Brilliance

Brilliance municipality Gnarrenburg
Coordinates: 53 ° 24 ′ 46 ″  N , 8 ° 59 ′ 36 ″  E
Height :	31 m above sea level NHN
Area :	11.22 km²
Residents :	913  (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	81 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	April 8, 1974
Postal code :	27442
Area code :	04763
Location of Brillit in Gnarrenburg
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Brillit is a district of the Gnarrenburg community in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district in Lower Saxony .

geography

Brillit is about two and a half kilometers northwest of Gnarrenburg. The B 74 runs on the western outskirts of Brillit . Not far from the forest road that leads from Gnarrenburg to Brillit, the stone grave in Eichholz , a Neolithic megalithic complex, is located in a pine forest .

history

Ten mark banknote

Excerpt from the 10 Deutsche Mark note with Brillit as a measuring point

In the years 1824 and 1825 Carl Friedrich Gauß stayed temporarily in Gnarrenburg and Brillit in the course of surveying work. Brillit became a measuring point in the surveying network that Gauss made. A section of the surveying network is shown on the last 10 Deutsche Mark note , which was legal tender from 1991 to 2001.

Incorporations

In 1929 the previously independent municipality of Rübehorst was incorporated into Brillit.

On April 8, 1974, Brillit was incorporated into the Gnarrenburg community as part of the regional reform .

Population development

year	1910	1925	1933	1939	2011	2012	2016
Residents	247	371	515	518	922	903	913

(Sources: 1910, 1925–1939, 2011–2016 according to the version history of the place as of December 31)

politics

Local council

The local council of Brillit consists of nine councilors. There is also an advisory member in the local council.

Local mayor

The local mayor of Brillit is Ingo Bollmeyer ( Free Citizens Community of Gnarrenburg / WFB ). His deputy is André Wenzel.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

• Werner Greth (1951–1982), football player

Culture and sights

Museums

• Potato Museum

See also

• The last gem
• Moorexpress
• Farge – Sandbostel memorial march
• Death marches by concentration camp prisoners
• End-stage crime

Web links

Commons : Brillit  - collection of images

• Brillit on the website of the Gnarrenburg community

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} General information about the community Gnarrenburg. In: Website of the Gnarrenburg community. Retrieved March 18, 2019 .  
2. ↑ Brilliance. In: Gnarrenburg community website. Retrieved March 18, 2019 .  
3. ^ G. Waldo Dunnington: Carl Friedrich Gauss: Titan of Science . The Mathematical Association of America, 2004, pp. 130 and 133 .
4. ↑ Uli Schubert: Community directory Germany 1900. Information from December 1, 1910. In: www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de. February 3, 2019, accessed March 20, 2019 .  
5. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. See under 13. (online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).  
6. ↑ ^{a b} Members of the Brillit local council. In: Gnarrenburg community website. Retrieved March 18, 2019 .  
7. ↑ Announcement of the final election results of the municipal council elections. (PDF; 129 kB) Party membership of the individual council members. In: Website of the Gnarrenburg community. September 14, 2016, p. 2 , accessed March 20, 2019 .  
8. ↑ Potato Museum . (No longer available online.) In: Website Kultur- und Heimatverein Brillit e. V. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on March 19, 2019 .