Bruschied

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 50 '  N , 7 ° 24'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bad Kreuznach
Association municipality :	Kirner Land
Height :	409 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.67 km 2
Residents:	288 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	108 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55606
Area code :	06544
License plate :	KH
Community key :	07 1 33 201
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Bahnhofstrasse 31 55606 Kirn
Website :	www.bruschied.eu
Local Mayor :	Thomas Engbarth
Location of the local community Bruschied in the Bad Kreuznach district

Bruschied is a municipality in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Kirner Land association.

geography

Bruschied in Lützelsoon

Wild and romantic Hahnenbachtal

Bruschied is located in the southern Hunsrück , west of the Lützelsoon . The Lützelsoon cycle path runs through the village. The Rudolfshaus district in the Hahnenbachtal belongs to Bruschied .

Neighboring towns are Rudolfshaus (district of Bruschied), Schneppenbach , Hennweiler , Hahnenbach , Bundenbach and Sonnschied .

Land use

As of December 31, 2009:

• Agricultural area: 37.6%
• Forest area: 45.8%
• Water surface: 1.0%
• Settlement and traffic area: 15.6%

History and origin of name

In the Middle Ages, the village of Bruschied belonged to a larger manor of the Imperial Abbey of St. Maximin near Trier, which - in addition to Bruschied - included the settlements of Hausen near Rhaunen, Woppenroth , Blickersau (desert), Kaffeld (desert), Bundenbach and Schneppenbach and probably the "Hofe Hausen ”was subordinated.

Bruschied formed together with Schneppenbach a district and appeared for the first time in 1023 under the name "Prubesdervot" in the goods lists. In 1282 it is called “Probsterade”, 1426 “Proistrot”. Place name researchers interpret the name as "clearing that was laid out on Propsteigut".

In the Middle Ages, the district of the two villages was also the "judicial district", where the mayor and lay judges exercised lower jurisdiction within this "in-court". This in-court was part of the high court of Rhaunen , which was originally owned by the Wildgraves , and included blood jurisdiction .

After the final transfer of Schmidtburg to the Archbishop and Elector of Trier , Bruschied and Schneppenbach belonged to the Schmidtburg rule from the middle of the 14th century, which later formed the Schmidtburg office and existed until the end of the 18th century. The local rule over both villages lay equally between Kurtrier and the Lords of Wiltberg. In 1563 10 families lived in Bruschied. Of these, 6 families were subject to the elector's charge and 4 to the Wiltberg family.

Ecclesiastically, Bruschied and Schneppenbach belonged to the parish of Hausen , where the Reformation was introduced around 1555. Since the Elector of Trier Nikolaus Schenk von Schmidtburg converted to the new faith, the residents of Bruschied also had to accept the Protestant denomination. After several changes of confession in the Thirty Years' War, the villages of Bruschied, Schneppenbach and Bundenbach became Catholic again in the course of the Counter Reformation.

After the French territorial and administrative reform in 1798, Bruschied came to the newly created Mairie de Kirn , to which it belonged until the end of French rule in 1814. In the Prussian period that followed, the community initially remained in this community association, which from 1815 was called "Mayor Kirn ". After this regional authority temporarily belonged to the district of Simmern and the district of Oberstein , Bruschied was assigned to the mayor's office of Gemünden, which was part of the district of Simmern, and was later given the names "Amt" and "Verbandsgemeinde" instead of the previous name.

With the last territorial and administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate, the community of Gemünden was dissolved on November 8, 1970 and Bruschied, together with the communities of Kellenbach , Königsau , Schneppenbach and Schwarzerden, was incorporated into the community of Kirn-Land within the Bad Kreuznach district.

Among the art monuments and listed buildings, Bruschied's first mention is the Catholic Church of St. Franz Xaver. The church was built in 1892/1893 according to plans by the Freiburg cathedral master builder Max Meckel on the site of a smaller church from the 18th century as a neo-Gothic , single-nave plastered building with a 5/8 choir . A comprehensive restoration of the interior of the church took place in 1969/1970, the church contains, among other things, several sculptures from around 1700.

Other listed buildings in Bruschied are the Marienkapelle, founded in 1699 by a Bruschieder citizen, and a 17th-century house on Oberdorfstrasse.

Population statistics

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

year	Residents	year	Residents
1815	286	1950	304
1835	293	1961	301
1871	291	1970	321
1905	320	1987	301
1939	286	2005	304

politics

Municipal council

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

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	WGE	WGS	total
2019	4th	2	6 seats
2014	4th	2	6 seats
2009	by majority vote		6 seats

• WGS = Voting Group Engbarth
• WGJ = voter group Steina

mayor

Local mayor is Thomas Engbarth. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office with 61.05% of the vote.

coat of arms

Blazon : "Under a silver shield head, inside a red bar cross, in a blue field two crossed silver roofing hammers, clad by a silver roof plate."

Justification of the coat of arms: The shield head refers to the former affiliation to Kurtrier, roofer's hammers and roof slab refer to the slate pits in the municipality of Bruschied. The municipal council commissioned the graphic artist Brust, Kirnsulzbach, to develop a draft for a municipal coat of arms. At its meeting on October 11, 1972, the Council approved the draft presented. After approval by the State Archives, the Ministry of the Interior in Mainz granted on November 27, 1972 permission to use one's own coat of arms.

Culture and sights

reconstructed Celtic hill settlement "Altburg"

• the medieval castle ruins of Schmidtburg
• the Herrenberg slate mine (since 1976 a visitor mine ) and the fossil museum
• the La Tène period Celtic hilltop settlement Altburg
• the Teufelsfels observation tower (568 m), right next to the legendary quartzite hardening of the same name on the Lützelsoon above the village
• the wild, romantic, untouched Hahnenbachtal

See also: List of cultural monuments in Bruschied

Web links

Commons : Bruschied  - Collection of Images

• Bruschied
• Article about Bruschied in Hierzuland , SWR television
• Literature about Bruschied in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

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. ^ Statistical maps, VG Kirn-Land, 2009
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Bruschied. Retrieved September 22, 2019 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
6. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: municipal council election 2009 Bruschied. Retrieved September 22, 2019 . 
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Kirn-Land, Verbandsgemeinde, 18th line of results. Retrieved September 22, 2019 . 
8. ^ Bruschied - the municipal coat of arms.