Bruel

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Brüel (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 44 '  N , 11 ° 43'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Ludwigslust-Parchim
Office :	Sternberg lake landscape
Height :	20 m above sea level NHN
Area :	27.3 km 2
Residents:	2566 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	94 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	19412
Area code :	038483
License plate :	LUP, HGN, LBZ, LWL, PCH, STB
Community key :	13 0 76 020
City structure:	6 districts
Office administration address:	Am Markt 1 19406 Sternberg
Website :	www.stadt-brueel.de
Mayor :	Burkhard Liese ( CDU )
Location of the city of Brüel in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district

Brüel [ bryːl ] is a small town in the north of the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). It is administered by the Sternberger Seenlandschaft office based in the town of Sternberg . The place is a basic center .

geography

Red lake

location

Brüel is located near the central Warnow in the northern part of the Sternberg lake landscape . The city is flanked by the Red Lake in the south, the Keezer See in the west and the Tempziner See and the Groß Labenzer See in the north and northeast. The highest point in the urban area is an unnamed height southwest of the city at 70.2  m above sea level. NHN . The distance to the Hanseatic city of Wismar is about 30 kilometers, to the state capital Schwerin about 27 kilometers.

Brüel is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Tempzin Monastery in the north, Blankenberg in the northeast, Weitendorf in the southeast and Kuhlen-Wendorf in the southwest.

City structure

The districts Golchen, Keez, Necheln and Thurow as well as the Kronskamp settlement belong to Brüel.

history

Surname

The name Brüels may come from the Old Polish or Slavonic bryla , which means something like (earth) clod place. Another interpretation of the name derives the name from the often used Old High German Bruil or Broil and that means moist meadow ground . The place was later named Bruyle (1266), Brule (1271) or Broile (1456) and then Brüle (1502).

Early history

The earliest finds of a camp site and stone tools from Stone Age nomads in the inner city area of ​​Brüel date from the Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age), i.e. from around 8000 to 4000 BC. A first sedentary settlement took place in the Neolithic (New Stone Age). Archaeologists found traces of Stone Age houses as well as ceramics and stone tools from this period. The finds do not reveal whether people lived here during the Bronze Age or the Iron Age.

middle Ages

City church Brüel , west gable from the 15th century

The first traces of settlement can only be found again in the older Slav period from the 6th century. For example, remains of a stove and parts of a kitchen were discovered from this time. Since then, finds have been documented from all the following centuries, which makes a continuous settlement likely up to the first documentary mention. During the eastern colonization under Henry the Lion , the existing Slavic castle was destroyed in the 12th century and a new, larger, now stone, castle complex was built at the same place. Sources suggest that this existed until the 16th century. The circumstances of its destruction are unknown, today only the old castle wall can be seen.

In a document establishing the nearby St. Anthony - monastery Tempzin from June 7, 1222 was Bruile first mentioned. The oldest parts of the church from the 13th century were already standing at this time. According to a document from 1340, Reimar von Plessen elevated Brüel to Stedeken , that is, to a town, probably with Parchim town charter . This year is controversial. Other sources say that Brüel only acquired town charter around 1377. When Brüel lost his privileges in a town fire in 1485, Heinrich von Plessen renewed them two years later. In 1502 he founded four vicarages . His picture and that of his wife Abel, geb. von Lützow , still adorn a church wall today.

Brüel was a country town in Mecklenburg and represented as part of the towns of the Mecklenburg District on state parliaments.

Modern times

Brüel stayed with the von Plessens until 1611. During this time it was repeatedly given gifts, such as B. with a church bell from 1588 that still exists today.

In the following years, Brüel changed hands more often. They also made donations to the city again and again, like Wilhelm Ludwig von Kohlhans, who donated a large poor house to her in 1698. In 1702 Christian von Freyburg acquired the old Plessensche Burg with real estate from Kohlhans Hof Bruel.

In the Middle Ages, the city was fortified by a wall with a plank fence on it and two city gates that were destroyed in the Thirty Years War . In 1708, on the orders of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm zu Mecklenburg-Schwerin , Brüel was additionally surrounded with a ditch. A new schoolhouse was built on the old castle hill in 1878, the vaulted cellar of which still comes from the castle.

19th century water grain mill (Brüeler Mühle)

town hall

Brüel had a Jewish community. From 1750 at the latest, there were Jewish residents in Brüel. With around 5% of residents of Jewish faith, Brüel was one of the Mecklenburg cities with a comparatively high proportion. In 1919 the last Jewish citizen moved away. The preserved Jewish cemetery is located in the direction of Weitendorf in a pine forest.

The poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben was denied citizenship in 1845 by the city council and mayor Heinrich Friedrich Born. From 1845 he lived and worked again and again for some time on the manor of Rudolf Müller in the nearby Holdorf , after he had been expelled from Prussia the year before.

Brüel developed into a country town whose typical houses can still be seen in the city today. The city center and town hall have been fundamentally renovated since 1991 as part of urban development funding.

From 1952 to 1994, Brüel belonged to the Sternberg district (until 1990 in the GDR district of Schwerin , from 1990 in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). In 1994, the city was in the district of Parchim integrated, the 2011 with the district Ludwigslust to district Ludwigslust-Parchim merged.

Until July 1, 2004, Brüel was the seat of the dissolved office of Brüel .

History of the districts

Thurow:

In 1444, Duke Heinrich IV of Mecklenburg lent the Bresen , Ventschow , Turow, Jesendorf and Bibow estates to Johann Bassewitz . After that, landowners were u. a. the von Sperling families (mid-16th century), von Wopersnow and Lübbe (from 1822). The manor house dates from the 19th century.

Population development

Population growth of Brüel from 1879 to 2017

year Residents 1819 1074 1827 1252 1831 1436 1846 1489 1861 1985 1880 2277 1919 1850

year Residents 1990 3399 1995 3301 2000 3278 2005 3094 2010 2763

year Residents 2015 2605 2016 2566 2017 2571 2018 2554 2019 2566

from 1990: as of December 31 of the respective year

religion

• Evangelical-Lutheran parish with church and rectory in Ernst-Thälmann-Straße 1
• Roman Catholic Church with St. Bonifatius Church from 1961 at Schweriner Strasse 29
• Evangelical Free Church of the Seventh-day Adventists with the Advent Community Center in Schweriner Straße 7

politics

City council

The city council of Brüel has consisted of 11 members since the local elections on May 26, 2019 .

Party / list	Seats
CDU	5
The left	2
Individual applicant Torsten Lange	1
SPD	1
Citizenship of the community of Brüel	1
Individual applicant Hans-Werner Lübcke	1

mayor

• 2004–2019: Hans-Jürgen Goldberg (Die Linke)
• since 2019: Burkhard Liese (CDU)

Liese was elected in the mayoral election on June 16, 2019 with 50.3% of the valid votes.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Split; in front, in gold, a half-looking black bull's head at the crack; behind in red half a gold star at the gap, underneath a stalked golden trefoil emerging from the gap. " The coat of arms was established on April 10, 1858 by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, redrawn in 1991 and registered under No. 3 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms is based on the seal image of S (IGILLVM) OPIDI BRVLE - first handed down as an imprint in 1384 - and was determined in its current form in April 1858. In the coat of arms, the black bull's head, borrowed from the coat of arms of the von Plessen noble family, based on the design principle of pars pro toto, refers to the former lord of the city. The half star could be a visual reminder that Brüel von Sternberg probably took over Parchim town charter. The trefoil possibly indicates the old Slavic place name (bryla = lump, clod of earth).

Historical coat of arms

	Blazon : "In blue a golden fibula (fibula from Häven)." The coat of arms was designed by Prof. Hans Herbert Schweitzer from Berlin . It was awarded on September 2, 1940 by the Reichsstatthalter in Mecklenburg.
	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms lost its validity soon after the end of World War II.

flag

Flag of the city of Brüel

The flag was designed by the Brüeler Herbert Fürtig and approved on December 9, 1996 by the Ministry of the Interior.

The flag is evenly striped in red and yellow across the longitudinal axis of the flag cloth. In the middle of the flag is the coat of arms of the city, spanning two sevenths of the length of the red and yellow stripes. The length of the flag is related to the height as 5: 3.

Official seal

The official seal shows the city arms with the inscription "STADT BRÜEL".

Town twinning

Since 1990 there has been a town partnership with the community of Schönkirchen in Schleswig-Holstein .

