Brilon
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Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ' N , 8 ° 34' E |
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| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Administrative region : | Arnsberg | |
| Circle : | Hochsauerlandkreis | |
| Height : | 450 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 229.16 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 25,451 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 111 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 59929 | |
| Primaries : | 02961, 02963, 02964, 02991 | |
| License plate : | HSK | |
| Community key : | 05 9 58 012 | |
| LOCODE : | DE BRI | |
| City structure: | Core city and 16 localities |
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City administration address : |
Am Markt 1 59929 Brilon |
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| Mayor : | Christof Bartsch ( SPD ) | |
| Location of the city of Brilon in the Hochsauerlandkreis | ||
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Brilon [ ˈbʁiːlɔn ] is a city in the eastern Sauerland . With 25,451 inhabitants, it is the size of a medium- sized town and belongs to the Hochsauerlandkreis in the east of North Rhine-Westphalia . The city is a state-approved Kneipp spa . With 77.5 km² of urban forest , Brilon is one of the cities with the largest municipal forest ownership in Germany .
geography
Geographical location
Brilon is located in the east of the Sauerland on the border with Hesse . The core city is located on the southern edge of the Brilon plateau , a hilly landscape characterized by limestone peaks at an altitude of 375 m above sea level. NN in the Möhnetal at Osterhof up to about 550 m above sea level. NN near Rösenbeck. This is followed by the mountain ranges of the Arnsberg Forest in the west . In the southeast, the Brilon plateau merges abruptly into the deeply cut Hoppecketal . The protected landscape area Wintertal / Escherfeld extends from the Möhnetal towards Altenbüren . In the north, the urban area borders on the eastern extensions of the Haarstrang and merges into the Sintfeld . The Alme, which rises in the Alme district, flows from its source in a northerly direction and leaves the urban area after a few kilometers. The lowest point in the city is in the Almetal, at 278 m . The northern foothills of the Rothaargebirge adjoin the city to the south . There are the mountains Dreiskopf ( 781 m ), Hoher Eimberg (max. 806.1 m ), on which the highest point of the Brilon city area lies at 805.5 m , and Hoppernkopf ( 805 m ), which is on the border with Hessian Willingen and Großer Kluskopf ( 760.4 m ). Around the 605 m high Poppenberg , located south of the city center, there are some streams that can be seen as the source of the Möhne . The Möhne spring is indicated today above the Brilon spa gardens on the eastern slope of the Poppenberg. The real origin of the Möhne, however, is the confluence of this river course with the Aa in the north of the city center. Another river is the Hoppecke, which flows north from Willingen. North of Brilon-Wald it turns its course to the east-northeast, flows through the districts of Hoppecke and Messinghausen and after 18.6 km it leaves the Brilon city area, making it the longest river in Brilon. The mountain ranges to the left or northwest of the Hoppecke form a section of the Rhine-Weser watershed , which also runs through the Petersborn district.
Expansion of the urban area
The urban area of Brilon extends in a north-south direction from the tributary of the Harlebach into the Alme , about three kilometers north of the Alme district over about 22 km to the place of execution at Hoppernkopf west of Willingen . The westernmost point is at the Esshoff district, the easternmost at the tributary of the Great Aa into the Aabach, northeast of the Madfeld district . The distance between the two points is about 21 km.
The urban area covers an area of 229.2 km². The forest has the largest share of this area with 111.6 km² (49%), of which 77.5 km² are owned by the city , followed by the agricultural areas with 87.7 km² (38%). Buildings and open spaces take up 11.6 km², traffic areas 12.0 km² (5% each). 3.6 km² are designated as operating area, of which 2.5 km² are mining land.
Neighboring communities
In the north, Brilon borders the towns of Büren and Bad Wünnenberg, which are part of the Paderborn district . To the east of Brilon is Marsberg , in the southeast of the the Hessian Waldeck-Frankenberg belonging communities Diemelsee and Willingen . The western city limits are shared by Brilon with Olsberg and in the northwest lies the town of Rüthen, which belongs to the Soest district . Like Brilon, Olsberg and Marsberg belong to the Hochsauerlandkreis .
City structure
The city of Brilon has consisted of 17 districts since the municipal reorganization. From the 14 formerly independent municipalities and the places Petersborn-Gudenhagen and Brilon-Wald, which had already belonged to Brilon, 16 localities were formed in accordance with the municipal code for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Each of these elect a mayor. The villages form of clearly identifiable spatial layers , usually with a village character. The following table shows the city structure:
| Core city / district |
Area in km² |
Population as of Dec 31, 2013 |
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| Alme | 35.58 | 1,836 |
| Altenbüren | 13.84 | 1,321 |
| Bontkirchen | 5.58 | 517 |
| Brilon (city center) | - | 14,336 |
| Brilon forest | - | 539 |
| Esshoff | 0.66 | 78 |
| Gudenhagen-Petersborn | - | 1,251 |
| Hoppecke | 7.18 | 1,189 |
| Madfeld | 14.68 | 1,265 |
| Messinghausen | 9.41 | 798 |
| Nehden | 4.37 | 497 |
| Radlinghausen | 2.88 | 134 |
| Rixen | 2.52 | 125 |
| Rosenbeck | 10.46 | 791 |
| Scharfenberg | 13.48 | 1,437 |
| Thulen | 8.45 | 1,067 |
| Hurled | 2.59 | 401 |
| Total city | 228.98 | 27,582 |
The historic center of Brilon, which in terms of area only takes up a small part of the core city, is divided into the following districts , called quarters here : Derkeres Viertel, Kreuziger Viertel, Lower Quarter and Upper Quarter.
The former municipality of Alme was formed in 1928 from the municipalities of Niederalme, Oberalme and the Alme estate .
As separate settlements , Almerfeld can also be demarcated between Radlinghausen, Nehden and Alme, Pulvermühle near Gudenhagen-Petersborn, the Egge near Madfeld and Waldbruch near Scharfenberg.
Most of the settlements in the city became deserted in the Middle Ages .
history
- See also a list of desertions near Brilon
Early history
The Brilon plateau was settled very early. Numerous sites from the Meso - and Neolithic are known. Several burial mounds in the vicinity of Brilon can be assigned to the Bronze Age. Iron Age finds were made at Thülen (1939, turned bronze neck ring), at the Kassbach near the Derkerstein (pottery shards, bricked clay, spindle whorls, fireplaces), in a cave near Rösenbeck (pottery shards). Only the finds from the Derkerstein point to permanent structures of an Iron Age settlement and thus to the first permanent settlement on the Brilon plateau. Comparable traces of a settlement from the Roman Empire were found at the Fülsenbecke . At the end of the 1st century AD, lead, calamine , iron and calcite were mined in the Brilon area . This is proven above all by the finds of small lead ingots, for example near Altenbüren. There is no evidence that the mines were operated by Roman entrepreneurs. This was assumed on the basis of a find in the Rhone Delta, in which lead ingots with the manufacturer's imprint "plumb.germ.", Ie "plumbum germanicum" (that is, lead from Germania), were recovered from a shipwreck. However , it could not be clearly assigned from the isotopic composition ; the area of origin Brilon and the surrounding area is only one possibility besides the Eifel.
middle Ages
Origin of the city
The first documentary mention comes from Emperor Otto II. In 973 he confirmed all Westphalian possessions lent by his father to the archbishopric of Magdeburg , including the "Villa Brilon". This mention is of course a much older settlement, probably today's Altenbrilon . Later, the property in Brilon was exchanged for the Paderborn church , which then loaned its bailiffs . Other documented names of places are Brilo, Brylon, Brule, Briloin, Brielon and Briglon .
