Brühl

Known as the hometown of former tennis player Steffi Graf.

• Name — Brühl • Image Coa — COA Brühl.svg • Image Photo — Bruehl-Ortsansicht.jpg • Image Plan — Brühl in HD.svg • State — Baden-Württemberg • Regbzk — Karlsruhe • District — Rhein-Neckar-Kreis • Gemeindeschlussel — 08226009 • Area — 10.19 • Elevation — 102 • Postal Code — 68782 • Area Code — 06202 • Licence — HD • Mayor — Ralf Göck • Leader Term — 2022–30 • Party — SPD • Website — bruehl-baden.de • Illustration — Town hall • Illustration — Catholic church • Illustration — Protestant church Brühl (pron) is a municipality in the Rhein-Neckar district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The former fishing village along the Rhine has become a satellite of a growing Mannheim. Many of the residents of Brühl work in Mannheim. Brühl is known as the hometown of former tennis player Steffi Graf.

Mannheim lies directly on Brühl's northern border. The Rhine is to the west near the confluence of the Leimbach. The peninsular Koller Island (Kollerinsel) is one of the few pieces of land on the left bank of the Rhine that belong to Baden-Württemberg. This 4 km 2 area is part of Brühl. It borders the communities of Altrip, Waldsee, and Otterstadt. To the south is Ketsch and to the east is Schwetzingen. The municipality consists of two boroughs: • Brühl • Rohrhof

Rohrhof was first mentioned in documents in 976. This was the occasion of a gift from emperor Otto II to Hanno, the bishop of Worms. Brühl (Bruowele) was first mentioned in a document listing the income of the bishop of Speyer in 1157. From 1405 until 1600, the lords of Handschuhsheim governed the land as a temporal fief from Speyer and the Electorate of the Palatinate of the Rhine. This division of temporal and spiritual dominion (condominium) ended with a treaty in which Speyer withdrew its worldly rights in 1709. In 1803 the towns became part of Baden. In 1878 the two independent communities of Brühl and Rohrhof were unified. In 1944 a part of Rohrhof was given to Mannheim. Live and celebrate on the Rhine is the motto of the communities jubilee, "850 Years Brühl" on 13 March 2007.

• Year — Population • 1880 — 890 • 1910 — 1700 • 1925 — 3489 • 1950 — 5648 • 1976 — 11,967 • 1993 — 14,000 • 2003 — 14,303

• Municipal Council 2004 • Party — Votes — Seats • CDU — 42.77 % — 10 • SPD — 21.79 % — 5 • Independent (Freiewähler) — 19.12 % — 4 • Green — 9.72 % — 2 • Citizens' Association — 4.31 % — 1 • FDP — 2.29 % — 0 • Voter Participation: 54.01%

A partial list of the mayors of Brühl: • 1849–1870 Michael Lindner • 1870–1897 Wilhelm Eder • 1897–1973 … • 1973–1981 Gerhard Stratthaus (CDU) • 1982–1998 Günther Reffert (CDU) • 1998–to present Ralf Göck (SPD), he was reelected in 2006 and 2014.

Azure with a horseshoe argent. The horseshoe was first documented on a road-side shrine in 1496. Later it appeared on all the seals of the community. In 1911 the coat of arms was officially awarded to Brühl by the General State Archive. The white and blue colors refer to the lords of the Electorate of the Palatinate of the Rhine, the Wittelsbachs. The flag is white and blue and was awarded by the Ministry of the Interior in 1960.

• France Ormesson-sur-Marne, France since 1977 • Germany Weixdorf, Saxony since 1993, which has been a borough of Dresden since 1999 • Burkina Faso Dourtenga, Burkina Faso since 1997

• TV Brühl, a gymnastics club with the following work groups: • Gymnastics • Handball • Table tennis • Volleyball • FV Brühl, a football club with the following work groups: • Football • Track and field

Brühl has a heated outdoor community swimming pool and an indoor swimming pool. There is a youth center in Rennerswald.

• Two fishing festivals • On the anniversary of the consecration of the church, Brühl has a street festival. • The Rohrhof Summer Festival

• Illustration — Steffi Graf • Steffi Graf, professional tennis player. Graf was actually born in Mannheim but moved with her family to Brühl at the age of nine.

• Rio Reiser, bourgeois Ralph Christian Möbius, (1950-1996), musician, of the band Ton Steine Scherben, lived with his family in the 1950s in Brühl and was trained here. • Maurizio Gaudino (born 1966 in Brühl), former national football player