Langenbroich

The Church of St. Mary's Marriage

Langenbroich community Kreuzau Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 29 ″  N , 6 ° 27 ′ 23 ″  E
Height :	approx. 220 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	137  (Jul 31, 2018)
Postal code :	52372
Area code :	02422
Quarry stone house in Langenbroich

Entrance to the Heinrich Böll House

Langenbroich (spoken: Langenbrooch ) is the smallest district in the Kreuzau community , Düren district , North Rhine-Westphalia . Langenbroich is located in the northern Eifel , not far from the Hürtgen Forest in the Rureifel recreation area .

The Heinrich-Böll-Haus Langenbroich is located in Langenbroich , a former home of Heinrich and Annemarie Böll , a former farmhouse that they bought in 1966. Langenbroich became world famous in February 1974 when Heinrich Böll welcomed the Nobel Prize for Literature Alexander Solzhenitsyn , who had been expelled from the former Soviet Union , to his home. The house is now a refuge for persecuted artists who, with the help of a grant , can go about their work undisturbed for some time.

In Langenbroich there is the Kreuzau branch church of St. Mariä Vermählung , a baroque hall church built from quarry stone at the beginning of the 18th century .

In the forest around Langenbroich there are traces of mining from the past centuries. I.a. there is the ruin of a factory that was built there by the English in the second half of the 19th century, but was abandoned in the 1870s.

Until 1969 Langenbroich belonged to the Strass-Bergstein office, which was added to the Hürtgenwald municipality on July 1, 1969. On January 1, 1972 were to Kreuzau umgemeindet .

See also : List of architectural monuments in Kreuzau

Web links

• Pictures from Langenbroich
• BBC article on the expulsion of Solzhenitsyn from the USSR and his arrival in Langenbroich (Engl.)
• Walk with Heinrich Böll

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.kreuzau.de/ug/zadafa/index5.php
2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 98 .
3. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 307 .