Around 1220, the Archbishop of Cologne, Engelbert, acquired the Brilon district from the brothers Hermann and Gernand von Brilon. Archbishop Engelbert built a fortified city with a curtain wall and granted it city rights . The original city size was around 32 hectares. In bloody disputes between Engelbert and the Paderborn Church there was a dispute over the ownership rights to Brilon. This ended with the capture of Paderborn Bishop Simon I during the battle on Wülferichskamp in 1254 and his renunciation of his Brilon claims (1256). This dispute was probably mainly carried out for economic reasons; it was about the mineral resources lead, iron, silver and calamine , which were mined and smelted in the Brilon area.
The Electorate of Cologne Marshal Johann I von Plettenberg recorded in his large inventory around 1307:
- 1. Brilon belongs to the archbishop, there he owns the court, which previously brought in 4, but now 10 marks.
- 2. The archbishop owns the geography of 10 - unnamed - parishes, which annually registers 16 Malter oats, 70 Malter according to the Cologne measure, furthermore 5 marks annually from broths or the like and every house in the geography earns a chicken that receives the marshal.
- 3. The Archbishop has the wood tithe there, which brings in 20 Malter grain per year, or 100 Malter according to the Cologne measure. This tithe is held by Gotfridus de Olde, a citizen of Rüthen, who states that it belongs to him for 7 years for certain expenses.
- 4. The Archbishop has his tithe in Lederike , which brings in 60 or more Malter grain annually, 300 Malter according to the Cologne measure; he is pledged to Wickerus for 100 Mark Soester pfennigs.
- 5. the archbishop receives 100 marks annually from the Briloner Bede.
The rights mentioned here formed the nucleus of the later office of Brilon .
Development of the city
In 1252, the city received the privilege of independence from the Freigericht, also known as Feme . After a renewal in 1272, the law was renewed again in 1302 under the name " Privilegium de non evocando " by Archbishop Wigbold because of the uncertainty of the paths through wars. Brilon had its own coin from 1256 to 1304 . The Brilon merchants received their own statute in 1289 . Archbishop Siegfried of Cologne promised the citizens of Brilon in 1294 in return for the help they had provided to his Altenfels Castle (castri nostri Aldenuels) that they would never harm them from there or that they would replace any damage within eight days.
A doctor in Brilon was first mentioned in a Latin document in 1297. Mayor and council announced on February 19 that fellow citizen Johannes, called Jude, doctor in Brilon, son of doctor Johannes in Soest (... Johannes dictus Judaeus medicus noster coopidanus filius quondam Johannis medici de Susato ...) , renounces certain properties and leaves them the monastery Welver as property. The Brilon citizen Gottfried von Vernekenbroke d. Ä. founded a hospital on October 24, 1313 on Dercker Strasse between Hans Hudekoill's house and Henrick Semmede's barn. He also donated various pieces of land, also free of charge. The administration was the responsibility of the Brilon pleban Christian Füllingh and his successors in office. The foundation was notarized by Johannes Eusebius Evensby de Brilon, a cleric of the Cologne diocese. Archbishop Heinrich of Cologne instructed the Brilon pleban in 1323 to use the cemetery of the chapel of St. Nikolai in future to avoid epidemics. He dissolved the interdict for the chapel and the cemetery. The Hospital of the Holy Spirit was a charitable institution in the city. It was founded in 1384 at the site of today's Hövener house. The James Brotherhood was founded in Brilon in 1431; she looked after the hospital of the Holy Spirit in the market .
In order to be able to operate long-distance and wholesale trade successfully, a membership in the Hanse was necessary. The exact joining date of Brilon cannot be proven. In a document from 1255, trade is mentioned together with Soest . As a member of the Westphalian third, Soest was a Hanseatic city of four, Brilon was subordinate to this as an auxiliary city. Brilon did not play an important role in the Hanseatic League, membership ended in 1669. As a result, under the rule of the Electorate of Cologne , Brilon developed into a flourishing city with around 3,000 inhabitants and a lively commercial and mining life as well as extensive trade relations. In 1350 the city had 500 to 600 houses. At that time, Brilon, like Soest and Werl, played a dominant role among the cities of the Duchy of Westphalia . After Soest left in 1444, Brilon became the first of the four capitals of the Duchy of Westphalia. Brilon set up the directory of the city curia in the state parliaments ; the Brilon town clerk was its recorder. The city archive was responsible for the safekeeping of the protocols . The minutes of the meetings were kept in a safe in the tower of the parish church. Several trade families had a great influence in mining , the smelting industry and in the numerous hammer mills in the Sauerland.
In 1362 the city created its own order of war , in which the defense order on the city fortifications was laid down. The gun regulations stipulated that when the bell struck, all citizens had to arm themselves and stand under the banner in front of their gate. There they had to wait for the mayor and the council. Nobody should act on their own beforehand. Anyone who suffered damage in trading for the city had to pay for it. Objection to the advice is punished with money; whoever flees before the battle is lost has fallen into the city with body and property. Likewise, anyone who, although he could, did not appear on the alarm will be punished with money. The verdict in such cases was made by the mayor and the council. The first Brilon Schnadezug broke into the border between Keffliker and Willinger Mark in 1388 . In 1417 the Brilon shooting statutes, the oldest in Westphalia, were drawn up. The tailors received their own statute in 1423, the shoemakers and Löher in 1428. Archbishop Dietrich issued regulations in 1435 about the confiscation of desolate farmsteads, unless they were rebuilt within two years. This decree was revised and tightened in 1450, 1509 and 1515. Archbishop Dietrich granted the city the excise privilege in 1448 for faithful services rendered . Archbishop Hermann of Cologne confirmed the city's privileges in 1480.
Several former villages and individual farms fell into desolation over the course of time, and this process began around 1300. See main article list of desertions at Brilon .
Early modern age
The Humpert bell foundry cast the Brilon citizen bell in 1506. From November 11th to April 30th, the citizen bell will still be rung in the evening from 8:55 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. With this custom called “snow peals”, the way to Brilon should be shown to stray people. The city acquired the court and village of Altenbüren in 1524 . In 1561 the parish church spire was destroyed by lightning . The Thirty Years' War also had lasting consequences for Brilon. The city was taken by the Hessians in 1632. A pharmacist, Theodor Christiani, was first mentioned in the combing book in 1662. Christiani was also a doctor of medicine. His successor Melchior Niedhardt Gronau ran a pharmacy in Derker quarter. Gronau also traded with oil, vinegar, fish stock, Tran , tar, soap, herring and others. He brewed beer and sold brandy . In 1655, after three years of negotiations between the city's magistrate and the Brilon Minorites, the Petrinum grammar school was founded as a monastery school. It is one of the oldest grammar schools in Westphalia . The monastery and school were approved by Maximilian Heinrich, Archbishop of Cologne. On January 15, 1655, the cities of Rüthen, Geseke and Soest confirmed the primacy of the city of Brilon among the cities of the Duchy of Westphalia. In 1657, Brilon received the electoral privilege of exclusively relocating all hump and grocer's goods for the entire Brilon office .
In the 15th century, disputes and acts of war led to the city's economic decline. The wars of the 17th and 18th centuries brought unspeakable misery to the city, which was previously in full bloom. The city and the surrounding area had had a certain importance as a mining site since the second half of the 18th century . The mining administration for the Duchy of Westphalia was based in Brilon. While no town fires are known from before 1700, the town was ravaged by disasters several times in the 18th and 19th centuries. The fires of 1707, 1721, 1742, 1746, 1758 and 1791 destroyed more than 500 buildings. Brilon was hit by the Ruhr in 1727, as is documented . Before and after that, too, the epidemic kept recurring; the inadequate hygienic conditions contributed to this. The worst form was the red dysentery , which was so called because of the bloody diarrhea. The death rate was high. On August 19, 1742, a large city fire destroyed 159 houses, 12 barns and numerous stables and outbuildings. The fire had broken out on the northern outskirts and spread across the city by a northwest wind. The fire claimed two lives. There were also 47 fire-damaged families or individuals in the Upper Quarter, 44 in the Cruciform Quarter, and 118 in the Lower Quarter.
