Hünfeld

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Hünfeld
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Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′  N , 9 ° 46 ′  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : kassel
County : Fulda
Height : 271 m above sea level NHN
Area : 119.77 km 2
Residents: 16,616 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 139 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 36088
Primaries : 06652, 06672Template: Infobox municipality in Germany / maintenance / area code contains text
License plate : FD
Community key : 06 6 31 015
LOCODE : DE HUD
City structure: 15 districts

City administration address : 		Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 1
36088 Hünfeld
Website : www.huenfeld.de
Mayor : Benjamin Tschesnok ( CDU )
Location of the city of Hünfeld in the Fulda district
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Logo of the city of Hünfeld
Hünfeld Town Hall 2009
Hünfeld town hall in Advent

Hünfeld is a town in the eastern Hessian district of Fulda .

geography

Geographical location

The Konrad Zuse town of Hünfeld is located on the Haune River near the Hessische Rhön Nature Park ( Hessian skittles ). The next larger city in the south is Fulda , about 16 km away, and in the north Bad Hersfeld , about 26 km away.

Neighboring communities

Hünfeld borders in the north on the municipality Eiterfeld , in the east on the municipalities Rasdorf and Nüsttal , in the southeast on the municipality Hofbieber , in the south on the municipality Petersberg and the city of Fulda (all in the district of Fulda) and in the west on the city of Schlitz ( Vogelsbergkreis ) and the municipality of Burghaun (district of Fulda).

City structure

In addition to the city center (Hünfeld-Mitte), Hünfeld consists of the districts of Dammersbach , Großenbach , Kirchhasel , Mackenzell , Malges , Michelsrombach , Molzbach , Nüst , Oberfeld , Oberrombach , Roßbach , Rudolphshan , Rückers and Sargenzell .

history

Cityscape with the parish church of St. Jakobus

Hünfeld was first mentioned as a campus Unofelt (meaning: field at the Hunaha - meant the river is Haune ) in a document from the year 781. In it, the area of the middle Hauneeinzugsgebietes was the future Emperor Charlemagne to the Abbey of Fulda on suitable. The Fulda Abbey founded a cella in Huniofelt at the latest at the beginning of the 9th century , which was mentioned for the first time on March 27, 815. In this document, the Fulda Abbey received the right to tithe the cell and some other places in the vicinity.

The Antsanvia military and trade route crossed the Haune here , presumably at a ford . The cell was built at this ford, where a Frankish royal court had probably been located earlier. The cell quickly developed into a monastery; on February 20, 825, Hünfeld was mentioned in writing as a monastery . The first settlement developed around the monastery. Around 883 the monastery had a convent of 33 monks and 13 students. It is believed that the monastery was destroyed during a Hungarian invasion in 915. The reconstruction was carried out by canons as a collegiate foundation . In the Protestant parish church in Hünfeld, remains of the then newly built Gothic collegiate church are still preserved (choir closure, in the north wall and on the tower). The first provost is recorded in 1128.

Due to its convenient location, among other things, Hünfeld received market rights in 1244. On July 27, 1310, the Gelnhausen town charter, which was granted by King Henry VII , followed. However, the Heerstrasse not only brought blessings for the city: it was often affected by wars; Napoleon moved as nine times by the city on the Haune .

The poet Goethe also visited the city and wrote the poem Hünfeld Fair in 1814 about his impressions .

On October 29, 1888, the entire city center fell victim to a devastating fire. In the period that followed, numerous buildings were built, such as the town hall or the Boniface monastery of the Oblate missionaries who came to Hünfeld in 1895 at the request of the citizens .

Until the regional reform in 1972, Hünfeld was the district town of the district of the same name . In 2000 Hünfeld "was Hessentagsarena city ", 2011, the city got together with her French sister city Landerneau the European Prize of Europe for their outstanding efforts to European integration .

Incorporations

On February 1, 1971, as part of the regional reform in Hesse, the previously independent communities Mackenzell, Malges, Michelsrombach, Molzbach, Oberfeld, Oberrombach, Roßbach, Rudolphshan, Rückers and Sargenzell were incorporated. On December 31, 1971, Dammersbach, Großenbach, Kirchhasel and Nüst were added.

The population grew from 7,500 then to 16,000 today. As a result of this regional and administrative reform, Hünfeld also became one of the largest cities in Hessen. The district area increased from 12 to almost 120 square kilometers.

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

  • 1812: 279 fire places, 1663 souls
Hünfeld: Population from 1812 to 2015
year     Residents
1812
  
 1,663
1834
  
 2,060
1840
  
 2,197
1846
  
 2,182
1852
  
 1,962
1858
  
 1.921
1864
  
 1,827
1871
  
 1,634
1875
  
 1,622
1885
  
 1,828
1895
  
 1,668
1905
  
 1,979
1910
  
 2.139
1925
  
 2,482
1939
  
 2,772
1946
  
 3,905
1950
  
 4,307
1956
  
 5,318
1961
  
 6,182
1967
  
 7,392
1970
  
 7.001
1976
  
 13,863
1988
  
 13,151
2000
  
 16,100
2010
  
 16,019
2015
  
 16,000
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 1976 :; 1988 :; 2010: 2000, 2015:
The figures after 1970 contain the towns incorporated into Hesse as part of the regional reform .

religion

The Catholic parish church of St. Jakobus towers over the city, visible from afar
The Protestant Church of the Holy Cross (former collegiate church)

In 781 gave Emperor Charlemagne the monastery of Fulda , the " campus, qui dicitur unofeld " ( "the field, which is called Hünfeld").

