Diemelstadt

Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	kassel
County :	Waldeck-Frankenberg
Height :	256 m above sea level NHN
Area :	82.58 km 2
Residents:	5203 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	63 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	34474
Primaries :	05694, 05641, 05642, 02992
License plate :	KB, FKB, WA
Community key :	06 6 35 008
City structure:	9 districts
; City administration address :	Lange Strasse 6 ; 34474 Diemelstadt
Website :	www.diemelstadt.de
Mayor :	Elmar Schröder (independent)
Location of the city of Diemelstadt in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district

Diemelstadt is a town in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in northern Hesse . It was not created until 1970, when the town of Rhoden and the town of Wrexen and then other surrounding towns were combined to form the new town of Diemelstadt. The administrative seat is in Rhoden.

geography

Neighboring communities

Diemelstadt borders in the north and east on the city of Warburg ( district of Höxter in North Rhine-Westphalia ), in the southeast on the city of Volkmarsen , in the south on the city of Bad Arolsen (both in the district of Waldeck-Frankenberg) and in the west on the city of Marsberg ( Hochsauerlandkreis In North Rhine-Westphalia).

City structure

The municipality consists of the districts

Rhoden (city charter since 1237, seat of the city administration)

Wethen

Wrexen

climate

Located on the northeastern Rothaargebirge , the city of Diemelstadt has a climate that is slightly cooler than the average annual temperatures in Germany. In winter, larger amounts of snow are possible and the average temperature is 0.8 ° C; in summer, temperatures of 15.9 ° C are reached on average. In general, Diemelstadt is one of the driest areas in Hessen. The annual precipitation is only about 620 mm.

Average monthly temperatures and precipitation for Diemelstadt

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C )	2	3	7th	12	18th	21st	22nd	21st	18th	12	6th	2	O	12
Min. Temperature (° C)	−1	0	0	3	7th	10	12	11	8th	5	1	0	O	4.7

Precipitation ( mm )	42	38	40	44	50	58	75	66	55	55	46	50	Σ	619

Hours of sunshine ( h / d )	2	3	4th	5	7th	6th	7th	6th	5	3	1	1	O	4.2

Rainy days ( d )	22nd	20th	24	19th	16	20th	22nd	18th	19th	23	23	27	Σ	253

Humidity ( % )	86	82	80	73	69	72	74	73	82	87	89	89	O	79.7

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Source: zoover.de

history

Diemelstadt was created on November 1, 1970 in the course of the regional reform in Hesse through the voluntary merger of the city of Rhoden and the municipality of Wrexen. On December 31, 1970, the communities of Ammenhausen, Dehausen, Helmighausen, Neudorf and Wethen were added on a voluntary basis. Hesperinghausen and Orpethal followed on December 31, 1971. After a referendum, the name of the municipality was set as “Diemelstadt” and is thus a new creation without origin, it refers to the Diemel river . The town charter comes from the town of Rhoden.

Religions

Almost three quarters of the residents of Diemelstadt are of Protestant faith. Protestant churches exist in all parts of the city, except Ammenhausen, Dehausen and Orpethal . The nearest Catholic churches are in Bad Arolsen , Warburg-Scherfede and Marsberg .

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 25 seats SPD : 9 CDU : 7 FW : 9	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	36.6	09	41.4	10	40.7	10	45.8	14th
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	28.3	07th	31.1	08th	32.8	08th	31.5	10
	FWG	Diemelstadt Free Voting Association	35.1	09	27.5	07th	18.6	05	17.9	06th
	FDP	Free Democratic Party	-	-	-	-	5.6	01	4.8	01
	BL	BL citizens' list for Diemelstadt	-	-	-	-	2.3	01	-	-
	total		100.0	25th	100.0	25th	100.0	25th	100.0	31
	Voter turnout in%		52.1		51.4		50.6		54.9

mayor

In September 2011 Elmar Schröder was elected as the new mayor. Schröder thus succeeded Rolf Emde, who had held the office for 18 years.

Town twinning

Diemelstadt has had partnerships with Kranichfeld in Thuringia since 1990 .

