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Research provided by: Martin Koepple, Panoramastr. 31, D-73207 Plochingen, Germany
FROM HISTORY
The name break living comes from the word "Broichhausen": Broich means break = swampy, moorige place. In horseshoe form the old local centre formed around the source hollow of the Haehnerbaches.
Koehlerei and copper mining industry were the first economic bases for the oldest settlement in Frankish time. Later were added agriculture and viticulture as well as clay/tone and basalt dismantling in the nearby breaks. In the local centre the Pfarr and pilgrimage church offers pc. Johann Baptist surrounded with their romanischen and gotischen construction units, by a group by half timbered houses from 17. and 18. Century, a pictorial impression. At the individual construction units of the church easily the different building phases of the centuries ablesen.So point e.g. the central schlussstein of the side ship, which carries the coat of arms Dietrich von Moers (1414-1462 archbishop of Cologne, leave themselves), whereupon that the choir under its regency was established under participation of the family of Spee, whose coat of arms likewise ziert a schlussstein. The bedeutensten works of art of the church are a Madonna wood sculpture from the year 1330/40 (dresses as grace picture), a Madonna stone sculpture of beginning 15. Century and the singular "dead dance" of approximately 1700.
Beside the parish church break living possesses a number of further architectural monuments, as for instance the castle of the counts von Spee, the house of the counts von Trips, the old parsonage building with its beautiful one pool of broadcasting corporations finaloh as well as several localtypical half timbered houses in the local centre.
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