Bruttig-Fankel

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Cochem cell
Association municipality :	Cochem
Height :	85 m above sea level NHN
Area :	14.38 km 2
Residents:	1112 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	77 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56814
Area code :	02671
License plate :	COC, ZEL
Community key :	07 1 35 017
LOCODE :	DE UTI
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Ravenéstrasse 61 ; 56812 Cochem
Website :	www.bruttig-fankel.de
Local Mayor :	Rainer Welches
Location of the local community Bruttig-Fankel in the district of Cochem-Zell

Bruttig-Fankel on the Moselle; Fankel district with Moselle lock

"On the banks of the Moselle", district of Bruttig

Church, district of Bruttig

Bruttig-Fankel is a municipality in the district of Cochem-Zell in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Cochem community .

geography

The place lies on the Moselle (river kilometers 57-59; Lower Moselle ) and consists of the districts Bruttig and Fankel.

climate

The annual precipitation is 716 mm. The precipitation is in the middle third of the values recorded in Germany. Lower values are registered at 43% of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is February, with most rainfall in June. In June there is 1.8 times more rainfall than in February. The rainfall varies moderately. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at 46% of the measuring stations .

history

The oldest evidence of settlement in the vicinity of the place are the well-preserved burial mounds on the Bruttig-Fankeler mountain along the so-called race path , an ancient road connecting the two fork-end points of the Celtic / Roman trunk road from the Mosel through the Hunsrück to Nahe , today advertised and marketed by tourists as the Keltenweg Nahe – Mosel , along which the “Archaeological Hiking Trail Bruttig-Fankel” runs today. According to the Rhineland-Palatinate State Office for Monument Preservation in Koblenz , some of these graves date from the Bronze Age .

The town of Bruttig-Fankel has both Celtic - Roman and Merovingian - Franconian origins, with the district of Bruttig being probably the older. The first documentary mention as “Pruteca im Mayengau” comes from June 4th, 898 in a deed of gift from King Zwentibold of Lorraine in favor of the imperial, free aristocratic women's monastery in Essen . In addition to numerous possessions in the area Cologne and Bergheim the king conferred the pen in Essen: ... in pago magnensi in villa pruteca terra arabilis cum curtile et Vineis ... (trans about. ... in Mayengau , in the village Bruttig a courtyard with associated pflügbarer earth and vineyards ... ). This document proves that the place is at least 1100 years old, but probably even much older, as there was already a farm with vineyards. Another indication that the place was already a Celtic settlement comes from the name "Bruttig" itself. Linguists derive the current name from the Celtic "Bruti-acum" (ie: "Brut's dwelling") via the Latin " Proteca "(898 AD)," Prodecha "(1250 AD) to today's" Pruttig / Bruttig ".

The district of Fankel was first mentioned in a document around the year 1100. The name is derived from the Celtic "fank" for swampy terrain. In the Middle Ages, the ownership structure in Bruttig and in Fankel was governed by several so-called wisdoms . At the time of the French occupation from 1794 both districts were assigned to the Mairie Beilstein , which belonged to the canton of Zell . However, the administration was in the canton of Treis of the Département de Rhin-et-Moselle and from 1816 after the assignment to the Kingdom of Prussia in the district of Cochem . Both places have been part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 .

In the course of the administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate , on June 7, 1969, the previously independent communities Bruttig and Fankel were merged to form the new local community Bruttig-Fankel.

politics

Municipal council

The council in Bruttig-Fankel consists of 16 council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

coat of arms

The new coat of arms of the local community Bruttig-Fankel is based on a resolution of the local council of January 16, 1973.

	Blazon : “A split coat of arms, on the right on a silver background a red key with a four-pass handle and a beard pointing to the left with a cross cut, covered by a green wavy bar; left a golden lily on a green field. "
	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms brings together the symbolism of the two old municipal coats of arms of the districts of Bruttig and Fankel. The design of the coat of arms comes from Alfons Friedrichs from Zell.

Partnerships

A partnership has been maintained with Overijse in Belgium since 1958.

