Bromskirchen

Aerial photograph (2013)

Coat of arms

Bromskirchen

Location of Bromskirchen within Waldeck-Frankenberg district

Coordinates: 50°58′N 08°52′E / 50.967°N 8.867°ECoordinates: 50°58′N 08°52′E / 50.967°N 8.867°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Karl-Friedrich Frese (Ind.)

Area

• Total

35.23 km² (13.60 sq mi)

Elevation

414 m (1,358 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

1,838

• Density

52/km² (140/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

59969

02984

Website

Bromskirchen is a community in Waldeck-Frankenberg in Hesse, Germany.

Bromskirchen lies at the edge of the Rothaargebirge in southwest Waldeck-Frankenberg, right on the boundary with North Rhine-Westphalia's district of Hochsauerlandkreis.

More than 70% of the community's area is wooded.

Bromskirchen borders in the north on the town of Hallenberg (Hochsauerlandkreis in North Rhine-Westphalia), in the east on the town of Frankenberg, in the south on the community of Allendorf and the town of Battenberg (all three in Waldeck-Frankenberg), and in the west on the town of Bad Berleburg (Siegen-Wittgenstein in North Rhine-Westphalia).

Bromskirchen had its first documentary mention in 1238 in an account from the Archbishopric of Mainz. After the Thirty Years' War, the village passed to Hesse-Darmstadt, and in 1866 to Prussia.

For centuries, the village's livelihood was based on agriculture on scant land, and the forest.

The council's 15 seats and the executive's 5 are apportioned thus, in accordance with municipal elections held on 26 March 2006:

Eligible voters: 1,528

Voter participation: 52.2%

The three "parties" represented on council are all "citizens' lists". None of Germany's national parties is represented.

Bromskirchen's civic coat of arms might heraldically be described thus: Party per pale, dexter in sable a sword Or with hilt per cross pattée Or, sinister in argent a lattice per lozengy sable, thereover a fess Or.

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