Brake (Halver)

Brake Halver municipality Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 30 ″  N , 7 ° 26 ′ 45 ″  E
Height :	332 m
Location of Brake in Halver

Brake , also Zur Brake , was a residential area in the town of Halver in the Märkisches Kreis in the administrative district of Arnsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ). The living space fell in desolation around 1900.

Location and description

Brake was at an altitude of 332  m above sea level. NHN in the north-west of Halver, west of Dörnen, above the dam of the Ennepetalsperre on the city limits of Breckerfeld . Other neighboring towns were Kamscheid , Oberbuschhausen , the Halveraner Osenberg and the Breckerfelder Osenberg .

history

Brake was first mentioned in a document in 1780, but the time of origin of the settlement presumably dates to around 1750. The courtyard was a split off the Dörnen or possibly Kamscheid farms.

In 1818 five residents lived in the village. In 1838 Brake belonged to the Kamscheider peasantry within the Halver mayor . The place categorized as Kotten according to the place and distance table of the government district Arnsberg had a house at that time. At that time, six people lived in the village, all of whom were Protestant.

The municipality encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia from 1887 gives a number of six residents who lived in a residential building. At that time, the place was called Zur Brake , as on contemporary topographic maps .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alfred Jung: Halver and Schalksmühle. Investigation and thoughts on the settlement history of the Halver Office, an old parish in the Saxon-Franconian border area. Friends of Altena Castle, Altena 1978 ( Altenaer contributions. Works on the history and local history of the former county Mark 13, ISSN  0516-8260 ).
2. ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Local and distance table of the government district Arnsberg, arranged according to the existing state division, with details of the earlier areas and offices, the parish and school districts and topographical information. Ritter, Arnsberg 1841.
3. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (Prussia) (ed.): Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume X), Berlin 1887.