Bracht (Bruggen)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brings
Brüggen municipality
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Bracht
Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  N , 6 ° 11 ′ 44 ″  E
Height : 29-60 m
Area : 35.87 km²
Residents : 6700
Population density : 187 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1970
Postal code : 41379
Area code : 02157
map
Location of Bracht in the area of ​​the
municipality of Brüggen in the district of Viersen

Bracht is a district of the municipality of Brüggen in the district of Viersen with around 6,700 inhabitants (as of November 30, 2016). It is about four kilometers from the city center. Bracht is often referred to as " Dohlendorf ". To the site include the Honnschaften Alst (Jralst) Angenthoer, Boerholz (Boers), Heidhausen (Hede), Hulst, Steve Send and Stieg.

history

Mentioned in writing for the first time on the back of a document from 1116 as "BRATH", Bracht was already settled in the Celtic times. The region was known as Mühlgau under the Carolingians . Bracht was therefore also referred to as "Mühlbracht". In 1317 Bracht and the honors Alst, Angenthoer, Boerholz, Heide, Heidhausen, Stevensend and Haus Schleveringhoven were part of the office of Brüggen, the northernmost office in the Duchy of Jülich-Berg . In 1798, the new canton of Bracht was created by the French administration. In 1801 the entire area came to France as the Roerdepartement . Bracht was the seat of the canton's cantons when the left bank of the Rhine belonged to France. The canton Bracht included the Mairien (mayor's offices) Bracht, Kaldenkirchen, Breyell, Schaag, Boisheim, Brüggen-Born, Amern St. Anton, Amern St. Georg, Burgwaldniel , Kirspelwaldniel , Dülken, Steyl (NL) and Tegelen (NL). In 1815 the Rhineland was assigned to Prussian and Brüggen and Bracht to the newly created district of Kempen . On June 9, 1830, the dilapidated steeple of the Breyeller Church collapsed.
On March 21, 1879, the government decreed that the vacant Mayor's offices in Bracht and that of Bruggen should be combined into one. This was lifted in mid-1919.

In autumn 1944 the Maas-Rur position was expanded; this line extended the west wall , the northern end of which was at Heinsberg . After the end of Operation Blackcock (January 1945) and after the start of Operation Grenade , the Wehrmacht cleared the Maas-Rur triangle between Venlo, Roermond and Wassenberg on 27/28. February without a fight to avoid lockdown. On March 1, 1945, a US Army combat group (in the rear of the Maas-Rur position ) advanced via Niederkrüchten-Brüggen-Bracht-Kaldenkirchen to Venlo.

On January 1, 1970 , Bracht was incorporated into the neighboring municipality of Brüggen.

The documents of the Brachter community archive are in the district archive of the Viersen district in Kempen .

The district hit the headlines in 2016 when the alternative medicine "Biological Cancer Center" was closed after a series of deaths.

coat of arms

Brachter coat of arms original.png

The old coat of arms of Mühlbracht showed the patroness of the Bracht parish church St. Mariae Himmelfahrt in red and green clothes on the left side and the yellow lion of Geldern with a fiefdom stand with the black lion of Jülich . This old coat of arms was already the seal of a jury in the 12th century and was considered one of the most beautiful in Germany.

Events

A weekly market is held on Weizer Platz every Thursday. During the year, various festivals such as the ecumenical parish festival, jackdaw festival, mill festival, rifle festival and the fair are celebrated in Bracht . In addition, there was a Santa Claus market in December, which did not take place in 2011. Since then, there has been a replacement for the Brachter Mill Christmas on the 2nd weekend in Advent. There is a carnival parade on Carnival Saturday , which is the first parade in the region. The KKG Brachter Wasserratten organizes a children's session.

Infrastructure

Old Mayor's Office, Marktstrasse 1 and Evangelical Parish Church, Königstrasse

In addition to four kindergartens, there are also two schools in Bracht: the Bracht location of the Brüggen comprehensive school and the Catholic elementary school for grades 5 to 8. Other religious institutions in the city are the Catholic parish of St. Mary's Assumption, the Evangelical Church Community of Bracht-Breyell and the Baptist Association of Evangelical Free Churches . These churches have two parishes, one Protestant and one Catholic.

St. Francis retirement home

There is a citizens 'hall and several senior citizens' meetings. For older people there is also the St. Franziskus retirement home, which is housed in the former Schleveringhoven castle. In addition, the Brüggener Tafel e. V. put up a board for people in need .

