Bremke is a village in the
Gemeinde Gleichen
Gleichen () is the name of two groups of castles in Germany, thus named from their resemblance to each other ().
Castles in Thuringia between Gotha and Erfurt
The first is a group of three (hence called "die drei hreeGleichen"), each situated o ...
in southern
Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony is a States of Germany, German state (') in Northern Germany, northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ' of the Germany, Federal Re ...
.
The village of 814 residents
[ is located about ten kilometers south-east of ]Göttingen
Göttingen (, ; ; ) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. According to the 2022 German census, t ...
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) (, ), was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's (SA) and (SS) paramilitary forces along with some participation from the Hitler Youth and German civilia ...
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.
References
External links
Official Homepage
*http://www.wohlfuehlportal.de/Deutschland/3/7/Gleichen/Theater/ (in German)
*http://www.arikah.com/enzyklopadie/Gleichen_(Landkreis_G%C3%B6ttingen) (in German)
*https://web.archive.org/web/20120123141200/http://www.feuerwehr-bremke.de/
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Villages in Lower Saxony
Holocaust locations in Germany