Brodenbach

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Coat of arms of the local community Brodenbach
Brodenbach
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Brodenbach highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 14 '  N , 7 ° 27'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Mayen-Koblenz
Association municipality : Rhine-Moselle
Height : 95 m above sea level NHN
Area : 9.64 km 2
Residents: 636 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 66 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 56332
Area code : 02605
License plate : MYK, MY
Community key : 07 1 37 205
Community structure: 2 districts
Association administration address: Bahnhofstrasse 44
56330 Kobern-Gondorf
Website : www.brodenbach.de
Local Mayor : Jörg Winter (FW)
Location of the local community Brodenbach in the Mayen-Koblenz district
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1. View from the other bank of the Moselle
2. Sports boat harbor on the Moselle
3. Catholic local church "Vom Heiligen Kreuz". Built 1971–1973
4. Waterfall in the Ehrbachklamm
5. The Ehrenburg from a bird's eye view
6. The Ehrenburg around 1860. Drawing by W. Brandenburg
7. Late Gothic votive cross for a knight of the Ehrenburg
Panorama of Brodenbach with (left) the Brodenbach valley and (right) the Ehrbach valley

Brodenbach is a municipality on the Terrassenmosel in the Mayen-Koblenz district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Rhein-Mosel community , which has its administrative headquarters in Kobern-Gondorf . Brodenbach is a nationally recognized resort .

Community structure

Brodenbach is divided into the original, old town center along the Moselle , between the Brodenbach and Ehrbach estuaries , and a residential and new development area adjoining it to the south, which has been growing steadily since the 1970s. The Ehrenburgertal district is located in the Ehrbach Valley, below the Ehrenburg. On the heights of the Vorderhunsrück are Kröpplingen, the Stabenhof and the Jahrsberger Höfe further parts of the community.

history

At the beginning of the 19th century, with the Prussian administrative reform of 1816-17, previously mostly of received Reichsritterschaft belonging Ehrenberg farms, mills and settlements at the bottom Broden- and Ehrbach the status of a community. Local descriptions mention archaeological finds from Roman and Frankish times. They suggest settlements that existed before today's Ehrenburg was built at the beginning of the 12th century. A first place name was mentioned in 1189 in a feudal deed of the Bishop of Cologne. The name Brodinheim refers to a fiefdom of the St. Panthaleon Monastery in Cologne . However, this place name no longer appears in maps of the Electorate of Trier for the 16th century. It is believed that this settlement had become deserted long before that .

Until the end of the Electorates of Palatinate and Trier, as a result of the French Revolution, the various farms and settlements of today's Brodenbach were mainly fiefdoms of the Counts of Sponheim and the Electors of the Palatinate. According to canon law, the residents belonged to the Löf parish on the opposite side of the Moselle in the Münstermaifeld district of Trier . At the beginning of the 19th century, Brodenbach, as the mayor's office of Brodenbach, became the administrative seat of a Prussian local government for several places in the lower Moselle and the Vorderhunsrück. In 1970 Brodenbach became part of the Lower Moselle Association , which was newly formed in 1970 , and since 2014 it has belonged to the Rhine-Mosel Association .

Population development

The development of the population of Brodenbach, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents
1815 326
1835 411
1871 476
1905 517
1939 587
1950 659
1961 585
year Residents
1970 593
1987 633
1997 696
2005 683
2011 596
2017 650

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Brodenbach consists of twelve council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice SPD CDU FW total
2019 - 5 7th 12 seats
2014 - 5 7th 12 seats
2009 - 7th 5 12 seats
2004 2 7th 3 12 seats
  • FW = Free Voters Brodenbach e. V.

mayor

Jörg Winter (Free Voters) became Mayor of Brodenbach on August 15, 2019. Since there was no candidate in the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected by the local council. Jörg Winter's predecessor was Jens Firmenich (CDU), who had not run again after ten years in office.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality of Brodenbach shows two white, erect bird wings on a red background and the outer shape of a church on a blue background. A sloping, wavy white bar runs between the two images. Brodenbach received this coat of arms in 1980. It was designed in connection with the previous integration into the Lower Mosel community, in the Mayen-Koblenz district.

The (silver) pair of wings (flight) was the coat of arms of the barons of Cloth , who were knights of the Imperial Knighthood of Ehrenberg until 1798 . The von Cloth family donated the Catholic Church in Brodenbach. Church of St. Johannes von Nepomuk (since 1995 Bürgersaal), founded the first village school and, after the destruction of the Ehrenburg, built a representative, baroque house with cellars for the extensive Ehrenberg vineyards in Brodenbach. The picture of the church shows the Catholic local church "Vom Heiligen Kreuz" in a graphic form. The church was built between 1971 and 1973. The architect was Werner Köster from Düsseldorf.

The sloping, wavy, white bar is supposed to represent the course of the Moselle and remind of the presumed builders of the Ehrenburg, who showed a sloping bar on a blue field in their coat of arms.