A small Benedictine monastic settlement was soon established for the economic use, administration and religious support of this donation , which developed into a monastery and, in the 10th century, a monastery . Around this monastery people settled who were in the service of the monastery. The later city of Hünfeld developed from this monastery foundation.

Catholic

Evangelical

After the secularization in 1803, the former collegiate church “Zum Heiligen Kreuz” was converted into a storage room. In 1816, the rural hospital commission auctioned the buildings, which then went into private ownership. Part of the church was demolished and sold as building material. The new owner's apartment was set up in the cloister, while the choir was used as a stable and barn. In 1850 the remaining parts of the building of the former monastery were sold to the state of Hesse. In 1857 the choir of the collegiate church and the adjacent building, both owned by the state, were given to the Protestant parish for church and school purposes. On the fourth Sunday of Advent in 1857, services were celebrated again in the old, now new Protestant church after 54 years of silence.

The Evangelical Church of the Holy Cross is in Stiftstrasse, in the immediate vicinity of the rectory. It belongs to the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck in the parish of Fulda.

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 0271 Protestant (= 14.82%), 1430 Catholic (= 78.23%), 126 Jewish (= 6.89%) residents, one Christian with a different denomination (= 0.05%)
• 1961: 1529 Protestant (= 24.73%), 4590 Catholic (= 74.25%) residents

politics

City Council

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the 2016 city council
    
A total of 33 seats
  • SPD : 5
  • FDP : 2
  • CDU : 20
  • CWE : 6
 Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006 		%
2001 		Seats
2001
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 60.5 20th 61.6 20th 64.3 24 59.0 22nd
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 16.1 5 18.7 6th 14.0 5 16.4 6th
CWE Christian voter unity 16.5 6th 14.4 5 12.6 5 13.3 5
FDP Free Democratic Party 6.9 2 5.3 2 4.2 1 3.2 1
GREEN Alliance 90 / The Greens - - - - 3.1 1 3.6 1
HüLi Hünfeld list - - - - 1.9 1 4.4 2
total 100.0 33 100.0 33 100.0 37 100.0 37
Voter turnout in% 54.4 50.3 50.3 61.2

mayor

According to the Hessian municipal constitution, the mayor is chairman of the magistrate , which in the city of Hünfeld includes six voluntary councilors in addition to the mayor . Benjamin Tschesnok (CDU) has been mayor since 2020, whose predecessor Stefan Schwenk (CDU) replaced the long-time mayor Eberhard Fennel (CDU) in 2014.

coat of arms

Blazon : The coat of arms consists of a moderately baroque shield on a blue background with a white border. On the blue and white background of the shield there is a white continuous cross, which is double-framed in black lines. This cross is modified from the black Fulda collegiate cross.

Town twinning

Culture and sights

Boniface monastery in Hünfeld
Grave of Konrad Zuse

Baths

Hünfeld has an outdoor pool and an indoor pool. The outdoor pool is open in spring and summer. The indoor pool is open in autumn and winter.

Buildings

Museums

The Hünfeld City and District History Museum is located on the church square in Hünfeld. In 2007 it was expanded to an exhibition area of ​​1200 m² and renamed the Konrad-Zuse-Museum Hünfeld with city and district history .

The Museum Modern Art Hünfeld is located on the site of a former gas works . It is directed by the artist Gerhard Jürgen Blum-Kwiatkowski and exhibits international works of Concrete and Intelligible Art . The open book project, also initiated by Blum-Kwiatkowski , in which texts from Concrete Poetry are attached to house walls, is now part of Hünfeld's cityscape with over 120 works. The Museum Modern Art Foundation erected 22 boards with typical phrases in Rhön dialect along the Kegelspielradweg , with three boards on the Hünfeld route. Furthermore, numerous sculptures shape the city's public space.

Sports

The local sports club is the Hünstelder SV . The current coach of the 1st men's soccer team (Hessenliga) is Dominik Weber. The club plays in the home stadium Rhönkampfbahn. The coach of the 2nd team (Kreisoberliga Mitte) is Johannes Helmke.

There are eight tennis courts in the Blau-Weiß Hünfeld tennis club, which was founded in 1950, in the Huenfeld public park . A national youth and adult tournament has been held every year since 1995.

