Break (Hessen)

Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	to water
County :	Limburg-Weilburg
Height :	186 m above sea level NHN
Area :	24.86 km 2
Residents:	6489 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	261 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	65611
Primaries :	06438, 06483
License plate :	LM, WEL
Community key :	06 5 33 002
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Marktstrasse 1 ; 65611 Brechen (Hesse)
Website :	www.gemeinde-rechen.de
Mayor :	Frank Groos ( independent )
Location of the municipality of Brechen (Hesse) in the Limburg-Weilburg district

Brechen is a municipality in the Limburg-Weilburg district in Central Hesse .

geography

location

Brechen is located in the south-eastern part of the Limburg basin between Taunus and Westerwald . The low-forest loess hill country is crossed here from south-east to north-west by the Emsbach , which takes in the Wörsbach at Niederbruch and drains the area towards the Lahn . Together with the Idsteiner Basin to the south , this landscape is known under the popular name Goldener Grund , which refers to the favorable climate and fertile soils.

Neighboring communities

To the northwest, the municipality of Brechen borders on the district town of Limburg , to the north on the city of Runkel , to the northeast on the market town of Villmar , to the southeast on the municipality of Selters (Taunus) and to the southwest on the municipality of Hünstelden (all in the Limburg-Weilburg district).

Community structure

The municipality of Brechen consists of three districts:

Niederbruch is the administrative center and the largest of the three districts,
Oberbruch and
Werschau .

history

See also: Roman camp Oberbruch

Nieder- and Oberbruch are first mentioned under the name Brachina ("on the mountain slope") in a deed of donation from the Lorsch Monastery of August 12th, 772. In the following years, the towns became the property of the St. Maximin Abbey in Trier. Over many centuries ownership changed back and forth between the Electorate of Trier and the Counts of Molsberg.

The places are important due to their location on the Cologne-Frankfurt long-distance trade road ( Via Publica ) as an outpost of the Kurtrier area towards Frankfurt. In the Middle Ages, Niederbruch temporarily had town rights and a town wall that is still partially preserved today.

The Berger Church , located in the municipality, has existed since Carolingian times and was the mother church of the region. It was the local church of the deserted mountains, which must have perished between 1354 and 1490. The first documentary mention took place in 910; Today's building parts can be dated back to around the turn of the millennium.

The district of Werschau was first mentioned in a document in 1235.

In 1802, the municipality became part of the Principality of Nassau-Weilburg in the Duchy of Nassau , which was annexed to Prussia with effect from October 1, 1866 .

From 1886 the three communities belonged to the Limburg district and from 1974 to the Limburg-Weilburg district.

The municipality of Brechen was created in the course of the regional reform in Hesse . First, Niederbruch and Werschau merged on December 31, 1971 to form the new municipality of Brechen. Oberbruch was added on July 1, 1974 in accordance with state law.

politics

Community representation

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

	Voter turnout in%		63.4		48.7		46.9		54.4
Distribution of seats in the municipal council 2016 4th 2 10 8th 7th 4th 2 10 8th 7th A total of 31 seats SPD : 4 FDP : 2 CDU : 10 FW : 8 BWG : 7	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	33.0	10	34.8	11	41.1	13	40.7	13
	FWG	Break free voter community	26.5	8th	27.0	8th	23.3	7th	23.0	7th
	BWG	Breaking civic voter community	20.9	7th	20.0	6th	20.2	6th	15.7	5
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	13.3	4th	14.8	5	15.4	5	20.6	6th
	FDP	Free Democratic Party	6.3	2	3.4	1	-	-	-	-
	total		100.0	31	100.0	31	100.0	31	100.0	31

Town hall of the municipality of Brechen in Niederbruch

mayor

After the Hessian municipal constitution is the Mayor Chairman of the Municipal Board , the seven volunteers in the community break next to the Mayor Councilor belong. Frank Groos, a non-party member, has been mayor since December 1, 2016. His directly elected predecessors were

until 2016 Werner Schlenz
until 2004 Bernhard Königstein

coat of arms

The Brechener coat of arms bears the symbols of the church patrons of the three districts, Bär (Saint Maximin), Drache (Saint George) and Rose (Holy Seven Brothers) in four fields as well as the red Trier cross as an indication of the former membership of the Electorate of Trier.

Buildings

Break down: portal of the parish church of St. Maximin
Oberbruch: fountain at the monument square
Werschau: Berger Church
Roman camp "Alteburg" near Oberbruch
Prisoner Tower in Niederbruch

Economy and Infrastructure

Agriculture , which was dominant in the past, is still important today, almost 70% of the community area is used for agriculture by fewer than ten full-time farms. However, Brechen has changed to a residential community, 90% of the employed earn their living in the surrounding cities, but mainly in the Rhine-Main area .

traffic

Is breaking through 6 km from the connection point Limburg-south A 3 connected to the road network. The B 8 runs through the municipality .

The stops Oberbruch and Niederbruch are on the Main-Lahn-Bahn from Frankfurt (Main) to Limburg (Lahn) ( RMV line 20 ) .

The high-speed route Cologne – Rhine / Main crosses the municipality with the Wörsbachtal bridge . Trains to Frankfurt (Main) and Cologne (and beyond) run almost every hour via the Limburg Süd train station, which is around five kilometers away .

The Hessian long-distance cycle route R8 runs through the towns of Niederbruch and Oberbruch.

education

The community has a primary and secondary school with secondary school in Niederbruch and another primary school in Oberbruch. There are secondary schools in nearby Limburg.

Facilities

School in the Emsbachtal in Niederbruch

Oberbruch primary school in Oberbruch

Kindergarten Niederbruch, In der Schlei 45

Niederbruch kindergarten, Westerwaldstrasse 1–3

Kindergarten Oberbruch

Kindergarten Werschau

Niederbruch volunteer fire brigade , founded in 1897 (since 1947 with wind orchestra)

Voluntary fire brigade Oberbruch, founded in 1895 (since 1972 with music train, since March 1, 1988 with youth fire brigade and since 2012 a children's fire brigade )

Werschau volunteer fire brigade, founded in 1927 (since May 1, 1972 with youth fire brigade)

Breaking Down Catholic Public Library

Catholic public library in Oberbruch

Catholic public library Werschau

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Joseph Neuhäuser (1890–1949), composer
Walter Neuhäusser (* 1926), architect
Martin Richard (* 1951), politician (CDU), mayor of the district town of Limburg an der Lahn (1997 to 2015)

Personalities who have worked on site

Peter Josef Blum (1808–1884), Bishop of Limburg

literature

Christoph Waldecker : 1363: City rights granted to Niederbruch. Downfall, the region and urban life in the late Middle Ages. With reflections on breaking down the loss of city rights. Break 2014 (Publication Series Community Archive Brechen 11).
Literature on breaking in the Hessian Bibliography