Neuenbrok

Neuenbrok City of Elsfleth Coordinates: 53 ° 14 '59 "  N , 8 ° 20' 59"  E
Postal code :	26931
Location of Neuenbrok in Lower Saxony

Neuenbrok , formerly also Neuenbrock , is a district of the Lower Saxon town of Elsfleth on the Lower Weser .

The municipality of Moorriem was formed in 1933 from Neuenbrok, Bardenfleth and Altenhuntorf . This was incorporated into the city of Elsfleth in 1974 and lost its independence.

Attractions

Organ in the Evangelical Church of St. Nikolai in Neuenbrok (2011)

• The Protestant church of St. Nicholas from 1862 is a hall church of brick with arched windows . A west tower belongs to it . The only decoration of the church, which has a flat ceiling inside, are the late classicist wall decorations. The Romanesque baptismal font made of granite has a blind arch structure . It dates from the 12th century.

Sons and daughters

• Bernhard Winter (1871–1964), painter, graphic artist and photographer
• Heinz Folte (1910–1976), politician (CDU)

Web links

• Neuenbrok parish ; therein: St. Nikolai Church, 1863 (photo)
• The St. Nikolai Church in Neuenbrok
• Moorriem - Altenhuntorf, Bardenfleth and Neuenbrok. Inside: St. Nikolai Church in Neuenbrok (drawing)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ NEUENBROK. Ev. St. Nikolai Church. In: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Bremen Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1992, p. 967, ISBN 3-422-03022-0
2. ^ Bernhard Winter on the website of the city of Oldenburg in Oldenburg