Culture and sights

Views of the Rhoden district

View of Rhoden from the Quast ; in the foreground the A 44
Aerial view
Night impression of the Rhoder Landstrasse, in the background the town church
View from the Rhoder church tower to the north
View from the Rhod church tower to the east
View from the Rhod church tower to the southeast
Church square with old town hall (yellow building)

Buildings

Castle and princely hereditary burial Rhoden
Church ruins Alt-Rhoden
medieval old town in the Rhoden district with half-timbered ensembles and Rhoden town church
Church in Wethen with crypt
Brobeck Castle
large castle at Gut Billinghausen (Orpethal)

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

In terms of infrastructure, Diemelstadt is connected to the following trunk roads:

A 44 (Kassel - Dortmund) in Rhoden.
B 252 ( Lahntal-Göttingen - Blomberg (East Westphalia)) in Rhoden.
B 68 (Paderborn) towards Scherfede .
B 7 (Ruhr area - Kassel - Eisenach) near Wrexen.

There is no active passenger station in Diemelstadt . The Wrexen Station , on Scherfeder area was shut down in the 1970s. The next train stations in the area are in:

Warburg (Westphalia) train station ( approx. 15 minutes by car)
- ICE and IC connections exist to Düsseldorf via Hamm and to Stralsund via Kassel , Erfurt , Halle (Saale) and Berlin as well as to Cologne and Munich .
- RE and RB connections exist to Hagen via Meschede , to Kassel and Münster via Hamm and Paderborn .
Scherfede , Westheim and Marsberg train stations (approx. 10 minutes away)
- RE to Hagen and Kassel via Warburg .
Bad Arolsen
train station
(approx. 15 min.)
- RB to Kassel and Korbach

The nearest airports are in the immediate vicinity of the city due to the convenient location.

Paderborn / Lippstadt Airport (approx. 30 min.)
Kassel-Calden airport (approx. 45 min.)

Established businesses

hewe-fensterbau GmbH
Jäkel GmbH & Co. KG machine knife factory
Okel GmbH & Co. KG interior work, painter, plaster
Sinemus eK Landtechnik Diemelstadt-Wethen
Autohaus Krantz oHG, VW, Audi, Skoda authorized workshop
Smurfit Kappa CD Haupt Papier- und Pappenfabrik GmbH
Varlemann forwarding company in Diemelstadt-Wrexen and Diemelstadt-Rhoden
Sprick GmbH Bielefelder Papier- und Corrugated Cardboard Works & Co. (Branch)
Prima Welle / Prima Verpackung, corrugated cardboard factory

education

Wrexen primary school
Schlossbergschule Rhoden ( cooperative comprehensive school )
Elementary school Rhoden

Sons and daughters of Diemelstadt

Rudolf Rocholl (1822–1905), Lutheran theologian
Wilhelm Dietzel (* 1948), politician (CDU) and Hessian Minister of State for the Environment, Rural Areas and Consumer Protection 1999–2009

Events

Whitsun Monday, the Schnadegang is paced in Rhoden .
LARP event "Kite Festival"
Rhoder cattle market
Shooting festival

Individual evidence

↑ 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 ).

↑ Weather Diemelstadt. Climate section Diemelstadt . ZOOVER GmbH, accessed on October 3, 2011 .

↑ Merger of the city of Rhoden and the municipality of Wrexen in the Waldeck district to form the city of "Diemelstadt" on October 27, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 46 , p. 2179 , item 2188 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.0 MB ]).

↑ Incorporation of the communities Ammenhausen, Dehausen, Helmighausen, Neudorf and Wethen into the city of Diemelstadt in the Waldeck district on January 5, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 3 , p. 111 , point 122 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.5 MB ]).

^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 407 and 409 .

^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .

^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011

^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006

↑ https://www.hna.de/lokales/korbach-waldeck/diemelstadt-gewaehlt-elmar-schroeder-neuer-buergermeister2-1419822.html

Web links

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

Official website of the Diemelstadt community
"Diemelstadt, Waldeck-Frankenberg District". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Literature about Diemelstadt in the Hessian Bibliography
Link catalog on the subject of Diemelstadt at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-HE-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 ).