Ebsdorfergrund

Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	to water
County :	Marburg-Biedenkopf
Height :	218 m above sea level NHN
Area :	72.89 km 2
Residents:	8963 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	123 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	35085
Primaries :	06424, 06407
License plate :	MR, BID
Community key :	06 5 34 008
LOCODE :	DE EB5
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Dreihäuser Strasse 17 ; 35085 Ebsdorfergrund
Website :	www.ebsdorfergrund.de
Mayor :	Andreas Schulz ( SPD )
Location of the community Ebsdorfergrund in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district

Fortified church in the old town center of Ebsdorf

Ebsdorfergrund is a municipality consisting of eleven villages in the southeast of the central Hessian district of Marburg-Biedenkopf .

geography

Geographical location

The area of the large community Ebsdorfergrund extends over large parts of the eponymous Ebsdorfer Grund , which represents the southern part of the Amöneburg basin and is almost exclusively used for agriculture. In the east, the municipality merges into the Lumda plateau ( Vorderer Vogelsberg ) and in the west into the Lahnberge .

Most of the districts follow the course of the Zwester Ohm from the Lumda plateau to the northeast into the Ebsdorfer Grund and finally there to the southwest to the confluence with the Lahn between Marburg and Gießen :

Wermertshausen (350 m above sea level, near the source)
Roßberg (310 m above sea level)
Dreihausen (240–270 m above sea level)
Mölln (230 m above sea level)
Heskem (200–220 m above sea level, southwest bend to the lower reaches)
Ebsdorf (200–220 m above sea level)
Hachborn (200–220 m above sea level)

The places Leidenhofen (220 m above sea level, immediately southwest of Ebsdorf), Ilschhausen (270 m above sea level, south of Hachborn on the northern slope of the Lumda plateau) and Wittelsberg (220–250 m above sea level, northeast of Heskem) lie at the tributary area of the Zwester Ohm, which also applies to the western Beltershausen (250 m above sea level, northwest of Heskem), which, especially in the western part of Frauenberg (300–330 m above sea level) near the Frauenberg castle ruins , is already there can be counted on the eastern slope of the Lahnberge.

Rauischholzhausen (220–280 m above sea level, east of Wittelsberg on the northern slope of the Lumda plateau) is the only place that is not in the inflow area of the Zwester Ohm (but in that of the "actual" Ohm ).

Neighboring communities

Ebsdorfergrund borders the city of Marburg in the north-west, the city of Kirchhain in the north, the city of Amöneburg (all Marburg-Biedenkopf district) and the city of Homberg (Ohm) ( Vogelsbergkreis ) in the north, and the municipality of Rabenau and the city of Allendorf in the south (Lumda) , in the southwest to the city of Staufenberg (all three districts of Gießen ), and in the west to the communities of Fronhausen and Weimar (Lahn) (both districts of Marburg-Biedenkopf).

Community structure

The community consists of the districts:

Beltershausen-Frauenberg (approx. 1074 inhabitants)
Dreihausen (approx. 1654 inhabitants)
Ebsdorf (approx. 1055 inhabitants)
Hachborn (approx. 1151 inhabitants)
Heskem with Mölln (approx. 894 inhabitants)
Ilschhausen (approx. 104 inhabitants)
Leidenhofen (approx. 902 inhabitants)
Rauischholzhausen (approx. 1156 inhabitants)
Roßberg (approx. 400 inhabitants)
Wermertshausen (approx. 342 inhabitants)
Wittelsberg (approx. 1006 inhabitants)

mountains

The highest point in the municipality is the Leidenhöfer Kopf (south of the eponymous district) at 393 m above sea level . Further elevations of the Lumda plateau are Sennberg (383 m, east of Dreihausen) and Hattenberg (373 m, east of Roßberg). The Frauenberg belonging to the Lahnberge in the Beltershausen-Frauenberg district in the west of the municipality is 379 m high.

