Brandenberg (Huertgen Forest)

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Brandenberg
community Hürtgenwald
Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 3 ″  N , 6 ° 24 ′ 45 ″  E
Height : 370 m above sea level NHN
Area : 9.02 km²
Residents : 625  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 69 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Postal code : 52393
Area code : 02429

Brandenberg is a small place in the Eifel community Hürtgenwald ( Düren district ). The place has 637 inhabitants.

location

The place is in the Eifel National Park in the Rureifel and in the North Eifel Nature Park . Neighboring towns are Bergstein , Kleinhau , and Obermaubach . From Brandenberg there is a wide view of the Cologne Bay and the Zülpich Börde . The Kall flows on one side of the ridge on which the village was built, and the Rur with the Obermaubach reservoir on the other .

history

Archaeological finds suggest the first settlement in the Neolithic between 3000 and 1800 BC. The place is first mentioned in a document in the tax register of the Düren forest counties in 1447.

In the Second World War , Brandenberg was almost completely destroyed during the fighting in the Hürtgenwald ( All Souls' Battle ).

chapel

Reorganization

On July 1, 1969, Brandenberg joined forces with its neighboring communities from the Straß-Bergstein district association to form the new community of Hürtgenwald.

traffic

The L 11 road runs from Kleinhau to Zerkall next to the village. The village has no through traffic. Buses BVR take the AVV -line 286 through the town.

Others

  • In Brandenberg there is a kindergarten for the villages of Zerkall, Bergstein and Brandenberg .
  • Between Brandenberg and Kleinhau there is a 1800 m long natural motocross course with floodlights which, according to the map, belongs to Brandenberg.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.huertgenwald.de
  2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 97 .

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