Brackel

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Coat of arms of the Brackel community
Brackel
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Brackel highlighted

Coordinates: 53 ° 18 '  N , 10 ° 3'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Harburg
Joint municipality : Hanstedt
Height : 53 m above sea level NHN
Area : 13.91 km 2
Residents: 1908 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 137 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 21438
Area code : 04185
License plate : WL
Community key : 03 3 53 004
LOCODE : DE BAK
Community structure: 2 districts
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Landstrasse 1
21438 Brackel
Website : www.brackel.de
Mayor : Dirk Schierhorn (FWB Brackel)
Location of the municipality of Brackel in the Harburg district
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Brackel [ bʁaːkɛl ] is a municipality in the district of Harburg, in Lower Saxony ( Germany ). It is located between Hanstedt and Hittfeld with its own exit from the federal motorway 7 in the Thieshope district .

Brackel is part of hanstedt and adjacent landscape to the south of the conservation area Garlstorfer Forest and further afield .

history

Thieshope coat of arms

Brackel was first mentioned in writing on February 6, 1300 in the record book of the St. Michaelis monastery in Lüneburg. Traces of settlement in the area can be found in finds from prehistoric times, from the younger Stone Age through the Bronze Age to the Iron Age. They show that the main settlement areas were not where they are today, but rather in the direction of Quarrendorf and Toppenstedt. An urn find from the Jastorf culture says that people were buried in Brackel as early as 550 to 400 BC.

On July 1, 1972, the community Thieshope was incorporated.

Origin of the place name

Old names of the place are: 1307 in villa Brackell, 1312 in villa Brakele, 1450 Brakell. The basic word is old Saxon loh, lah "Busch, Niederwald". The final word is Old Saxon “brak, braka”, Middle Low German “brake-broken wood, branch”.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council, which was elected on September 11, 2016, is composed as follows:

  • FWB Brackel: 11 seats

coat of arms

Blazon : "A silver flax brake on a red background."

The flax brake shown refers to the time when flax was still “grown and processed for linen production”. It was used to " break flax " and was a cutting device. The coat of arms is the Brake, as it is assumed that the name "Brackel" comes from the fact that there used to be a large Brake in Brackel, to which the surrounding farmers came. However, this is not certain.

traffic

Brackel is in the area of ​​the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund . The bus lines 4407 and 4408 of the KVG Stade connect the place with the train stations Buchholz (Nordheide) (on the Hamburg – Bremen railway ) and Winsen (Luhe) (on the Hamburg – Hanover railway ), which are just 15 km away .

Brackel used to have its own stop on the Lüneburg – Buchholz railway line, which was closed in 1981 and dismantled in 2000 .

Daughters and sons of the church

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).
  2. ↑ Protected areas in Germany. Retrieved February 23, 2016 .
  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. 229 .
  4. ^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on December 28, 2014 ; accessed on March 11, 2019 .
  5. ↑ https://www.hanstedt.de/rathaus-politik/wahlen/kommunalwahlen/gemeinderatswahlen/ Retrieved on January 14, 2019.
  6. ↑ a b c coat of arms with descriptions. Joint municipality of Hanstedt. Retrieved February 22, 2016 .

Web links

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