Attractions

  • Fig. 3. The Catholic Church “From the Holy Cross”. It was built according to the design by the Düsseldorf architect Werner Köster between 1971 and 1973 - contrary to traditional church construction methods - with a hexagonal floor plan in the exposed concrete architectural style. A stylistic model was the St. Mary's Cathedral, completed in 1965 by the Japanese architect Kenzō Tange in Tokyo. The building advisers were A. Peitz and FJ Ronig from the Episcopal Vicariate General of the Diocese of Trier. The glass windows were designed by Bodo Schramm from Cologne. Inside the church, a rococo altar and several late Gothic and Baroque sacred figures from the former, old local church can be seen.
  • Fig. 4. The Ehrbachklamm, a “wildly romantic” rocky passage in the Ehrbach Valley that can only be accessed on foot. Nearby are the Schöneck Castle , built into the ruins of an imperial castle, and the Rauschenburg ruins, a fortress built in the 14th century by Bishop Balduin of Luxembourg during the Eltz feud .
  • Fig. 5. and 6. The Ehrenburg . A castle ruin on a rock spur above the Ehrbachtal , with the remains of a Staufer core castle from the 12th century and an almost completely preserved double tower complex from the middle of the 14th century. A ramp tower for guns from the late 15th century is a worth seeing example of late medieval fortress architecture. Since the end of the 20th century, backup and restoration work on the ruins has made the original dimensions of the castle visible.
  • Fig. 7. In the center of the village, in a house facade, a sandstone votive cross for a knight Cuno von Pyrmont and von Ehrenberg with the date “Anno 1446”. The coats of arms of the Moselle and Lower Rhine aristocratic families von Gronsvelt, von Lösenich, von Pyrmont, Bongart zur Heyden and an alliance coat of arms Ehrenberg-Pyrmont are well preserved . The knight depicted on the cross is also known as the depicted donor in a three-lane St. Mary's window in the Carmelite Church of Boppard (today Salve Regina University , Newport, USA).

See also: List of cultural monuments in Brodenbach

Viticulture

Viticulture has a long tradition in Brodenbach. Feudal deeds of the Counts of Sponheim describe vineyards there at the beginning of the 15th century as property of the Ehrenberg rulership. In 1581, the cellar administration transferred almost 10 Fuder (1 Trierian Fuder = approx. 960 liters) to their rule as a third of the rent. At the end of the 17th century, a lease put the Ehrenberg vineyards at 60,000. In 1819 the Prussian administration sent the notification to 27 tenants of around 40,000 former noble vines (the town had around 40 households at that time) that their vineyards were only classified in 3rd class. Around 1900, a family that had previously been the general tenant of the Ehrenberg administration rounded off a large part of the Brodenbach vineyards into a vineyard with around 60,000 vines. In the frosty winters of the mid-1950s, many vines froze to death, especially on the side of the Moselle. After that, their owners gave up the growing inefficiency of cultivation. Today, in 2008, three winegrowing families are still involved in viticulture, preferably with the Riesling grape variety. A large part of their locations are in the district of the neighboring municipality of Alken. With the introduction of the labeling regulations in the German Wine Act of 1971, the Brodenbach winegrowers therefore lost the opportunity to designate their wines from the well-known "Hunnenstein" location as Brodenbacher Gewächs. Only the "Neuwingert" can therefore still be found on Brodenbacher wine labels.

Location and traffic

Brodenbach is located between Koblenz - Treis-Karden - Cochem on the right bank of the Terrassenmosel. The B 49 runs along the Moselle through the village.

Brodenbach is in the area of ​​the Rhein-Mosel transport association . On weekdays about every hour, on weekends less frequently, the bus route 301 runs to Koblenz Hbf and Burgen (Moselle) . Line 630 also runs twice a day to Emmelshausen , and in summer also to Treis-Karden .

The nearest train station is Löf on the Moselle route Koblenz - Treis-Karden - Trier , on the other side of the river.

A larger harbor with a forecourt is used by commercial shipping and by water sports and leisure boats as a shelter and berth.

Resort

The two wooded side valleys, Ehrbachtal and Brodenbachtal , constantly supply fresh air to the Moselle town. Brodenbach is therefore a state-approved resort. Tourism was already an important economic factor for Brodenbach at the end of the 19th century. The convenient location, as a starting point for many excursion and hiking destinations, caused the German Youth Hostel Association to set up the first youth hostel on the left bank of the Rhine here in 1928.

Events

  • Once a year (in May or June), an international place in Brodenbach ADAC - motor boat race held on the Moselle.
  • The wine and homeland festival is celebrated annually on the second weekend in September.

literature

  • Franz-Josef Heyen (Ed.): Between the Rhine and the Moselle. The St. Goar district . Boldt, Boppard 1966, DNB  458749036 .
  • Olaf Wagener (Ed.): The castles on the Moselle . Görres, Koblenz 2007, ISBN 978-3-935690-59-1 .
  • Walther Möller: Family tables of West German noble families in the Middle Ages . Darmstadt 1922.
  • Elmar Rettinger: Ehrenburg Castle (Gem Brodenbach.) . In: Historical local dictionary of Rhineland-Palatinate . ( online [PDF; accessed November 15, 2017]).
  • Elmar Rettinger: Brodenheim Wü. (Gmk. Brodenbach) . In: Historical local dictionary of Rhineland-Palatinate . ( online [PDF; accessed November 15, 2017]).

Web links

Commons : Brodenbach  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. a b State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
  3. ^ Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
  4. ^ The State Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Rhein-Mosel, Verbandsgemeinde, third line of results. Retrieved January 10, 2020 .
  5. ^ Local community Brodenbach: Press release of the local community Brodenbach KW33. August 23, 2019, accessed January 10, 2020 .
  6. A Catholic Church of the 20th Century. From the Holy Cross . In: Art treasures and sights of the Lower Moselle community (=  Moselkiesel . Volume 3 ). VHS Untermosel, Kobern-Gondorf 2002, ISBN 3-9806059-1-4 , p. 87-98 .
  7. The "Black Knight Cross" in Brodenbach. In: Gallery: Photos of beautiful old coats of arms No. 2130. Bernhard Peter, accessed on November 15, 2017 (private website).