Bremke is a village in the Gemeinde

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in southern

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The village of 887 residents is located about ten kilometers south-east of

Göttingen Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the capital of the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, the population was 118,911. General information The ori ...

and lies in the shadow of the two small mountains called the Gleichen for the castles that once stood on their peaks. Bremke is the location of an outdoor stage, the Brüder Grimm Waldbühne, built in 1949, which stages performances in the summer. The local synagogue was destroyed during

Kristallnacht () or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom(s) (german: Novemberpogrome, ), was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's (SA) paramilitary and (SS) paramilitary forces along with some participation fro ...

in 1938, and the last of the small number of Jews living in the village left the following year. On Eschenberg there are remnants of the village's Jewish cemetery.

Government

The village mayor is Karin Jürgens.

Education

There is a public elementary school (''Grundschule'') in the village.

External links

*http://www.gleichen-bremke.de (Official Homepage) *https://web.archive.org/web/20070730232517/http://www.gleichen.de/bremke/home.htm (in German) *http://www.wohlfuehlportal.de/Deutschland/3/7/Gleichen/Theater/ (in German) *http://www.arikah.com/enzyklopadie/Gleichen_(Landkreis_G%C3%B6ttingen) (in German) *http://www.grundschulebremke.de/ *https://web.archive.org/web/20120123141200/http://www.feuerwehr-bremke.de/ {{authority control Villages in Lower Saxony Holocaust locations in Germany