Bruchhausen-Vilsen

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Bruchhausen-Vilsen
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Coordinates: 52 ° 49 ′  N , 8 ° 59 ′  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Diepholz
Joint municipality : Bruchhausen-Vilsen
Height : 14 m above sea level NHN
Area : 109.55 km 2
Residents: 9118 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 83 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 27305
Area code : 04252
License plate : DH, SY
Community key : 03 2 51 049
LOCODE : DE BHV
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Lange Str. 11
27305 Bruchhausen-Vilsen
Website : www.bruchhausen-vilsen.de
Mayor : Lars Bierfischer
Location of the community of Bruchhausen-Vilsen in the district of Diepholz
Landkreis Diepholz Niedersachsen Nordrhein-Westfalen Nordrhein-Westfalen Landkreis Osnabrück Landkreis Nienburg/Weser Bremen Delmenhorst Landkreis Verden Landkreis Vechta Landkreis Oldenburg Landkreis Cloppenburg Stemshorn Lemförde Quernheim Brockum Marl Quernheim Hüde Lembruch Dümmer Diepholz Drebber Barnstorf Wetschen Dickel Rehden Hemsloh Barver Freistatt Wehrbleck Bahrenborstel Varrel Kirchdorf Wagenfeld Barenburg Barenburg Eydelstedt Sulingen Drentwede Scholen Ehrenburg Neuenkirchen Maasen Borstel Siedenburg Mellinghausen Staffhorst Schwaförden Asendorf Affinghausen Sudwalde Schwarme Martfeld Bruchhausen-Vilsen Twistringen Bassum Syke Weyhe Stuhrmap
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Bruchhausen-Vilsen ( Low German : Brooksen-Vilsen ) [ fɪlzn̩ ] is a stain in the district of Diepholz in Lower Saxony . Bruchhausen-Vilsen is a state-approved climatic health resort as well as a member community and seat of the joint community of Bruchhausen-Vilsen .

geography

Bruchhausen-Vilsen is located about 30 km south of Bremen , 100 km south-west of Hamburg and about 70 km north-west of Hanover .

Community structure

The districts are part of the Bruchhausen-Vilsen area

Berxen , Bruchhausen, Bruchhöfen, Bruchmühlen, Dille , Engeln , Gehlbergen , Heiligenberg, Homfeld, Mohr, Nenndorf , Ochtmannien, Oerdinghausen, Riethausen , Scholen, Stapelshorn , Süstedt , Uenzen, Vilsen, Weseloh, and Wöpse .

history

Originally, Bruchhausen-Vilsen consisted of the three spots Mohr, Vilsen and Bruchhausen. Bruchhausen was first mentioned in a document in 1189, Vilsen in 1227. Bruchhausen was also called Altenbruchhausen in the past in order to distinguish it from Neubruchhausen , which is not far away . Bruchhausen is mentioned in the Topographia Braunschweig and Lüneburg from 1654/1658. In 1976 Bruchhausen-Vilsen was recognized as a climatic health resort . From 1983 to 1988 the Bruchhausen Festival took place every year at Whitsun in Bruchhausen-Vilsen .

Incorporation and new foundations of the patch

In 1870 Mohr and Bruchhausen were combined to form the community of Bruchhausen. The spots Bruchhausen and Vilsen were merged in 1929 to form the spots Bruchhausen-Vilsen. On March 1, 1974, the previously independent towns of Berxen , Homfeld and Wöpse were incorporated. Bruchhausen-Vilsen has been the administrative center of the joint community of Bruchhausen-Vilsen since 1974 . On November 1, 2011 Engeln and on November 1, 2016 Süstedt were not incorporated, but both times the Bruchhausen-Vilsen area was re-established.

Population development

year 1961 1970 1987 1992 1997 2002 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2016 2018
Residents 3078 3483 5022 5360 6113 6138 6009 6005 5944 5926 6986 8837 8841

(1961: June 6th, 1970: May 27th, from 1987: December 31st )

politics

Municipal council

The local council from Bruchhausen-Vilsen consists of 25 councilors.

(Status: local election on September 11, 2016)

coat of arms

Description : Split: on the left side in gold an upright black bear paw with red claws, the back four times by silver and blue gest changes .

