Grains

Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	kassel
County :	Schwalm-Eder district
Height :	188 m above sea level NHN
Area :	17.51 km 2
Residents:	3027 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	173 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	34327
Area code :	05665
License plate :	HR, FZ, MEG, ZIG
Community key :	06 6 34 012
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Im Mülmischtal 2 ; 34327 Körle
Website :	www.koerle.de
Mayor :	Mario Gerhold ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Körle in the Schwalm-Eder district

View over the Fulda valley near Körle

Körle is a municipality in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse .

geography

location

The municipality of Körle is located around 16 km (as the crow flies ) south of downtown Kassel on the south-western edge of the Söhre . Her eponymous nucleus is located at the mouth of the dry Mülmisch in the Weser -Quellfluss Fulda , in which at Körle also the little Haingraben and slightly above and to the southeast of the Körle Mülmisch flows.

Neighboring communities

Körle borders in the west and north on the municipality of Guxhagen (Schwalm-Eder district), in the east on the municipality Söhrewald ( district of Kassel ) and in the south on the cities of Melsungen and Felsberg (both in the Schwalm-Eder district).

structure

Körle consists of the four districts of Empfershausen , Körle, Lobenhausen and Wagenfurth .

history

Körle was first mentioned in a document in 1074 in a deed of donation from the Fulda monastery . The following names have been handed down from the following centuries: 1074 Chrulle, 1172 Kurle, 1299 Corle, 1391 Kirle; also 1787 Cörla, 1830 Koerle.

Körle had its own judicial district until around 1620. This did not cease until the Melsung judicial district was expanded.

Today's main street, Nürnberger Straße, served as a postal connection between Kassel and Regensburg in the 15th / 16th centuries , which is why it was sometimes also called Poststraße.

On July 15, 1892, Körle was connected to the railroad by setting up a stop on the line in the Fulda valley Kassel - Bebra .

In 1906, Körle received a water pipe, and in 1920 it was electrified by connecting it to the “Overland Central Edertalsperre”.

On the initiative of the mayor at the time, in 1912 - after lengthy negotiations - the Reichsbahn built a large freight station in Körle. As a result, a basalt factory settled and developed into an important employer for the region. Around 250 workers were employed in the Ölberg quarry in 1933/34. For decades, the freight yard was also a transshipment point for wood from the Söhrewald and Riedforst. A large timber plant was established at the freight yard, but it was closed again soon after the Second World War.

The community was created in its current form on February 1, 1971 as part of the regional reform in Hesse through the incorporation of the previously independent communities Empfershausen, Lobenhausen and Wagenfurth. according to Körle.

In 2003 the Körler Edelapfel was named " Hessian Local Variety of the Year " by the Landesgruppe Hessen des Pomologen-Verein e. V. named. The aim is to draw attention to old fruit varieties that are worth preserving in Hessen. Corresponding campaigns and public relations work are carried out every year, such as maintenance measures on old trees, rice extraction and delivery to tree nurseries, planting campaigns as well as lectures and exhibitions.

Körle and the districts were developed with VDSL from 2011.

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 : 9 CDU : 6	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	62.0	9	69.5	10	66.5	10	64.5	10
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	38.0	6th	30.5	5	33.5	5	28.8	4th
	FDP	Free Democratic Party	-	-	-	-	-	-	6.8	1
	total		100.0	15th	100.0	15th	100.0	15th	100.0	15th
	Voter turnout in%		60.2		57.7		55.4		55.4

mayor

Mario Gerhold has been mayor of the Körle community since February 1, 2000. In the election on August 29, 1999, he was elected as the successor to the Social Democrat Fritz Ochs (1935-2013) with 67% of the vote. Gerhold was confirmed in office with 90.8% of the votes in the election on September 11, 2005. In the mayoral election on September 4, 2011, Gerhold was again confirmed in office with 81.4% of the votes. In the mayoral election on September 24, 2017, Gerhold was again confirmed in office with 79.1% of the votes.

coat of arms

Blazon : "A green, four-leaf clover in silver over a blue, oblique wavy bar."

partnership

The municipality of Körle has had partnership relationships with Floh-Seligenthal in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district since 1991 .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Körle is on the Bebra-Baunatal-Guntershausen railway line . There is a stop in the village where the RegioTram Kassel trains stop, with which Kassel city center and Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe train station can be reached in around 20 minutes. The high-speed line Hanover – Würzburg , with the Körle Ost depot , runs through the municipality without scheduled traffic stops . Körle is on federal highway 83 a few kilometers southeast of the Guxhagen junction of federal highway 7 .

The following hiking and cycling trails lead through the municipality :

The Körler Steig leads as a 21 km long circular hiking trail through and around Körle. Starting there it runs through Empfershausen , then north past Körle and when crossing the Fulda twice , through Wagenfurth and Lobenhausen back to Körle.
The Hessian Radfernweg R1 (Fulda-Radweg) leads over 250 km from the heights of the Rhön along the Fulda to Bad Karlshafen on the Weser .
The 1,197 km long D-Route 9 (Weser-Romantic Road) leads from the North Sea through Bremen, Kassel, Fulda and the Taubertal to Füssen in Allgäu.

Education and child care

The municipality of Körle has several childcare facilities:

The U3 day care center “Pusteblümchen”. It offers space to care for up to 24 children from the first to the third year of life.
The Pfiffikus day-care center is a cross-age educational facility with lunchtime provision and a year-round forest group, where a total of up to 130 children between the ages of two and the end of primary school can be looked after.

There is also a primary school. About 100 children from the first to fourth grade are taught there.