Waldbröl

Infobox German Location
Art = Stadt
Name = Waldbröl
image_photo = Waldbröl-rathaus.jpg
imagesize = 300px
image_caption = Town hall in Waldbröl
Wappen = Wappen-waldbroel.jpg
lat_deg = 50 |lat_min = 52 |lat_sec = 44
lon_deg = 7 |lon_min = 36 |lon_sec = 54
Lageplan =
Lageplanbeschreibung =
Bundesland = North Rhine-Westphalia
Regierungsbezirk = Cologne
Kreis = Oberbergischer Kreis
Höhe = 200 - 400
Fläche = 63.02
Einwohner = 19563
Stand = 2006-12-31
PLZ = 51545
Vorwahl = 02291
Kfz = GM
Gemeindeschlüssel = 05 3 74 044
Gliederung = 64
Straße = Nümbrechter Str. 18-21
Website = [http://www.waldbroel.de/ www.waldbroel.de]
Bürgermeister = Christoph Waffenschmidt
Partei = CDU

Waldbröl is a town is in the southern part of the Oberbergischer Kreis (district), in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located about 50 kilometers east of Cologne. The neighbouring municipalities Nümbrecht, Morsbach and Reichshof border on Waldbröl.

1957 Waldbröl received the town rights on account of its meaning as an economic and transport center of the southern Oberbergischer Kreis.

History of the community Waldbröl

1131 the place the first time was mentioned documentary namely " papal possession confirmation for the inhabitant of Bonner St. Cassiusstift" (Documentary first namings oberbergische places v. Klaus Pampus)

Manner of writing of the first naming: Waltprugele.

The coat of arms of Waldbröl

The town coat of arms which is entitled to lead Waldbröl since 1952 is described in §2 Paragraph 2 of the main statute of the city: The coat of arms points in golden field on green ground by which a silver brook flows, a black oak tree with green page turning and fruit. On the right beside the tree a silver scutellum with a brought down blue plowshare, on the left a silver scutellum with a red twice skipped is blue reinforced and crowned lion. The plowshare symbolizes the historical meaning of the agriculture in this only late industrialized region. The lion was the heraldic animal of the Grafen zu Berg and is widespread as such still today in whole complete Bergischen country. The brook symbolizes the brook Waldbröl arising with Escherhof which changes its name to Brölbach in the other course and when such flows into the Sieg. One supposes that Bröl signifies so much like "marsh" and could call "Waldbröl, hence, " marsh in the wood ".

Facilities

* District Hospital
* District court
* Center for transformation of the armed forces (ZASBw) (since 01. July, 2004)

Twin Towns

* Witham Essex (United Kingdom),
* Jüterbog (Brandenburg)
* Świebodzice (Poland).

Places of interest and buildings

Memorials and monuments

1863 the monument was established (for Prussia king Friedrich Wilhelm III in the Protestant church. The monument donated circle Waldbröl on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the elevation of the Prussian state.

The inscription is: "Dem Könige Friedrich Wilhelm III. der Kreis Waldbröl - 17.3.1863"

Population of Waldbröl

Personalities

Born in Waldbröl

* Anton Wilhelm von Zuccalmaglio, music scientist and composer
* Marianne Roetzel, sculptress
* Ernst Wille - painter
* Hermann Pampus (* 1900 † 1973), sportsman and town fire chief
* Jan Schlaudraff, football player at Bayern Munich

Occasionally lived in Waldbröl

* Dr. Horst Waffenschmidt, politician - CDU
* Manfred Melzer Roman Catholic suffragan bishop of Cologne, from 1989 to 1995 priest in Waldbröl
* Dr. Robert Ley, politician in the Nazi era, lived long on the estate Rottland

Lives in Waldbröl at the moment

* Ferdi Huik - the bergische Landbote - member in the family table inhabitant of Cologne carnival. Television appearances and broadcasting company appearances
* Chris Roberts pop singer

Churches

* Protestant parish church Waldbröl
* Catholic parish church Waldbröl

Religious community

* Apostolate municipality of the combined hearts Jesus and Marien e. V.
* Christian's Mennonites
* Christian meeting
* Protestant Christians Baptists e. V.
* Free Protestant municipality
* Islamische Moschee
* New Apostolic Church

Associations and facilities

* Village community Boxberg
* Village community Brenzingen
* Embellishment association box mountain
* Of transport u. Verschönerungsv. Waldbröl e. V.
* Waldbröler MGV 1862 e. V
* Zither circle Waldbröl
* Song circle Waldbröl
* Badminton club Waldbröl
* Chess association Waldbröl in 1928 e. V
* Swimming association Waldbröl in 1935/59 e. V.
* Handicap sport community Waldbröl
* TuS 06 Waldbröl e. V.
* Tennis friends " in the chimney "
* Town sport organization Waldbröl
* Outdoor sport association Waldbröl soccer
* Association of German sheepherds

Literature

* Otto Budde, "Waldbröl - wie es wurde, was es ist", Gummersbach 1981
* Otto Budde, "Das Dorf der Väter", Gummersbach 1987
* Gottfried Corbach, "Geschichte von Waldbröl", Cologne 1973