Breuna

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 25 '  N , 9 ° 11'  E
Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	kassel
County :	kassel
Height :	289 m above sea level NHN
Area :	40.47 km 2
Residents:	3521 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	87 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	34479
Primaries :	05693, 05641 (Wettesingen), 05676 (Niederlistingen, Oberlistingen)
License plate :	KS, HOG, WOH
Community key :	06 6 33 004
Community structure:	5 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Volkmarser Strasse 3 34479 Breuna
Website :	www.breuna.de
Mayor :	Jens Wiegand
Location of the community of Breuna in the district of Kassel

Breuna (Platt: "Brüne") is a municipality in the northern Hessian district of Kassel .

The bottling plant for the neighboring mineral water source "Urstromquelle Wolfhagen" is located in Breuna .

geography

Breuna is located on the northwestern edge of the Habichtswald Nature Park , about 30 km northwest of Kassel on the A44.

Neighboring communities

The municipality of Breuna borders in the north on the cities of Warburg ( district of Höxter in North Rhine-Westphalia ) and Liebenau , in the east on the municipality of Calden and the town of Zierenberg , in the south on the town of Wolfhagen (all four in the district of Kassel) and in the west the city of Volkmarsen ( Waldeck-Frankenberg district ).

Community structure

In addition to the main town of Breuna, the municipality includes the districts Niederlistingen , Oberlistingen , Rhöda and Wettesingen .

history

Church in Niederlistinge

Rhöda is the smallest and oldest district and was first mentioned between 820 and 840.

The village of Breuna was from 1341 a Hessian fiefdom of the Rabe von Calenbergs . In 1457 it was sold to Heinrich V von Gudenberg . After the death of the last Gudenberger in 1534, it passed to the Lords of Malsburg , who owned it until 1824.

Breuna and Rhöda have been an administrative community for 200 years. In 2007 the town of Breuna celebrated its 750th anniversary.

Until 2014 the place was a recognized climatic health resort , since then it has been a resort .

On December 31, 1971, as part of the regional reform in Hesse, the previously independent municipality of Wettesingen was incorporated. Niederlistingen and Oberlistingen were added on August 1, 1972 by virtue of state law.

politics

Community representation

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 23 seats SPD : 14 CDU : 9	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	60.9	14th	67.8	16	59.5	14th	62.5	14th
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	39.1	9	32.2	7th	40.5	9	37.5	9
	total		100.0	23	100.0	23	100.0	23	100.0	23
	Voter turnout in%		57.0		56.5		55.8		68.7

Partnerships

The community of Breuna maintains partnership relationships with

• Gehlberg , since 2019 part of the city of Suhl in Thuringia and
• Predappio at the foot of the Apennines in Emilia-Romagna in Italy .

Natural monuments

• Court oak near Breuna with a chest height of 6.49 m (2016)

Web links

Commons : Breuna  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Breuna  - travel guide

• Website of the municipality of Breuna
• Breuna, Kassel district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Breuna, municipality, district of Kassel. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Literature about Breuna in the Hessian Bibliography

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. ^ Dieter Carl: 1150 years of Rhöda. On the history of the oldest part of the municipality of Breuna . In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies , 95th year (1990), pp. 11-18.
3. ↑ Hessian Ministry for Economic Affairs, Energy, Transport and Regional Development: 80th meeting of the specialist committee for health resorts, recreation areas and healing wells in Hesse on October 14, 2014 . State gazette for the state of Hesse 7/2015 page 148
4. ↑ Hessian Ministry for Economic Affairs, Energy, Transport and Regional Development: 80th meeting of the specialist committee for health resorts, recreation areas and healing wells in Hesse on October 14, 2014 . State gazette for the state of Hesse 7/2015 page 148
5. ↑ 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 , § 7 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
6. ^ 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. 411 .
7. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 . 
8. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
9. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
10. ^ Entry in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 10, 2017