Bratenahl, Ohio

Cuyahoga County

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Bratenahl is a municipality (village ) in Cuyahoga County in the U.S. state of Ohio. It is located in the northeast of Cleveland, on the shores of Lake Erie, is 1.63 square miles (4.22 km ²) in size and had (2000) 1337 inhabitants, of which 84.8 % White.

The municipal area extends between the 88th Street and 140th Street on approximately 4.3 kilometers southwest-northeast direction along the lakeshore and reaches about 400 to 800 meters deep into the interior. The Interstate 90 Cleveland - Buffalo shields the area from the hinterland. The only neighboring town is on all three sides of Cleveland.

Judging by the distance from the center of Cleveland Bratenahl part of the inner and therefore older suburban belt, which arose before the Second World War. In contrast to most of these residential district Bratenahl is characterized neither by poverty nor by a high proportion of black population groups. Instead, the community is predominantly inhabited by whites and is very wealthy; the per capita income amounted to 72 757 U.S. dollars more than three times as high as the U.S. average and five times higher than in Cleveland.

The village is characterized predominantly by small-scale, highly loosened residential development. Again, this is in contrast to the densely built-up residential and industrial districts all around. Towards the end of the 1960s emerged lakefront two striking luxury residential high-rises. Since the 1980s, there is increased activity in the luxury real estate, which is eating population, however, is critical of.

Bratenahl was created in 1903 when some residents of the lake bottom pieces of the former municipalities Glenville and Collinwood successfully resisted the annexation to Cleveland. The name comes from one of the landowners in this area of the mid-19th century had a farm.

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