history

On December 31, 1971, the previously independent communities Dreihausen and Heskem were merged to form the new community Ebsdorfergrund as part of the regional reform in Hesse . On April 1, 1972, Rossberg, Wermertshausen and Wittelsberg were added. Force state law was Ebsdorf, Hachborn, Ilschhausen, suffering Hofen and Rauischholzhausen the extended July 1, 1974. the former municipalities Ebsdorfergrund, Beltershausen, greater community Ebsdorfergrund formed .

politics

Community representation

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

Distribution of seats in the municipal council 2016 A total of 31 seats SPD : 15 Greens : 2 CDU : 6 FW : 8	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	47.4	15th	51.5	16	53.6	17th	56.1	17th
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	19.1	6th	22.9	7th	28.0	9	27.3	9
	GREEN	Alliance 90 / The Greens	8.2	2	12.9	4th	4.4	1	-	-
	ÜBE / FWG	Non-partisan citizens' association Ebsdorfergrund / Free voter community	25.3	8th	12.6	4th	14.1	4th	16.6	5
	total		100.0	31	100.0	31	100.0	31	100.0	31
	Voter turnout in%		57.5		56.1		58.1		64.5

mayor

After the Hessian municipal constitution is Mayor Chairman of the Municipal Board , the eight volunteers in the community of Ebsdorfergrund next to the Mayor Councilor belong. Mayor has been Andreas Schulz (SPD) since December 19, 1992. His predecessor was

1973 to 1992 Otmar Wiegand (SPD)

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms shows a red pinnacle tower in a golden shield on a green Dreiberg, covered with the Hessian shield.

The medieval Wittelsberger Schanze is shown in the coat of arms ; which served the Hessian landgraves to monitor the traffic on the road through the Ebsdorfer Grund between Mainz areas.

Partnerships

The municipality of Ebsdorfergrund maintains partnership relationships with

Bidford-on-Avon in Warwickshire , England since 1980 and
Liniewo in Poland since 1998.

media

The Oberhessische Presse (OP) is published as a daily newspaper in the municipality of Ebsdorfergrund . The free weekly newspapers are indicator extracting Wednesdays and win Saturdays, both edited by the publisher of the OP, and the means Hessian displays newspaper (MAZ) on Sunday morning and the magazine (SMM) distributed. The weekly community bulletin is published by Wittich-Verlag. The Grundblick information sheet appears free of charge once a month .

traffic

State road 3048 runs through the community from Fronhausen (motorway connection in Gießen via the B 3 ) to Kirchhain . Landesstraße 3089 runs through the municipality near Ebsdorf and connects Marburg with Grünberg and Reiskirchen ; the state road 3125, which runs through Heskem and Dreihausen, connects Marburg with Mücke .

The Marburg circular railway , which opened in 1905, ran from the Marburg Süd train station through the municipality to the basalt quarries in Dreihausen, was discontinued in 1972.

Local public transport is served by ALV Marburg / Oberhessen and Stadtwerke Marburg. There are 6 bus routes, some of which are supplemented by a collective taxi .

Line 13: Marburg – Bortshausen – Ebsdorf – Leidenhofen – Hachborn – Ilschhausen
Line MR-35: Heskem – Ebsdorf – Leidenhofen – Hachborn – Ilschhausen – Fronhausen
Line MR-80: Schweinsberg – Rauischholzhausen – Wittelsberg – Moischt – Marburg
Line MR-84: Kirchhain – Amöneburg – Erfurtshausen – Rauischholzhausen – Wittelsberg – Ginseldorf (school traffic)
Line MR-86: Marburg – Frauenberg – Beltershausen – Heskem – Mölln – Dreihausen – Roßberg – Wermertshausen – Deckbach
Line MR-87: Heskem – Moischt / Mardorf / Amöneburg (school traffic)

Facilities

In the Roßberger Forst there is a state collection point for radioactive waste which was set up at the end of the 1960s and modernized in the course of the 1990s. This is a so-called interim storage facility for radioactive substances from medicine, research, industry and trade with a total volume of approx. 400 m³.