Brück (Ahr)
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Local community Ahrbrück
Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 9 ″ N , 6 ° 58 ′ 15 ″ E
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| Height : | 185 m above sea level NHN | |
| Incorporation : | 7th June 1969 | |
| Postal code : | 53506 | |
| Area code : | 02643 | |
Location of Brück in Rhineland-Palatinate |
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Brück is part of the Ahrbrück community in the Ahrweiler district in Rhineland-Palatinate . Brück was an independent community until 1969.
history
middle Ages
Until 1100, i.e. at the time of the Carolingians and Ottonians , the area belonged to the so-called Ahrgau . From 1100 to 1200 the area belonged to the county of Are. Since this later split into three parts, the Counts of Altenahr (Grafschaft Altenahr) were the sovereigns from 1206 to 1246. After that, the electorate of Cologne expanded to the Nürburg and Altenahr became the office of Cologne from 1246 to 1794. One of the six narrower, local administrative areas of the Altenahr office was the "Dingstuhl" Brück with the districts of Brück, Denn and Pützfeld, which together (1670) had 49 houses and had a floor area of 1258 hectares.
Brugge (= Brück) is mentioned for the first time among the places that the Archbishop of Cologne Engelbert II. Von Falkenburg ceded to Count Walfram von Jülich as a fief according to the contract of December 18, 1265. In Brück there was a knight's seat that noble lords from the Archbishopric of Cologne carried as a fief. There was an older and a newer house in Brück . The latter was also called Weiherhaus because of its location . With this house and farm (about 50 acres of fields, forest, meadow and vineyard) the forestry foreman and the game court were connected in the archbishop's ban on forest and wild life of the Altenahr office. The house was also called the Erb-Wild-Haus . Nothing is left of this Brück house today, according to literature it must have been a moated castle. The following names are associated with the Brück feudal estate: 1370 von Bruges, 1430 von Frankenhoven, 1440 von Gudensberg (Godesberg), 1549 von Kessel, 1632 von Disteling, 1661 von Gruithausen, 1769 von der Heyden (called Belderbusch).
Modern times
During the French period from 1794 to 1814, the village belonged to the large department of Rhine and Moselle, the arrondissement of Bonn and the canton of Ahrweiler . The French set up a mayor's office in Brück, the so-called Mairie Brück. Twelve localities with 516 houses and 2709 inhabitants belonged to it. Denn (336 inhabitants) and Pützfeld (131 inhabitants) were included in the municipality of Brück. In 1809 the size of the communal area was given as 68 hectares of arable land, 13 hectares of meadows, 7 hectares of vineyards and 728 hectares of forest. On June 24, 1773, most of the village of Brück burned down on the left bank of the Ahr.
Mining of copper and lead began near Brück in 1811, and iron ore was also found. However, the work did not have any particular success and was discontinued. However, in 1843 the Belgian Metallurgical Society reopened an old building on a spit-shine and employed 50 workers at the time. In a year, the income of the antimony mine should hope have amounted to 250 talents of antimony. Several pounding and washing works had been set up. The mines belonging to Brück were in operation until 1920.
As a result of the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Rhine Province became part of Prussia and with it the Ahrweiler district, in which the mayor's office of Brück was located. Later Brück came to the Adenau district. As part of the administrative reform, the Adenau district was divided up in 1932. So the office of Brück fell back to the Ahrweiler district. Before 1892 a wooden bridge connected the two parts of Brück separated by the Ahr, then a new stone bridge was built. the costs for the construction amounted to 15,000 marks and were also borne by Denn and Pützfeld with 1,000 marks each.
In the spring of 1907 the copper mine in the "old cellar" was cleaned up again and the sites restored, but work was soon given up again. On the other hand, they began to repair the old mine in the "Hünert". However, there was too much water here and so they started digging a new tunnel a little deeper in the valley.
The establishment of a postal agency in Brück on May 15, 1897 and, above all, the further construction of the Lower Ahr Valley Railway from Altenahr to Adenau made significant progress . In 1887, Brück received a train station. In 1910, the Remagen - Abzw Liers (- Dümpelfeld) section was expanded to two tracks and some houses had to be demolished as a result.
The village was often affected by the raging floods of the Ahr. In the summer of 1910, the floods caused particularly great damage, which severely damaged the bridge. The repairs that became necessary were carried out in April 1911.
The festively decorated bridge experienced Emperor Wilhelm II's transit three times with great sympathy, namely on October 17, 1906, October 19, 1911 and October 15, 1913.
To commemorate the Wars of Liberation and to “emulate the virtues of our ancestors”, a memorial stone was erected on November 12, 1913 on the Ahr Bridge with the dates 1813–1913 . A linden tree was planted next to the stone.
During the First World War, more than 50 captured Russians temporarily came to the village to do the field work, as most of the men had moved to the front. The school children had to collect beechnuts , nuts, rose hips , tea herbs and hardwood hay. In November 1918 Brück saw the retreat of the German soldiers. The school was always a transit area. US troops arrived here in December and stayed until May 1919, when French occupation came.
When Mayor Bauer, who had headed the Brück office since 1930, was transferred in 1934, Mayor Kobs von Altenahr co-administered Brück. In 1935 the local mayor's office was partially merged with the Altenahr office on February 17, 1936. The official building in Brück was sold and later set up as a restaurant.
At the end of 1930 the construction of a group waterworks with the surrounding villages was planned. The aqueduct was completed a year later.
