Brackel (Dortmund)

Brackel City of Dortmund Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 0 ″  N , 7 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	81 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.85 km²
Residents :	24,355  (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	2,472 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	April 1, 1918
Postal code :	44309
Area code :	0231
Statistical District :	32
Location of Brackel in Dortmund

Tower of the Evangelical Church

"Beckhoff House" on Brackeler Hellweg

Brackel is the Statistical District 32 and also a neighborhood in the same municipality the independent NRW city Dortmund . It is in the east of Dortmund. In December 2009, 18,870 people lived in Brackel. Together with the radio tower settlement area , which belongs to Neuasseln, but is often counted as part of Brackel, there are 21,812 inhabitants. Contrary to the spelling, the place name Brackel is pronounced with a long a as Braakel . In contrast to today, "ck" did not always mark a preceding short vowel in the Middle Low German period, so that some words were pronounced with a long vowel. However, this spelling has only been used in place names.

geography

location

Brackel is shaped by its location on Hellweg , which is over 5000 years old , a connecting and trade route from pre-Roman-Germanic times from the Rhine near Ruhrort via Essen , Dortmund, Unna , Soest to Paderborn . The center is located north of the Hellweg, which runs in a west-east direction, as is the case with the neighboring districts of Wambel , Asseln and Wickede . Here the terrain slopes down to the north from the Dortmund ridge . This favored the rise of water sources to the surface, which enabled early settlement and agricultural use.

Structure of the district

In the north, Brackel borders on the district of Scharnhorst with the districts of Scharnhorst , Husen and Kurl , in the east on Asseln, in the southeast on Neuasseln , in the south on Aplerbeck and in the west on Wambel.

The town center is located directly on Hellweg, starting from the Protestant church with the Beckhoff half-timbered house, which has been moved to this location and is now home to a café and a third world shop as well as a fairy tale stage. The town center is still characterized by numerous other half-timbered houses as well as the one next to the church. Later phases with heavy development resulted from the beginning industrialization with the construction of colliery settlements south of the Hellweg for the workers of the Schleswig and Holstein collieries and after the Second World War with the use of the old airport by the British Army of the Rhine . Further settlements were built for their relatives.

From the 1950s onwards, the Brackel settlement center expanded again and again. In the west and north of Brackel, mainly terraced and multi-family houses emerged . In the east of Brackel, in addition to row houses, many single-family houses were built and in the south of Brackel, mostly bungalows and the group of high-rise buildings were built on Rahestrasse . The gap between Brackel and Neuasseln has been closed for several years by the Stadtgärtnerei housing estate .

Today, after the Rhine Army has withdrawn, the Hohenbuschei residential area is being built on the site of the old airport in the north-east of Brackel .

Population development / statistics

The population of the Brackel farmers has been fairly constant over the centuries. Only with the beginning of industrialization did the population grow rapidly.

Population development from 1802 to 2018
year	Residents
1802	624
1823	848
1858	1,546
1871	2.123
1910	8,276
1946	11.008
1961	17,238
1995	22,357
2009	18,711
2010	18,870
2016	24,178
2018	24,355

As of December 31, 2018, there were 24,355 residents in Brackel (with the radio tower settlement).

Structural data of the population of Brackel (with radio tower settlement):

• Minor quota: 20.5% [Dortmund average: 19.4% (2016)]
• Old age quota: 38.9% [Dortmund average: 30.0% (2016)]
• Proportion of foreigners: 11.2% [Dortmund average: 18.2% (2018)]
• Unemployment rate: 8.5% [Dortmund average: 11.0% (2017)]

The average income corresponds roughly to the Dortmund average.

48.2% of the population are male, 51.8% female.

history

From the first mention to the Treaty of Hörde

Brackel is mentioned for the first time with the name Bracla in a deed of donation by Emperor Otto II in the year 980. In this donation Emperor Otto bequeathed the maid Walza, her son Huodi and a hoof with all accessories in the village of Brackel, in the Gau Westphalia, to the church of Magdeburg. located in the county of Count Bernhard. However, due to its location on Hellweg, Brackel will be quite older.

Brackel developed as a farming village. The larger, eastern part belonged to the king as an imperial property, the smaller western part was under the jurisdiction of the Count of Dortmund. This can be documented for the period after 1300. The Reichsgut Brackel was pledged several times by the king in the 13th century, for example by Adolf von Nassau on April 27, 1292 to the Archbishop of Cologne Siegfried von Westerburg . The Reichshof Brackel has now changed hands several times. First, King Heinrich VII transferred it to the Archbishop of Cologne Heinrich II von Virneburg after his election as payment for his vote .

