Bröthen

This article deals with the municipality of Bröthen in Schleswig-Holstein, for the district of the same name of Hoyerswerda in Saxony see there.

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 29 ′  N , 10 ° 40 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Duchy of Lauenburg
Office :	Books
Height :	23 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.69 km 2
Residents:	311 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	29 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	21514
Area code :	04155
License plate :	RZ
Community key :	01 0 53 015
Office administration address:	Amtsplatz 1 21514 Büchen
Website :	www.buechen.de
Mayor :	Walter Burmester
Location of the municipality of Bröthen in the Duchy of Lauenburg

Bröthen is a municipality in the Duchy of Lauenburg in Schleswig-Holstein .

geography

The community borders in the south on the federal state Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , in the east and north on the community Langenlehsten and in the west on the communities Büchen and Witzeeze .

The brook Riedebeck rises in the municipality of Bröthen and forms the border with Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in the southwest, while the Delvenau is the border river Bröthen in the west. Bröthen extends in the northeast into the Bergholzer Forest .

history

The place Bröthen was first mentioned in the Ratzeburg tithe register of 1230 as Brotne (Slavic = ford ) as part of the Büchen church play. The place was created by originally two Slavic settlements on the Riedebek.

Only a few documents are available for the subsequent period. It is possible that today's municipal area was desolate for decades after the Thirty Years' War until the place was rebuilt at its current location.

The Bröthener citizens were partly Lauenburg official citizens, partly belonging to Gut Gudow. Ecclesiastically they all belonged to the Büchen parish.

With the introduction of the definition of the municipality by Prussia at the beginning of the 1870s, the Niebuhr sluice on the Delvenau-Stecknitz canal came to the municipality with a pub. In the second half of the 19th century, the canal increasingly lost its importance due to the expansion of the railway network. The construction of the Elbe-Lübeck Canal from 1896 did not affect Bröthen. It was not until 1926 that the road from Bröthen to Büchen was expanded.

At the end of and after the Second World War , the number of inhabitants reached its previous maximum. In 1950, 312 people lived in Bröthen.

From 1945 to 1989 Bröthen was a border town on the Iron Curtain .

On the night of May 1, 1976, Michael Gartenschläger while trying to spring guns of the type SM-70 to dismantle at the border, shot near Bröthens.

More than 20 years after the opening of the border, there is still no direct road connection to the neighboring town of Schwanheide .

nature

The Stecknitz-Delvenau-Niederung nature reserve is located on the edge of the Bröthen municipality. With the exception of the extreme south, Bröthen is part of the Lauenburg Lakes Nature Park .

In recent years, parts of the community have been renatured . This created wetlands and heathland, and animal and plant species such as the gray shrike or the wasp spider were preserved.

Web links

Commons : Bröthen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Municipality of Bröthen at the Büchen office

Individual evidence

1. ↑ North Statistics Office - Population of the municipalities in Schleswig-Holstein 4th quarter 2019 (XLSX file) (update based on the 2011 census) ( help on this ).