Brünen (Hamminkeln)

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Brünen
City of Hamminkeln
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Brünen
Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′ 32 "  N , 6 ° 40 ′ 51"  E
Height : 36  (35-50)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 46 km²
Residents : 4075  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 89 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 46499
Area code : 02856
Brünen (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Brünen

Location of Brünen in North Rhine-Westphalia
Brünen, Protestant church on the market, on the left the Majert inn, whose owner was mentioned as early as the 14th century
Brünen, Protestant church on the market, on the left the Majert inn, whose owner was mentioned as early as the 14th century
Allied military convoy through Brünen, which was destroyed in the war in Operation Plunder , March 29, 1945

Brünen is a district of the city of Hamminkeln in the Wesel district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The hamlets of Havelich and Marienthal belong to Brünen .

location

Brünen is located southeast of Hamminkeln at an altitude between 35 and 50  m above sea level. NHN , which in the Rhineland can already be described as a higher location . The federal road 70 , the state roads 1 and 480 and the district road 26 meet in the vicinity .

history

The first written mention of Brno goes back to the 9th century. The first stone church was built in the 13th century. In the 18th century, the upper peasantry as well as the Dahlhaus and Steingründer peasantry are mentioned in sub-sections of the Brün property register .

On January 1, 1975, Brünen became part of the municipality of Hamminkeln in the course of the second reorganization program, which was elevated to a town in 1995.

Place name

The place name Brünen , derived from the Celtic, means something like high place . Other interpretations speak of the settlement of Bruno .

Population development

  • 1910: 2381
  • 1931: 2485
  • 1961: 2512
  • 1970: 2562
  • 1974: 2846
  • 1975: 2998
  • 1985: 3718
  • 1995: 4241
  • 2005: 4265
  • 2010: 4078
  • 2016: 4075

coat of arms

Blazon : The coat of arms of Brünen shows the coat of arms emblem of the duchy of Münster, a red bar, overlying the coat of arms emblem of the territory of Kleve, a golden eight-pointed lily reel.

Meaning: The coat of arms was adopted on May 12, 1967. The red bar comes from the coat of arms of the Principality of Münster to which Brünen belonged until the 13th century. The lily reel comes from the coat of arms of the Duchy of Kleve to which the place belonged until 1806.

building

The listed Gut Venninghausen is well worth seeing . The village church is also always worth a visit.

education

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Infrastructure

Brünen is connected to the local transport network by the bus routes 72, 62 and 96 of the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Niederrhein . The place is on the federal highway 70 . The distance to Wesel and Raesfeld is around 10 km and to the city center of Hamminkeln on the state road 480 6.5 km.

There has been a fiber optic network in Brünen since 2016 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b [1]
  2. ↑ History Brünens ( Memento of 30 August 2011 at the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b c Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 297 .
  4. ^ 1900 parish register, Rees County
  5. ↑ The Office Schermbeck on Gen-Wiki
  6. ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 52 .
  7. ↑ Description of the coat of arms "Heraldry of the World"