Donkey in Brilon
In the 18th and 19th centuries, an unusually large number of donkeys were kept in Brilon. The residents of neighboring places mocked the Briloners with the nickname donkey . The donkeys were used like horses to pull carts and sleds, or firewood and other loads were carried on their backs. Inadequate paths in the area were not suitable for horse transport. In 1760, at the time of the Seven Years' War , 110 donkeys were counted, in 1777 there were 181, and in 1837 there were 223 animals. After 1850 donkey keeping declined significantly due to an improvement in the road conditions.
Modern times
The Nikolaikirche was completed in 1782. Some parts of the city fortifications were demolished in 1792 and the stones were used elsewhere. A lieutenant von Knesebeck reported in his Geography of the Duchy of Westphalia in 1797 about the city of Brilon: “Your houses are badly built, most of the roofs of them are thatched; Except for a few that burned down and rebuilt a few years ago. The city still has a wall, but it's already crumbling in several places. ”It goes on to say:“ The streets of the city are consistently littered with dung so that you can hardly wade through, causing unhealthy air and a bad smell. The only pleasure that the citizen seems to know are gunshots on a window on a Sunday afternoon. "
During Napoleon's time , Brilon came to Hessen-Darmstadt in 1802 . In 1803 the Minorite monastery was dissolved. The inventory of the church and the monastery was auctioned; the buildings were converted into barracks. In 1804 the Hessian government authority in Arnsberg asked the magistrate to create a burial place outside the walls and to give up the one next to the church. At that time the city had never crossed the medieval fortification ring. After several submissions and objections on the part of the city, a court of the dead was set up in early 1807 on a piece of the Kreuziger Waldemei, north of the city. This graveyard is now the old part of the cemetery. The Duchy of Westphalia was 1,807 in 18 offices and 282 magistrate districts divided.
After the Congress of Vienna in 1816, Brilon came to Prussia as part of the province of Westphalia , which in 1818 appointed it to the district town of the Brilon district . This gave Brilon renewed importance as the seat of authorities and schools. The expansion of traffic connections and urban measures led to a strong development of handicrafts and businesses. The Westphalian President Ludwig von Vincke reported in 1817 to the State Chancellor Karl August von Hardenberg about the Briloners: “They are a solid, strong group of people, very busy, active and witty, like the mountain people usually, extremely frugal and economical, if not an excellent degree is perceived by prosperity among them. ”The Mayorry of Brilon was founded in 1826. The city left the existing mayors' association in 1837. From then on it was administered according to the town code of 1831. Other major fires were recorded in 1808, 1849, 1852, 1853, 1856, 1877 and 1886, in each of which a larger number of buildings were destroyed by the flames. In Brilon there was a Heinrich Humpert bell foundry from 1762 (from 1918 bell foundry Albert Junker), which ran the world's first bell foundry from 1929 to 1933.
20th and 21st centuries
First World War and the time after
At the beginning of the 20th century the city had around 5,000 inhabitants. Despite the economic upturn, there were significant losses in emigration. In the First World War were 195 male citizens. In the period after that, economic difficulties shaped the life of the population. In the inflation that followed in 1923, the Sparkasse Brilon issued emergency notes; The Albrecht printing works in Brilon printed various notes worth between 50 million and 10 billion Reichsmarks.
In 1921 a mine lamp factory was founded in the Bremecketal, which in 1925 expanded its production program to include small transformers. The plant, which later became Dominit , was the largest employer in what was then the Brilon district for decades . The Hoppecke accumulator factory began production in 1928. In 1937 a Nolte furniture factory was founded. In the period from 1933 to 1939 the population rose to 7,154.
National Socialism and World War II
Continuous government crises and economic difficulties favored the rise of the NSDAP . The content of the Briloner Zeitung also changed in accordance with the New Spirit . The local section was predominantly dominated by party-political and Germanic heroic messages such as solstice celebrations or memorial days. The city and district parliaments were dissolved on January 1, 1934 in favor of the Führer principle. At the city's opening session, the first row of listeners was predominantly made up of party members in brown shirts . The city administration received a secret deployment plan for air raid protection in 1938. During the Nazi era, 103 Brilon citizens were murdered as part of the persecution of Jews . In her memory there is a memorial stone on the former square of the synagogue, which was set on fire by Briloner Braunhemden. Josef Paul Sauvigny was, in his function as mayor, responsible for the enforcement of the Nuremberg race laws . In the early days of the persecution, the Jews were economically boycotted . The party offices stirred up agitation, which reached its first climax with the destruction of the synagogue on Reichskristallnacht . The Jewish community was wiped out by National Socialist terror . In 1946 only two Jewish citizens lived in Brilon.
In World War II the city was up to the autumn of 1944 air raids of the Allies spared. The first bombs thrown around and in Brilon went off without any significant damage. On January 10, 1945, there was an air raid by the United States Army Air Forces , in which entire streets were damaged or destroyed. Hoppecker Strasse and the Derkere Wall were particularly hard hit. A dud broke through the roof of the provost church. 39 people, including 13 children, were killed. Four people were later killed in two additional air strikes. At the end of March 1945, Brilon saw military and civil vehicles fleeing to the east. Foreign prisoners of war were herded through the city on foot. On March 29th at 4 p.m. the city was occupied by American troops from the south without a fight, as only scattered German soldiers were in the city and the mobilized Volkssturm was not ready to fight either. Brief resistance was only offered in the Renzelberg camp of the Reich Labor Service . Eight fallen German soldiers were later found there. The mayor was even able to hand over the city to the US Army . Shortly after the occupation, a transit camp was set up in the open field for German prisoners of war from the surrounding area. On March 30, the US troops released a large warehouse with clothing and food in the Brilon rifle hall for Brilon prisoners of war and foreign workers. The clearance resulted in a looting of the camp, in which the German population of Brilon and the surrounding area also participated. 6,000 to 7,000 former foreign prisoners streamed into the city, who had to be taken care of by the city after the camp was plundered. There was looting and raids on houses and farms. A man was killed in a raid on a hunting lodge. The foreign prisoners were later transported to Giessen by US troops. In the first time after the occupation, by order of the US troops, Serbs and 20 German auxiliary police officers exercised police power in Brilon. In the Second World War, 159 Briloners died as soldiers or died in captivity. A memorial by the Düsseldorf sculptor Wilhelm Hanebal on the church square commemorates the victims of the Second World War . A total of around 400 Brilon citizens died as a result of the war.
After the Second World War
After the Second World War, Brilon became part of the newly created state of North Rhine-Westphalia . In the course of municipal reorganization in 1975, 14 municipalities were incorporated into the city. In 2009 a state treaty was signed between Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia for the transfer of 55 parcels with a total area of 14 hectares to Brilon. The city of Brilon pays the municipality of Diemelsee compensation of 390,000 euros for the loss of territorial and tax power . The State Treaty has been in force since November 1, 2009.
Incorporations
On January 1, 1975, in the course of the municipal reorganization in North Rhine-Westphalia, the municipalities of Alme, Bontkirchen, Hoppecke, Madfeld, Messinghausen, Nehden, Radlinghausen, Rixen, Rösenbeck, Scharfenberg, Thülen, Wülfte and the Bigge, previously administered by the Thülen office, became the Bigge office belonging communities Altenbüren and Eßhoff districts of Brilon.
Brilon-Wald, Petersborn and Gudenhagen were not independent municipalities even before the municipal reorganization, but have always belonged to the city of Brilon, at that time one of the largest municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia in terms of area.
