Brenkhausen

Brenkhausen City of Höxter Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ′ 12 ″ N , 9 ° 21 ′ 9 ″ E
Height :	139 m
Area :	13.2 km²
Residents :	1285 (December 31, 2017)
Population density :	97 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1970
Postal code :	37671
Area code :	05271
	Location of Brenkhausen in Höxter

View of Brenkhausen from the Räuschenberg

Brenkhausen is a village in North Rhine-Westphalia and belongs to the city of Höxter .

geography

The village with its 1,285 inhabitants is about 3 km northwest of Höxter.

The Schelpe flows through the place.

history

Brenkhausen was first mentioned in a document in the 12th century.

As a formerly independent municipality in the district of Höxter-Land , Brenkhausen became part of the town of Höxter on January 1, 1970.

Population development

year	Residents	swell
1821	480
1843	767
1864	762
1871	718
1885	751
1895	818
1910	754
1925	843
1933	871
1939	814
1946	1146
06/06/1961	1141
December 31, 1967	1401
December 31, 1969	1414
December 31, 1998	1506
December 31, 2002	1466
12/31/2003	1473
December 31, 2005	1457
December 31, 2006	1439
12/31/2007	1419
December 31, 2009	1399
December 31, 2010	1357
December 31, 2011	1349
11/21/2012	1351
December 31, 2013	1397
December 31, 2014	1304
December 31, 2015	1295
December 31, 2016	1280
December 31, 2017	1285

Culture and sights

Catholic Church of St. Johannes Baptist Brenkhausen

The three-aisled Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist dates from the middle of the 13th century. The church tower in the northwest was not erected until 1872 by the parish.

The Brenkhausen Monastery, which is directly adjacent to the church, was a former Cistercian and Benedictine monastery and has been the seat of the Bishop General of the Coptic Church since 1993 and bears the name Coptic Orthodox Monastery of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Mauritius .

In the village there is a Catholic elementary school, which was dissolved in the summer of 2008 and converted into a village community center by the local cultural association and inaugurated in November 2011.

traffic

The federal highway 239 as a connection from Höxter to Steinheim and Detmold leads directly past the place. Mühlenstraße and Kreisstraße 18 act as feeders.

About 1.5 km east of Brenkhausen, on the Räuscheberg, is the Höxter-Holzminden airfield .

Web links

Commons : Brenkhausen - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Brenkhausen - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Brenkhausen in the Westphalia Culture Atlas

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b City portrait Höxter 2017
^ Gabriele Maria Hock: The Westphalian Cistercian monasteries in the 13th century; Founding circumstances and early development , dissertation Uni Münster, 2004
↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 108 .
↑ Statistical-topographical overview of the government district of Minden 1821. In: Digital Collections ULB Münster. P. 34 ff , accessed on March 3, 2014 .
↑ Geographical-statistical-topographical overview of the administrative district of Minden 1845
^ Topographical-statistical manual of the government district of Minden 1866
^ The municipalities and manor districts of the Province of Westphalia in 1871
^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia 1885
^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia: 1895 population census
↑ Municipal directory 1900: District Höxter
^ ^A ^b ^c Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. hoexter.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
↑ 1946 census
↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 170 .
↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 106 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j City of Höxter: Demography process in Brenkhausen. Retrieved April 26, 2014 .
^ City of Höxter: Numbers and facts. Retrieved January 31, 2014 .
^ City of Höxter: Numbers and facts. Retrieved August 25, 2015 .
↑ Facts & Figures 2016
^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Brenkhausen monastery and monastery garden in LWL geodata culture

[Einwohner17-1] City portrait Höxter 2017

[2] Gabriele Maria Hock: The Westphalian Cistercian monasteries in the 13th century; Founding circumstances and early development , dissertation Uni Münster, 2004

[3] Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 108 .

[topo1821-4] Statistical-topographical overview of the government district of Minden 1821. In: Digital Collections ULB Münster. P. 34 ff , accessed on March 3, 2014 .

[5] Geographical-statistical-topographical overview of the administrative district of Minden 1845

[6] Topographical-statistical manual of the government district of Minden 1866

[7] The municipalities and manor districts of the Province of Westphalia in 1871

[8] Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia 1885

[9] Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia: 1895 population census

[10] Municipal directory 1900: District Höxter

[VerwaltungsgeschichteHöxter-11] A ^b ^c Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. hoexter.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[vz1946-12] 1946 census

[13] Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 170 .

[14] Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 106 .

[Einwohner-15] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j City of Höxter: Demography process in Brenkhausen. Retrieved April 26, 2014 .

[16] City of Höxter: Numbers and facts. Retrieved January 31, 2014 .

[17] City of Höxter: Numbers and facts. Retrieved August 25, 2015 .

[Einwohner15-18] Facts & Figures 2016

[19] Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Brenkhausen monastery and monastery garden in LWL geodata culture