Bremen, Indiana
town in Marshall County, Indiana, United States
Bremen ( BREE-mən) is a town in German Township, Marshall County, Indiana, United States. The population was 4,696 at the 2020 census.
History
Bremen was platted and laid out in 1851. A large portion of the early settlers being natives of Germany caused the name Bremen to be selected.
The Bremen Water Tower and Dietrich-Bowen House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Geography
Bremen is located in northeastern Marshall County at 41°26′50″N 86°08′58″W. It is at an elevation of 854 feet (260 m).
U.S. Route 6 passes through the north side of the town on a bypass; it leads east 8 miles (13 km) to Nappanee and west 18 miles (29 km) to Walkerton. Indiana State Road 331 passes through the center of Bremen on North Bowen Avenue and Plymouth Street; it leads north 15 miles (24 km) to Mishawaka and south 12 miles (19 km) to Bourbon. State Road 106 passes east to west through the center of Bremen on Plymouth Street and Douglas Road. Plymouth, the Marshall county seat, is 15 miles (24 km) to the southwest.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Bremen, Indiana” is town in Marshall County, Indiana, United States. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Bremen, Indiana and town, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “town in Marshall County, Indiana, United States” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q907391. VIAF identifies the subject as 150114197. The Library of Congress control number is n82017723. Authority coordinates are 41.447, -86.149. 4 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020 and 1851.
Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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This entry incorporates text from “Bremen, Indiana” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.