Population development
Brilon according to the territorial status at that time
| year | population | comment |
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| 1784 | 2,592 | including 63 Jews |
| 1844 | 3,584 | thereof 111 Evangelicals, 84 Jews |
| 1890 | 4,471 | including 231 Protestants, 95 Jews |
| 1899 | 4,900 | |
| 1925 | 5,849 | |
| 1933 | 6,480 | |
| 1939 | 6,959 | |
| 1961 | 11,887 | |
| 1966 | 14.305 | |
| 1970 | 13,746 | |
| 1974 | 14,437 |
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Brilon according to today's territorial status
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politics
City council
After the election to the city council on August 30, 2014 , it has 38 council members. The table shows the composition of the city council.
| Party / group | Seats | |||
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| 2014 | 2009 | 2004 | 1999 | |
| CDU | 19th | 17th | 17th | 19th |
| SPD | 14th | 15th | 16 | 15th |
| Brilon Citizens List | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| FDP | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| The left | 1 | - | - | - |
| total | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 |
mayor
Since 1945
| Term of office | Surname | comment |
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| April 2, 1945– May 1945 | Johannes Martini | (provisional) |
| 1945-1946 | Walter Dinkloh | |
| 1946-1948 | Wilhelm Schieferecke | |
| 1948-1948 | Josef Stuhldreher | |
| 1948-1951 | Wilhelm Stracke | center |
| March 12, 1951 - October 21, 1951 | Heinrich Lüke | As the first representative of the sick Wilhelm Stracke |
| 1951-1952 | Josef Schreckenberg | SPD |
| 1952-1956 | August Heeke | CDU |
| 1956-1958 | Julius Drescher | SPD |
| 1958-1961 | Josef Wolff | CDU |
| 1961-1963 | Julius Drescher | SPD |
| 1963-1973 | Franz Hillebrand | CDU |
| 1973–1985 | Josef Klaholz | CDU |
| 1985-1999 | Franz Hülshoff | CDU |
| 1999-2014 | Franz Schrewe | SPD, first full-time mayor, he was appointed honorary mayor of the city of Brilon on January 11, 2015. |
| since 2014 | Christof Bartsch | SPD |
City Directors
| Term of office | Surname | comment | image |
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| 1946-1948 | Walter Dinkloh | ||
| 1948-1957 | Heinrich Schieferecke | There are two bronze figures on the Brilon Schnadebrunnen at the former Schultenhaus. The figure on the left shows Heinrich Schieferecke reading the recess from a roll of documents. |
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| 1957-1980 | Ludwig Steiger | ||
| 1980-1999 | Eberhard Schüle |
coat of arms
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The oldest seals of the city from the 13th century show a city wall with a gate, inside the key. The first use of today's coat of arms can be found in a jury's seal from 1547.
Town twinning
Brilon has four city partnerships:
- The city has been on friendly terms with the French city of Hesdin since 1965 .
- In 1971, friendly ties were established with the Belgian town of Heusden-Zolder .
- The partnership with the Scottish town of Thurso was established in 1980 from the friendly relationships of the respective boy scouts .
- A friendship treaty was signed with the Brandenburg town of Buckow in 2003. This arose from the longstanding contacts of the Brilon volunteer fire brigade .
Culture and sights
Museums
Museum Haus Hövener
The Haus Hövener Museum , formerly the Brilon City Museum , shows the geological history of the East Sauerland as well as the “oldest Sauerland”. This is a dinosaur that was recreated based on bones discovered in 1978 near Nehden. Furthermore, the museum goes into the history of the city with the mining and metallurgy industry. Furthermore, the history of the Albert Junker bell foundry is presented. The city museum also includes the stove collection that was in the guest's house.
Altenbüren Village and Local History Museum
The museum shows a bedroom and living room from the 19th century as well as rural and handicraft equipment from earlier times. Furthermore, village life is presented in words and pictures and testimonies of faith are displayed in pictures, books and writings. A photo documentation shows the destruction of Altenburen at the end of the Second World War.
Buildings
The Brilon town hall is one of the oldest town halls in Germany. The two-story plastered building was built as a guild house in the middle of the 13th century . The outer walls and the ogival double arcade on the ground floor probably date from this time. On the central pillar there is a wayside shrine from 1688. The double-curved baroque gable , marked in 1755, was created according to a design by the Waldeck master builder Johann Matthias Kitz . In the central niche there is a figure of the city patron St. Peter. The town hall, crowned by a ridge turret, was rebuilt and changed several times inside, for example in 1826, 1879 and 1910.
Of the gates of the former city fortifications , only the Derker gate has been preserved. Today's gate was largely rebuilt around 1750 after the previous building had become dilapidated.
Churches
Churches in the main town
The main town's landmark is the provost church of St. Petrus and Andreas with its 63 m high tower. The church was built between 1220 and 1350 in the early Gothic style. After a fire, the 31 m high spire was renewed in baroque form.
The St. Nikolai Church was built between 1772 and 1782 as a monastery church of the Minorites , after the chapel below the current church had become too small. The church has a baroque interior.
The Evangelical City Church was built by the Protestant Christians who moved here in the 19th century in 1855 and 1856. It was created as the " Prussian Normal Church " based on the design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel .
The Rochus Chapel is located in the Rochus Grove .
Parts of the former Georgskirche continue to exist as the Hubertus Chapel.
Churches in the districts
In the districts there are also worth seeing, mostly listed churches:
| District | Church name | comment |
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| Alme | Parish Church of St. Ludgerus | built 1753–1760 |
| Altenbüren | Parish Church of Ss. John Baptist and Agatha | built in 1553 |
| Bontkirchen | Parish Church of St. Vitus | houses a Gothic Madonna statue |
| Gudenhagen | Protestant church | built in 1962 |
| Gudenhagen | Parish Church of St. Michael | modern church in the shape of a tent roof, built 1969–1970 |
| Hoppecke | Old and new parish church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary | old church built around 1150 |
| Madfeld | Parish Church of St. Margaretha | houses a high altar from 1681 |
| Messinghausen | Parish Church of St. Vitus | modern church in the shape of a tent roof, built 1967–1968 |
| Rosenbeck | New parish church of St. Laurentius | neo-Gothic church, built in 1854 |
| Scharfenberg | St. Laurence | Baroque church, built 1745–1750 |
| Thulen | Parish Church of St. Dionysios | Pillar basilica, mentioned in 1175 |
| Keffelke | Keffelker Chapel | last remnant of the deserted settlement Keffelke |
See also: List of sacred buildings in the Hochsauerlandkreis
Fountain
The Petrusbrunnen on the market square, popularly known as Kump , used to be part of the city's central water supply. A wooden water pipe from a never-ending spring on Poppenberg ended here. The fountain got its present form in 1726 when the fountain bowl was renewed. This consists of 23 sandstone slabs on which the remains of coats of arms can be seen. In the middle of the fountain bowl there is a life-size statue of St. Peter, the patron saint of the city, on a column. This comes from the previous fountain from the first half of the 16th century.
The history fountain behind the town hall shows scenes from the Brilon Schnadezügen and various motifs related to the city on a bronze stele . The coats of arms of the Brilon districts are placed as bronze plaques on the edge of the fountain bowl. The fountain was designed by the Madfeld artist Theodor Sprenger.
Other fountains in the city center are the Europabrunnen in the roundabout at the Evangelical City Church, the Schnadebrunnen at the school building, the Bürgerbrunnen in Bahnhofstrasse, the Papebrunnen at the Amtshaus opposite the district court and the farmer's fountain at the Mistemarkt. The watershed fountain was built in the Petersborn district, pointing to the Rhine-Weser watershed running here.
Residential buildings
- Market 10: The plastered quarry stone building has a portal marked in 1792, which is surrounded by a figural niche with St. Agatha is crowned. The exact time when the building was built is not known; possibly the outer walls are of an older date. The facade, which was renovated in 1953, was removed in 1969 and then rebuilt; the half-timbered gable was completely renewed in softwood. The preserved portal was restored and reinserted in the course of the construction work.
