Baunatal

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Baunatal
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Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '  N , 9 ° 25'  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : kassel
County : kassel
Height : 210 m above sea level NHN
Area : 38.26 km 2
Residents: 27,755 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 725 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 34225
Primaries : 0561, 05601, 05665
License plate : KS, HOG, WOH
Community key : 06 6 33 003
LOCODE : DE BTL
City structure: 7 districts

City administration address : 		Marktplatz 14
34225 Baunatal
Website : www.baunatal.de
Mayoress : Silke Engler ( SPD )
Location of the city of Baunatal in the Kassel district
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Baunatal (named after the Fulda - tributary Bauna ) is a medium-sized town in northern Hesse Kassel district . It was created on January 1, 1964 through the amalgamation of the formerly independent communities Altenbauna , Altenritte , Grossenritte and Kirchbauna as a result of the establishment of a Volkswagen AG plant in Altenbauna in 1957. The villages Hertingshausen , Rengershausen and Guntershausen were added later.

geography

Geographical location

Baunatal seen from the castle hill.

The city is located immediately south of Kassel and west of the Fulda valley . The west and northwest of the municipality merge into the Habichtswälder Bergland ( Habichtswald Nature Park ) with the Langenberg ridge (west) and the Baunsberg ( 413.4  m above sea  level ) in the north, a southern branch of the Hohen Habichtswald , on its west, south - and east slopes the inhabited districts spread. From northwest to southeast the city area is traversed by the eponymous Bauna, which in the Guntershausen district flows from the left into the Fulda coming from the south. In the Baunatal urban area, the Lützel and Leisel flow into the Bauna from the west. About northwest of the Altenritte district is the Schefferfeld polder on the Bauna for urban flood protection .

Neighboring communities

Baunatal borders in the north on the community of Schauenburg (district of Kassel) and the independent city of Kassel , in the east on the community of Fuldabrück (district of Kassel), in the southeast on the community of Guxhagen , and in the south on the community of Edermünde and in the west on the small town of Niedenstein ( all three in the Schwalm-Eder district ).

history

North facade of the Volkswagen factory between Baunsberg and Knallhütte

The Volkswagen factory in Kassel settled in 1957 on the former site of Henschel Flugmotorenbau GmbH in what is now Altenbauna . Volkswagen began production as early as 1959, and a year later, over 6,000 people were working in the new VW plant.

Due to this rapid development in the Altenbauna community, it was important to enter into new partnerships, as the settlement of the works also resulted in an increased influx of people. This meant that an appropriate residential infrastructure had to be created. Thus, through the merger of the formerly independent communities Altenbauna , Altenritte and Kirchbauna on January 1, 1964, the former community of Baunatal was created.

On July 1, 1966, the communities of Baunatal and Grossenritte merged. The Hessian state government granted this newly formed municipality city rights. The certificate was presented by Heinrich Schneider , then Minister of the Interior of Hesse . The city of Baunatal was born. Horst Werner became the first mayor. At that time, the “new” town of Baunatal already had 11,705 inhabitants. At this point in time, over 13,400 people were already working in the VW plant .

On October 1, 1971 , the municipality of Hertingshausen joined the city of Baunatal as part of the regional reform in Hesse . On August 1, 1972, the municipality of Buchenhagen followed by state law , which was created on September 1, 1970 through the merger of the formerly independent municipalities of Guntershausen and Rengershausen . The town of Baunatal now had 19,300 inhabitants.

Baunatal is currently a town with 27,755 inhabitants.

Religions

Catholic Church Christ the Redeemer Baunatal-Altenbauna

Until the Reformation , Baunatal, like Kassel , belonged to the Archdiocese of Mainz . With the introduction of the Reformation in the Landgraviate of Hesse after the Homberg Synod in 1526, the population became Protestant. Even today, the majority of the population is Protestant. In addition to eight parishes of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck, there is also a Catholic parish after the Catholics in Hessen-Kassel were allowed to hold church services again in the 18th century.

There is also a Baptist , an independent Evangelical Lutheran , a New Apostolic church congregation and a congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses as well as a Buddhist religious group. There are also several Muslim houses of prayer and congregations that have been active for many decades.

politics

Mayor and magistrate

The magistrate of the town of Baunatal currently consists of ten voluntary town councilors and the full-time mayor. The mayor Silke Engler ( SPD ) chairs the magistrate . She was elected to succeed the late Mayor Manfred Schaub on October 28, 2018 and was introduced to office on December 14, 2018.

The honorary city councilors are elected for a period of five years. The SPD has been producing the 2016 local elections in Hessen six honorary councilors, the CDU two councilors and the Greens Alliance 90 / The Greens and the FDP ever a city council.

The mayor is elected by the population of the city of Baunatal for a period of six years.

