Broager

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Broager
( German Broacker )
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Broager (Denmark)
Broager
Broager
Basic data
State : DenmarkDenmark Denmark
Region : Syddanmark
Municipality
(since 2007) : 		Sønderborg
Coordinates : 54 ° 53 '  N , 9 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 53 '  N , 9 ° 40'  E
Population :
(2020) 		3.234
Postal code : 6310
Broager Church is the town's landmark.
The church of Broager the symbol of the village.
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Broager [ ˈbʀoaːʔəʀ ] ( German  also: Broacker [ ˈbroːˌakɐ ]; Sønderjysk or Sundevedsk : Braue ) is a place on the northern bank of the Flensburg Fjord with 3234 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The place is located in the south of Denmark and has belonged to the Sønderborg municipality in the Syddanmark region since the administrative reform on January 1, 2007 . Previously, Broager was the seat of the administration of the Broager municipality of the same name , which was merged with the municipalities of Augustenborg , Sønderborg , Gråsten , Nordborg , Sundeved and Sydals to form the new large municipality Sønderborg.

Economy and Transport

Broager is on trunk road 8, which connects the municipality with Sønderborg ( German  Sonderburg ), Flensburg and the E 45 motorway. The next station is in Gråsten ( German  Gravenstein ) after the railway line Vester Sottrup – Skelde (Broackerbahn) opened in 1910 from Sottrup ( German  Satrup ) via Nybøl and Broager to Skelde ( German  Schelde ) was closed on July 1, 1932.

Attractions

The Broager Church is a Romanesque church with a distinctive Gothic twin tower - the only one in the old Duchy of Schleswig - is not only landmark of the community, but high due to its location and the wide visibility of the most striking buildings on the Flensburg Fjord.

In the churchyard belonging to the church there are gravestones and memorial stones of the Prussian fallen soldiers from the German-Danish War of 1864 . In addition, the monument to the fallen in Broager was erected in the cemetery for the soldiers from the area who fell on the German side in the First World War , as this part of Schleswig was only brought to Denmark by referendum in 1920 .

Furthermore, there is an old castle complex called Schmölwall north of the main town Broager and the small Schottsbüll lighthouse a little west of the town . One kilometer southwest of the town of Broager is the Cathrinesminde brickwork museum on the Flensburg Fjord. The Gendarmstien , a former control route on which Danish gendarmes patrolled the German-Danish border from 1920 to 1958, runs along the coast .

Well-known sagas from Broager

Say of the snake leaf

The legend reports that one day, while the harvest was being brought in in the parish of Broager, a servant injured a snake with his scythe while mowing it. The snake then made a bright sound that sounded like fishing as far as the other bank of the fjord . Another line up there answered at once. The reapers immediately ran to the bank of the fjord and saw a snake from fishing rods swim up with a leaf in its mouth in order to heal the other snake with it. Then it would have fared more than badly for the harvest workers. So you were in danger. But as soon as the snake came ashore, the servants attacked them with their scythes and killed them.

The legend is reminiscent of the fairy tale The Three Snake Leaves . Another snake legend in the area is the legend of the blue snake in nearby Flensburg.

Say to Broager Church

With regard to the construction of the Broager Church, there are also two legends, the legend of the twin towers of Broager and the legend of the sisters grown together . There is also a story about a tunnel between the Schmölwall and Broager Church .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Statistics Banks -> Befolkning og valg -> BY1: Folketal January 1st efter byområde, alder og køn (Danish)
  2. ↑ Peter Dragsbo, Inge Adriansen, Kirsten Clausen, Hans Helmer Kristensen and Torben Vestergaard: I centrum ved grænsen - portræt af Sønderborg Kommune . Ed .: Museet på Sønderborg Slot & Historisk Samfund for Als og Sundeved (=  Fra Als og Sundeved . Band 84 ). Sønderborg 2006, ISBN 87-87153-52-1 , E sproch - dansk og tysk, alsisk og sundevedsk, p. 128-131 (Danish).
  3. ↑ oV : Memorial hill , text in German on the trilingual notice board in front of the memorial hill in the church cemetery, ed. by Broager SOGN (undated); compare the text on the board
  4. ↑ Gustav Friedrich Meyer : Schleswig-Holsteiner Sagen , Eugen Diederichs, Jena, 1929, page 61

Web links

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