- Markt 14 ( Hövener House ): The slated half-timbered building with a mansard roof and classicist front door was built in 1803/1804. Parts of the old interior have been preserved to this day.
- Niedere Straße 29/31: The half-timbered hall house is marked in 1792. Its gate beam inscription is reminiscent of the devastating city fire of 1791, which killed 106 houses in the south-east of the city: “Sparks turned into fire, made grohs monsters. Because of the fire I am fighting against, God be Lohp and Danck, now a different house is again. "
- Schulgasse 14 : The two-storey quarry stone building from 1431 was expanded in 1659 and 1720 with half-timbered components. A room on the upper floor of the house shows the remains of an old painting. The building, which was originally erected as an Adelshof, is considered the oldest residential building in the city. Johann Suibert Seibertz , who is considered to be the founder of Sauerland historical research , once lived there .
- Schulstraße 24: narrow half-timbered house from 1733.
- Steinweg 3 ( Sauvigny House ): The two-storey plastered building with a mansard roof was built in 1752 for the entrepreneur Adam Eberhard Ulrich, presumably by Johann Matthias Kitz. Parts of the original equipment and the interior layout have been preserved. In the back garden there is a pavilion with a baroque slate dome. The property includes a large stone farm building and a carriage house. Later the mayor Josef Paul Sauvigny lived in the house; it is named after him today.
- Steinweg 7: Eaves house with two figuratively carved Utluchten , which was probably built in the middle of the 18th century.
- Steinweg 26: Schultenhaus. The half-timbered hallway built in 1767 with older stone work was comprehensively repaired from 1962 to 1965.
Other buildings
- District Court. Two-storey, late classicist plastered building from 1877
- Old school, Propst-Meyer-Straße 1. Two-storey half-timbered building from the 17th century with a hipped roof , rebuilt in 1725. Restored in 1972.
- Schützenhalle , built in 1924
- Borberg . Wall castle, chapel and churchyard.
- Watch tower on the Bilstein . Destroyed in 2006 for a quarry expansion.
- The Eduard-Pape- Monument was a former monument to the cityscape .
- There were Jewish cemeteries in Brilon , Alme and Madfeld. Remains of it are still preserved.
- The dilapidated Hemburg
- The Eduard Pape monument erected in 1899
Wayside shrines
In the urban area there are several wayside shrines from the 17th and 18th centuries, some of which are listed. The shrines near the locations of the four city gates should be emphasized. These are dedicated to Our Lady . Those who had left the city greeted them pleadingly, and thanked those who had returned. In the years 1970–1972 Ruth Landmann created modern ceramic representations of Mary for the empty niches.
Parks
As a state-approved climatic and Kneipp spa town, Brilon has a spa park. It is located in the south-eastern part of the city along a watercourse and merges into the forest on Poppenberg ( 605 m ) in the south . The forest on the Gudenhagener Poppenberg ( 564 m ) in the Gudenhagen-Petersborn district to the south-east of this mountain was badly affected by Hurricane Kyrill in January 2007 . After the further destruction by hurricane Emma , the Briloner Bürgerwald was established. In the park, which was opened on May 1st, 2008, 50,000 plants and a total of 30 tree species are to be planted. The Kyrill-Tor, consisting of 14 solid spruce trunks with a length of 20 m each, was built as the entrance gate.
At the district building to the east of the center is the small district building park, which merges with the Drübel nature reserve at its southeast corner. The limestone dome of the Drübels is overgrown by a beech forest.
The south-eastern part of the city of Brilons belongs to the Diemelsee nature park , the north-western part of the Arnsberger Wald nature park .
Natural monuments
- Alpine springs
- Briloner Kalkkuppen (threatened with mining)
- Stream shrinkage on the Brilon plateau
- Hollenloch cave near Rösenbeck
Events
As almost everywhere in the Sauerland, the high festival in the city is the shooting festival . The city center celebrates its shooting festival on the weekend that is next to St. John's Day . It usually falls on the last weekend in June. In addition to the rifle festival in the city center, each district celebrates its own rifle festival in early summer.
The traditional Schnadezug is held every two years on the rifle festival Monday in the city center . At this border crossing, which has been occupied since 1388, about a fifth of the city limits are crossed. Several thousand men take part in the Schnadegang. Women are only admitted to the camp site, where a hearty forest festival takes place.
The Michaeliskirmes, which is also traditional, takes place on the last weekend in September.
The following other festivals and events take place during the year:
- Brilon Open Air (street theater and live music), always in July / August
- Old town festival, end of August
- Wandering autumn, October
- Jazz Night, October
- Sauerland autumn, every year in autumn
On the 4th-7th June 2020 the 40th Hanseatic Day of Modern Times should take place in Brilon ; it was initially canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic , but was then carried out in virtual form.
Economy and Infrastructure
Established businesses
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Egger Holzwerkstoffe Brilon GmbH & Co. KG
The chipboard plant, laminate plant and sawmill of the Austrian Egger Group , located in the east of the city center, was built in 1990 and has its own power plant, which is fired with production waste and mostly externally delivered waste wood. Around 1,000 people (2010) are employed in the plant, 30 of whom are trainees in the commercial and industrial sectors. -
Hoppecke Batteries GmbH & Co. KG
The Sauerland family company has been manufacturing industrial batteries in the Hoppecke district of Brilon of the same name since 1927 . In the meantime, the family business has grown into a global company with 10 German branches, 16 global subsidiaries and more than 1500 employees. -
ABB AG , Transformers division (production of distribution transformers)
The plant belongs to the ABB Group, it produces dry-type transformers with 120 employees and is the competence center within ABB for this. The work goes back to the Dominitwerke founded in 1921 . The new building opened in 2010 east of the city center replaced the former location of the Dominitwerke in the Bremecketal, a side valley of the Hoppecke . - Condensator Dominit GmbH
The company based in Bremecketal manufactures capacitor systems for reactive current compensation and line filters to reduce harmonics. According to its own information, the company had a turnover of 12 million euros in 2011, which it achieved with 45 employees. The company was created in 2005 when it was spun off from the ABB Group by renaming ABB-Schaltanlagen GmbH. The origins of the company can also be found in the Dominit works, which from 1950 produced capacitor systems for reactive current compensation. - Briloner Leuchten GmbH
The company, founded in 1978, deals with the development, manufacture, trade and sale of all kinds of living room lights and offers the associated services. The products can be found primarily in hardware stores, furniture and hypermarkets. A total of 135 employees are employed at the locations in Elterlein ( Saxony ) and Brilon, 85 of them in Brilon. - Briloner Montage- und Schlüsselfertigbau GmbH
The company, which has existed since 1966, works in the field of industrial and steel construction. It offers the turnkey construction of administration buildings and halls. -
FW Oventrop GmbH & Co. KG
The Olsberg-based company is a manufacturer of fittings, controllers and systems for building services. The Brilon plant, built in 1980, is the production site. Around 800 employees work together in Olsberg and Brilon.
- Impuls Küchen GmbH
Impuls was initially a 100 percent subsidiary of Alno AG and was established as a manufacturer of various kitchen programs in the lower to medium price range. In 2015 it was sold to the Steinhoff Group . - The CENTROTEC SE , based in Brilon is a publicly traded company that specializes in energy-efficient building.
- Rheinkalk Messinghausen GmbH & Co. KG
traffic
Street
Brilon is connected to the federal German trunk road network via federal roads 7 and 480 , which meet in the area of the core city and run over the same route to the Altenbüren district. In addition, federal highways 251 and 516 begin or end in Brilon. About the federal highways are the highways 33 (direction Bielefeld: about 30 km in the north near Bad Wünnenberg), 44 (direction Kassel: about 33 km in the east near Marsberg, direction Dortmund: about 35 km in the north near Geseke) and 46 (direction Dortmund : about 15 km to the west near Bestwig).
rail
Like the entire Hochsauerlandkreis, Brilon belongs to the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Ruhr-Lippe (VRL), which became part of the Westphalian tariff in August 2017 . The authority responsible for local rail passenger transport is the Zweckverband SPNV Ruhr-Lippe (ZRL). In the core city of Brilon, the Brilon Stadt train station is located on the Almetalbahn ; from 1974 to 2011 there was no regular passenger service here. The Brilon Wald station on the Upper Ruhr Valley Railway is more important . It is located in the town of Brilon-Wald , created by the connection to the railway , about seven kilometers from the city center.