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 45 seats
Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006 		%
2001 		Seats
2001
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 61.4 27 63.2 28 64.2 29 62.2 28
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 19.6 9 21.2 10 28.6 13 26.4 12
Green Alliance 90 / The Greens 10.5 5 13.6 6th 3.0 1 7.1 3
FDP Free Democratic Party 8.5 4th 2.1 1 4.2 2 4.3 2
Non-party Non-party 1 seat resignation from the SPD April 15, 2016
total 100.0 45 100.0 45 100.0 45 100.0 45
Voter turnout in% 46.2 49.8 42.9 53.1

City Councilor

  • The SPD Baunatal in the city parliament has 26 seats, but only 17 elected the candidate proposed by the SPD parliamentary group on February 3, 2020.
  • The non-party opposing candidate Henry Richter from Baunatal-Hertingshausen won with 19 votes and was the new head of the city council.

mayor

The mayors of the town of Baunatal since July 1st, 1966:

  • Horst Werner
  • Martin Hesse
  • Hans Joachim Pioch
  • Heinz Grenacher until May 31, 2005
  • Manfred Schaub from June 1, 2005 until his death on May 20, 2018
  • On October 28, 2018, the first city councilor, Silke Engler, was elected mayor.

Bundestag elections 2017 in Baunatal

Town twinning

Baunatal is the twin town of:

In San Sebastián de los Reyes there is an Avenida de Baunatal in honor of the German twin city . In 2007, it gave its name to a station on the subway line 10 of the Madrid Metro, which was then extended to San Sebastián . As usual in Romansh-speaking countries, the addition Avenida is omitted from the station name, so that the station is simply called Baunatal . The name of the north Hessian city can therefore be found, as the only station name with German reference, on thousands of information media displayed throughout Madrid and on all metro trains.

coat of arms

On November 27, 1968, the city of Baunatal was awarded a flag and a coat of arms with the following blazon : In red, a four-leaf, cross-shaped, on a silver disc.

Culture and sights

The mother of all Grimm fairy tales. Dorothea Viehmann in an engraving by Ludwig Emil Grimm

The birthplace of the storyteller Dorothea Viehmann (born Katharina Dorothea Pierson, born November 8, 1755 in Rengershausen) is part of the German Fairy Tale Route . It is one of the most important sources of the Brothers Grimm's fairy tale collection. The two brothers published their fairy tales mainly in the second volume of their children's and household tales. Dorothea Viehmann lived not far from Rengershausen in the village of Niederzwehren near the city of Kassel.

The Hünstein in the Baunatal-Großenritte district is a cultural monument in Northern Hesse. The quartzite menhir was the center of a ritual meeting place from the 4th to 3rd millennium BC. Chr.

Museums

city ​​Museum

The city museum is located in Mühlenweg 4 in Baunatal- Altenritte . The museum provides insights into the history of Baunatal in the 20th century with a focus on: construction of the first railways - settlement of the armaments factory Henschel Flugmotorenbau GmbH - everyday life in the village during the National Socialist era - employment of forced laborers in industry and agriculture during the Second World War - settlement of the Volkswagen factory from 1957, today the largest industrial company in Northern Hesse - the town of Baunatal was founded on July 1, 1966 with urban development to a modern community.

Hessenstube local history museum

The local history museum is located at Ritterstraße 1 in Baunatal- Altenritte . The museum shows the living and working world of the people in the agricultural and craft-based villages of the Baunatal from the second half of the 19th century to the 1930s. The objects from the everyday life of small and sub-peasant strata as well as from rural crafts are presented. On the first floor, a living room, a kitchen and a hall convey the living conditions at that time. The smithy set up in the basement is equipped with old machines and tools as an example of the agricultural trade. The shoemaker's workshop and the joiner's and turner's workshop complement the image of the village handicraft from a time when shoes and furniture were still made by hand. The weaving room is equipped with a hand loom and equipment that was needed for flax processing.

societies

  • The DLRG Baunatal e. V. (Deutsche Lebens-Rettungs-Gesellschaft - DLRG ) is the largest DLRG local group in Northern Hesse with almost 600 members, the majority of whom are children and young people. The DLRG Baunatal e. V. organizes the largest rescue comparison competition in Hesse with the Bauna-Eder-Pokal, in which 38 local groups from all over Germany with around 1000 athletes took part in 2005.
  • The KSV Baunatal and Great Ritter Sport Eintracht Baunatal are the largest sports clubs in the city of Baunatal.
  • The association Pinguine Baunatal is a u. a. Club active in the IHD-Bundesliga, which is affiliated with the clubs GSV Eintracht Baunatal and KSV Baunatal.
  • German Amateur Radio Club e. V. is the association of licensed radio amateurs in Germany. He runs the Baunatal amateur radio center .
  • The Association for Local History and Monument Preservation Baunatal e. V. looks after the city's museums and documents and presents the city's history.
  • The Great Knight Tent Fair e. V. is the last association in Baunatal that celebrates the consecration of the church and with this festival attracts numerous visitors.
  • The band "Volkswagen Sound Orchestra" was founded in spring 2018. The band arose from the joint idea of ​​Jens Dembowski and Detlef Landeck to embed the sounds and noises that accompany everyday life at Volkswagen in music or to combine the sound of the machines / factory in connection with musical instruments in a symbiosis. The sponsoring association is the Volkswagen Soundorchestra eV

