Ahrbrück

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′  N , 6 ° 59 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Ahrweiler
Association municipality :	Altenahr
Height :	186 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.56 km 2
Residents:	1182 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	94 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	53506
Area code :	02643
License plate :	AW
Community key :	07 1 31 002
Community structure:	3 districts
Association administration address:	Rossberg 3 53505 Altenahr, Germany
Website :	www.gemeinde-ahrbrueck.de
Local Mayor :	Walter Radermacher ( BV )
Location of the local community of Ahrbrück in the Ahrweiler district

Ahrbrück is a municipality in the Ahrweiler district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Altenahr .

Community structure

The community consists of the three districts Ahrbrück (until 1938 Denn ), Brück and Pützfeld. The residential areas “An der Pützfelder Kapelle” and “Im Ahrbogen” also belong to Pützfeld.

history

Pützfeld was first mentioned in 893 as a property of the Prüm Abbey . In the 13th century it belonged, as well as the settlements for the first time in records in 1265 bridge and because, to the County Are , with 1246 the three villages under Cologne Highness the Office Altenahr came. Pützfeld owned a larger castle complex , the owners of which built the Marienkapelle to the left of the Ahr in 1681 .

In 1649 , Else Simons from Pützfeld was reported as a witch and tortured in the witch hunt . The execution had to be attended by all the people of the place as a deterrent. To commemorate Else Simons, a memorial stone was erected at the former execution site Auf Wolfsgraben in 2008 .

In 1938, the village of “Denn” was evacuated when the Ahrbrück air force training area was created . The former air force training area Ahrbrück was released for resettlement in 1950 and it was decided to settle displaced farmers from the East Prussian Warmia. The name “Ahrbrück” instead of Denn was retained during the resettlement after the Second World War.

The current local community was formed on June 7, 1969 after the dissolution of the previously independent communities Ahrbrück (502 inhabitants), Brück (443 E.) and Pützfeld (230 E.).

Population development

The development of the population of Ahrbrück in relation to today's municipal area; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 1.936 1835 2,419 1871 2.146 1905 2,309 1939 560 1950 592

year Residents 1961 1,041 1970 1,170 1987 1,119 1997 1,120 2005 1,244 2019 1,182

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Ahrbrück consists of 16 council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FDP	BV	total
2019	-	7th	-	9	16 seats
2014	3	9	-	4th	16 seats
2009	2	9	1	4th	16 seats
2004	2	10	-	4th	16 seats
1999	3	4th	-	9	16 seats

• BV = Citizens' Association Ahrbrück, Brück, Pützfeld e. V.

mayor

Walter Radermacher (Citizens' Association) became the local mayor of Ahrbrück in July 2016. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office for a further five years with a share of 85.17% of the votes.

Rademacher's predecessor Heribert Seul (CDU) resigned from office with effect from March 31, 2016 for personal reasons. For a transitional period, the official business was carried out by the first deputy Rita Löhndorf until the successor took office.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In gold under a raised black bar three red shells (2: 1)."

Culture and sights

Buildings

Marien pilgrimage chapel in Ahrbrück-Pützfeld

The largest sacred building in Ahrbrück is the St. Andreas Church .

Worth mentioning are the village chapels of St. Rochus in Ahrbrück and St. Katharina in Brück, the Pützfeld Marian pilgrimage chapel, restored in 1993 with baroque furnishings, and the evangelical resurrection chapel.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Ahrbrück

Sports and leisure activities

Witch memorial at the New Year's Eve hut in Ahrbrück

gym

A smaller gym is located on the grounds of the Denntal primary school. In addition to running the school, this is also used by the local associations.

The offer ranges from aerobics, ladies’s gymnastics, gymnastics and kendo to classic Shotokan karate .

sports ground

The community of Ahrbrück has a soccer field that is used by the local regional league B division (ABK 54 Ahrbrück) and various youth teams.

hike

Long-distance hiking trails:

• Karl-Kaufmann -Weg, one of the main hiking trails of the Eifelverein
• AhrSteig

music

Resident bands:

• Nothing to prove (formerly cheeky)
• Q-ELSA (punk rock, founded in 1991 by four Ahrbrückers, last concert in 2008, JG-Fest Brück)
• Paco Paco, annual concerts in the Marian pilgrimage chapel

There is also the mixed choir, Liederkranz 1913, Ahrbrück.

Economy and Infrastructure

A crystal cutting shop in Ahrbrück as a refugee company, April 1952

traffic

• The Ahrbrück stop (formerly the Brück (Ahr) station ) is located on the Lower Ahr Valley Railway ( KBS 477 ) Remagen - Ahrbrück, on which the “Rhein-Ahr-Bahn” runs in local passenger traffic.

line	Line course	Tact
RB 30	Rhein-Ahr-Bahn : Bonn Hbf  - Bonn UN Campus  - Bonn-Bad Godesberg  - Bonn-Mehlem  - Oberwinter  - Remagen  - Bad Bodendorf  - Heimersheim  - Bad Neuenahr  - Ahrweiler  - Ahrweiler Markt  - Walporzheim  - Dernau  - Rech  - Mayschoss  - Altenahr  - Kreuzberg (Ahr)  - Ahrbrück Status: timetable change 10.12.2017	60 min
Local rail passenger transport (SPNV) is carried out by DB Regio AG, Region NRW , which uses Alstom Coradia LINT diesel multiple units .

• Bus routes connect Ahrbrück with Rheinbach, Adenau and Altenahr.
• The tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel (VRM) and the regional Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (VRS) apply to local public transport on the “Rhein-Ahr-Bahn”, and the NRW tariff applies to journeys throughout North Rhine-Westphalia .
• The B 257 connects Ahrbrück with the A 61 .

education

A primary school and the “Wirbelwind” daycare center are available.

fire Department

The local community of Ahrbrück has a volunteer fire brigade , whose two fire fighting groups LG Ahrbrück and LG Brück came together in 2016. It is part of the volunteer fire brigade of the Altenahr community .

literature

• Literature about Ahrbrück in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Ahrbrück  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Local community Ahrbrück
• Local community Ahrbrück on the website of the Association of Altenahr
• Ahrbrück Air Force Training Area

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 7 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 168 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
5. ↑ Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate
6. ↑ Shaping the community together. In: Blick Aktuell. Krupp Verlags GmbH, Sinzig, July 26, 2016 accessed on 4 August 2020 . 
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Altenahr, Verbandsgemeinde, second line of results. Retrieved August 4, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Election of new local mayors. In: Blick Aktuell. Krupp Verlags GmbH, Sinzig, April 18, 2016, accessed on August 4, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Querying the course book route 477 at Deutsche Bahn.