The DB Regio NRW operates the Upper Ruhr Valley Railway with the Sauerland Express (RE 17, KBS 435 ) from Hagen Hbf to Warburg (Westf) every hour. Individual trains are tied through to Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe ; Every two hours, the Hoppecke station is served as a stop on demand. In the morning and in the late evening trains also stop in the district of Messinghausen .
On the route from Brilon Wald via Brilon Stadt, the districts of Thülen and Alme and via Büren to Paderborn Hbf , passenger traffic was stopped on September 29, 1974. Since December 11, 2011, the DB Regio NRW has been operating the section to Brilon Stadt again: Here the Dortmund-Sauerland-Express (RE 57, KBS 435 ) runs every hour from Dortmund Hbf to Bestwig, where it is divided and to Winterberg or continues via Brilon forest to Brilon city. The rest of the route is still owned by Deutsche Bahn AG . It is only used in freight transport to deliver to the Fritz Egger company . The section between Thülen and Büren leased to RWE AG is used to transport transformers between the Nehden and Büren substations. In the summer months, the route between Büren and Brilon Stadt is still operated by the museum.
The DB Kurhessenbahn operates the Uplandbahn (RB 55, KBS 439 ) from Brilon Stadt or Brilon Wald to Korbach or Willingen every two hours on the Wabern – Brilon Wald route . In addition, shuttle trains are used between Brilon Stadt and Brilon Wald so that the Sauerland Express can be reached.
bus
In local road transport, buses run by Regionalverkehr Ruhr-Lippe GmbH (RLG), a subsidiary of Westfälische Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH (WVG), and Busverkehr Ruhr-Sieg GmbH (BRS), a subsidiary of the railway's own WB Westfalen Bus GmbH . These two companies operate a total of 17 bus routes in Brilon, including two express and two night bus routes and a taxi bus . The citizen bus Brilon e. V. operates two citizen bus routes in the city center in cooperation with BRS and RLG.
bicycle
The Almeradweg , which runs along the Alme to Paderborn and where it flows into the Lippe , begins at the market square . The Möhnetal cycle path starts at the train station and runs along the Möhne to Neheim where it flows into the Ruhr . The GeoRadroute Ruhr-Eder, a circular route through Willingen , Medebach , Korbach , Waldeck , Frankenberg , Winterberg and Olsberg , leads through the city .
air traffic
Brilon can be reached from the air via Paderborn / Lippstadt Airport , which is about 40 km north of Brilon. Brilon has its own special airfield for light aircraft and helicopters about five kilometers east of the city center in the Thülener Bruch.
media
The Westfalenpost appears as the daily newspaper for the region with a local edition for Brilon and the Hochsauerlandkreis. The “Briloner Anzeiger” is published every Wednesday as a weekly newspaper with news from Brilon, Olsberg, Willingen, Winterberg, Medebach and Hallenberg. In addition, the free Sauerland courier appears weekly with information from the entire Sauerland.
Public facilities
Brilon is the seat of the district court Brilon responsible for the cities of Brilon and Olsberg . The district administration of the Hochsauerlandkreis maintains a Brilon office in the district building. The Brilon tax office is responsible for the cities of Brilon, Hallenberg, Marsberg, Medebach, Olsberg and Winterberg. The Maria Hilf Hospital is available as a health care facility.
education
For pre-school childcare, there are 18 kindergartens in Brilon, one special educational kindergarten and a multi-generation house with childcare in the form of playgroups. Of these, eight are municipal, five Catholic and seven privately owned. There are nine facilities in the city center, the other kindergartens are in the villages of Alme, Altenbüren, Bontkirchen, Brilon-Wald, Gudenhagen, Hoppecke, Madfeld, Messinghausen, Rösenbeck, Scharfenberg and Thülen.
The city of Brilon is responsible for six primary schools, two of which have been affiliated schools since 2007, each with three formerly independent locations. The network school Alme-Thülen-Madfeld, the Catholic elementary school St. Michael (Altenbüren), the Catholic elementary school St. Bernhardus (Scharfenberg), the Catholic elementary school St. Engelbert and the Catholic elementary school Ratmerstein are public denomination schools , the network school Gudenhagen-Martin Luther– Hoppecke is a community school .
The secondary school Heinrich-Lübke-Schule and the grammar school Petrinum are part of the municipal sponsorship. The Marienschule Brilon is a secondary school sponsored by the Archdiocese of Paderborn . There is also the vocational college for economics and administration in the Hochsauerland district. In addition, the Fernuniversität in Hagen has a study center in Brilon.
Five special schools, including a private special school for educational assistance and learning disabled people with an attached boarding school, complete the educational offer.
The Adult Education Center Brilon-Marsberg offers a wide range of adult education. The Brilon City Library has existed since 1979.
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- April 28, 1855: Franz Schunck , district physician
- April 28, 1855: Christoph Becker (* July 22, 1816 in Brilon; † September 16, 1873 in Brilon), professor and historian, his gravestone is preserved in the old cemetery in Brilon.
- 1860: Johann Suibert Seibertz (born November 27, 1788 in Brilon; † November 17, 1871 in Arnsberg), lawyer and historian
- 1865: Konrad Martin (born May 18, 1812 in Geismar; † July 16, 1879 in St. Guibert), Bishop of Paderborn
- 1882: Theodor Caspari , country dean and provost of Niedermarsberg. The honorary citizenship was awarded on May 8, 1882 on the occasion of his 50th anniversary as a priest
- 1887: Heinrich Eduard von Pape (born September 13, 1816 in Brilon, † September 10, 1888 in Berlin), employee of the civil code
- 1900: Hans Carl Federath (born October 27, 1848 in Culm, today Chełmno, † April 11, 1914 in Chiemsee), district administrator of the Brilon district
- 1903: Richard Lohmann , lawyer
- 1952: Franz Meyer , provost in Brilon
- 1976: Anton Dünnebacke (born July 24, 1906 in Wenholthausen; † June 16, 1986 in Brilon), provost in Brilon
- Unknown year: Nikolaus Hesse (born September 24, 1794 in Lichtenau, † December 30, 1868 in Brilon), mayor, member of the Prussian National Assembly
- Peter Wilhelm Appelkamp (* in Halte in Ostfriesland; † February 5, 1876), veteran of the War of Independence 1813–1815, he later lived as a district sergeant in Brilon (professional soldier in non-active service, responsible for administrative tasks of the Landwehr)
No further information is known about the following honorary citizens of the city of Brilon:
- Franz Wocker, principal, presumably of the grammar school
- Josef Weber, university professor, grammar school teacher from 1858 to 1862
- Josef Schöttler, study professor
- Karl Moshagen, District Secretary
- Ludwig Lefarth, was probably the city doctor in Brilon
- ? Funke, probably a university professor
sons and daughters of the town
- Siegfried von Brilon (* before 1334, † after 1353); Knight
- Melchior Cornäus (April 1598 - March 13, 1665 in Mainz); Jesuit, dogmatist, controversialist
- Johann Heinrich Kannegießer (born September 16, 1677; † August 6, 1748 in Brilon); Mining entrepreneur, miner, mayor
- Johann Melchior Wichartz (* 1694; † February 17, 1776 in Brilon); Trades, mayor
- Everhard Jodokus Kannegießer (born November 10, 1708 in Brilon, † January 15, 1763 in Brilon); Trades, mayor
- Johann Georg Weishaupt (born April 24, 1716 in Brilon; † September 20, 1753 near Würzburg) was Professor of Law at the University of Ingolstadt.