These very changeable transfers of ownership and pledges between the king and, as prince, the Count von der Mark as well as the Archbishop of Cologne and the city of Dortmund meant that Brackel was attacked and devastated several times during the great Dortmund feud and afterwards. This was due to the division of jurisdiction between the western village belonging to Dortmund and the eastern village belonging to the king. 1419 during the Kleve-Märkischen feud between Dortmund and the Count von der Mark, 1431 also due to disputes between these two parties. Also in 1467 there were violent fights between visitors from Dortmund and those from the Brandenburg cities of Unna and Kamen at the Brackel fair.

After the death of the last count of Dortmund in 1504, the county of Dortmund, including the western village of Brackel, fell to the city of Dortmund. Emperor Maximilian I then enfeoffed the city of Dortmund with the entire county on October 12, 1504. Nevertheless, there were still disputes between the Count von der Mark and the city of Dortmund. A compromise was only reached in Hörde on October 9, 1565 : Brackel and Schüren went to the Count von der Mark, but Wambel stayed with Dortmund.

reformation

The Reformation was initiated only late, in 1550, by the order priest Arent Rupe, who had been appointed pastor of the Brackel parish by the Land Commander of the Teutonic Order . As is customary in the Reformed Church, Rupe distributed the Lord's Supper in both forms to the believers. Initially, the Teutonic Order did nothing against Rupe. He later tried to prevent this by filing a lawsuit with the Duke of Cleves, but the Duke himself was a supporter of the Reformed movement. Rupes Ruf also reached the citizens of Dortmund, who increasingly attended his services because the Dortmund City Council had prohibited reformed services in Dortmund. Rupe received further support from Schulte von Brackel, the new Commander of the Teutonic Order and also from the Archbishop of Cologne Gebhard I. von Waldburg . However, after Archbishop Gebhard confessed to the new faith and married, he was deposed and the Wittelsbacher Ernst von Bayern was appointed archbishop. This triggered the Cologne War .

In the course of the Cologne War Brackel was badly devastated by Bavarian troops in 1584. The village was looted and burned, many died, were wounded or kidnapped. Nevertheless, the Protestant faith was able to hold in Brackel. Rupe and Schulte von Brackel escaped the attack and the right to occupy the parish of Brackel was withdrawn from the Teutonic Order.

After the reorganization by Napoléon , Brackel was incorporated into the Hörde office and the Dortmund district in 1808. Due to the decree of 1811, the peasants did not have to do manual and tensioning services and the tax burdens on the landlords, but they had to be paid for. The settlement of these payments dragged on until the 1830s. After that, however, the farmers could and had to work independently and make decisions.

industrialization

In 1847 the first railway line was built over the Brackel area. The Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft built a line from Dortmund to Hamm. One stop was built in Kurl and another on Flughafenstrasse between Brackel and Scharnhorst. As early as 1854, the Hörder mining and smelting association bought grubenfelder south of the Hellweg in the Brackeler and Asseln area. After the test drillings were successful, the sinking of two shafts began and the Schleswig colliery was founded. A narrow-gauge railway line was set up to transport the coal to Hörde . A few years later, this line was converted to standard gauge and connected to the railway network of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft from Dortmund via Unna to Soest. The Brackel train station was built at the intersection of Westfälische Strasse and Graffweg at the height of the town center. This favored the development and emergence of more companies and factories, many of which are still in operation today.

On April 1, 1918, the Brackel community was incorporated into the city of Dortmund.

The occupation of the Ruhr by French and Belgian troops reached Brackel in January 1923. Here Holzwickeder Straße became the border of the occupied area. So Brackel was split in half.

In 1925 the Schleswig colliery was closed. The Brackel airport was opened on 27 April 1925th It served the airline Copenhagen – Hamburg – Bremen – Dortmund – Frankfurt (M) –Stuttgart – Zurich. On August 10, 1930, the Graf Zeppelin airship landed at Brackel Airport , attended by 120,000 people. By the end of the 1930s the airport had developed into a major commercial airport, after which it was converted into a military airfield.

