of Cologne , and to the north the state capital, Düsseldorf . The city is part of the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region , one of Europe's largest urban areas. With about 163,000 inhabitants, Leverkusen is one of the state's smaller cities. The city is known for the pharmaceutical company Bayer and its sports club Bayer 04 Leverkusen . The heart of what

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276-553: The girl. As the fountain has been subject to vandalism, the original statue of the goose girl can today be seen in the Stadtmuseum while the fountain only carries a copy. After a severe assault during the winter of 2004 (malicious arson), the fountain needed to be disassembled and underwent major restoration. Since 1995, each year on a weekend in September the city of Göttingen stages the so-called "Gänselieselfest" in honor of

299-593: The goose girl. Main event of these festivities is the election of a young woman from Göttingen as the Gänseliesel, representing the town and the statue for one year. 51°31′58″N 9°56′06″E  /  51.53278°N 9.93500°E  / 51.53278; 9.93500 Monheim am Rhein Monheim am Rhein ( Limburgish : Monnem ) is a town on the right (eastern) bank of the river Rhine in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany. Monheim belongs to

322-402: The name of the town As a title for the first section of the song sleep off their second studio album Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven . Monheim am Rhein is twinned with: [REDACTED] Media related to Monheim am Rhein at Wikimedia Commons Leverkusen Leverkusen ( German: [ˈleːvɐˌkuːzn̩] ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany, on

345-486: The number of students largely increased after World War I , police issued a decree in 1926 that officially forbade the climbing and kissing of the statue. A law student who was prosecuted for kissing the goose girl in the same year, took the case to court. However, the superior court of justice in Berlin legitimated the edict. The tradition itself has changed over time, and today it is unusual for first year students to kiss

368-506: The river Rhine ) Cologne to the southwest, and Dormagen to the west (part of the district of Neuss ). Monheim has approximately 850 years of recorded history. It was first documented in 1150 as a fishermen's village in the Grafschaft (Earldom) Berg . It became the administrative centre for the surrounding villages (including many of the villages that now form Düsseldorf ) in 1363, and stayed in that position until Napoleon formed

391-474: The sculpture is today in the town's museum ( Städtisches Museum ). Soon after the fountain was erected, newly enrolled students of the Georgia Augusta university began to climb up the fountain and to kiss the statue which rapidly became a university tradition. Because the climbing of the fountain was usually celebrated with excessive consumption of alcohol and loud cheers of fellow students and because

414-403: The simpler design of the goose girl, perhaps because the simple girl image best represents the common people, in contrast to the numerous statues of famous university scientists found in the city. After long discussion, the Gänseliesel was finally put up in 1901 without any official ceremony. The Gänseliesel fountain does not have any particular connection to the history of the town. The original of

437-469: The statue; it is now more common to bring a bouquet of flowers to the Gänseliesel and to give her a kiss after one's official reception of the doctorate degree. It is for this reason that the fountain is decorated with flowers very frequently, and throughout the year. Until recently, climbing and kissing of the monument remained officially forbidden although both the city of Göttingen and the university advertise themselves with pictures of PhD graduates kissing

460-444: Was held on 13 September 2020, with a runoff held on 27 September, and the results were as follows: The Leverkusen city council governs the city alongside the mayor. The most recent city council election was held on 13 September 2020, and the results were as follows: The coat of arms consists of the two-tailed rampant red lion of the Bergisches Land with a blue crown on a silver background and an embattled line in front. The city

483-753: Was posthumously named for Carl Leverkus . During the Second World War, the IG Farben factories were bombed by the RAF on 22 August 1943, again by the RAF during bombing campaigns on 19/20 November, the USAAF Eighth Air Force on 1 December 1943, and finally once again by the RAF on 10/11 December 1943. In 1975, Opladen (including Quettingen and Lützenkirchen since 1930), Hitdorf and Bergisch Neukirchen joined Leverkusen. The present city

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506-563: Was prolonged by the town council until 31 March 2025. Many of Monheim's residents are commuters to nearby Düsseldorf (20 minutes) and Cologne (30 minutes). The A59 is connected to Monheim which connects to the nearby A46 , as is the A542 which connects with the nearby A3 and A1 . The town is in the vicinity of both Düsseldorf Airport and the Cologne Bonn Airport . The band Godspeed You! Black Emperor Would use

529-411: Was ravaged by war. The entire area was rural until the late 19th century, when industry prompted the development that led to the city of Leverkusen, and to its becoming one of the most important centres of the German chemical industry. The chemist Carl Leverkus , looking for a place to build a dye factory, chose Wiesdorf in 1860. He built a factory for the production of artificial ultramarine blue at

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