Brockel

Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Rotenburg (Wümme)
Joint municipality :	Bothel
Height :	34 m above sea level NHN
Area :	25.12 km 2
Residents:	1363 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	54 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	27386
Area code :	04266
License plate :	ROW, BRV
Community key :	03 3 57 009
LOCODE :	DE BYL
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 32 ; 27386 Brockel
Website :	www.brockel.de
Mayor :	Rolf Lüdemann ( CDU )
Location of the municipality Brockel in the district of Rotenburg (Wümme)

Brockel (pronounced with a long "o") is a municipality in the joint municipality of Bothel in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district of Lower Saxony in Germany .

geography

Community structure

In addition to the center of Brockel, the community consists of the districts of Bellen , Gut Trochel with the desert of Nelson and Wensebrock . Much of the community area is forested.

Neighboring communities

history

Brockel was a place of pilgrimage until the Reformation . To the south of Brockel was the Trochel estate with a castle and a park, remains of which can still be seen in the Trochel state forest.

On March 1, 1974, the neighboring community of Bellen was incorporated.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the municipality of Brockel consists of eleven council women and councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 1001 and 2000 inhabitants. The council members are elected for a five-year term by local elections. The current term of office began on November 1, 2016 and ends on October 31, 2021.

The last local election on September 11, 2016 resulted in the following:

Political party	Proportional votes	Number of seats
CDU	61.86%	7th
Citizen List Brockel	38.13%	4th

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 63.94%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.

mayor

The council elected council member Rolf Lüdemann (CDU) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term.

Culture and sights

The community is known for the Dutch windmill built in 1860 .

The Holy Cross Church was built from field stones and dates from 1804. In earlier times the village was a place of pilgrimage. The church's Furtwängler organ has around 2700 pipes, two manuals and a pedal, a total of 17 registers with two couplers .

War memorial

At the church there is a war memorial for the citizens of Brockel who fought in the wars of 1864 , 1866 and 1870/1871 . It was created before 1912 by the architect Emil Högg and the Bremen sculptor Hermann Lüdecke .

Economy and Infrastructure

Public facilities

Brockel is the location of a primary school and a daycare center. There is also a retirement home and day care. A health center with a general practitioner is also located in Brockel.

traffic

The federal road 71 runs through Brockel .

By June 1, 1958, Brockel owned a station on the Bremervörde – Walsrode railway line (section Rotenburg-Visselhövede), which was dismantled in 1963 . The closest stations today are in Rotenburg (Wümme) and Scheeßel .

The municipality of Brockel was particularly affected by the plans for the Y-route, as the Y-route from Hanover to Hamburg / Bremen should have run across the town of Brockel and some of the old, listed farmhouses should have been demolished.

Personalities

Kurt Vajen (* 1936), former mayor and member of the state parliament (CDU until 1989, later republican)
Adolf Wischmann (1908–1983), German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and head of the external ecclesiastical office of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD)