Brake (Bielefeld)

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Brake
Coordinates: 52 ° 4 ′ 12 ″  N , 8 ° 36 ′ 22 ″  E
Height : 92 m above sea level NN
Area : 8.25 km²
Residents : 9424  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 1,142 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1973
Postal code : 33729
Area code : 0521
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Location of Brake in Heepen
Stadt Bielefeld

Brake is a district of Bielefeld and belongs to the northeastern district of Heepen . Until 1972 Brake was a separate municipality in office Heepen the circle Bielefeld .

geography

The city of Bielefeld is not further subdivided into administrative or political units below the ten districts . Districts in Bielefeld are therefore only informal sub-areas, the delimitation of which mostly relates to the area of ​​an old community. For statistical purposes, however, Bielefeld is divided into 72 “statistical districts”. The old municipality of Brake roughly corresponds to the statistical districts Grafenheide, Welscher and Lämmkenstatt, which today roughly define the boundaries of the informal district of Brake.

Brake is halfway between the city centers of Bielefeld and Herford . On the southern edge of the district, the Johannisbach flows from the west, which is called Brake Aa after the confluence with the Lutter in the southeast . The point where the Aa leaves the Brake area is 73 m above sea level. NN the lowest point of Bielefeld. The Jölle flows on the western edge of the district and forms the border with the Vilsendorf district .

Neighboring places

Laar City friend Stedefreund and Elverdissen
Vilsendorf Neighboring communities Elverdissen
Shield ash Milse and tree heather Milse

history

Evangelical Church Brake
Catholic Holy Cross Church Brake

As the oldest settlement in the area of ​​Brake, the Hof Meier zu Jerrendorf was built around the year 600 in the valley of the Johannisbach . A clan of the Saxons invading from the north settled there. Brake was first mentioned in a document in 1151. Since the Middle Ages , the Brake peasantry has belonged to the Schildesche bailiwick in the Ravensberg county . During the Napoleonic era Brake belonged first to the Kingdom of Westphalia and then from 1810 to 1813 to the French department of the Upper Ems . After the Ravensberger Land fell back to Prussia in 1813, Brake belonged to the Bielefeld district from 1816 and initially to the Schildesche mayor's office, from which the Schildesche office was finally formed in 1843 .

The construction of the Cologne-Mindener Railway from 1844 to 1848 improved the economic situation in Brake. On August 18, 1883, Brake received a train station. Steinsiek's mill once stood on Jöllenbecker Mühlenbach . The bicycle frame manufacturer Rixe settled in Brake in 1922, which also manufactured mopeds and motorcycles in the 1950s. The company went bankrupt in 1984 and the manufacturing equipment was sold to China.

When the village and the Schildesche farmers were incorporated into the city of Bielefeld on October 1, 1930, the Schildesche office was dissolved at the same time. Brake received 98 ha of the Schildesche peasantry and was assigned to the Heepen office and expanded to include the Schildesche peasantry community east of the Jölle and north of the Johannisbach. As part of the last municipal reorganization of the Bielefeld area , Brake was incorporated into Bielefeld on January 1, 1973 and has since been part of the Heepen district .

Braker toxic waste scandal

After toxic sludge had entered an excavation pit during construction work in a housing estate on Stedefreunder Strasse , it was found that the entire settlement had been built on the site of a toxic waste dump . The subsoil was polluted with poorly volatile hydrocarbons and heavy metals . In an expert report, the site was classified as “not habitable without further measures”.

The waste was deposited on the site of a former brick factory in the early 1960s . The landfill was not adequately secured. Despite the known pollution, the area was included in a development plan in 1971/1974 , which did not provide for adequate measures against the contaminated site , and after backfilling it was developed from 1979 onwards.

In the course of the following security measures, several houses had to be demolished. The residents were compensated by the city of Bielefeld. The scandal attracted media attention nationwide.

Two Bielefeld schoolchildren researched the Braker toxic waste scandal in the Bielefeld city archive and had conversations with contemporary witnesses . With their work they took part in the history competition of the Federal President 2010/2011 and won first prize at the level of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Population development

year Residents source
1811 1211
1843 1291
1864 1119
1910 2254
1939 3884
1961 5404
1966 6270
1970 6738
1972 7044
2008 9262
2019 9424

religion

In church terms, Brake used to belong to the Protestant parish of Schildesche. Brake has had its own Protestant parish since 1952. On June 13, 1909, the Braker Evangelical Church was inaugurated. In addition, the Catholic parish Maria Königin with the Holy Cross Church and since 1930 the New Apostolic Church also exist in Brake .

