Bruggen

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Brüggen
Bruggen
Map of Germany, position of the municipality of Brüggen highlighted

Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '  N , 6 ° 11'  E

Basic data
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Dusseldorf
Circle : Viersen
Height : 50 m above sea level NHN
Area : 61.2 km 2
Residents: 15,745 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 257 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 41379
Primaries : 02163, 02157Template: Infobox municipality in Germany / maintenance / area code contains text
License plate : VIE, KK
Community key : 05 1 66 004
LOCODE : DE BGQ
Community structure: 3 districts
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Klosterstrasse 38
41379 Brüggen
Website : www.brueggen.de
Mayor : Frank Gellen ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Brüggen in the district of Viersen
Kreis Viersen Nordrhein-Westfalen Kreis Kleve Kreis Wesel Duisburg Krefeld Rhein-Kreis Neuss Mönchengladbach Kreis Heinsberg Niederlande Nettetal Tönisvorst Grefrath Niederkrüchten Brüggen Viersen Willich Kempen Schwalmtalmap
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Brüggen is a municipality in the Lower Rhine region in the west of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and a municipality in the district of Viersen in the administrative district of Düsseldorf . Since March 19, 2012 Brüggen has been allowed to use the official addition Burggemeinde .

geography

Brüggen is located in the Maas-Schwalm-Nette nature park . The Schwalm river flows through the municipality.

The municipality includes the three districts of Brüggen (7450 ​​inh.), Bracht (6700 inh.) And Born (2000), to which smaller settlement areas (partly former honnships ) belong: Alst, Angenthoer, Borner Mühle, Boerholz, Dilborn, Genholt, Genrohe, Haverslohe, Heide, Heidhausen, Hülst, Lüttelbracht, Oebel, Stevensend and Woltersheide.

history

Brüggen owes its existence to its geographical location. Located at the only passable ford over the Schwalm , a first settlement was formed at the intersection of two trade routes between the Rhine and the Maas (first mentioned in a document in 897). The Counts of Kessel secured this stage with a castle complex (first documented mention in 1289), which they had built on a 16 m high, mighty gravel island, based on Dutch models, which in turn floats on the moor. With the construction of the castle, Brüggen became the center of the office of the same name.

In 1473, the Burgundian Duke Charles the Bold took Brüggen Castle (in the same campaign, including Venlo and Nijmegen ). Karl died in January 1477. For three centuries until 1794 the castle was in the possession of the Duchy of Jülich and represented a strong border fortress ( Landesburg ) of the Duchy. In 1794 Napoleon's troops marched on the left Lower Rhine; the French era began.

The French occupiers gave the castle to the last bailiff of the castle in 1804 to compensate for years of arrears. After that, three quarters of the former four-tower castle and the huge fortress fell victim to the razing and reuse of building materials.

After the end of Operation Blackcock (January 1945) and after the start of Operation Grenade , the Wehrmacht cleared the Maas-Rur triangle between Venlo, Roermond and Wassenberg (namely the Maas-Rur position there ) on 27/28. February without a fight to avoid lockdown. On March 1, 1945, a US Army combat group (in the rear of the Maas-Rur position) advanced via Niederkrüchten-Brüggen-Bracht-Kaldenkirchen to Venlo.

Bruges became part of the British occupation zone .

The British base RAF Brüggen in the south existed until 2001. Among other things, nuclear weapons were stored on it.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1970, the municipality of Bracht and parts of the municipalities of Breyell and Kaldenkirchen were incorporated.

The Kreuzherrenkloster and the monastery church

In 1479 the Order of the Holy Cross , whose clerics were also called Kreuzherren, founded a monastery in the center of Brüggen. A year later they started building the St. Nikolaus monastery church. After it burned down in 1751, it was rebuilt as a baroque church by 1756. Some of the other monastery buildings also burned down in 1751. The convent building was built in 1756 and is still preserved today. From 1630 to 1794, the order maintained a philosophical and theological faculty in the monastery to educate its members. A Latin school taught the children of the Brüggen parish . In 1802, the French government at the time secularized the monastery. 1840 founded Friedrich von Diergardt the first mechanical in the former convent building silk - weaving of mainland Europe. Later the building was used as an orphanage, school, post office and pastorate. Today the municipal administration is located there.

archive

The Brüggen municipal archive, like the archive of the former Bracht municipality, together with the Viersen district archive and others, is accessible to the public in Kempen Castle.

politics

mayor

Frank Gellen (CDU) has been mayor since June 15, 2014. The predecessor was Gerhard Gottwald (CDU), he held the office for 25 years. Since the foundation of today's municipality of Brüggen in 1970 and since the end of the Second World War in the two predecessor municipalities Brüggen and Bracht, all mayors have belonged to the CDU.

