Brevörde
Brevörde is a municipality in the district of Minden wood in Lower Saxony ( Germany ). It belongs to the Samtgemeinde ground Werder Polle, which has its headquarters in the city Bodenwerder.
- 2.1 monastery and village church
- 2.2 Population development
- 2.3 Plane Crash
- 3.1 municipal
- 3.2 Coat of Arms
- 4.1 roads
- 4.2 Weserfähre Grave
Geography
Location
Brevörde is within the Weser mountain country in the Upper Weser Valley, about 9.5 kilometers southwest of ground Werder and 9 km (each air line) north-northwest of Minden wood. It is located on the orographic left side and the north bank of the Weser, which makes two U-shaped flux loops ( Talmäander ) there. To the north the landscape leads to, 85-130 m above sea level. NHN located Grave of view, steep Kleff (approx. 281 m) across, one of the southern edge of the survey Ottensteiner plateau. A few kilometers east spreads beyond the hamlet Grave and also there running Weser the Solling -Vogler from. The western districts are traversed by Brevörder Bach ( Glesse ), which empties into the Weser, directly afterwards and after passing under the federal road leading through the village 83.
Community structure
The community Brevörde is composed of the main town and from the eastern neighboring village of Grave. The municipal area also heard the other side of the Weser, about 1.5 km south of the district Grave and about 500 meters west of Reileifzen lying hamlet glasses.
History
Brevörde ( " broad ford " ) is an ancient settlement at a ford in the river Weser.
In the time of the Kingdom of Westphalia (1810-1813) belonged to the canton Brevörde ground Werder. From 1 April 1922, belonged to the district of Hamelin -Pyrmont. As part of local government reform in Lower Saxony, the community was to January 1, 1973 the district Holzminden affiliated, with Grave was incorporated. Since 1973 Brevörde belongs to Samtgemeinde Polle or to Samtgemeinde ground Werder Polle, in those 2010 came up.
More recently, many old buildings were demolished to widen the B 83.
Monastery and village church
Formerly Brevörde the 960 in the near Kemnade ( today district of soil Werder ) founded monastery Kemnade assumed. The Urban Church, which was named after the holy St. Urban, one of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover, landmark of the village, was built around 1200. Ht a medieval tower with double-sided stepped gable and gabled roof. The church is a plain hall building with a Schweimb by Andreas built 1815 bought the organ, in the case of a restoration in the 1980s medieval documents came to light. Previously, the church was the mother church of Polle. The church is within the church district of Minden- wood floor Werder to the rectory Hehlen - High and jointly supplied by the parish priest of Polle.
Population Development
Plane crash
On October 18, 1988, a British fighter aircraft of the type F -4 Phantom II crashed into a wooded area near Brevörde due to an engine failure. The two pilots, Pete Lines and Colin Fryer, were able to save with the ejection seat on a field in Meiborssen. The Samtgemeinde Polle then demanded by the federal government in November 1988, a ban on low-level flights in the upper Weser region.
Policy
Parish council
Turnout: 75.29 %.
The council is made after the local elections on September 11, 2011 consist of:
- SPD: 5 seats
- CDU: 4 seats
Coat of arms
Traffic
Brevörde between Pegestorf and Polle on the highway 83 in the region of Hoexter - runs to Bodenwerder - the wood Minden located beyond the Weser ( about 83 branching from the B B 64 reached ) passing. From the B 83 branches at the eastern entrance exit from the country road 428 that leads serpentienreich over the Kleff to the northwest for lying on the Ottensteiner plateau Ottenstein. About 1 km north-east outskirts of this branches off from the B 83, the county road 36 from that gradually through the district Grave runs as impasse and immediately thereafter ends at the pier of Weserfähre Grave.
Weserfähre Grave
When the district Grave wrong after former ferry service was discontinued in 1977, and since 2005 the Weserfähre Grave ( Gravena ). She brings hikers and cyclists from there west bank ( county road 36, B - 83 Grave ) to the opposite bank (K 35; Dölme - Reileifzen ) of the river; on the east bank of the Weser cycle path with a connection to the nearby R1 cycle.