Culture and sights

Buildings

The Meyer zu Jerrendorf farm on Jerrendorfweg 2, whose origins go back to the year 600, is the oldest settlement in Brake. The Evangelical Church on Braker Straße is Brake's landmark.

Green spaces and recreation

The "Sieben-Teiche-Bach" rises in the middle of a narrow wooded area and flows through the cascading "Seven Ponds". The first two ponds are more swampy today and can only be recognized as ponds during floods. Ponds three to seven, on the other hand, are clearly formed, connected by monks and are getting bigger and bigger. The last and seventh pond is the largest and is attached to a park. There are beautifully blooming rhododendron bushes, a barbecue area and a fenced-in dog meadow.

The sixth of the seven ponds
Rhododendrons in Park Brake

societies

Brake stop (b Bielefeld)

traffic

Brake is on federal highway 61 between Bielefeld and Herford. The A 2 federal motorway can be reached at the Ostwestfalen-Lippe junction in Bielefeld-Altenhagen , three kilometers from Brake . From there, Ostwestfalenstrasse is to be extended to Brake in the future.

Bielefeld-Brake station building

The Brake (b Bielefeld) stop on the Hamm – Minden railway line is operated every hour by the regional trains RB 61 Wiehengebirgsbahn Bielefeld - Herford - Osnabrück - Bad Bentheim - Hengelo (operator: Eurobahn ) and RB 71 Ravensberger Bahn ( Münster -) Bielefeld - Bünde - Rahden (operator: Eurobahn) served.

City buses on line 51 go to Schildesche and Milse ( Stadtbahn ). Line 30 goes via Baumheide - Heepen - Stieghorst (Stadtbahn) - Lämershagen - Sennestadt to Heideblümchen - ( Holte Castle ). The regional bus 101 runs from Schildesche (Stadtbahn) to Herford . Brake belongs to the Westfalentarif tariff association .

Personalities

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bielefeld district (ed.): 150 years Bielefeld district . 1966, p. 60 .
  2. ^ A b Albrecht Lasius: The French imperial state under the government of the imperial Napoleon the great. (Digitalisat) 1812, p. 204 , accessed on April 21, 2010 .
  3. ^ Alfred Bruns (ed.): Westfalenlexikon 1832-1835 . (Reprints for the Westphalian archive maintenance). Westphalian State Office for Archive Maintenance, Münster 1978.
  4. ↑ a b Seemann: Geographical-statistical-topographical overview of the administrative district of Minden. (pdf; 802 kB) 1843, pp. 52-57 , accessed on April 23, 2010 .
  5. ↑ 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 .
  6. ^ Law on the expansion of the Bielefeld district. (pdf; 7 kB) In: Collection of Laws for the Royal Prussian States. June 11, 1930, pp. 1, 2 , accessed on April 14, 2010 .
  7. ↑ 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. 320 .
  8. ↑ Vincent Lüder, Janik Prophet: Chronicle. (No longer available online.) In: Toxicity - Der Braker Toxmüllskandal. 2010, formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 21, 2011 .  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.toxicity.lima-city.de  
  9. ↑ List of winners. (PDF; 643 kB) (No longer available online.) 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 21, 2011 .  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.koerber-stiftung.de  
  10. ↑ Topographical-statistical manual of the government district of Minden. (Digitized version) 1866, p. 12 , accessed on April 22, 2010 .
  11. ^ Uli Schubert: German community register 1910. Accessed on May 22, 2009 .
  12. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. bielefeld.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  13. ↑ 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. 97-98 .
  14. ↑ Social performance report 2008. (pdf; 9.5 MB) City of Bielefeld, December 31, 2008, p. 185 , accessed on May 25, 2010 : "Population of the statistical districts 660 Grafenheide, 661 Lämmkenstatt, 662 Welscher and 663 Jerrendorf"
  15. ↑ Data from the city of Bielefeld
  16. ↑ New Apostolic Church Brake. Retrieved August 8, 2013.