Bracht (Burg-Reuland)
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State : | Belgium | |
Region : | Wallonia | |
Province : | Liege | |
District : | Verviers | |
Coordinates : | 50 ° 13 ' N , 6 ° 9' E | |
Residents: | 99 pop. | |
Height: | 400 m | |
Post Code: | 4790 | |
Prefix: | 080 | |
Website: | Brings |
Bracht is a village in the Belgian Eifel with 99 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2014), which belongs to the municipality of Burg-Reuland in the German-speaking Community .
geography
Bracht is located not far from the Our between Maspelt and the village of Burg-Reuland .
history
The history of the place can be traced back to the year 1330, when a "Hugo de Brait" is mentioned in documents. A first chapel was built in Bracht in 1695 at the instigation of the then Burg-Reuländer pastor Mathias Breitfeld. In 1865 this chapel was replaced by a new building due to its dilapidation.
Attractions
- Bracht Castle , listed from 1782 to 1785 by order of Georg Friedrich August Ferrand von Montigny.
Web links
- Information on the village of Bracht at Burg-Reuland.be
- Bracht village community
Individual evidence
- ^ Population statistics
- ↑ Information on the village of Bracht
- ↑ Bracht Castle. In: Heribert Reiners (arrangement and ed.) With the collaboration of Heinrich Neu : Die Kunstdenkmäler von Eupen-Malmedy. L. Schwann Verlag, Düsseldorf 1935 (reprint of Pädagogischer Verlag Schwann, Düsseldorf 1982, ISBN 3-590-32117-2 ), p. 214 f.