Sights and culture

See also : List of architectural monuments in Brüel

Buildings

• City Church Brüel , early Gothic single-nave, towerless brick church from the 13th century with a two-bay nave and retracted rib-vaulted choir , separated by the triumphal arch in between
• Town hall from 1878

Golchen manor house

• Gutshaus Golchen , multi-part, romantic two-storey plastered building from 1857 with a base and mezzanine floor , several towers, bay windows, stepped gables and risalits , renovated in the 1990s; Estate of Sonnenkamp Monastery (from 1219), then of the von Kohlhans (from 1783) and von Stralendorff (from 1913) families
• Alt Necheln manor, two-storey plastered building from around 1912 with a two-part hipped roof based on plans by Germany's first female architect Emilie Winkelmann for the Booth family; Gable with half-timbered upper floors and a turret, today a holiday home
• Neu Necheln manor house
• Manor house Thurow, two-story, ten-axis plastered building from the 19th century with a mezzanine floor and hipped roof

Monuments

• Heuchert node and milestone on the B 104
• War memorials from 1870/71 and 1914
• Honorary grave for the social democratic resistance fighter Gustav Arndt, who died in 1934 in the Dreibergen-Bützow prison as a result of the torture he had suffered. A street in the village has been named after him since 1948, and a plaque commemorates him since 1984.

Culture

• Heimatstube and city library in the community center
• Kulturknastfenster , concerts with experimental jazz music have been taking place there since 2010 (as of 2019). It is located in the former prison of the local court, which was converted into a farmers' bank in the 1950s and housed the city library after 1990.

Economy and Infrastructure

Getreide AG warehouse in Brüel

traffic

Within the city limits, the federal highway 192 from the direction of Wismar meets the B 104 ( Schwerin - Güstrow ). The B 104 was expanded as a bypass road after the fall of the Wall and has been running south of the built-up urban area since then. Via the Schwerin-Nord junction (14 km), Brüel is connected to the federal motorway 14 (Wismar – Schwerin) and via the Zurow junction (20 km) to the A 20 ( Lübeck - Rostock ).

The closest train station is Blankenberg (Meckl) . It is served by the regional express lines RE 1 ( Hamburg - Rostock ) and RE 4 ( Lübeck - Szczecin ). The Brüel station was on the Wismar – Karow railway line . In 1998 passenger traffic was stopped here.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Johannes Schulze (1786–1869), Prussian government official
• Carl Hinstorff (1811–1882), publisher
• Friedrich Schlie (1839–1902), art historian and museum director
• Hans Schröder (1899–1965), diplomat
• Hermann Köpcke (1903–1978), resistance fighter against National Socialism
• Karl Friedrich Jahr (1904–1973), chemist
• Hans Köpcke (* 1909), resistance fighter against National Socialism
• Klaus Guth (* 1940), actor and voice actor

Personalities associated with Brüel

• Wilhelm ("Schausting") Harms (1850–1933) writer, lived in Brüel
• Theo Jörgensmann (* 1948), clarinetist, lives in Brüel

literature

• Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . The district court districts of Hagenow, Wittenburg, Boizenburg, Lübenheen, Dömitz, Grabow, Ludwigslust, Neustadt, Crivitz, Brüel, Warin, Neubukow, Kröpelin and Doberan. III. Tape. Schwerin 1899, p. 386 ff . ( Digitized in the Internet Archive [accessed on August 19, 2015]).

Web links

Commons : Brüel  - Collection of Images

• City and former office of Brüel
• Literature about Brüel in the Landesbibliographie MV
• Orientation video Above the roofs of Brüel on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistisches Amt MV - population status of the districts, offices and municipalities 2019 (XLS file) (official population figures in the update of the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ^ Regional Spatial Development Program West Mecklenburg (2011) , Regional Planning Association, accessed on July 12, 2015.
3. ^ Main statutes of the city of Brüel. Retrieved December 21, 2019 .  
4. ↑ Ernst Eichler and Werner Mühlmer: The names of cities in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Ingo Koch Verlag, Rostock 2002, ISBN 3-935319-23-1 .
5. ↑ Wolf Lüdeke von Weltzien: The Schlottman von Freyburg. Volume 1. In: Families from Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. 1989, p. 97.
6. ↑ Jürgen Gramenz, Sylvia Ulmer: The Jews of Brüel (Mecklenburg). Reconstruction of a community. Cardamina Verlag Susanne Breuel, Plaidt 2013. ISBN 978-3-86424-141-3 .
7. ↑ Population development of the districts and municipalities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Statistical Report AI of the Statistical Office Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
8. ↑ St. Bonifatius - one of the smallest churches in the Mecklenburg diaspora , myheimat.de, accessed on July 25, 2015.
9. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
10. ↑ Griese and Liese win. In: Schweriner Volkszeitung , June 17, 2019.
11. ↑ ^{a b} Hans-Heinz Schütt: On shield and flag - the coats of arms and flags of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and its municipalities . Ed .: production office TINUS; Schwerin. 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814380-0-0 , pp. 188/189 .
12. ↑ ^{a b} main statute § 1 (PDF).