Second World War

After Hitler came to power, the NSDAP in Brackel was able to record a vote gain from 0.8% in 1929 to 35.7% in the election in 1933. However, also the KPD as a resistance party from 14.2% in 1929 to 19.7% in 1933. Due to the industrial development due to the coal and steel industry , Brackel, like Dortmund, was an area with a more left-leaning character. The brothers Karl and Erich Mörchel as well as Paul Weber are among the victims of the Good Friday murders because they, like August Bommelitz, organized the resistance in factories and collieries in Dortmund. But the Jewish population in Brackel was also systematically expelled, and later deported to the Theresienstadt and Auschwitz concentration camps. The transports were combined in the Gerold inn on Brackeler Hellweg. At the end of March / beginning of April 1943, around 1,000 people of Jewish faith from the Arnsberg administrative district were brought together here. When they were taken away, the children were taken to Unna separately by tram from their parents . The adults were transported to Dortmund's Südbahnhof and from there brought to Auschwitz in closed cattle wagons. Very few survived this.

At the beginning of the war Brackel was initially spared from bombing raids. The first bombs fell on the flak position in Holzwickeder Strasse in 1940 . Later, however, after 1943 and also due to the Brackel air base , there were numerous bombings and destruction on the Brackel area. Brackel Airport was hit as well as the upcoming one and other courtyards and buildings. Brackel surrendered to the American troops on April 12, 1945, after a single soldier had fired a machine gun at the advancing tanks .

After the Second World War

Royal Saint Barbara's golf course in Do-Brackel

After the airfield was destroyed by bombing in World War II, the Royal Air Force used the area after the war. The commercial airport moved to its current location in the Wickede district in 1960 . The "Flughafenstrasse", which is still important today and the location of the old Brackel Airport , now often confuses people who are not in the area and who suspect that it is Dortmund Airport. Today, after the withdrawal of the British Army of the Rhine, there is an industrial and commercial area on the former airport site and a scenic 18-hole golf course, the nature reserve Buschei , the new development area Hohenbuschei and the training center of Borussia Dortmund , close to the local borders of Asseln and Kurl , which was officially opened here on May 8, 2006.

religion

The Evangelical Church next to the one to come

Interior view of the Johanneskirche in Brackel around 1890.

The Romanesque baptismal font of the Johanneskirche in Brackel around 1890.

The Brackeler community was looked after by knights of the Brackeler Kommende until the Reformation. Until then, this also had the right to fill the pastoral position. The religious priest Arndt Rupe held the service according to the Reformed rite in the Brackel Church from 1554. Rupes' successors also maintained this and were supported by the Commander-in-Chief. The congregation itself chose its pastor, who was appointed to his office by the Commander-in-Chief. The commander also paid a large proportion of the pastor's income. The community provided the apartment, the pastor got a field, cattle and grain. After the community had grown rapidly due to industrialization, an application was made in 1944 to set up another pastorate. This was approved in 1946 and established in 1947. The community was divided into a western and an eastern district. In 1962 another pastorate was added for the south, in 1965 the pastorate northwest and 1974 the pastorate southeast. Burials always took place near the church. At the end of the 19th century, however, there was no longer enough space, so in 1899 the municipality decided to purchase a piece of land on Hörder Weg and to build a mourning hall on it. In October 1902, this could already be removed by the authorities and used by the community. The structural substance of the mourning hall, however, was so bad that it had to be extensively renovated as early as 1905.

With the immigration of residents to Brackel at the beginning of industrialization, the proportion of Catholics in the population also increased. At the end of the 19th century Brackel still belonged to the mother parish in Kurl. In 1896 Asseln became an independent parish and Brackel was annexed to Asseln. In 1904 a new parish was founded in Brackel. The first service of the Catholic community was held on October 12, 1904 in the restaurant "Zur alten Post". The foundation stone for the construction of a Catholic church on Flughafenstrasse was laid on October 27, 1912. The New Church was consecrated to St. Clemens, the patron saint of the old Brackeler Church and the one to come. Until 1914 Brackel belonged to the mother parish in Asseln, in 1919 it became an independent parish. In 1927, the then nuncio Eugenio Pacelli, who later became Pope Pius XII, landed . , at Brackel Airport. In 1964 the community was expanded to the south. In the newly built radio tower settlement the parish vicarie “St. Nikolaus von Flüe ”. The new church was consecrated on June 1, 1966 by Cardinal Lorenz Jaeger .

