Broken chick

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Broken chick
District Extertal
Coordinates: 52 ° 3 ′ 54 ″  N , 9 ° 7 ′ 29 ″  E
Height : 110-150 m above sea level NN
Area : 4.47 km²
Residents : 258  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 58 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1969
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Location of Kükenbruch in Extertal
Broken chick, view from the east

Kükenbruch is a small town in East Westphalia-Lippe with about 258 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2016) and is a part of the municipality of Extertal in the Lippe district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Location and description

The place is in the north of the municipality Extertal between the districts of Almena , Laßbruch and Silixen . It is located at an altitude of around 110–150 meters above sea ​​level . The street village is at the intersection of the two streets "Laßbruch- Krankenhagen " and "Almena-Silixen".
Rinteln is about 6 kilometers (km) to the north, Hameln 20 km to the east and Bielefeld 36 km to the south-southwest (all information measured as the crow flies ).

history

The municipality of Kükenbruch was re-established on January 1, 1921 by being separated from the municipality of Laßbruch . On January 1, 1969, it was incorporated into the new municipality of Extertal.

Economy and Infrastructure

To the east of the village, in the valley of the Exter , a left tributary of the Weser , runs the Extertalstraße ( Landesstraße 435).

In the small town of Bögerhof , just before the state border with Lower Saxony , there was a train station for the Extertalbahn, which is now only used for tourism .

In 1951 Alfred Hugenberg died on the family estate in Kükenbruch .

Even today, Kükenbruch still has an appearance characterized by agriculture and forestry , even if these branches of the economy no longer play a significant role. There are no more sights and no retail stores in town . The only restaurant there is a nationally known biker meeting point .

Web links

Commons : Chick Break  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ extertal.de
  2. ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 254 .
  3. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 67 .