Partnerships

Bruchhausen-Vilsen is represented in the Lower Saxony / Bremen municipal association.

Culture and sights

Museums

The first museum railway in Germany, operated by the German Railway Association since 1966 , runs according to schedule on weekends from May 1st to October 3rd with historic vehicles from Bruchhausen-Vilsen to Asendorf. Nicholas trips on weekends in Advent are particularly popular with children . Exhibition rooms with exhibitions on various topics related to the small train , as well as the extensive vehicle collection (approx. 100 vehicles) can be visited on the operating days.

  • Lok Hoya of the museum railway in Bruchhausen-Vilsen station

  • The museum train crosses Homfelder Strasse

  • North side of St. Cyriakus Church in Vilsen

  • Tower and old transept of the St. Cyriakus Church

  • Bartholomew Church

Buildings

Churches

The St. Cyriakus Church in Vilsen is a Romanesque style church. It was first mentioned in a document in 1227 and belonged to the Heiligenberg monastery .

In the Bruchhausen district is the Bartholomäus Church, which was named after the Bartholomäus-Markt, today's Brokser Marriage Market .

Heiligenberg monastery mill

Mills

Behlmer mill in angels
Watermills

As a mill of the Premonstratensian monastery , the monastery mill in Heiligenberg was first documentedly mentioned by a miller in 1370. In 1543 the mill and the monastery passed into state ownership. In 1986 the mill was restored. After a renovation in 1996, a restaurant and a hotel with gallery rooms opened in the mill.

The Bruchmühlen watermill was the lower mill of the Heiligenberg monastery . It is located a few hundred meters from the upper mill. It was mentioned in a document for the first time in 1532. The creation of a massive foundation and the repair of the mill house took place in 1749. The mill has been privately owned by the Hüneke family since 1886. The waterwheel was restored in 1990/1991, until spring 1996 around three tons of grain were ground every day .

Windmills

There is a windmill in Bruchhausen-Vilsen , namely the Behlmer Mühle in Engeln . Even after 2011, the other four windmills in the Bruchhausen-Vilsen municipality are not in the Bruchhausen-Vilsen area ( see Bruchhausen-Vilsen municipality # Windmühlen ).

Parks

Spa gardens
Rose festival at the Forsthaus Heiligenberg

In Bruchhausen-Vilsen there is a park ("Kurpark") where music events are regularly held. The park borders on the Vilser Holz. In honor of the doctor and botanist David Heinrich Hoppe , who was born in Vilsen and whose work was and is of supraregional importance, there is a bronze plaque in the spa gardens (size: 55 × 90 cm). It bears the following text:

Dr. med. David Heinrich Hoppe / b. December 15, 1760 in Vilsen / died August 1, 1846 in Regensburg . / D. H. Hoppe founded with / like-minded friends / in 1790 the 1. / "Botanical Society" in Regensburg. / The botanist, pharmacist / and doctor DH Hoppe described / more than 200 plant species / for the first time and / gave them their scientific / scientific names.

A street was named after Hoppe, which runs parallel to the street Am Bürgerpark to the north of the Kleinbahn .

In 2007, a water adventure playground was set up near the small train station.

A rose festival takes place every year at the Heiligenberg forester's lodge within an area of ​​2.5 hectares, enclosed by a ring wall.

Art in public space

Scattered, sometimes somewhat hidden, across the municipality of Bruchhausen-Vilsen, there are a few very different sculptures and objects by artists from the region. These art objects are made from a wide variety of materials - bronze , metal and brick :

  • in the Vilsen district on Engelbergplatz there is a fountain with the bronze sculpture Die Wringerin (1991) by Robert Enders
  • in the spa gardens a stele with a house (metal, 2003) by Gerd Friedrich. This stele was erected on the occasion of the exhibition "Art in the Park" of the joint community of Bruchhausen-Vilsen
  • an object (metal, 2001) by the artist Bernhard Hanzal in the Heiligenberg district near the Klostermühle . It belongs to the art trail "Art Detours". At the forester's house there is the object Hang zur Kunst by Rainer Seliger (Ziegelsteinkegel, 1999)

Natural monuments

On the edge and in the immediate vicinity of the spa park, the wild-growing orchid Broad-leaved Stendelwurz ( Epipactis helleborine ) blooms in large numbers every year from mid-July to mid-August .

