Brück (Nideggen)

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Bridge
City of Nideggen
Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 21 ″  N , 6 ° 28 ′ 10 ″  E
Height : 179 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 315  (December 31, 2018)
Postal code : 52385
Area code : 02427
Railway station with biological station
The town center, dominated by Nideggen Castle

Brück is the second smallest district of Nideggen in the Düren district , North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

The place is in the valley of the Rur . Neighboring towns are Nideggen, Zerkall (municipality of Hürtgenwald ), Abenden and Schmidt . Brück is located in the Rureifel and in the Eifel National Park . Nideggen Castle towers high above the town .

history

Brück-Hetzingen has been a municipality in the Nideggen mayor of the Düren district since the 19th century . On April 1, 1936, Brück-Hetzingen was incorporated into Nideggen.

Transport, local passenger transport

The state roads 11 and 246 lead through the town center. They wind their way down from Nideggen (L 11) and Schmidt (L 246) in serpentines into the Rur valley. The Düren – Heimbach railway runs through the village . The stop for Nideggen is in Brück. The biological station of the Düren district is now located in the old station building . Furthermore, the place is approached with buses of the Düren circular path . These connect the places with each other and with the district town of Düren.

Camping, tourism

The extensive 4-star campsite Hetzingen , located directly on the Rur, was founded in 1924. Accommodation options are available for holiday guests through holiday apartments and pensions.

Others

  • On October 1, 1997, the biological station of the Düren district begins its work in the old station building.
  • In the years from 1922 to 1926, Brück led the Eifel race .

See also

Jewish cemetery (Brück)List of architectural monuments in Nideggen

Web links

Commons : Brück (Nideggen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. https://www.nideggen.de/zdf/downloads/20190108_Einwohnerstatistik_bis_einschl._2018.pdf
  2. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland (PDF; 1.3 MB), Berlin: Verlag des Königlichen Statistischen Bureaus, 1888, page 206 ff
  3. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. dueren.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).