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coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '  N , 6 ° 54'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bernkastel-Wittlich
Association municipality :	Thalfang at the Erbeskopf
Height :	400 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4 km 2
Residents:	290 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	73 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54426
Area code :	06509
License plate :	WIL, BKS
Community key :	07 2 31 202
Association administration address:	Saarstrasse 7 54424 Thalfang
Website :	www.og-breit.de
Local Mayor :	Christine Paulussen
Location of the local community Breit in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich

Wide

Breit is a municipality in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Thalfang am Erbeskopf .

Geographical location

The place is in the Hunsrück on a hilltop about 400 m above sea level and thus about 150 m above the valley floor of the Kleine Dhron .

history

The local community Breit appears for the first time in the name of "Conrad von Breit" in a piece of the Abbey of St. Maximin from the beginning of the 13th century .

Until the end of the 18th century, Breit belonged to the Electoral Trier office of Maximin and was assigned to the Detzem High Court . After the French Revolution in 1794, the Left Bank of the Rhine, and with it Breit, was taken over by France . From 1798 to 1814 the place belonged to the canton Büdlich in the Saardepartement . By law of March 26, 1798, the French repealed feudal rights in the region. After French rule, the place came to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 . Since 1946 it has been part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Since the Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform of 1969, Breit has belonged to the Verbandsgemeinde Thalfang am Erbeskopf in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich . Until then it belonged to the office of Klüsserath , which was dissolved in the course of the administrative reform.

Population development

The development of the population of Breit, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 193 1835 258 1871 255 1905 215 1939 222 1950 220 1961 227

year Residents 1970 232 1980 247 1987 252 2005 282 2011 267 2017 281

politics

Municipal council

The council in broad consists of six council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

mayor

Christine Paulußen has been the local mayor since November 2019.

Culture and sights

The ball tree, an oak about 200 years old, stands in width ; the local sports club is FC Büdlich-Breit-Naurath . There is also a music association , a church choir , a theater association and the support association of the Breit volunteer fire brigade .

The Ausoniusweg leads past Breit . A hiking route that leads from Trier to Bingen and is named after the Roman poet and civil servant Decimus Magnus Ausonius , who traveled and described the area between 365 and 368 AD.

See also:

• List of cultural monuments in Breit
• List of natural monuments in Breit

Economy and Infrastructure

Breit is structured as a cluster village .

The Mehring ( A1 ) motorway junction at a distance of around 8 km provides supraregional transport links . The next train station is the main train station in Trier , which can be reached after approx. 25 km from Breit.

Web links

Commons : Broad  - collection of images

• Internet presence of the local community Breit
• Link catalog on the subject of wide at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections