Bruschied is an ''
Ortsgemeinde
A Verbandsgemeinde (; plural Verbandsgemeinden) is a low-level administrative division, administrative unit in the Germany, German States of Germany, federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt. A Verbandsgemeinde is typically compose ...
'' – a
municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
belonging to a ''
Verbandsgemeinde
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Rhineland- ...
'', a kind of collective municipality – in the
Bad Kreuznach
Bad Kreuznach () is a town in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a spa town, most well known for its medieval bridge dating from around 1300, the Alte Nahebrücke, which is one of the few remaining bridges in th ...
district
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in
Rhineland-Palatinate
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,
Germany
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. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde''
Kirner Land Kirner Land is a ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") in the district of Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' is in Kirn. It was formed on 1 January 2020 by the merger of the former ''Verban ...
, whose seat is in the town of
Kirn
Kirn is a town in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. It is the seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Kirner Land. Kirn is a middle centre serving an area on the Nahe and in the Hunsrück.
Geography
Location
Kirn lies in a la ...
.
Geography
Location
![Schnep-ro-hahnenbachtal](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Schnep-ro-hahnenbachtal.jpg)
Bruschied lies in the southern
Hunsrück
The Hunsrück () is a long, triangular, pronounced upland in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by the valleys of the Moselle-Saar (north-to-west), the Nahe (south), and the Rhine (east). It is continued by the Taunus mountains, past ...
, west of the
Lützelsoon
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Location
The Lützelsoon is a hill ridge southwest of the Soonwald range and north of ...
plateau. The Lützelsoon Cycleway (''Lützelsoon-Radweg'') runs through the village.
Land use
As at 31 December 2009, land use in Bruschied breaks down thus:
[Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz – Regionaldaten](_blank)
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* Agriculture
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: 37.6%
* Woodland: 45.8%
* Open water: 1.0%
* Residential and transport: 15.6%
Neighbouring municipalities
Clockwise from the north, Bruschied's neighbours are the municipalities of Schneppenbach
Schneppenbach is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Kirner Lan ...
, Woppenroth
Woppenroth is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Kir ...
(in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis
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), Hennweiler
Hennweiler is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Kirner Land, who ...
, Sonnschied
Sonnschied is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Herrstein-Rhaunen, w ...
and Bundenbach (both in the Birkenfeld
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Geography
...
district).
Constituent communities
Also belonging to Bruschied is the outlying homestead of Rudolfshaus in the Hahnenbach valley on the road between Bundenbach and Hahnenbach
Hahnenbach is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Kirner Land, who ...
.
History
In the Middle Ages
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, the village of Bruschied belonged to a great landhold of Saint Maximin's Abbey near Trier
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, which comprised, besides Bruschied itself, also Hausen near Rhaunen
Rhaunen is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It was the seat of the former ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Rhaunen ...
, Woppenroth
Woppenroth is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Kir ...
, Blickersau, Kaffeld (two now vanished villages that once lay within Woppenroth's limits), Bundenbach and Schneppenbach
Schneppenbach is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Kirner Lan ...
, and was presumably subject to the ''Hof Hausen'' (the manor). Bruschied formed together with Schneppenbach a single municipal area and had its first documentary mention in 1023 under the name ''Prubesdervot'' in the directories of holdings. In 1282 it was called ''Probsterade'' and in 1426 ''Proistrot''. Placename researchers interpret the name as meaning “clearing (''—rade'', ''—rot'') laid out on a provost’s estate”. The two villages’ municipal area was at the same time in the Middle Ages a “court region”, where the ''Schultheiß
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'' and ''Schöffen'' (roughly “lay jurists”) exercised low jurisdiction (that is, they did not have the power to impose the death penalty
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) within this ''Ingericht''. The ''Ingericht'' was itself part of the high court region of Rhaunen, which was originally under the Waldgrave
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s’ ownership, and unlike the lower court, it could sentence wrongdoers to death. After the permanent transfer of Castle
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Schmidtburg
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The Nine Years' War (1688–1697), often called the War of the Gran ...
to the Prince-Archbishop-Elector of Trier, Bruschied and Schneppenbach belonged, beginning in the mid 14th century to the lordship of Schmidtburg, which later formed the ''Amt
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'' of Schmidtburg, which itself existed until the late 18th century. The lordship over both Bruschied and Schneppenbach was held in equal shares by the Electorate of Trier
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and the Lords of Wiltberg. In 1563, there were ten families living in Bruschied, of whom six were subject to taxes and service demanded by the Elector and the other four were likewise subject to the Lords of Wiltberg. Ecclesiastically, Bruschied and Schneppenbach belonged to the parish of Hausen, where about 1555, the Reformation
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was introduced. Since the Electora-Trier '' Amtmann'' Nikolaus Schenk von Schmidtburg converted
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to the new belief, all the villagers in Bruschied, too, had to adopt Protestantism
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. After various denominational changes, back and forth, during the Thirty Years' War
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, the villages of Bruschied, Schneppenbach and Bundenbach ended up in the course of the Counter-Reformation
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becoming Catholic
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again. After the French Revolution
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ary territorial and administrative reform in 1798, Bruschied was grouped into the newly formed ''mairie de Kirn'' (mayoralty), to which it belonged until the end of the Napoleon
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ic occupation
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in 1814. The village, however, remained in this municipal grouping on into Prussia
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n times, although in 1815, it became known by the more German
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name ''Bürgermeisterei Kirn'', also meaning “mayoralty”. After this entity had for a while belonged to the Simmern and Oberstein districts, Bruschied was in 1817 made part of the ''Bürgermeisterei'' of Gemünden, itself belonging to the Simmern district, which was later known as ''Amt'', and eventually ''Verbandsgemeinde''. In the latest round of territorial and administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate
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, the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Gemünden was dissolved on 8 November 1970 and Bruschied, along with the municipalities of Kellenbach
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, Königsau
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, Schneppenbach
Schneppenbach is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Kirner Lan ...
and Schwarzerden
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, was grouped into the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Kirn-Land in the Bad Kreuznach
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district
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.
Jewish history
Until 1942, there was a small Jewish population in Bruschied. It was considered an outlying part of the Jewish community in Hennweiler
Hennweiler is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Kirner Land, who ...
, as it was there that the community kept its synagogue
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. Its history is covered in detail in the relevant section in that article. The last four members of the Jewish community in Bruschied were deported to the camps by the Nazis
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in 1942.
Population development
Bruschied's population development since Napoleon
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ic times is shown in the table below. The figures for the years from 1871 to 1987 are drawn from census data.
Religion
Foremost among Bruschied's buildings under monumental protection is Saint Francis Xavier Catholic
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Church
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* Chris ...
(''Kirche St. Franz Xaver''), built in 1892/1893 to plans drawn up by Freiburg Cathedral Master Builder Max Meckel on the site of a smaller church from the 18th century as a Gothic Revival
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, one-naved, plastered building with a five-eighths quire. A thorough restoration of the church's interior was undertaken in 1969/1970. Among the objects restored were several artworks from about 1700. As at 31 August 2013, there are 267 full-time residents in Bruschied, and of those, 73 are Evangelical
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(27.341%), 154 are Catholic
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(57.678%), 2 (0.749%) belong to other religious groups and 38 (14.232%) either have no religion or will not reveal their religious affiliation.
Politics
Municipal council
The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected by majority vote
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arms
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* Ida A. T. Arms (1856–1931), American missionary-educator, temperance leader
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*Armaments or weapons
**Fi ...
might in English heraldic
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language be described thus: Azure two slater's hammers in saltire, between their heads a slate shingle, all argent, on a chief of the same a cross gules.
The cross on the chief
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* Chief of the boa ...
is a reference to the village's former allegiance to the Electorate of Trier
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. The charges in the field below this, the slater's hammers and the shingle, refer to the old slate mines within Bruschied's limits. Municipal council gave the graphic artist Brust from Kirn-Sulzbach
Kirn-Sulzbach (also: ''Kirnsulzbach'') is a ''Ortsteil, Stadtteil'' of Kirn in the Bad Kreuznach (district), district of Bad Kreuznach, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
See also
* :de:Kirn-Sulzbach, Kirn-Sulzbach in German Language
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the task of designing a municipal coat of arms. At a council meeting on 11 October 1972, council adopted the design that had been put forth. After consent by the state archive, the Ministry of the Interior in Mainz
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granted approval for Bärenbach to bear its own arms on 27 November 1972. The arms also appear on the municipal banner
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.
Culture and sightseeing
Buildings
The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate
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’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:
* Saint Francis Xavier Catholic
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Church
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(''Kirche St. Franz Xaver''), Soonwaldstraße 1 – Gothic Revival
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aisleless church
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, 1892/1893, Cathedral Master Builder Max Meckel, Limburg
* Oberdorf 3 – estate complex; Baroque
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timber-frame
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house, partly solid, 18th century, timber-frame barn
* Soonwaldstraße 8 – Saint Mary’s Catholic Chapel
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(''Marienkapelle''); Baroque aisleless church, 1699; ridge turret 1854, architect Matthias Römer
Other sightseeing features in the area include:
* the Schmidtburg
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The Nine Years' War (1688–1697), often called the War of the Gran ...
mediaeval
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castle
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ruin;
* the Herrenberg slate
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quarry (since 1976 open to visitors) and the fossil
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museum
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;
* the Celtic
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* Celtic music
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heights settlement, Altburg, dating from La Tène times;
* the lookout tower on the Teufelsfels (568 m), right next to the like-named, legendary quartzite
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butte
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on the Lützelsoon above the village;
* the wild, untouched Hahnenbach valley.
Clubs
The following clubs are active in Bruschied:Clubs
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*''Jugendgruppe “Starke Truppe” Bruschied e.V.'' – youth group
*''Saubräter Club Bruschied e.V.'' – grilling club
*''Spielvereinigung. Teufelsfels'' – united sport club
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*''VdK Ortsgruppe Bruschied'' – public service organization
References
External links
Bruschied in the collective municipality’s webpages
Brief portrait of Bruschied
in the SWR Fernsehen
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programme ''Hierzuland''
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