- Swibert Burkhard Schiverek (born March 1, 1742, † August 29, 1806 in Krakow); botanist
- Anton Ludwig Ulrich (born May 9, 1751, † October 8, 1834 in Bredelar (now Marsberg)); Entrepreneur
- Johann Heinrich Weed (born April 24, 1758, † September 18, 1815 in Brilon); Trades, mayor
- Friedrich Kasimir Kitz (* 1764; † 1834); Doctor, author
- Johann Suibert Seibertz (born November 27, 1788; † November 17, 1871 in Arnsberg); Lawyer, historian
- Justin von Linde (born August 7, 1797; † June 9, 1870 in Bonn); Lawyer, politician
- Engelbert Seibertz (born April 20, 1813; † October 2, 1905 in Arnsberg); Portrait and history painter
- Heinrich Eduard von Pape (born September 13, 1816, † September 10, 1888 in Berlin); jurist
- Alexander Friedländer (* 1819; † 1858 when his ship burned while crossing to America); University professor, activist of the German Revolution 1848/1849
- Moritz Friedländer (born July 3, 1822 - † November 14, 1911); publisher
- Salomon Friedländer (* 1824; † August 22, 1860 in Chicago); Representative of the German Reform Judaism
- Franz Heinrich Reusch (December 4, 1825 - March 3, 1900 in Bonn); Catholic theologian, old Catholic church historian
- Friedrich Griepenkerl (born March 25, 1826 - † September 6, 1900 in Göttingen); Agronomist
- Wilhelm Schwarze (born August 24, 1851 - † January 8, 1937 in Ostercappeln); Lawyer, central politician
- Engelbert Seibertz (born February 22, 1856 - † February 17, 1929 in Berlin); architect
- Bernhard Bartmann (born May 26, 1860 in Madfeld (now Brilon), † August 1, 1938 in Paderborn); Catholic dogmatist
- Anton Schlueter (born June 13, 1867 - March 2, 1949); Tractor manufacturer
- Clemens Becker (born September 20, 1869 in Altenbüren (now Brilon), † March 21, 1961 in Lemgo), politician, chairman of the Lippe state council
- Franz Rinsche (born January 11, 1885 in Scharfenberg (now Brilon), † September 1, 1948 in Münster); writer
- Adolf Herte (born August 28, 1887; † March 3, 1970 in Höxter); Catholic theologian
- Wilhelm Deimann (born June 20, 1889 - † August 19, 1969 in Münster); philologist
- Ferdinand Huneke (born September 23, 1891 - † June 2, 1966 in Düsseldorf); Mediciners
- Bertha Heimberg (born July 3, 1894 in Madfeld (now Brilon), † April 28, 1966 in Essen); Free economist
- Franz Kornemann (born February 24, 1896 - † February 25, 1969); Painter
- Siegfried Heimberg (born September 9, 1898 in Madfeld (now Brilon), † October 20, 1965 in Dortmund); Chairman of the Jewish community of Westphalia-Lippe
- Josef Paul Sauvigny ; mayor
- Anton Dichtel , (born September 18, 1901, † April 29, 1978 in Freiburg im Breisgau); Center / CDU politician
- Paul Kleinschnittger (born February 24, 1909 in Hoppecke, † January 3, 1989 in Marsberg); Automotive designer and manufacturer
- Fritz Dorls (born September 9, 1910, † January 25, 1995 in Opponitz (Austria)); Founder of the right-wing extremist Socialist Reich Party
- Ruth Landmann , née Kerckhoff (born February 7, 1912; † October 31, 2008 in Osnabrück); Ceramist
- Franz Hillebrand (born February 14, 1918 - † July 4, 1984); Christian Democratic member of the state parliament
- Julius Drescher (born May 20, 1920 - † June 8, 2015); Social Democratic member of the state parliament and two-time mayor of Brilon
- Rudolf Kraft (born February 24, 1923 in Scharfenberg (now Brilon), † 1993); District Administrator
- Franz Hülshoff (born May 25, 1930 in Alme (now Brilon), † April 30, 2012 in Brilon); Mayor. He was appointed honorary mayor.
- Ulrich Grun (born February 23, 1937; † March 4, 2017 in Rüthen); (Art) historian, educator and local researcher
- Elisabeth Zöller (born December 6, 1945); Writer
- Volker W. Weidner (born December 24, 1947); Mayor of Unna (1999-2004)
- Edgar Selge (born March 27, 1948); actor
- Michael Schwibbe (born November 23, 1948); Psychologist, cultural anthropologist
- Martin Runge (born July 18, 1949); Mediciners
- Franz Schrewe (born May 29, 1950); mayor
- Brigitte Herrmann (born November 4, 1950); green member of the state parliament
- Michael Klaus (born March 6, 1952; † June 1, 2008 in Gelsenkirchen); writer
- Norbert Pielsticker (* 1952); sculptor
- Reinhard Keil (born February 16, 1953); Computer scientist
- Friedrich Merz (born November 11, 1955); CDU politician
- Ulrich Kühne-Hellmessen (born February 5, 1957), sports journalist
- Peter Kremer (born February 18, 1958); actor
- Birgit Schrowange (born April 7, 1958); TV presenter
- Richard Dronskowski (born November 11, 1961); Chemist, physicist
- Jens Bunge (born September 24, 1963); Jazz musician, pastor
- Jörg Layes (born October 20, 1966); writer
- Michael "Mick" Knauff (* 1966); journalist
- Nicole Köster (born August 11, 1975); Radio presenter
- Moki (* 1982); Street artist and activist
- Andreas Neagu (* 1985), German-Romanian bobsledder
- Ron Kühler , German journalist and radio host
Personalities who have worked in the place
- Joseph Abraham Friedländer (* 1753 in Kolín; † November 26, 1852 in Brilon); rabbi
- Nikolaus Hesse (born September 24, 1794 in Lichtenau, † December 30, 1868 in Brilon); Member of the Prussian National Assembly
- Caspar Maximilian Droste zu Vischering-Padberg (born March 7, 1808 in Münster, † May 27, 1887 in Coburg); District Administrator of the Brilon District and Prussian MP.
- Carl Johann Ludwig Dham (born August 27, 1809 in Schmallenberg, † February 21, 1871 in Paderborn); Lawyer, politician
- Heinrich Kampschulte (born March 28, 1823 in Wickede, † April 30, 1878 in Höxter); Center politician
- Heinrich Jansen (born April 5, 1876 in Lüdinghausen, † September 16, 1945 in Warburg); District Administrator
- Wilhelm Stracke (born May 13, 1880 in Soest, † August 21, 1951 in Brilon); District Administrator
- Josef Rüther (born March 22, 1881 in Assinghausen, † November 16, 1972 in Brilon); Local researcher, politically committed publicist
- Walter Hemming (born June 11, 1894 in Düsseldorf, † December 27, 1979 in Brilon); painter
- Pitt Moog (* 1932 in Kempfenbrunn ; † 2017); Painter and professor in the field of design theory.
- Gerhard Brökel (born January 22, 1931; † February 21, 2014); Local historian, non-fiction author, rector
- Norbert Klaus Fuchs (* 1941 in Hildburghausen); Author, editor and publisher
- Franz-Josef Leikop (born June 22, 1942 in Paderborn); District Administrator
- Karl-Heinz Wiesemann (born August 1, 1960 in Herford); Bishop of Speyer
- Patrick Sensburg (born June 25, 1971 in Paderborn); CDU politician and lawyer
- Dirk Wiese (born July 11, 1983 in Paderborn); Politician
Others
- The Rothaarsteig hiking trail, created in 2001, begins in Brilon .