Economy and Infrastructure

Established businesses

Volkswagen plant in Baunatal

The largest operation in the city and the entire North Hesse region is the Volkswagen factory , which produces over 4 million manual and automatic transmissions annually. The light metal gear housings are manufactured in our own remelting plants and die casting machines. In addition, exhaust systems with catalytic converters, diesel particle filters and pressed parts are manufactured by around 16,000 employees. In addition, many suppliers for VW and freight forwarders have settled in Baunatal. Baunatal is also the headquarters of Volkswagen Genuine Parts Logistics and currently has five Genuine Parts Centers with 2,500 of the 16,000 VW employees.

Baunatal is still the location of the Hütt brewery .

traffic

Fulda viaduct on the Bebra – Kassel railway line near Baunatal-Guntershausen

Baunatal is on the A7 , A44 and A49 federal motorways . The districts of Rengershausen and Guntershausen have stops on the Main-Weser-Bahn , where regional trains and RegioTram Kassel trains stop. The Baunatal-Guntershausen station is a wedge station where the Bebra line joins the Main-Weser Railway. The station building was built from 1846 according to a design by the first general director of the Hessian state railways Julius Eugen Ruhl .

There is a connection to Kassel by bus and tram (via the former Kassel – Naumburg railway ).

The following cycle paths lead through the Guntershausen district :

Public facilities

  • The Baunatal town hall is a congress and conference center and a place for music and entertainment; it offers space for up to 1000 people. An area of ​​1,500 m² is available for exhibitions and trade fairs.
  • The Aqua-Park Baunatal is the largest leisure pool in the North Hesse region . The bathroom has a leisure pool and a sports pool. The sports pool has a roof that can be opened or closed depending on the weather. The leisure pool has a pool for swimmers and non-swimmers. There is a diving pool with a 1 and 3 meter board as well as a 5 meter tower and an outdoor pool with various massage systems. The pool also has two 80-meter slides.
  • The city ​​park Baunatal in the center of Baunatal in the Altenbauna district is a 50 hectare sports and leisure park. In the middle of the park landscape are the sports hall, circular sports hall, tennis hall and outdoor pool with indoor pool. There is also the park stadium with floodlights as well as several sports practice fields, playgrounds, kindergartens, a youth center, the Theodor-Heuss-Schule and the KSV Sportwelt. The Baunatal sculpture trail along the Bauna is well worth seeing .

education

Theodor Heuss School
music school

Sports town Baunatal

Due to the infrastructure and the club life, the city of Baunatal has declared itself a sports city. With the circular sports hall and the park stadium, two competition venues of international format are available. In Baunatal there are the sports clubs KSV Baunatal and GSV Eintracht Baunatal with a total of over 10,000 members. There is also the TSV Hertingshausen, the HSG Baunatal, the Tuspo 1912 Rengershausen and the TSV Guntershausen. Sporty figureheads are the soccer team of KSV Baunatal (soccer department) , which plays in the Hessenliga , and the handball players of GSV Eintracht Baunatal, who play in the 2nd Bundesliga in the 2014/15 season and in the 3rd Bundesliga from the 2015/2016 season play.

In 2017 the German inline hockey championship was held in Baunatal.

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Baunatal  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Baunatal  - travel guide
Wikivoyage: Baunatal circular route  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Hofgeismar, Kassel and Wolfhagen (GVBl. II 330-17) of July 11, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 17 , p. 225 , § 4 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  3. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes for 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. 400 and 401 .
  4. ↑ Magistrate. City of Baunatal, accessed on December 15, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Mayoress. City of Baunatal, accessed on December 15, 2018 .
  6. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .
  7. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
  8. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
  9. ↑ HNA report April 16, 2016
  10. ↑ HNA report on February 3rd, 2020 by Sven Kühling
  11. ↑ Sister cities. (No longer available online.) City of Baunatal, archived from the original on October 18, 2013 ; Retrieved July 24, 2013 .
  12. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms and a flag for the city of Baunatal, Kassel district, Kassel administrative district from November 27, 1968 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1968 No. 51 , p. 1891 , point 1467 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.1 MB ]).
  13. ↑ Baunatal town hall. (No longer available online.) City of Baunatal, archived from the original on October 15, 2013 ; Retrieved July 24, 2013 .
  14. ↑ Aqua-Park Baunatal. Stadtwerke Baunatal, accessed on July 24, 2013 .
  15. ^ Second Home youth center. Magistrate of the city of Baunatal, accessed on July 24, 2013 .
  16. ↑ Baunatal lives sport. (No longer available online.) Stadt Marketing Baunatal GmbH, archived from the original on July 19, 2013 ; Retrieved July 24, 2013 .