Brede (Brakel)

Brede is a former district in the East Westphalian town of Brakel in North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

The Brede area extends in the northern part of Brakel between Nieheimer Straße and the bypass road that leads towards the hospital. The conclusion in the north is the Pahenwinkel.

In the area of ​​the Brede there are some houses and streets. In addition to the monastery, the Brede schools and the kindergarten, the so-called Bredenwiesen make up the largest part . They surround the entire area and serve, among other things, as flood protection.

history

Up der Breden , outside the former northern city wall of Brakel, the monastery Mariae Opferungsthal was donated by the counts of Asseburg in 1483 . In 1849, Count Hermann Werner von Bocholtz-Asseburg asked sister Marie Theresia Gerhardinger, the founder of the poor school sisters v. UL Fr. to sisters for the orphanage and orphanage school. In May 1850 she was able to comply with this request and sent the first three sisters to Brede. In 1851 they founded the secondary school for girls, from which the schools developed.

Since January 1, 2006, the Brede Monastery and the Arnsberg Convent have been branches of the Bavarian Order Province.

Today's structure

Today the Brede is structured as follows:

• Monastery: Mariae Opferungsthal Brede
• School: Schools of Brede (grammar school, vocational college, secondary school)
• Kindergarten: Catholic Family Center Brede (founded in the 19th century: oldest kindergarten in the entire Höxter district .)

Web links

• Schools of Brede
• Brede Monastery
• Document registers from the Hinnenburg Castle archive with entries on the Brede Monastery / Digital Westphalian Document Database (DWUD)
• Poor school sisters Munich
• Catholic family center Brede

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kloster Mariae Opferungsthal ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Further information on the history of the Brede. 

Coordinates: 51 ° 43 '  N , 9 ° 11'  E