There is a single gym, a double gym and an outdoor sports facility with artificial turf, on which the gymnastics and sports fans (TSF) Bracht play.

Steelenweg in the Brachter Forest

Adjacent to Bracht is the Brachter Forest , a 1328.17 hectare nature reserve on which the Brüggen-Bracht ammunition depot was located until 1996 , before large parts of it were acquired by the North Rhine-Westphalia Foundation for Nature Conservation, Heritage and Cultural Care in 1998 and cycling and hiking trails have been equipped.

The Brachter brick manufacturer Gebr. Laumans Ziegelwerke was decisive for the local structure and the connection to the railway network in 1911 . The location has been preserved to this day with regard to the occurrence of the well-known "Tegelen clay" in the Brachter Forest for roof tile production. The roofing tile and clay industry made the village of "Bracht" one of the richest communities in the region.

societies

sports clubs

Turn- und Sportfreunde 1901/20 Bracht eV (TSF Bracht) with the departments football, gymnastics, athletics, badminton, volleyball, table tennis, basketball, fit and mobile for men over 50 (FIMO50 +) and coronary sports. Since mid-2013 also handball.

Theater associations

Theater association "Einigkeit" Alst 1929: annual theater performances in what is probably the last pub theater in Germany up to and including the 2016 season. After that, the restaurant was closed. The Brachter Bürgersaal has been the new venue since spring 2017.

Carnival club

KKG Brachter Wasserratten eV 1976: The children's carnival society Brachter Wasserratten consists of a committee, Elferrat, dance guard and honor guard (order according to year of foundation) and organizes various other carnival events in addition to the carnival Saturday procession.

Attractions

Bracht has various sights such as the Brachter mill (in the process of becoming a local museum), the Evangelical Church from 1699, the Catholic Parish Church of St. Mariä-Himmelfahrt (Gothic church building from 1484), the Brachter Town Hall, the Schlevringhoven House and a historical circular route (Signs on the individual structures). There is a Jewish cemetery on Stiegstrasse in the Christenfeld area.

  • Brought mill

  • Former school, 1920, Altkevelaer Straße 12-14

  • Parish home St. Mariä Himmelfahrt, corner of Schulstrasse and Altkevelaer Strasse

  • Parish home of the Assumption of Mary, middle section, sculpture by Anton van Eyk (enlargement - Hitler parody )

→ See also the list of architectural monuments in Brüggen

Personalities

  • Hermann Jakob Dingelstad (1835–1911), theologian and Catholic bishop
  • Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617), painter and engraver
  • Ferdinand Jorißen (1924–1990), local history specialist, rector (1959–1989) of the elementary and later secondary school in Bracht
  • Helmut Wolters (* 1960 in Bracht), nuclear physicist at the University of Coimbra (Portugal)
  • Daniel Laumans (* 1972), pianist, composer and music researcher
  • Otto H. Jacobs (born October 12, 1939 in Bracht) economist and professor emeritus for taxation at the University of Mannheim

various

The children's book adaptation Die Vorstadtkrokodile from 1977 was mostly filmed in Bracht.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b www.archive.nrw.de
  2. ↑ Leo Peters : Fate willed it that way . Rheinische Post (Grenzland-Kutrier) of June 5, 2010, p. B6. There had been an earthquake on February 23, 1828 and a hurricane on April 20, 1830.
  3. ↑ www.feststellung-weststellung.de
  4. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 114 .
  5. ↑ www.kreis-viersen.de
  6. ↑ Catrin Risch, Moritz Börner: Cancer Center Brüggen: investigations into 70 deaths. (No longer available online.) In: www1.wdr.de. August 19, 2016, archived from the original on August 24, 2016 ; accessed on August 24, 2016 . 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 / www1.wdr.de
  7. ↑ Tim Röhn: The strange deaths in the alternative cancer clinic. In: welt.de . August 5, 2016. Retrieved August 24, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Hinnerk Feldwisch-Drentrup: Candidate cancer drug suspected after death of three patients at an alternative medicine clinic. In: sciencemag.org. August 12, 2016. Retrieved August 24, 2016 .
  9. ↑ http://www.brachter-muehlenweihnacht.de/
  10. ↑ Ina Germes-Dohmen: With the bricks came the prosperity . In: RP-Online . RP Digital GmbH. August 20, 2016. Retrieved January 30, 2019.
  11. ↑ Birgit Sroka: Brachter houses tell stories. In: rp-online . Rheinische Post Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (Germany), August 19, 2017, accessed on August 21, 2017 .

Web links

Commons : Brüggen-Bracht  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files