Brienen

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Brienen
City of Kleve
Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 32 "  N , 6 ° 8 ′ 58"  E
Residents : 333  (December 31, 2015)
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Postal code : 47533
Area code : 02821
Lock on the Spoy Canal
Lock on the Spoy Canal

Brienen is a district of the city of Kleve . The district on the Spoy Canal and the Old Rhine has 375 inhabitants on an area of ​​214 hectares. The Spoy Canal connects Klever Hafen with the Rhine.

A church in Brienen mentioned in 1280 was washed away during the Rhine flood in 1809. This event was processed in Goethe's ballad about Johanna Sebus . In the Middle Ages and in the early modern period, Brienen was part of the Kleverhamm office .

The sights of Brienen include the listed Spoyschleuse, the marina on the Old Rhine, the Brienensche Hof and the Brienen war memorial .

In the nearby Reichswald and in the vicinity of today's location, the battle in the Reichswald took place in the spring of 1945 . In this battle for the Lower Rhine, the place was badly affected.

On July 1, 1969, Brienen was incorporated into Kleve.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kleve in brief. In: kleve.de. Retrieved April 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 80 .

literature

  • Robert Scholten : Historical news about Cleverham, Brienen, Sombrienen and Griethausen, Kleve 1888.

Web links

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