Regular events

  • Spring market (...)
  • Horse show, outdoor show, second weekend in August
  • National tennis tournament on the penultimate weekend of the Hessian summer vacation
  • Long night with open shops, street food and live music from three stages
  • Gaalbernfest (after the summer holidays)
  • Martinsmarkt (always on the weekend Saturday and Sunday around 11/11)
  • Jubilee concert (usually in the middle of November on a Sunday evening in the monastery church of the Bonifatiuskloster)
  • New Year's Eve concert with Huenfeld New Year's song on New Year's Eve in front of the town hall
  • Weekly market (Friday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the Anger)
  • Kirmes (in autumn in almost all municipalities of Hünfeld)
  • Klosterparkfest in St. Bonifatiuskloster (on a Sunday in August)
  • Rhön Rock Open Air in Hünfeld- Oberfeld

Economy and Infrastructure

Hünfeld's economic boom began after the Second World War . Mechanical engineering and metal processing companies settled here. The largest employer is the world-famous hair cosmetics company Wella , which employs more than 1000 people in its production facility. Wella was taken over by the US company Coty Inc. in 2015 . Coty plans to close the plant in mid-2018.

There are other jobs in the administration area. In recent years, central Hessian administrative offices have been relocated to Hünfeld.

traffic

The federal highways 27 and 84 run through the city . The federal highway 7 also runs through the urban area; the city can be reached via junction 90, Hünfeld / Schlitz.

The city has a train station on the Fulda – Bad Hersfeld – Bebra – Kassel / Erfurt line ( see also: Bebra – Fulda line ). A cycle path was opened on April 27, 2007 on the former Hünfeld – Wenigentaft-Mansbach railway , which began in Hünfeld .

Public facilities

The Hünfeld correctional facility, completed in December 2005, is the first partially privatized correctional facility in Germany. In the course of this, the Konrad-Zuse-Schule also had the opportunity to train prison officers.

The Hünfeld district court is the central dunning court for the state of Hesse in Hünfeld .

Hünfeld is the seat of a federal police department of the federal riot police and, since 1990, a branch of the Hessian headquarters for data processing .

education

Hünfeld has a total of four primary schools, two in the city center and two more in the villages of Mackenzell and Michelsrombach. There is also a special school for people with learning disabilities and a school for those with practical skills . The two primary schools in the city center and the special schools are:

  • Paul Gerhardt School (primary school)
  • Johann Adam Förster School (primary school)
  • Christian Andersen School (School for Learning Assistance)
  • Vinzenz-von-Paul-Schule (School for Spiritual Development)

In the secondary schools there is a grammar school and a secondary and secondary school as well as a vocational school.

  • Wigbertschule (grammar school)
  • Jahnschule (secondary and secondary school)
  • Konrad-Zuse-Schule (vocational school of the district of Fulda)

Personalities

Monument to Konrad Zuse in the Hünfeld city park

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities who have worked or are working on site

literature

  • August Weber: The history of the city of Hünfeld. Ed. In conjunction with d. History and Hünfeld Local History Museum Association, Hünfeld 1951.
  • Otto Helmer, Peter Krahulec, Günther Becker: Hünfeld, the gate to the Rhön: portrait of a district town and its landscape . Schneider u. Weber, Kassel 1969.
  • August Weber: The history of the Hünfeld district . Parzeller, Fulda 1960.
  • Armin Sieburg (Ed.): Hünfeld City Archives: older files and official books. Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-88964-172-5 .
  • Johannes Burkardt: Hünfeld . In: Friedhelm Jürgensmeier u. a .: The Benedictine monastery and nunnery in Hessen (Germania Benedictina 7 Hessen). Eos, St. Ottilien 2004, ISBN 3-8306-7199-7 , pp. 653-657.

Web links

Commons : Hünfeld  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Hünfeld in Merian's Topographia Hassiae  - Sources and full texts
Wikivoyage: Hünfeld  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
  2. ^ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, Documents 75, No. 207.
  3. ^ Municipal reform: mergers and integration of municipalities from January 20, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 6 , p. 248 , para. 25 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.2 MB ]).
  4. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 399 .
  5. ↑ a b c Hünfeld, district of Fulda. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  6. ↑ Local elections 1977; Relevant population figures for the municipalities as of December 15, 1976 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1976 No.  52 , p. 2283 , point 1668 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 10.3 MB ]).
  7. ^ Local elections in 1989; Relevant population figures for the municipalities as of October 25, 1988 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1988 No.  45 , p. 2426 , point 1049 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.6 MB ]).
  8. ↑ The population of the Hessian municipalities on June 30, 2010. (PDF; 552 kB) Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, p. 34 , archived from the original on February 7, 2018 ; accessed in October 2018 .
  9. ↑ Municipal data sheet : Hünfeld. (PDF; 222 kB) In: Hessisches Gemeindelexikon. HA Hessen Agency GmbH ;
  10. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .
  11. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
  12. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
  13. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: direct elections in Hünfeld
  14. ↑ Statute for the protection of the city coat of arms of the city of Hünfeld and the city seal including changes to the article statute of November 7, 2001 §1 ( Memento of September 2, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ^ Baths in Hünfeld
  16. ↑ 380 Wella employees lose their jobs , Hessenschau , August 4, 2018