The New Apostolic Congregation has held its divine services in Brackel since 1928. Initially regularly in the rooms of the Oberdorf School, later in the hall of the Ostermann restaurant. In 1938 the community bought a former office building on Westfälische Strasse. The dedication service took place on June 1, 1938. In 1957 a new church was inaugurated on Brackeler Hellweg.

politics

The district council has been representing the interests of the district and the newly created Brackel district since 1975. The district council consists of 19 members. They are headed by the district mayor Karl-Heinz Czierpka (SPD). The council members of the City of Dortmund who are directly and indirectly elected from the Brackel constituency have advisory voting rights. The aim is to establish a close connection between the work of the council and the district council. The first elected district council began its work on June 6, 1975.

Allocation of seats in the district council
Year \ party	SPD	CDU	Green	FDP	Citizen List	The left	DVU	Pirates
1975	11	7th	-	1	-	-	-	-
1979	11	7th	-	1	-	-	-	-
1984	11	6th	2	-	-	-	-	-
1989	11	6th	2	-	-	-	-	-
1994	11	6th	2	-	-	-	-	-
1999	8th	8th	2	-	1	-	-	-
2004	8th	6th	2	1	1	-	1	-
2009	8th	6th	3	1	-	1	-	-
2010	9	6th	3	-	-	1	-	-
2014	9	5	3	-	-	1	-	1

Culture and sights

Coming

Coming Brackel

The Kommende Brackel was founded by knights of the Teutonic Order, probably in the middle of the 13th century. It is mentioned for the first time in a deed of donation dated June 24, 1290. In the following years, the Coming in Brackel grew steadily. In 1369 it was named as the third largest in the Westphalia Ballei after Welheim and Mülheim / Möhne . In 1440 the Kommende Brackel owned 88.5 acres of land in Brackel, making it larger than the king's school yard. At the beginning of the 16th century, the annual income of the commander was 150 guilders, plus manual and tensioning services, forest rights, income from fish ponds, a mill and a coal mine. In addition, all land committees of the Ballei Westfalen were commander of the Coming Brackel for a period of around 200 years since the mid-15th century. During the Reformation, the coming lost their church. This became Protestant. Catholic services were now held in the Chapel of the Coming.

After the order was secularized in 1525, the Coming Party became increasingly less important. After 1608 the Komtur no longer lived in Brackel, but in Dortmund, and a letter to the major chapter reported that the Kommende Brackel was in debt. The situation only improved again when the Kommende was leased to Franz Wilhelm Oberstadt in 1762. He managed to restore the buildings and pay off the debt.

On April 24, 1809, the German Order was dissolved by Napoléon . The property was transferred to the Grand Duchy of Berg and fell to Prussia in 1815 . Oberstadt initially leased the Kommende Brackel, and in 1821 he finally bought it for 17,000 Reichstaler . The last male heir of the Oberstadt family, Dr. Walter Oberstadt, decreed in his will that the religious house with the surrounding gardens should be transferred to the Archdiocese of Paderborn. This was done after his death in 1944 by his widow in 1946.

After the commandery passed into the possession of the Archdiocese of Paderborn, it was renovated and rebuilt in the following years with the help of the State Conservator and now houses the Institute for Catholic Social Work , whose director was Cardinal Reinhard Marx from 1989 to 1996 .

Hidding / Segering farm

The Hidding / Segering farm, built in 1793, became known under the name “Westlicher Hellweghof”. The builders were Johann Diederich Segering and his wife Anna Schulten von Altenderne. Demolished in 1974, the courtyard was rebuilt true to the original in 1978/1979 in the LWL open-air museum Detmold . The inscription above the gate beam reads:

IOHAN DIDDERICH SIERING ANNA CATRINA ESEBET SCHOOLING OLD OLD MAN
WHERE GOT TO THE HOUSE DOESN'T GIVE HIS GUNS EVERYONE WORKS UMSONS
WHERE GOT DIS HUS DOES NOT WATCH SO UMSONS THE GUARD WATCH
DISWARE O GOT THE HOUSE IN THE HOUSE FOR WATER I AND
FIRE WATER THE 11 Julius ANO 1793

The courtyard is accessed in the central axis through the large Deele, from which there are chambers for horses and cows and the milk room, the chambers are covered with a bulk floor for grain and the Deele is laid out with a herringbone reading stone floor, which originally dates from 1793. This is followed by the kitchen, from which pantries and a chamber on the first floor lead off on the right in the basement, on the left the living room, a bedroom and two further chambers on the first floor. This way of building and living was typical for farms at the end of the 18th century. The owners were able to acquire ownership of the farm in 1871 for 5,233.05 marks. The original structure of the courtyard is very well preserved.

schools

After school lessons could initially only be given in the rectory, the first school in Brackel was built in 1720 behind the church in the churchyard. As early as 1790 this had to be torn down and replaced by a new building at the same place. This was already too small in 1810, it had to be enlarged and divided into two classes. In 1822, 160 school children attended this school and an additional class was added. These schools were still supported by the Evangelical Church Community.