Municipal council

Since May 25, 2014, the municipal council has 38 seats (previously 34), which are distributed as follows:

  • CDU : 18 seats (2009-2014: 16)
  • SPD : 6 seats (2009-2014: 5)
  • Greens : 5 seats (2009-2014: 3)
  • UBW (Independent Community of Voters): 4 seats (2009-2014: 3)
  • FDP : 3 seats (2009-2014: 4)
  • AWB (Alternative Voting Association Brüggen): 2 seats (2009-2014: 2)

Coat of arms and banner

  • Coat of arms and banner of the municipality of Brüggen

  • Old coat of arms (until 1972)

  • Today's coat of arms (since 1972)

  • banner

Brüggen Castle (back)
The tower of Brüggen Castle, which was given a new conical roof in 1994

In gold (yellow) on the right the Mother of God seated on a silver (white) bench with red undergarment, blue cloak and blue lily crown . The face, hands and hair are silver (white). With her left hand she grasps the silver (white) baby Jesus on her lap, surrounded by a red and silver (white) halo. In her right hand she is holding a rose branch with three red flowers. On the left a soaring, red-armored and red-tongued black lion holding a blue pennant on a black shaft with a silver (white) tip in its paws.

The coat of arms shown was created after the municipal merging of the former municipalities of Brüggen and (Mühl-) Bracht. Mühlbracht's much older coat of arms showed the patroness of the Bracht parish church of St. Mariae Himmelfahrt in red and green clothes on the left side and the yellow lion of Geldern with a fief with the black lion of Jülich. This old coat of arms was already the seal of a jury in the 12th century and was considered one of the most beautiful in Germany.

Description of the banner: "Blue-yellow-blue-yellow-blue in a ratio of 1: 1: 7: 1: 1 striped lengthways with the municipal coat of arms on the shield a little above the middle."

Attractions

A fool on the front door of the “Kaschemme”, a bar - café in the old town of Bruges

Economy and Infrastructure

shopping Sundays

A special feature are the open Sundays and public holidays from the beginning of March to the end of October. During these 40 days or so, many shops on Klosterstrasse (pedestrian zone), Hochstrasse and Bornerstrasse are open, so that many tourists come to the city. These guests are an important economic factor for the shops and restaurants in Bruges.

In addition, market events , old town festivals , castle festivals and similar events take place several times a year , which are also mostly very popular.

Infrastructure

traffic

Street

The federal road 221 runs through Brüggen . It connects to the A 61 to Venlo north of Brüggen in Kaldenkirchen and to the A 52 to Roermond south of Brüggen in Niederkrüchten . Both motorways lead to Mönchengladbach and on to Düsseldorf (A 52) or Cologne and Koblenz (A 61).

railroad

Brüggen was the end point of the Dülken – Brüggen railway line , which was shut down between Brüggen and Waldniel in 1984 and between Waldniel and Dülken in 1998. The last passenger train ran in 1966, the last freight train in 1975.

Street-level public transport

Some NEW mobil und aktiv Viersen buses operate in Brüggen, whose hub is Brüggen Markt .

The SB line 88 and bus line 074 operate as a replacement for the Dülken – Brüggen railway line to Viersen

Other lines are:

Personalities

Others

The film adaptation of the suburban crocodiles of the children's book Vorstadtkrokodile by Max von der Grün was shot in 1977 for the most part in the Bracht district of Bruges.

The Brüggen-Oebel pottery center is located in the Oebel district .

literature

  • Josef Deilmann: History of the office of Brüggen . 1st and 2nd part. Reprint of the 1927 and 1930 editions. Cologne 1986
  • Karl-Heinz Hohmann: Brüggen in the Schwalm-Nette nature park . Rheinische Kunststätten No. 154. Neuss 1973
  • Leo Peters (editor): Brüggen, Bracht, Born. Essays on the landscape, past and present . Series of publications of the district of Viersen, Vol. 30/1979.
  • Leo Peters: Look at the vestments, rabbits chased. 400 years ago, in October 1600, Brüggen's later sovereign Wolfgang Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg first visited the Jülich district on the Schwalm , Heimatbuch des Kreises Viersen 51 (2000), pp. 47–55
  • Brüggen yesterday and today . Brüggen series of publications No. 1–3. Brüggen municipality 1991, 1995 and 1998

Web links

Commons : Brüggen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 )
  2. ↑ http://www.nrw.de/landesregierung/kommunalminister-jaeger-genehmigt-die-ersten-zusatzbezüge-bei-staedten-und-gemeinden-12669/ PM Interior Ministry
  3. ↑ Mayor HEINEN (1928): Brüggen . - in: Kreisverwaltung Kempen (Ed.): Heimatbuch des Landkreis Kempen , Düsseldorf (Otto Fritz)
  4. ↑ www.feststellung-weststellung.de
  5. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 114 .
  6. ↑ Jürgen Brand: Investigations into the emergence of labor jurisdiction in Germany , Volume 2 From honor to claim , Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 978-3-465-03185-7
  7. ↑ www.kreis-viersen.de
  8. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 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. Municipal data center Niederrhein accessed on June 18, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wahl.krzn.de
  9. ↑ Main statute of the municipality of Brüggen, § 2, p. 33. (PDF; 1.6 MB) (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 5, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.brueggen.de