Brooks

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Brooks
City of Wiehl
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 13 ″  N , 7 ° 27 ′ 30 ″  E
Height : 320 m above sea level NN
Residents : 594  (December 31, 2016)
Postal code : 51674
Area code : 02262
Brooks (Wiehl)
Brooks

Location of Brächen in Wiehl

Would break ( hommersch Bräächen) is a locality of the city Wiehl in Oberbergischer Kreis in Region of Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Location and description

The place is on the federal highway 56 north of Drabenderhöhe and as the crow flies about 6 km west of the city center of Wiehl. In the last few decades the area experienced increasing development, which was based on a weekend settlement in the forest. Brächen is south of the federal motorway 4 .

history

The Brächen farm is mentioned for the first time in an interrogation of witnesses on border disputes in Kaltenbach in 1574 (HstA Düsseldorf RKG S 1387, III, sheet 199 R). There “Rangen Conradt uff der Drabenderhohe” says: “The river takes its origin very close to the high uff dem Breche”. In Arnold Mercator's map from 1575 the place was named Uff den Brechen . The name Auf dem Brech can be found in the parish registers of the Drabenderhöhe community . Brech or Bruch is a common field name in the region and indicates damp, swampy terrain. Here is also the headwaters of the Brächhähnensiefen, which in the middle part of the valley where the Taubensiefen converges to become the Hipperichsiefen.

Since the location is not specified in the tax bill of the Sankt Severinstift for the Frohnhof Lindlar in 1416, the establishment as a single farm is between the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century. to accept. Politically, Brächen was exactly on the border of the Duchy of Berg , Amt Steinbach , the County of Gimborn and the imperial rule of Homburg . The three territories met at one point on today's federal road opposite the former Friedrich House. This meant that the place was divided into three parts until 1956. The original Brächen farm was in the Duchy of Berg. Right next to it, today's Gasthof Stölting was built around 1800, which stood on Gimborner soil. The map created by the cartographer JFC Rummel about the imperial rule of Gimborn shows a house there called Brechen. The Drabenderhöher parish registers provide information that Brechen was a leasehold estate until the 19th century. The tenants changed frequently. The first people known by name who lived in the farm were Johann Kollhase von Kentenich and his wife Entgen in 1659, as well as their child Anna. Other tenants included Moritz Habernickel 1688, Hans Krieger 1692, Albert Velder 1704, Dietrich Heyer 1713, Henrich Theis 1752, Friedrich Gerlach 1754, Christian Moog 1769, Wilhelm Mann 1788, Christian Engelbert 1791, Johannes Peter Ruland 1795, Johannes Christian Gerlach 1802 and Johann Henrich Baum 1806.

The Baum family later lived in the house on Gimborner territory. She came from Erlinghausen in the parish Marienberghausen . The two houses in the Bergisches Land were inhabited by the Friedrichs families and changing owners (Schmidt, Jost and Jung). The latter house was demolished at the end of the 19th century. The district of Brächen in the municipality of Drabenderhöhe did not emerge until after 1884. In 1806 the hamlet was assigned to the civil parish of Engelskirchen , the house of today's inn of the municipality of Ründeroth . Brächen remained a very small hamlet until 1960:

  • 1817 7 (Engelskirchen), 3 (Ründeroth)
  • 1843 13 (Engelskirchen, 2 houses), 3 (Ründeroth, 1 house)
  • 1868 12 (Engelskirchen), 5 (Ründeroth)
  • 1885 10 (Engelskirchen, 2 houses), 12 (Ründeroth, 1 house)
  • 1900 8 (Engelskirchen, 1 house), 9 (Ründeroth, 1 house), 8 (Drabenderhöhe, 1 house)

Between 1854 and 1860, today's federal road between Drabenderhöhe and Unterkaltenbach was expanded. The route of the historic Zeithstraße was relocated through the forest area of ​​the Hipperich. The old road ran east of today's route between Hipperich and Immerkopf, then called "Auf dem Immerhöchsten", east of Hohe Warte to Ründeroth. The Zeithstraße was a medieval Fernhandelsweg that of Bonn on Siegburg , Seelscheid , Drabenderhöhe, Ründeroth , Marienheide and Hagen to Dortmund led. Heinrich Wilhelm Baum, a carter and dealer, opened an inn around 1879, which was bought by the Stölting family in 1910. In 1884, the first company to open a brick factory on Drabenderhöher municipality ground. Due to unprofitability, it was closed in 1919 and the facilities were sold for demolition. After the First World War , summer tourism in Brächen increased in importance. The Gasthof Stölting advertised as a well-known and popular place to stay and Eugenie Dannenberg ran her Pension Eichenhof on the Drabenderhöher side opposite the brickyard's residential building. In a tourist brochure from 1929/1930, Brächen is mentioned as a climatic health resort.

In 1924, ideas about the local reorganization of the area came up for the first time and the Brächen residents support an application for incorporation into Drabenderhöhe. But already in 1926 the application for pressure from the community of Engelskirchen was withdrawn. In 1932 the places Scheidt, Pfaffenscheid and beginning with Drabenderhöhe were combined. The well-known "triangle" was a thing of the past. The political tripartite division of fallow land, divided into two districts and three municipalities, initially remained until 1956. The Stölting inn came to the community of Engelskirchen by relocating the corridor. For this purpose, the part of the village of Oberkaltenbach on the left was combined with the part on the right and added to the municipality of Ründeroth. After 1960 the building areas “Am Immerkopf” and “Brächer Heide” were developed by the municipality of Drabenderhöhe. The former was designed as a weekend settlement. A total of 107 construction projects in 3 construction phases were involved.

An ammunition depot of the German armed forces, which was closed in 1996, was built directly behind the village in the municipality of Engelskirchen with an area of ​​55 hectares. In 2005 the control tower was blown up. A commercial area concept was not implemented and a large part of the forest areas around Schimmelhau, Hipperich and Immerkopf could be placed under nature protection. Another local expansion of Brächen resulted with the construction area "Auf dem Kötzen" after 1994. The old town center of Brächen with the houses Stölting and Friedrichs was only incorporated into the municipality of Wiehl through the communal territorial reform of 1975 .

particularities

Neighboring is the Immerkopf , at 364 m the highest elevation in the municipality of Wiehl with a protected high moor (see also Wohlsberg bei Oberholzen , 338 m). Until the 19th century, the hilltop was called “Aufm Immerhöchsten” and is reminiscent of the highest elevation in the area around Immen .

Furthermore, the former ammunition depot, which is now very dilapidated, is located in the Brächer forest. Access to this site is only possible from Brächen. The area, formerly owned by the German Federal Armed Forces, is under nature protection. There are strong traces of vandalism on all halls and buildings.

leisure

  • There is a children's playground in the place.

Hiking and biking trails

  • The A3 circular hiking trail (starting point Ülpetal) runs through the village.
  • The circular hiking trail A5 (starting point Drabenderhöhe) runs through the village.
  • The local hiking trail O “Around Bielstein ” runs through the village.

literature

  • Eugen Schubach: The municipality of Bielstein-Rhineland, formerly the municipality of Drabenderhöhe. A contribution to local history. sn, Bielstein 1967.
  • Home through the ages. 10 years of the Transylvanian Saxony settlement Drabenderhöhe. Böhlau (on commission), Cologne et al. 1976, ISBN 3-412-03276-X .
  • "Breche" land map, 1828, Oberbergischer Kreis land registry office.
  • Map "The imperial rule of Gimborn-Neustadt", JFC Rummel, 1802/03.