After the population continued to grow strongly due to industrialization, the political municipality of Brackel built the “Hindenburg School II” in 1851 on the corner of Hellweg and Flughafenstrasse, the current location of the Beckhoff family . This school was demolished in 1934 for traffic reasons. As early as 1875, another school building was built on Oberdorfstrasse, the “Hindenburg School I” or “Südschule” or “Oberdorfschule”, which is now used by the adult education center, the district library and the Balou culture and education center after a renovation in 1993. The first secondary school in Brackel was the "Rektoratschule" established in 1871. After many difficulties and financial problems, however, the "Rector's School" was closed again in 1882.

In 1899 the "Reichshofschule" was rebuilt in the street Am Westheck. In 1962 the "Reichshofschule" received an extension with a gym and sports field. The “Reichshofschule” was a primary and secondary school until 1984, since then it has been used as a primary school. The “Augustinus School”, the first Catholic school, was completed in 1903 on Flughafenstrasse. Like all schools in Dortmund, it was converted into a non-denominational community school in 1938, but was re-established as a denominational school after the Second World War. It is still today and one of eleven denominational primary schools in Dortmund at the Flughafenstrasse location. The "Westholzschule" in the street "Am Westholz" could be used from 1909. Today it is also a primary school.

The “Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium” “Am Winkelriedweg” was established in 1965 as the first grammar school. A new building in Haferfeldstrasse could already be used in 1970. This was necessary because of the large number of students. Despite major protests, the school was converted into the “Geschwister-Scholl-Comprehensive School” in 1982 together with the “Otto Hahn Realschule” founded in 1968 . In 1980 the youngest Brackel elementary school, the "Erich Kästner Elementary School", was founded . It is located in an extension of the "Augustine School".

Culture and Education Center Balou

The Balou culture and education center is located in the former "Oberdorfschule" school. Courses and groups for adult education are offered consisting of creative, fitness, dance and music or computer courses and courses for children and young people in the youth school. Children's birthdays, holiday campaigns and offers for the open all-day school are also part of it. There is also a café and a gallery.

District library

In Dortmund-Brackel there is a district library with novels and short stories, literature and fiction, newspapers and magazines, CDs / DVDs and audio books; it is located in the former building of the Oberdorfschule, which is next to the Balou culture and education center.

Infrastructure

economy

With industrialization, other companies and factories developed alongside the mines. At the level of the Brackel station of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft z. B. Companies that are still active today such as Anker-Schroeder.DE ASDO , Paul Vahle GmbH & Co. KG, Koda Stanz- und Biegetechnik GmbH and Curt Ebert GmbH & Co. KG , to name a few.

In the 1950s, another commercial area was set up north of the town center next to the old airport. Well-known companies based here are Murtfeldt Kunststoffe GmbH & Co. KG and the coffee roaster Schirmer Kaffee GmbH . In 1971 the first Hellweg hardware store was opened in Brackel am Hellweg.

The Brackeler Gewerbeverein is also actively involved in Brackel's economic development. In 2008 the trade association received the special prize of the Westphalian trade. The prize was awarded by the Westphalia-Münsterland Retail Association for its commitment to maintaining and developing the trade, craft and service location Dortmund-Brackel.

The logistics area in the eastern part of the district directly on Hellweg also contributes to Brackel's further economic development. Coop eG built a central warehouse here in the 1950s with a storage area of ​​66,000 square meters. Today part of the area is used by the TEDi company , while the central butchery of Rewe Dortmund is on another part .

