Altenbruch

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City of Cuxhaven
Altenbruch coat of arms
Coordinates: 53 ° 49 ′ 26 ″  N , 8 ° 46 ′ 27 ″  E
Height : 0 m above sea level NHN
Area : 38.23 km²
Residents : 3760  (May 19, 2018)
Population density : 98 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 27478
Area code : 04722
Altenbruch (Lower Saxony)
Altenbruch

Location of Altenbruch in Lower Saxony
Altenbruch in the city of Cuxhaven
Altenbruch in the city of Cuxhaven

Altenbruch (spoken with a long u as in book ; Olenbrook in Low German ) is a district of Cuxhaven in Lower Saxony in northern Germany.

geography

Aerial photo of Altenbruch Harbor (2011)

The place is about one kilometer from the Elbe dike and about six kilometers southeast of Cuxhaven in the district of Cuxhaven . The Braake, a receiving water that drains the lowland to Otterndorf , flows through Altenbruch. At its mouth in the same a small port and the restored is lighthouse , (s) thickness Berta of 1897/1919, the sooner than leading light used (front light). A few meters west of Altenbruch is the Altenbruch head fire , the new slender Anna , a 59 m high concrete tower built in 1971 as a landmark that can be seen from afar , replacing the slender Anna built in 1897 and demolished in 1976 .

history

Altenbruch is a street village that stretches over a length of 15 km and a width of 3 km west of Otterndorf. It seems to have been a planned colonization within the scope of the dike in the Elbe, which is indicated by the loose settlement. One of the first documentary mentions is from November 12, 1280, when a pastor ("plebanus") is mentioned for Altenbruch. Most of the land was owned by the peasants, who showed this through country estates and coats of arms.

Incorporations

The place was originally an independent municipality in the Saxon-Lauenburg region and later in the Hanover region of Hadeln. Then it belonged to the Prussian district of Hadeln from 1866 until it was incorporated into Cuxhaven on July 1, 1972.

Population development

year Residents source
1890 2079
1910 2588
1925 2744
1933 2894
1939 2978
1950 4862
1956 4078
2018 3760

politics

Local council

The local council of Altenbruch consists of a councilwoman and eight councilors from the following parties:

(Status: local election September 11, 2016)

Local mayor

The local mayor of Altenbruch is Jörg-Heinrich Ahlemeyer (CDU). His deputy is Hans-Jürgen Umland (Greens).

coat of arms

Altenbruch coat of arms
 Blazon : "In silver over a green shield base crossedby two silver wave beams ,a red two- tower church with blue spiers."
Foundation of the coat of arms: The St. Nicolai Church is the symbol of the community. The shield base symbolizes the location of the place in the march on the banks of the Elbe.

Town twinning

Culture and sights

Church towers in Altenbruch

Buildings
  • Villa Gehben from 1908 in Art Nouveau style based on plans by Achmet Steinmetz for the farmer Ernst-Julius Gehben (1844-1916) living in the USA
  • The German U-Boot Museum is located at Lange Str. 1
  • Sea mark:
    • The old lighthouse "Big Berta"
    • The new lighthouse
    • Altenbruch overhead fire

  • Old lighthouse, the "Big Berta"

  • New lighthouse

  • Oberfeuer Altenbruch (2009) with a triangle as the top mark

  • Small port

  • Shores and Ships

traffic

The federal highway 73 leads south around Altenbruch. The railway line from Hamburg-Harburg to Cuxhaven, the Niederelbebahn runs close to Altenbruch, no trains have stopped here since 1991. The train station has been preserved and is a bit outside of the village.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

People connected to the place

  • Johann Martin Müller (1722–1781), teacher, principal of the Latin school in Altenbruch
  • Carsten Niebuhr (1733–1815), mathematician, cartographer and research traveler in the Danish service, attended the Latin school in Altenbruch
  • Johann Diedrich Plate (1816–1902), teacher and author, teacher in Altenbruch (1869–1886)
  • Martin Bücking (1868–1954), Evangelical Lutheran pastor and writer, three years rector in Altenbruch
  • Wilhelm Neander (1892–1968), theologian and church historian, pastor in Altenbruch (1945–1948)
  • Erich von Lojewski (1909–1970), journalist, editor and writer, lived in Altenbruch after the war
  • Wolf von Lojewski (* 1937), television journalist and non-fiction author, lived in Altenbruch after the war
  • Hans-Christian Biallas (* 1956), Protestant theologian, politician (CDU) and President of the Hanover Monastery Chamber, pastor in Altenbruch (1983–1994)

Myths and legends

  • The two spiers of Altenbruch
  • The altar shrine at Altenbruch
  • From the tithe freedom of the western part in Altenbruch
  • The skull in the warning sack mill
  • The old man in Westermoor

literature

  • Hinrich Alpers: Altenbruch then and now. A guide . Self-published by the city of Cuxhaven, Altenbruch district, Cuxhaven 1974.
  • Alfred Weckwerth: Evangelical Lutheran St. Nicolai Church Cuxhaven-Altenbruch . In: Quick Art Guide . 3. Edition. tape 1495 . Schnell & Steiner, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-7954-5202-5 .
  • Maria Ebert: Altenbruch - North Sea resort on the world shipping route . Duckdalben Verlag, Cuxhaven 2018, ISBN 3-947351-01-1 .

Web links

Commons : Altenbruch  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Federal Statistical Office Wiesbaden (ed.): Official municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany - 1957 edition (population and territorial status September 25, 1956, for Saarland December 31, 1956) . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1958, p.  187 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ A b Heike Leuschner: The districts at a glance. Twelve in one go . In: Nordsee Zeitung . May 19, 2018, p. 31 .
  3. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p.  241 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Land Hadeln ( see under: No. 2 ). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  5. ^ Ulrich Schubert: Register of local authorities in Germany 1900 - Hadeln district. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. January 5, 2020, accessed May 18, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b Altenbruch local council. In: Council information system of the city of Cuxhaven. Retrieved March 29, 2018 .
  7. ^ Rudolf Lembcke: Land Hadeln district. Past and present . Ed .: District of Hadeln. Buchdruckerei Günter Hottendorff, Otterndorf 1976, p. 12 (part of the coat of arms).
  8. ↑ Partners / sponsorships. In: Website City of Cuxhaven. Retrieved March 29, 2018 .
  9. ↑ dubm.de
  10. ^ Altenbruch station. In: online magazine elbe-weser.bahn. Archived from the original on June 15, 2009 ; accessed on March 29, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Eberhard Michael Iba (Ed.): Hake Betken siene Duven. The saga of the Elbe and Weser estuaries (=  special publications by the men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund at the Elbe and Weser estuaries . Volume 16 ). 3. Edition. Men from Morgenstern Verlag, Bremerhaven 1999, ISBN 3-931771-16-4 .