Culture and sights

Attractions

Schunck's house from 1656 (considerable interior)
Old town halls of Bruttig (from 1619) and Fankel (16th century)
Church of St. Margaretha in Bruttig (1845) and Filialkirche Mariä Himmelfahrt in Fankel (1385)
Christophorushaus and half-timbered houses in Brunnenstrasse (oldest connected half-timbered ensemble in the Moselle region)
Former synagogue in Mühlenbachstrasse in the district of Bruttig
numerous half-timbered houses in the old town centers of Bruttig and Fankel
Kreuzkapelle (18th century)

The embankment in Bruttig

Brick embankment in Bruttig

The largest of the 12 bridges

A railway embankment up to ten meters high runs right through the Grossig district. In the northern part it looks almost like a city wall with its brick walls , in the southern part it is between the houses. With a total of twelve bridges, it leads over the streets and alleys that cross it. The dam is a relic of a railway line planned as a strategic railway during the First World War along the right bank of the Moselle from Bullay to Koblenz. However, only the 2565 meter long Treiser Tunnel between Bruttig and Treis and the railway embankments leading to it from the above-mentioned locations were built, with interruptions . The construction work was finally stopped in 1924, the line never went into operation. In 1944 , electronic components were produced in the tunnel as part of a program to relocate the production of essential war goods to protected underground facilities . Concentration camp prisoners who were housed in camps on the railway embankments on both sides of the tunnel were also used for this. In 1946, by order of the French occupation authorities, the tunnel was destroyed by several explosions. You can still follow the route to the former south portal of the tunnel. Up until a few years ago, wine was still grown on large parts of its area, including in town. The remains of two concrete buildings from 1944 can be seen in front of the portal. A memorial stone in the cemetery commemorates the concentration camp.

Interesting

Bruttig-Fankeler book box

Regular events

Gross wine festival on the second weekend in August
Fankeler Wine Festival on the second weekend in July
Gross fair on the first Sunday after July 20th
Fankeler fair on the first Sunday after August 15th
Pentecost
Wine location

Economy and Infrastructure

The height of fall of the Fankel barrage is 7 m

Fankel barrage : construction of a second lock chamber in 2009

Viticulture and tourism shape the place and are inseparable. In the district of Bruttig, the big wine festival is celebrated annually on the second weekend in August. Well-known steep slopes are Pfarrgarten, Götterlay, Rathausberg, Layenberg and Rosenberg. Mainly Riesling is grown, but also Elbling and various other (including red) grape varieties.

In Fankel, in addition to the Fankel barrage, there is also the central control room of RWE Power AG , from which the hydropower plants of the German Moselle barrages are controlled.

Well-known sons and daughters

Johannes Kölner (also Johannes Koelner de Vanckel), (* around 1448 in Fankel, † July 29, 1490 in Cologne ), German lawyer; 1482 Dean of the Law Faculty of the University of Cologne
Matthias Coelner de Vanckel (also Matthias Fanckel), (* around 1450 in Fankel; † June 5, 1506 in Trier), German clergyman, Dominican, prior and inquisitor
Servatius Fanckel (* around 1450 in Fankel; † July 15, 1508 in Basel ), German clergyman, Dominican and definitor of the provincial chapter
Petrus Mosellanus (nee Peter Schade), * 1493 in Bruttig, † April 19, 1524 in Leipzig , Moselle humanist, philologist, theologian and church teacher
Johann Georg Gobelius (* 1562 in Bruttig-Fankel - † after 1615 in Mainz), physician, rector in Mainz and personal physician to the electorate
Cornelius Gobelius the Younger, (born November 7, 1570 in Bruttig , † June 5, 1611 in Erfurt ), auxiliary bishop in Mainz (titulature of a bishop of Askalon )
Egon Hess (born April 18, 1922 in Fankel, † November 17, 1980 in Bruttig-Fankel) local politician and former mayor of Bruttig-Fankel

literature

Alfons Friderichs : Book of arms of the district of Cochem-Zell. Zell 2001. ISBN 3-00-008064-3
Alfons Friderichs: Personalities of the Cochem-Zell district. Trier 2004. ISBN 3-89890-084-3
Alfons Friderichs: Documents and regests of the cities, communities, castles, monasteries, mills and farms in the Cochem-Zell district until 1900. Trier 2010. ISBN 978-3-89890-125-3
Ernst Heimes : I've only ever seen the fence. Search for the Cochem satellite camp. Foelbach; 4th ed .; Koblenz 1999. ISBN 3-923532-39-3
Reinhold Schommers : Community of Bruttig-Fankel on the Moselle. Rheinische Kunststätten No. 371; Publishing house of the Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection; 1st ed .; Cologne 1992. ISBN 3-88094-675-2
Theisen, Horst / Weidenbach, Markus: Family book Bruttig-Frankel from 1500-1899. Cardamina-Verlag Breuel, Plaidt 2007 (German local family books: series A; 424)

Web links

Commons : Bruttig-Fankel - Collection of Images

Homepage of the local community of Bruttig-Fankel
Literature about Bruttig-Fankel in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 173 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
↑ Festschrift 1100 Years of Bruttig; Grossig-Fankel municipality; 1998
^ Alfons Friderichs: Book of arms of the Cochem-Zell district. Pp. 36-37.

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-1] State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).