Haunetal

Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	kassel
County :	Hersfeld-Rotenburg
Height :	307 m above sea level NHN
Area :	54.91 km 2
Residents:	2900 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	53 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	36166
Area code :	06673
License plate :	HEF, ROF
Community key :	06 6 32 008
Community structure:	15 districts
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Konrad-Zuse-Platz 6 ; 36166 Haunetal
Website :	www.haunetal.de
Mayor :	Gerd Lang (independent)
Location of the community Haunetal in the district of Hersfeld-Rotenburg

Haunetal is a market town in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in East Hesse .

geography

Geographical location

Haunetal is located in the Vorderrhön, between Bad Hersfeld , about 13 km, and Hünfeld , about 14 km away. The community extends on both sides of the lower reaches of the Haune . It is dominated by the 524 m high Stoppelsberg . It lies between the foothills of the Knüllgebirge , the Rhön and the Vogelsberg . Haunetal is the southernmost municipality in the district.

Neighboring communities

Haunetal borders in the northwest on the municipality of Niederaula , in the northeast on the municipality Hauneck (both in the district of Hersfeld-Rotenburg) in the east on the municipality Eiterfeld , in the south on the municipality Burghaun (both in the district of Fulda ) and in the west on the town of Schlitz ( in the Vogelsbergkreis ).

Community structure

The community consists of the districts Hermannspiegel , Holzheim , Kruspis , Mauers , Meisenbach , Müsenbach , Neukirchen , Oberstoppel , Unterstoppel , Odensachsen , Rhina , Schletzenrod , Starklos , Wehrda and Wetzlos .

history

The districts of Odensachsen and Rhina were first mentioned in a document in 1003, when King Heinrich II divided the realm of Ehringswald (Ehrenvirst) between the Hersfeld and Fulda abbeys .

Some of today's districts already belonged together in the Middle Ages in the rule of Wehrda and later in the district of Neukirchen . Most of the places belonged to the Hersfeld or Fulda abbeys , which they had given to the knights of Romrod, von Trubenbach (later Trümbach), von Otensassen and von Haune (later Hune) as fiefs. The latter were the builders of Hauneck Castle.

The writer Heinrich Ruppel was born in Haunetal in 1886 . At the end of the Second World War, Konrad Zuse's Z4 computer was stored in a barn in the Neukirchen district .

Konrad Zuse's workshop in Neukirchen January 2010

Konrad Zuse founded Zuse KG in the Neukirchen district in 1949 ; In 1957 the company headquarters were relocated to Bad Hersfeld .

Since May 16, 1998 the municipality of Haunetal has been allowed to use the designation market municipality.

Incorporations

On February 1, 1971, as part of the regional reform in Hesse, the communities of Hermannspiegel, Mauers, Neukirchen, Oberstoppel and Rhina were merged to form the new community of Haunetal in the Hünfeld district. On December 31, 1971, Meisenbach, Müsenbach, Odensachsen, Schletzenrod, Wehrda and Wetzlos (all in the district of Hünfeld) were added. Unterstoppel (district of Hünfeld) and the communities of Holzheim, Kruspis and Starklos, which had previously belonged to the district of Hersfeld , were added to the new district of Hersfeld-Rotenburg by state law on August 1, 1972.

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 SPD : 4 CDU : 6 GfH : 5	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	30.4	4th	46.0	11	49.2	11	47.2	11
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	38.8	6th	39.0	9	42.4	10	40.3	9
	GfH	Together for Haunetal	30.8	5	-	-	-	-	-	-
	FWG	Free voter community Haunetal	-	-	15.0	3	6.4	2	9.3	2
	FDP	Free Democratic Party	-	-	-	-	2.0	0	-	-
	GREEN	Alliance 90 / The Greens	-	-	-	-	-	-	3.3	1
	total		100.0	15th	100.0	23	100.0	23	100.0	23
	Voter turnout in%		64.3		66.7		63.0		70.5

mayor

Table of directly elected mayors:

Surname	from	to	Remarks
Helmut Ruppel	1993	1995	Elected as CDU candidate, first directly elected mayor
Hein-Peter Möller	1995	2011	elected as an SPD candidate; he was re-elected in 2001 and 2007
Stefan Euler	2011	2014	elected as a joint candidate by CDU and FWG, retired in 2014
Gerd Lang	2014		elected as a non-party candidate

Culture and sights

Buildings

Evangelical Church Neukirchen January 2006

The Protestant church in Neukirchen was built in the late Gothic style in 1515 on a partially Romanesque substructure. The remarkable interior furnishings include the carved winged altar from 1522 and the font from 1588.

Above Neukirchen and Oberstoppel on the Stoppelsberg , Haunetal's local mountain , is Hauneck Castle , whose building history dates back to the 14th century. The Sinzigburg , west of the Stoppelsberg in the Haunetal, points even further into the past . Not far away, also on the slopes of the stubble mountain, is the natural monument Lange Steine .

Other buildings in the Wehrda district include the Gothic fortified church with old peasant frescoes, Hohenwehrda Castle - built around 1900 by Baron Wilhelm von Kleydorff , today a Hermann-Lietz International School -, the Yellow Castle in Wehrda , the Red Castle in Wehrda - today owned by Johannes Freiherr von Campenhausen - and the Altwehrda castle ruins (presumably the first fortified settlement in a fortified defense tower , built by the von Trumbach knights , later von Stein).

Jewish cemetery in Rhina

Jewish Cemetery

The 3,896 m² Jewish cemetery of Haunetal is located in the Rhina district . The cemetery is a protected cultural monument and is located about 1 km south of Rhina between the Bebra – Fulda railway line and federal road 27 in the Haune Valley. Another Jewish cemetery is located in the Wehrda district.

Culinary specialties

A culinary specialty from the Haunetal is the Ploatz , a hearty sheet cake made from rye bread dough with different toppings.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The municipality is connected to the supra-regional road network by federal road 27 , which runs through the municipality. The community also has a train station in Neukirchen, on the Bebra – Fulda railway line .

The Public transport is by the North Hessian traffic group guaranteed.

The bus routes are operated by Regionalverkehr Kurhessen . The bus routes mainly provide the connection with Bad Hersfeld.

education

In Neukirchen there is the Haunetal School , a primary school . There is also the Hermann-Lietz-Schule Schloss Hohenwehrda in the Wehrda district .

Sons and daughters of the church

Friedrich Christian Delius (born February 13, 1943 in Rome) German writer grew up in Wehrda from 1944 to 1958 .
Heinrich Ruppel (born November 8, 1886 in Neukirchen, † 1974 in Ziegenhain) was a German writer.
Konrad Zuse (born June 22, 1910 in Deutsch-Wilmersdorf near Berlin; † December 18, 1995 in Hünfeld near Fulda) was a German civil engineer , inventor and entrepreneur .
Jakob Nussbaum (born January 8, 1873 in Rhina, † December 19, 1936 in Kinneret on the Sea of Galilee) was a painter of German impressionism.