Burgwald (district)
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Burgwald
Community Burgwald
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| Height : | 361 m above sea level NN |
| Residents : | 653 (2009) |
| Postal code : | 35099 |
| Area code : | 06451 |
Burgwald (formerly: Muna, Industriehof) is a district of the Burgwald municipality of the same name in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in northern Hesse and the seat of the municipal administration. The place belongs to district of the district Wiesenfeld .
Geographical location
The place is located in the northern center of the municipality of Burgwald, 5 km south of Frankenberg (Eder) and 30 km north of Marburg . The northern border is formed by the area of the former district town of Frankenberg, the eastern and southern borders are the boundaries of the Burgwald districts of Bottendorf and Wiesenfeld , and in the west the district of Birkenbringhausen forms the border.
Burgwald is located on the western edge of the Burgwald . The Rhine-Weser watershed runs through the area of the village .
history
The youngest of the Burgwald districts owes its establishment of an ammunition plant ( Muna for short ) to the German Wehrmacht at the time of National Socialism . As part of the armament of the Wehrmacht , the Frankenberg air ammunition plant was built in the district of Wiesenfeld in 1936–1938, near the railway line on the edge of the Burgwald . The purpose of this Muna, as well as comparable facilities, was the completion and storage of ammunition for the Air Force . During the war, munitions , including the nerve gas tabun , were also stored in the Muna. On March 29, 1945, the Muna was captured by the advancing American troops.
After the Second World War , the Muna's residential and administrative buildings continued to be used. A number of industrial companies settled in the ammunition workhouses, packing halls and other work buildings, which also remained undamaged. These buildings are still largely preserved today. The more than 100 above-ground bunkers in the Burgwald, used to store ammunition, were blown up after the war.
The settlement that arose from the former living and working areas of the Frankenberg air ammunition plant was initially (and partly still today) called Muna by the locals . In 1948 the new place was officially named Industriehof . As early as 1959, Industriehof had the population of the much older village of Wiesenfeld, to which it belonged as a district. In 1976, Industriehof was also administratively separated from Wiesenfeld and became a separate district of the Burgwald municipality, which was founded in 1971. In 1996, Industriehof was finally renamed Burgwald .
Culture and sights
societies
A large number of clubs are active in the village and shape the sporting and cultural life of the community. These are listed below (date of establishment in brackets). Other associations are active throughout the community.
- Volunteer firefighter
- The Burgwaldnarren Carnival Association has existed since 1981 and, according to its own information, has 187 members (as of 2010).
- The Burgwald shooting club was founded in 1969 (1970) and has 53 members (as of April 8, 2010).
Hans Ross memorial
In the forest to the east of the village there is a memorial to the Ernsthäuser forester Hans Ross. He was killed pursuing poachers.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The district road 117 runs past the town between Ernsthausen and Frankenberg, through the town the district road 124. The town does not have its own train station. The residents use the Birkenbringhausen train station halfway between Birkenbringhausen and Burgwald. It is a stop of the Burgwaldbahn , on which rail buses of the type VT 628 run regularly .
Established businesses
- Gaydos, seating
- Heitec, mechanical engineering (hot runner technology)
- Herko Chemie Hermann Kohlmann
- Metak, plastics processing and mold making
- Osborn International, technical brushes and surface tools
- Schlesinger, mechanical engineering (including machines for making brushes) and brooms
- Thuasne Germany, elastic textile fabrics in the medical and sports sector (orthopedic aids, elastic compression materials)
Individual evidence
literature
- Ulrich Stöhr, Reinhold Briel, Johannes Briel: Ernsthausen 1303-2003 . Burgwald municipality, Burgwald 2003.
- Richard Wildeus, Rose Linde: Burgwald: From the air ammunition plant to the district . Burgwald community, Burgwald 2014, ISBN 978-3-9816214-0-2 .
- Literature about Burgwald in the Hessian Bibliography
Web links
- Burgwald district on the website of the municipality of Burgwald
- Industriehof (district of Burgwald), Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Kulturverein Burgwald e. V. (History of the Muna)