- A DECCA transmitter existed near Madfeld until around 1990 . The site was released on December 31, 1992.
- The symbolic figure of the city of Brilon has been the newly elected Brilon Forest Fairy since 2004.
- The city's unofficial heraldic animal is the donkey Huberta, which is carried along on every string. A memorial to him is set in Königstrasse. The fool's cry of the city "Brilonia i-ah!" Is derived from this.
- The St. Hubertus Schützenbruderschaft 1417 Brilon is of great social importance . It is one of the oldest shooting clubs in the Sauerland.
literature
- Gerhard Brökel: Past times - history from Brilon . tape 1 , 2003, ISBN 3-86133-341-4 .
- Gerhard Brökel: Past times - history from Brilon . tape 2 , 2004, ISBN 3-86133-375-9 .
- Gerhard Brökel: Past times - history from Brilon . tape 3 , 2006.
- Gerhard Brökel: Past times - history from Brilon . tape 4 , 2008.
- Gerhard Brökel: Past times - history from Brilon . tape 5 , 2011.
- Hugo Cramer: The district of Brilon in the Second World War 1939–1945 - reports from many employees from all over the district. Josefs-Druckerei, Bigge 1955.
- Lead mining and lead processing during the Roman Empire in Barbaricum on the right bank of the Rhine . In: Walter Melzer (Ed.): Soester contributions to archeology . tape 8 . Westfälische Verlags-Buchhandlung Mocker and Jahn, Soest 2007, ISBN 978-3-87902-307-3 , p. 57-70 .
- Propsteipfarramt Brilon (Ed.): Propsteikirche Brilon . 3. Edition. Brilon 1988.
- Magnus Müller, Theodor Tochtrop: 750 years of the city of Brilon. Brilon 1970.
- Josef Rüther : Local history of the district of Brilon . 2nd Edition. Regensberg, Münster 1957.
- Franz Schrewe: Sau küert me in Breylen: Dictionary of the Low German language . Podszun, Brilon 1998, ISBN 3-86133-215-9 .
- Thomas Spohn: Brilon (= Westfälische Kunststätten . Issue 84). Westfälischer Heimatbund, 1997, ISSN 0930-3952 .
- City folder Brilon . In: Heinz Stoob, Wilfried Ehbrecht (ed.): Westphalian city atlas . Großer Städteatlas Verlag, Dortmund / Altenbeken 1975, ISBN 3-89115-332-5 (published by the Historical Commission for Westphalia).
- Nikolaus Hesse, Xaver Lohmann, Herrmann Joseph Krüper: Historical records about Brilon . Ed .: Gerhard Brökel. 2000, ISBN 3-86133-259-0 .
- Volker Gedaschke, Heinrich Hülsbusch: Brilon - historical core city and attractive localities . 1995, ISBN 3-86133-140-3 .
Web links
- Website of the city of Brilon
- Document requests for Brilon from the city archive Brilon and the state archive NRW / digital Westphalian document database (DWUD)
- Historical map sheet Brilon (1900)
- Brilon in the Westphalia Culture Atlas
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 . ( Help on this )
- ↑ Recognition of the city of Brilon as a Kneipp spa. Order of the Arnsberg District Government of December 15, 2016 ( MBl. NRW. 2017, p. 2. )
- ↑ Brilon. Brilon - city of the forest in the Sauerland. In: Spa calendar Germany. Flöttmann Verlag GmbH, accessed on November 18, 2010 .
- ↑ State Office for Data Processing and Statistics North Rhine-Westphalia / Results of the 2012 area survey.
- ^ Main statute of the city of Brilon. (PDF) City of Brilon, January 28, 2005, accessed on January 25, 2012 (345 kB).
- ^ Geo Service. In: hochsauerlandkreis.de. Hochsauerlandkreis, accessed January 25, 2012 .
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- ^ Josef Rüther: Local history of the district of Brilon. Regensberg Verlag, Münster 1957, p. 125.
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- ^ Alfred Bruns: Inventory of the Brilon City Archives. Inventory A, 1970, ed. from the State Office for Archive Maintenance, Verlag Aschendorff, Münster, pp. 13, 14.
- ^ Alfred Bruns: Inventory of the Brilon City Archives. Inventory A, 1970, ed. from the State Office for Archive Maintenance, Verlag Aschendorff, Münster, p. 13.
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- ^ Alfred Bruns: Inventory of the Brilon City Archives. Inventory A, 1970, ed. from the State Office for Archive Maintenance, Verlag Aschendorff, Münster, p. 23.
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- ^ Alfred Bruns: Inventory of the Brilon City Archives. Inventory A, 1970, ed. from the State Office for Archive Maintenance, Verlag Aschendorff, Münster, p. 220.
- ^ Gerhard Brökel: Past times - history from Brilon . tape 2 , 2004, ISBN 3-86133-375-9 , pp. 87 .
- ^ Gerhard Brökel: Past times - history from Brilon . tape 2 , 2004, ISBN 3-86133-375-9 , pp. 45 .
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- ^ Gerhard Brökel: Past times - history from Brilon . tape 2 , 2004, ISBN 3-86133-375-9 , pp. 133 ff .
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- ↑ Leader HSK ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Patrik Schwarz: Grandpa is not the problem: The strange pride of Friedrich Merz , haGalil onLine, January 19, 2004.
- ↑ 750 years of the city of Brilon, 1220 to 1970. P. 131, 132.
- ^ Hugo Cramer: The district of Brilon in the Second World War 1939-1945. 1955, section Brilon, pp. 48-50.
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- ^ Announcement of the entry into force of the State Treaty between the State of Hesse and the State of North Rhine-Westphalia on changes to the common state border
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- ↑ a b Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the local government reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 128 .
- ^ Gerhard Brökel: Past times - history from Brilon . tape 1 , 2003, ISBN 3-86133-341-4 . ; including branch communities Wülfte and Rixen
- ^ State database North Rhine-Westphalia ; from 1961 on December 31st
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- ↑ Appointment as honorary mayor
- ^ Page of the city of Brilon, accessed on February 6, 2012
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- ^ Eduard Belke, Alfred Bruns, Helmut Müller: Communal coats of arms of the Duchy of Westphalia . Arnsberg 1986, ISBN 3-87793-017-4 , pp. 50, 138 .
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- ^ Information from the city of Brilon
- ↑ a b HSK museum landscape
- ^ Gerhard Brökel: Past times - history from Brilon . tape 2 , 2004, ISBN 3-86133-375-9 , pp. 35 ff .
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- ↑ Images in the catalog raisonné Ruth Landmann
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- ↑ Friends of the Briloner Bürgerwald
- ↑ Brilon cancels International Hanseatic Days. Westfalenspiegel , March 25, 2020.
- ↑ From June 4th to 7th, 2020 the "First Virtual Hanseatic Days in the 660-year history of the Hanseatic League" took place in Brilon. Hanseatic Days Brilon.
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- ↑ Self-presentation of the Hoppecke GmbH & Co. KG ( Memento of the original of July 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Information from Brilon Wirtschaft und Tourismus GmbH on ABB AG
- ↑ Company profile of Condensator Dominit GmbH
- ↑ Briloner Leuchten GmbH
- ↑ Self-presentation of the BMS GmbH ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Presentation of FW Oventrop GmbH & Co. KG
- ↑ Sale of Impuls Küchen GmbH
- ↑ a b Query of course book route 435 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 439 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Line overview of the VRL ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Brilon.de: kindergartens. Retrieved May 16, 2017 .
- ^ Gerhard Brökel: Past times. Story from Brilon. Volume 1, Podzun Verlag, Brilon 2003, ISBN 3-86133-341-4 , p. 112.
- ↑ Hülshoff passed away ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Sauerlandkurier , May 6, 2012.
- ↑ Information from the city of Brilon on the Schnadegang
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