Sports

There are five sports clubs in the municipality, the SV Bruchhausen-Vilsen as a pure football club, the TV Bruchhausen-Vilsen and the TSV Süsedt which offer several sports and the HSG Bruchhausen-Vilsen as a pure handball club. In addition, the TSG Bruchhausen-Vilsen which offers various dance offers.

Economy and Infrastructure

Bruchhausen-Vilsen station (as it was in 2006), shared station of Verkehrsbetriebe Grafschaft Hoya in standard gauge and museum railway in meter gauge

traffic

rail

Bruchhausen-Vilsen has a station on the 1899 railway Eystrup-Syke of transport County Hoya . Since 1972, only goods traffic has taken place here, as well as journeys with historic railcars and special trains as feeders to the Kaffkieker museum railway . There is also scheduled shuttle traffic during the Brokser Marriage Market with a stop at the fairground. Since 2007, this train has been running from Syke to Eystrup and back every first and fourth Sunday, on public holidays and to the wedding market . There are also connections to Bremen main station again .

Freight traffic on the connection to Asendorf was stopped in 1971, and museum trains of the German Railway Association have been running there since 1966 . The route is operated as a public railway infrastructure from Flecken Bruchhausen-Vilsen as a railway infrastructure company.

Street

Bruchhausen-Vilsen is on the B6 , an important traffic connection to Bremen and Hanover . With the Lower Saxony Asparagus Route , one of Germany's holiday routes runs through the area.

Public transport

The VBN bus route 150 serves the route from Hoya to Bremen .

bicycle

The eight-man tour is a very popular circular cycle route through Eystrup - Hoya - Bruchhausen - Vilsen.

Established businesses

Public facilities

outdoor pool

Bruchhausen-Vilsen has a spa park and an outdoor swimming pool . Since the beginning of 2009, the school center has had a cafeteria with a multi-purpose hall, which is mainly used for school sports and club sports. In addition, it can also be used as an event hall for performances etc. similar possible with up to 2,000 visitors.

education

Panorama of the Bruchhausen-Vilsen grammar school in 2009

In Bruchhausen-Vilsen there is a primary school , secondary school , secondary school and a grammar school with an upper level. In order to be able to cope with the steadily growing number of students at the grammar school by setting up the upper level, new rooms were created. This construction phase was completed at the end of 2009. There is also a free Waldorf school , which is located next to the urban school complex. The new school building began with the groundbreaking on March 2, 2010. The new Waldorf school has been in operation since the end of September 2010.

Sons and daughters of the church

Others

The Brokser Marriage Market in the last week of August is a fair with attractions such as the traditional stag auction . There is a cattle market on the last market day. The market is known throughout the north-west and, along with the Bremer Freimarkt, Oldenburger Kramermarkt and the Stoppelmarkt in Vechta, is the fourth largest folk festival in the region.

literature

Web links

Commons : Bruchhausen-Vilsen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Topographia Braunschweig and Lüneburg, S. 60  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).
  2. ↑ a b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes for municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 191 .
  3. ^ Law on the regeneration of the Bruchhausen-Vilsen area, Diepholz district. 8 December 2010
  4. ↑ Law on the new formation of the Bruchhausen-Vilsen area, Diepholz district of November 12, 2015. In: Niedersächsisches Gesetz- und Verordnungsblatt No. 19/2015 of November 12, 2015, p. 306
  5. ↑ LSKN-Online
  6. ↑ http://www.bruchhausen-vilsen.de/wahl/Flecken2016.html
  7. ^ Churches in the joint parish of Bruchhausen-Vilsen
  8. ↑ Verkehrsgemeinschaft Hoya: route and zone plan. Retrieved June 2, 2017 .
  9. ^ Gymnasium Bruchhausen-Vilsen
  10. ↑ Dirk Böttcher : LÜER, (1) Kurt. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 239; online through google books
  11. ^ Manfred Rasch:  Spilker, Heinrich Ludwig Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 698 ( digitized version ).