Glauburg

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Coat of arms of the community of Glauburg
Glauburg
Map of Germany, position of the community Glauburg highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′  N , 9 ° 0 ′  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : Darmstadt
County : Wetteraukreis
Height : 124 m above sea level NHN
Area : 12.67 km 2
Residents: 3034 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 239 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 63695
Area code : 06041
License plate : FB, BÜD
Community key : 06 4 40 010
LOCODE : DE HZG
Community structure: 2 districts
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Bahnhofstrasse 34
63695 Glauburg
Website : www.glauburg.de
Mayor : Carsten Krätschmer ( SPD )
Location of the community Glauburg in the Wetterau district
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Glauburg is a municipality in the Wetteraukreis in Hesse ( Germany ). Historically, the place belonged to Upper Hesse .

geography

Glauburg is located at the foot of the Vogelsberg bordering the Wetterau landscape.

Neighboring municipalities are the municipality Ranstadt in the northwest , the city of Ortenberg in the northeast, the city of Büdingen in the southeast , the municipality of Altenstadt in the southwest and the city of Florstadt in the west .

The community is made up of the districts of Glauberg and Stockheim .

history

Glauberg was first mentioned in a document in 802. Stockheim first appeared in a document in 1198.
see under Glauburg Castle

Until 1806 Glauberg belonged to the area of ​​the Counts of Stolberg-Gedern . Stockheim, on the other hand, belonged to the Princes of Isenburg-Büdingen until 1816 .

The community "Glauburg" was newly formed on July 1, 1971 as part of the regional reform in Hesse through the voluntary amalgamation of the previous communities of Glauberg and Stockheim.

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 15 seats
Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006 		%
2001 		Seats
2001
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 30.0 4th 36.7 7th 41.4 8th 45.7 9
FWG Free voter community Glauburg 45.4 7th 35.7 7th 35.6 7th 31.5 6th
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 13.1 2 14.5 3 16.1 3 15.5 3
GREEN Alliance 90 / The Greens 11.5 2 13.1 2 6.9 1 7.4 1
total 100.0 15th 100.0 19th 100.0 19th 100.0 19th
Voter turnout in% 55.5 52.8 57.9 60.9

mayor

Carsten Krätschmer has held this office since the mayoral election on September 27, 2009. The past mayoral elections produced the following results:

year Candidates Political party %
Result
September 27, 2015 Carsten Krätschmer SPD 66.7
Werner Christiansen FWG 33.3
Voter turnout in% 54.1
September 27, 2009 Carsten Krätschmer SPD 61.0
Thomas Meissner FWG 39.0
Voter turnout in% 79.0
2003 Wilfried Schneider SPD 22.9
Gerd Mordier 77.1
Voter turnout in% 81.7
1997 Eberhard Langlitz SPD 91.1
Voter turnout in% 62.1

Partnerships

Public facilities

  • The Vulkanradweg is laid out on the former Stockheim – Lauterbach (Hessen) railway line and extended to Altenstadt as part of the Hessen BahnRadweg , which runs on former railway lines for around 250 km through the Vogelsberg and the Rhön.
  • A soccer field and a gym or a village community center are available in every district.
  • The public kindergarten, the private farm kindergarten and the Keltenberg elementary school are located in the Stockheim district.

Culture and sights

Statue of the Büdingen artist Axel Gallun at the Keltenkreisel in Glauberg

The Celtic Prince

Karl Diller presents a "Red Album"

The German special postage stamp "Keltenfürst vom Glauberg" (144 cents, circulation: 17 million, graphic designer: Werner Schmidt, Frankfurt am Main) from the series Archeology in Germany was approved on January 7, 2005 by the parliamentary state secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance, Karl Diller ( Member of the Bundestag ) in Büdingen .

For decades, archaeologists on the Glauberg have been researching the earlier Celts, who are still puzzling. It was only during a reconnaissance flight in 1988 that local researchers recognized the traces of a huge burial mound in a grain field on the southern slope of the Glauberg. A second burial mound was added later, which could be localized by geophysical measurements. Both hills were leveled and couldn't be seen from the ground. In 1994, the State Office for Monument Preservation in Hesse began an excavation lasting several years. Today the tomb has been restored. The burial places of two Celtic warriors from the 5th century BC. BC prove the elevated position of the deceased. The graves are among the most magnificent known from early Celtic times. Another sensation was the discovery of a life-size stone figure of a warrior. The statue, completely preserved except for the feet, is provided with a hood-like headgear in the form of a mistletoe leaf. Since mistletoe had an important cultic meaning among the Celts, this may indicate the role of the prince as the chief priest. This figure of the "Celtic Prince of Glauberg" is the most important find of Celtic culture in Hesse to date.
  • The Glauberg Museum shows finds from the Paleolithic to the High Middle Ages .
  • A separate museum building on the Glauberg, the Keltenwelt am Glauberg , was opened on May 6, 2011. This museum was partly financed by the state of Hesse and the municipality. A short time after it opened, the building received the Hessian Architecture Prize 2011 for exemplary building. As if floating out of the mountain, its panorama window offers a view of the reconstructed Celtic burial mound.

nature

Nature reserve "Nidderauen von Stockheim":

Landscape protection areas "LSG Glauberg" and "LSG Auenverbund Wetterau":

Nine natural monuments:

Web links

Commons : Glauburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Glauburg  - Travel Guide

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. ^ Municipal reform in Hesse: mergers and integrations of municipalities from June 21, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 28 , p. 1117 , item 988; Paragraph 13. ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 5.0 MB ]).
  3. ^ 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. 352 .
  4. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .
  5. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
  6. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
  7. ↑ The Celtic world on Glauberg