Second World War
In 1938, shortly before the Second World War , the neighboring community of Denn (today the Ahrbrück district of the Ahrbrück community) was dissolved. The command post of the Ahrbrück air force training area was set up there. Due to its proximity, soldiers were often quartered in Brück because the barracks were insufficient. The roar of the flak batteries and the humming of the planes could be heard day after day. After the war, an emergency church was inaugurated in one of the barracks in Ahrbrück, which still stand today, and the school was set up in the other half, as the actual school building in Brück was badly damaged by bombs and was only rebuilt in 1949. Much was destroyed by the air raids in 1944 and 1945. During the nights of bombing, the residents of Brück found refuge in old mine tunnels and bunkers blown into rocks. American troops moved in on March 8, 1945, and French soldiers occupied the area in July 1945.
78 men had moved in from the community of Brück (Ahr) during the Second World War. Of these, 13 fell and eleven went missing. Until December 1943 the dead from Brück (Ahr) were buried in Kesseling . Kesseling is and has always been the responsible parish. A cemetery has now been set up in Brück itself. A war memorial was erected at the entrance to the cemetery in 1959.
Post-war until today
In 1957, the Brück Church Construction Association was founded for the Ahrbrück, Brück (Ahr) and Pützfeld branches. On August 8, 1962, the foundation stone of the church in Brück (Ahr) was laid. At the end of 1964, Brück (Ahr) had 410 inhabitants.
On June 7, 1969, the previously independent municipality of Brück (Ahr) was dissolved and merged with the municipalities of Pützfeld and Ahrbrück to form today's local municipality of Ahrbrück.
In 1991 the former station building and the goods shed at the Brück (Ahr) train station were opened as a town house with two halls and two apartments.
Since 1996, the former Brück (Ahr) station has been in operation again under the name Ahrbrück as a stop on the Lower Ahr Valley Railway . In 1985 passenger traffic was stopped.
Population development
Development of the population (December 31):
There are no detailed figures on the inhabitants, but the school chronicle meticulously records the number of pupils at the school in Brück (Ahr).
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Culture and sights
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Buildings
Worth mentioning are the village chapel of St. Katharina in Brück, the Catholic church ( St. Andrew's Church ) as well as some noteworthy crosses and holy houses.
See also: List of cultural monuments in Ahrbrück
Traditional events
carnival
In the community of Ahrbrück, one of the largest carnival parades on the Mittelahr takes place on Carnival Sunday. The end of the train path is the tent at the Ahr bridge.
Maypole posts and May night
On the evening of April 30th, the village maypole is set up with the participation of the villagers. Then the so-called May Night is celebrated, in which the bachelors are among themselves.
Bachelor party and village fair
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In Brück, the traditional "St. Peter and Paul" fair has meanwhile become an event around melon shooting with classic catapults and the like. The bachelor party, which is held annually at the end of March / beginning of April, is also an integral part of village life.
St. Martin's train
The children from Brück still collect, now with the active support of the community and the voluntary fire fighting group Brück (Ahr), in order to be able to light the classic fire on St. Martin's Day.
Gold weddings
As usual in the Eifel, this event takes place with the participation of the whole village.
The neighborhood of the cheering couple is obliged to take care of the house's jewelry in advance. In addition to decorating the trees (traditional "rose tying"), the wreath that is used to decorate the entrance area and the church portal must also be tied.
On the actual day of the festival there is a torchlight procession of the village population to the house of the gold couple. In addition to the brass band, lectures by the mixed choir and school children should of course not be missing.
Funerals
In a traditional region shaped by Catholicism, it is natural that the last course also takes place with the participation of the village community. In addition to representatives of the respective associations, every funeral is a must for the “neighborhood”. In Brück it is customary for the coffin to be carried by the male members of the neighborhood.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
- The Ahrbrück stop (formerly Bahnhof Brück (Ahr) ) is on the Lower Ahr Valley Railway ( KBS 477 ) Remagen - Ahrbrück, on which the "Rhein-Ahr-Bahn" (RB 30) runs. Local rail passenger transport (SPNV) is carried out by DB Regio AG, Region NRW , which uses Alstom Coradia LINT diesel multiple units .
- A bus line connects Ahrbrück with Adenau and Altenahr.
- The tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel (VRM) and the regional Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (VRS) apply to local public transport on the “Rhein-Ahr-Bahn”, and the NRW tariff applies to journeys throughout North Rhine-Westphalia .
- The B 257 connects Brück with the A 61 .
Agriculture
The Ahreifel descends mostly in rugged, wooded slopes into the Ahr valley. Here and there, in addition to the small fields and meadows in the valley, wider parts of the central terrace are cultivated in the manner of fields. Some agricultural areas are also on the mountain heights. The fertility is not great because of the stony, poor and thin soil layer and because of the harsh climate. The forest creates little economic compensation. The ore mining that existed in the past did not offer any lasting and significant income opportunities. So the handicraft appeared mostly in connection with the humble agriculture. In the 21st century, agriculture is essentially limited to fruit growing, beekeeping and the hobby of sheep and small animal husbandry.
Web links
- Reinhard Fox: The village of Brück. Local history
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry by Jens Friedhoff zu Brück in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute, accessed on September 16, 2016.
- ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 157 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
- ↑ The Ahr Valley Railway.
- ↑ Querying the course book route 477 at Deutsche Bahn.