Berenbrock (Erwitte)
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Berenbrock
City of Erwitte
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| Height : | 108 m above sea level NN |
| Area : | 3.45 km² |
| Residents : | 284 (Jan. 1, 2013) |
| Population density : | 82 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 1975 |
| Postal code : | 59597 |
| Area code : | 02943 |
  Location of Berenbrock in Erwitte
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The place Berenbrock is a village with 284 inhabitants in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is a district of the city of Erwitte and belongs to the Soest district .
geography
Berenbrock is 3 km west of Erwitte and 13 km east of Soest on federal highway 1 . Dortmund is about 60 km away, Paderborn 35 km away. The area of the place is 3.45 km². The village lies in a wide and gently sloping plain to the north, which is divided by the Westbach and the Ostbach. The neighboring towns of Berenbrock are Ebbinghausen and Norddorf in the north, Stirpe in the east, Völlinghausen in the south and Schmerlecke in the west. The fertile loess soil in the Hellwegene forms a natural basis, so that the place is still agricultural today.
history
The first written mention of the place dates from the year 1225. Hermannus de Berenbruke appears as a witness at a court hearing in the neighboring village of Völlinghausen . In Berenbrock there was also a court of the Erwitte Free County , a so-called free chair. It was first mentioned in 1295. In the Soest feud (1444–1449) several goods in Berenbrock are devastated. From 1669 it is said that the place consisted of ten courtyards and eleven cottages . In 1869 an elementary school was established in Berenbrock, which existed until 1968.
On January 1, 1975, the previously independent municipality of Berenbrock became part of the city of Erwitte as part of the municipal reorganization in North Rhine-Westphalia. Official street names were introduced in 1988.
politics
Mayor
Rita Ahle ( CDU )
coat of arms
In 1989 Berenbrock received a non-official coat of arms.
Description : “Split by red and silver; in front a silver, four times counter-tinned oblique left-hand bar, behind an upright, blue bear. "
Meaning: The sloping bar stands for the von Schorlemer family who formerly owned the village , the bear is a so-called talking symbol .
Culture and sights
The town's chapel, built in neo-Gothic style, was consecrated in 1907 in honor of St. Ursula and is a branch of the parish church of St. Cyriakus in Horn . A special gem is the Schellenbaum of the local rifle club, which according to the inscription dates from 1840 and was first mentioned in writing in 1843. The custom of Epiphany singing is celebrated in a special way in Berenbrock. Around January 6, it is not children who go from house to house to collect money for charitable purposes, but three men dressed as kings who sing a song in the Low German language. Berenbrock has had a youth center since 1998, which is a meeting point for the large number of children and young people in Berenbrock. Ten years later, in 2008, the youth center was renovated in order to maintain the youth center's attractiveness and topicality. It is also possible to rent the premises for celebrations. A cultural event of Berenbrock is the annual carnival festival in February, which is prepared for a long time by a carnival committee that meets monthly to determine the theme and program.
Clubs and festivities
The oldest club in town is the shooting club, founded in 1828, which celebrates a shooting festival every two years with traditional bird shooting, a parade and a festival ball. In 1977 the sports club Berenbrock was founded through the amalgamation of sport shooters and table tennis players.
In 1996, 30 young people founded the rural youth Berenbrock and thus joined the Catholic rural youth in the diocese of Paderborn. In 1998 a youth center was opened. The rural youth has been organizing a football tournament for over ten years, to which youth groups from the surrounding villages are invited. The Easter bonfire and the field cleaning are two regular events of the KLJB Berenbrock.
Individual evidence
- ^ City of Erwitte: Population statistics of the city of Erwitte on January 1, 2013 , accessed on January 25, 2013.
- ^ 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. 334 .
- ↑ City of Erwitte - Ortsvorsteher ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on May 17, 2011)