traffic

S-Bahn station Knappschaftskrankenhaus on the S4 Dortmund – Unna line

The federal highway 1 runs south of Brackel over the highest area of ​​the Dortmund ridge , which after two exits in an easterly direction merges into the autobahn 44 and in a westerly direction at the height of the Wittekindstraße into the autobahn 40 . In a north-south direction, Brackel is brushed by the federal highway 236 , the connection between the A 1 and A 2 motorways . The main traffic axes in Brackel, however, are Hellweg in a west-east direction and Flughafenstrasse in a north-south direction. Line U43 of the Dortmund Stadtbahn runs on Hellweg from Dorstfeld to Wickede. South of Hellweg between Hellweg and B 1, the path of the parallel train Rhein-Ruhr line S4 of Luetgendortmund to Unna and north between Brackelsberg and Scharnhorststraße the Dortmund-Hamm railway with the station Dortmund-Scharnhorststraße .

hospital

Main entrance of the Knappschaft's Hospital

Since the opening of the Knappschaftskrankenhaus on July 11, 1958, Brackel has also been the location of a hospital for the standard care of acute illnesses. The hospital has nine specialist clinics and 463 beds. The specialist clinics are divided into Clinic for Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Surgical Clinic, Women's Clinic / Obstetrics, Medical Clinic / Internal Medicine, Neurological Clinic, Orthopedic Clinic, Clinic for Radiology, Clinic for Radiation Oncology and Radiation Therapy, Clinic for Urology and Pediatric Urology, Clinic for Nuclear Medicine, Pneumology Clinic. Around 900 people are employed in the hospital.

Sports facilities

Brackel is the location of a district indoor swimming pool. This pool with a 25-meter lane, teaching pool and one- and three-meter board was extensively renovated in 2010 with funds from the economic stimulus package II. Since January 1, 2011, the bathroom is no longer in the hands of the city of Dortmund, but is operated by Sportwelt Dortmund gGmbH.

Main cemetery

One of the lines of sight of the main cemetery with a bridge, Bachwiesental and walking paths on both sides

The main cemetery in Dortmund is located in the Brackel area. It was opened in 1921. Entrances next to the main entrance at Am Gottesacker are from Talweg, as well as from Westfälische Strasse and Leni-Rommel-Strasse . The main cemetery extends over an area of ​​118 hectares, making it one of the largest cemeteries in Germany. It is increasingly being used as a green and recreational area.

Personalities

• Reinhard Marx German cardinal
• Johannes Ritterbecks 1908-1965, German politician (CDU)

literature

• Günter Knippenberg: Brackel a village on the Westphalian Hellweg . Systemed-Verlag, Lünen 1997, ISBN 3-927372-14-5 .
• Norbert Reimann: A short history of the Brackel office . Published by Stadtsparkasse Dortmund, 1985.

Web links

Commons : Dortmund-Brackel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official city district portal of the city of Dortmund
• Art and Culture Center Balou
• Pictures and reports from Brackel
• Brackel (Dortmund) in the Westphalia Culture Atlas

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population figures in the statistical districts on December 31, 2018 (PDF)
2. ↑ Brackel: Günter Knippenberg , 1997, p. 41.
3. ↑ Brackel: Günter Knippenberg , 1997, p. 43.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Brackel: Günter Knippenberg , 1997, p. 118.
5. ↑ Brief history of the Brackel office: Dr. Norbert Reimann , 1985, p. 83.
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Brackel: Günter Knippenberg , 1997, p. 160.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Population structures annual report 2016 (PDF file)
8. ↑ Nationalities in the statistical districts as of December 31, 2018 (PDF file)
9. ↑ Unemployment rates according to statistical districts on June 30, 2017 ( memento of the original from June 25, 2018 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. (PDF file) 
10. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 16, 2016 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. 
11. ↑ Brief history of the Brackel office , p. 25.
12. ↑ Erhard Nietzschmann: The free in the country. Former German imperial villages and their coats of arms . Melchior, Wolfenbüttel 2013, ISBN 978-3-944289-16-8 , p. 21.
13. ^ Greiser: Reichshof , p. 126.
14. ↑ Brackel, a village on the Westphalian Hellweg , p. 87.
15. ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 220 .
16. ↑ ^{a b} Dortmunder Statistics, special issue 141, p. 46 ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
17. ↑ ^{a b c d} Dortmunder Statistics, special issue 150, p. 49
18. ↑ Tel. Information from W. Nowack, head of the Brackel district administration
19. ↑ Local election 2009 in Dortmund ( Memento of the original from November 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
20. ↑ Repetition of the 2010 local elections in Dortmund  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
21. ↑ 2014 local elections in Dortmund
22. ^ Monastery book, p. 133.
23. ↑ Special prize for the Westphalian Trade Prize 2008