Brüxgen

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Brüxgen
municipality Gangelt
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 24 ″  N , 6 ° 0 ′ 11 ″  E
Height : 57  (55-60)  m
Residents : 500  (Dec. 31, 2015)
Postal code : 52538
Area code : 02454
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Location of Brüxgen in Gangelt
Former school in Brüxgen
Former school in Brüxgen
Crossroads in Brüxgen
Kindergarten in Brüxgen
Homestead on the outskirts
Wet meadows
Crossroads in Brüxgen
The Saeffeler Bach near Brüxgen
Brüxgen on the new recording from 1912
Brüxgen on the original cadastral map from 1846
Brüxgen on the Tranchot map 1803–1820

Brüxgen is a district of the municipality Gangelt in the district of Heinsberg in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

location

Brüxgen is about 4 km north of Gangelt on Kreisstraße 17 . Near the village is located on Saeffeler Bach the nature reserve Höngener- and Saeffeler break.

Waters

In heavy rain and when snowmelts , the surface water flows from the Brüxgen area into the Saeffelbach (GEWKZ 2818222) and then on over the Rodebach into the Maas . The Saeffelbach has a length of 12.747 km with a total catchment area of ​​47.479 km².

Neighboring places

Breberen Neighborhood Braunsrath
Bush heather Neighboring communities Langbroich
Hastenrath Schümm Vinteln

Type of settlement

Brüxgen is a loosely built street village in the Saeffelbach valley.

history

Place name

  • 1520 Broekelken
  • 1502 Brockßgen
  • 1820 Brügsgen
  • 1846 Brügschen
  • 1912 Brüxgen

Local history

Brüxgen used to belong to the Jülich office of Millen . The court and the Catholic parish were located in Gangelt. It is known from family histories that linen weaving and (blue) dyeing played an important role in Brüxgen during the 18th and 19th centuries. Nothing is known about the older local history.

In 1828, Brüxgen had a total of 209 inhabitants, in 1852 there were 242 inhabitants. Brüxgen formed after the Second World War with the places Breberen , Broichhoven , Buscher Heide , Nachbarheid and Schümm the community Breberen-Schümm . Until then, Brüxgen was part of the community "Schümmerquartier" (Schümm). With the law on the reorganization of communities in the Selfkant district of Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg of June 24, 1969, the community of Breberen-Schümm was incorporated into the community of Gangelt on July 1, 1969. The legal successor is the community of Gangelt.

Church history

The parish of St. Maternus Breberen today includes the places Breberen, Broichhoven, Buscherheide, Nachbarheid and, since the 19th century, also Brüxgen and Schümm. The majority of the population in the parish are Catholics .

The parish is mentioned in a document in 1079. The Lords of Millen were the landlords . In 1282 the manor was sold to the von Heinsberg family . The patronage of the church was connected with this. In 1492 the church was incorporated into the Heinsberg Gangolfuss pen, which also owned the tithe . After belonging to the Diocese of Liège , the Archdiocese of Cologne and now the Diocese of Aachen , Breberen has been part of the Gangelt deanery since 1925 . The current church was built around 1830 and blown up on October 18, 1944 during World War II . In 1954 the church was rebuilt with a new facade and a west tower .

In the course of the parish reforms in the diocese of Aachen, the formerly independent Catholic parish of St. Maternus Breberen was incorporated into the community of the Catholic. Gangelt parishes incorporated.

politics

According to § 3 (1) c) of the main statute of the municipality Gangelt, the places Breberen, Broichhoven, Brüxgen, Buscherheide, Nachbarheid and Schümm form a municipality. Which is by a local chief in the council represented the town of Gangelt. Günther Dammers is the head of the municipality. Status 2014

Infrastructure

As of December 31, 2014, 496 people lived in Brüxgen.

School system

  • Primary school in Brüxgen, 1925: 2 classes, 2 levels, 1 teacher, 1 teacher, 84 children
  • Breberen-Schümm primary school in 1965: 5 classes, 5 teaching positions, 178 children

Attractions

  • Catholic parish church St. Maternus in Breberen as monument no.29
  • Stained glass in the Catholic parish church
  • Breberen windmill as monument no.30
  • House Altenburg in Breberen as monument no.31
  • Water pump on Römerstrasse as monument no.33
  • Former school building in Brüxgen, as monument no.32
  • Crossroads at the former school building in Brüxgen as monument no.34

societies

  • Gangelt volunteer fire brigade , Breberen fire fighting unit also responsible for Brüxgen
  • Vereinte Schützen eV Breberen-Brüxgen eV
  • Drummer and Pfeifercorps Breberen eV
  • Instrumental Association St. Josef Breberen-Schümm eV
  • Sports club 1920 SV Breberen eV
  • Breberen Riding and Driving Association
  • Breberener Karnevalsverein 84 eV
  • Women's community Breberen eV
  • Church choir St. Cäcilia Breberen eV
  • Breberen youth group
  • Social association VdK - Breberen local association

Regular events

  • Brotherhood bird shot
  • Patronage festival and fair in Breberen
  • St. Martin parade in Brüxgen

Street names

Am Damm, Hochstraße, Heidweg, Josefsstraße, Maternusstraße, Schützenstraße

Personalities

literature

  • Third edition 1994: Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen , ISBN 3-87448-172-7 , pp. 679f.
  • Leo Gillessen: The localities of the district of Heinsberg . P. 95
  • Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province . Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830

Web links

Commons : Brüxgen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German basic map 1: 5000
  2. ↑ http://www.naturschutz-fachinformationssysteme-nrw.de/nsg/de/fachinfo/ regions/ overall/ HS_011
  3. ↑ http://www.lanuv.nrw.de/fileadmin/lanuv/wasser/pdf/Gewaesserverzeichnis%20GSK3C.xls
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lanuv.nrw.de
  5. ↑ https://recht.nrw.de/lmi/owa/br_bes_text?print=1&anw_nr=2&gld_nr=%202&ugl_nr=2020&val=4036&ver=0&sg=0&menu=1&aufgehoben=N&keyword=&bes_id=4036
  6. ↑ http://www.weggemeinschaft-gangelt.de
  7. ↑ http://www.gangelt.de/images/stories/PDF/Ortsrecht/1.1%20Hauptsatzung.pdf
  8. ↑ http://www.glasmalerei-ev.net/pages/b2624/b2624.shtml