Falkenberg (Wabern)

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Falkenberg
Wabern municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 13 ″  N , 9 ° 23 ′ 52 ″  E
Height : 243  (212-259)  m
Area : 6.11 km²
Residents : 756  (Jun 30, 2014)
Population density : 124 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 34590
Area code : 05683
The Falkenberg castle ruins

Falkenberg is a district of the municipality of Wabern in the Schwalm-Eder district in Hesse .

The village is located in northern Hesse, southeast of Wabern at the foot of the Schlossberg. State road 3149 leads through the village .

history

The village was first mentioned in a document in 1488. It was a landgrave-Hessian fiefdom of the Lords of Lever or of the Lords of Falkenberg, who descended from them and died in 1613 as a male . This family built both the castle around the middle of the 13th century, under whose protection the village developed, and the castle between 1513 and 1516.

From the 18th century until 1938/42 there was a Jewish community in Falkenberg with its own synagogue , school and ritual bath as well as its own cemetery .

On December 31, 1971, the previously independent town of Falkenberg was incorporated into the municipality of Wabern.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Landmark areas on the website of the municipality of Wabern, accessed in February 2016
  2. ^ "Inhabitants and households" on the website of the municipality of Wabern, accessed in August 2015
  3. ^ Synagoga Falkenberg at www.alemannia-judaica.de
  4. ^ 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. 392 .

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