Kaufungen

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Kaufungen
Kaufungen
Map of Germany, position of the municipality of Kaufungen highlighted

Coordinates: 51 ° 17 '  N , 9 ° 37'  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : kassel
County : kassel
Height : 198 m above sea level NHN
Area : 26.13 km 2
Residents: 12,503 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 478 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 34260
Area code : 05605
License plate : KS, HOG, WOH
Community key : 06 6 33 015
Community structure: 2 districts
Address of the
municipal administration:
Leipziger Strasse 463
34260 Kaufungen
Website : www.kaufungen.eu
Mayor : Arnim Roß ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Kaufungen in the Kassel district
Bad Karlshafen Gutsbezirk Reinhardswald Trendelburg Trendelburg Hofgeismar Hofgeismar Wesertal Reinhardshagen Liebenau Grebenstein Immenhausen Fuldatal Espenau Vellmar Calden Breuna Zierenberg Zierenberg Ahnatal Habichtswald Wolfhagen Naumburg Bad Emstal Schauenburg Baunatal Fuldabrück Lohfelden Söhrewald Helsa Kaufungen Nieste Niestetal Kasselmap
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Kaufungen is a medium-sized municipality in the northern Hessian district of Kassel .

geography

Kaufungen is located east of Kassel in the Losse Valley and is surrounded by the Kaufungen Forest and the Söhre . It is part of the Frau-Holle-Land Geo-Nature Park.

Neighboring communities

Kaufungen is bordered to the north on the communities Niestetal and Nieste (both in the district of Kassel), in the east on the unincorporated area Gutsbezirk Kaufunger Forest (in the Werra-Meissner ), in the southeast on the community Helsa , in the south on the community Söhrewald , in Southwest to the municipality of Lohfelden (all in the district of Kassel) and to the northwest to the independent city of Kassel .

structure

  • Lower purchases with residential paper mill . The paper mill was politically part of the formerly independent community of Niederkaufungen and was mainly settled industrially. Besides the industry, there were only a few makeshift houses there. Only in the course of the last 30 to 40 years has the paper mill developed into its own residential area with numerous new buildings.
  • Acquisitions

history

Imperial certificate for the Kaufungen monastery
Kaufungen Collegiate Church with outbuildings

"Coufa" was first mentioned in a document in 1011 as the place of issue of a document from King Heinrich II. Before this time, Kaufungen was probably an administrative place for the imperial forest (Kaufunger Wald), which belonged to the curtis Kassel. When Heinrich II gave the royal court of Kassel to his wife Kunigunde as a Wittum in 1008 , she moved the royal court to Kaufungen between 1008 and 1011. In the process, the existing administrative buildings were probably expanded into a royal seat. During this time, the St. George chapel, which already had a royal gallery, was built.

In 1017 the royal court was converted into a Benedictine monastery , to which the villages of Nieder- and Oberkaufungen were donated two years later. The Church of the Holy Cross, today's collegiate church in Oberkaufungen, was consecrated on July 13, 1025 .

Four centuries later, around 1430, the first glassworks were built in the Kaufunger Forest . In 1527 the monastery was dissolved, in 1532 it was combined with the also dissolved canonical monastery Wetter to form the “Stift Kaufungen und Wetter” and handed over to the Knighthood of Althess. 1555 took place investiture of 12 trades with the right to reduction of alum - a sulfur-containing mineral, which was important for the tanning, dyeing, paper making, and medicine - around Kaufungen; the small factory was discontinued in 1714. Kaufungen also became the center of copper processing in Hesse, with trade relations with Scandinavia and Belgium in 1580.

During the time of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia (1807-1813) Oberkaufungen was the administrative seat of the canton of Kaufungen .

The paper mill got its name in 1839: A paper mill was set up in Niederkaufungen. The connection to the Kassel Waldkappel railway network was realized in 1879/80.

The lung sanatorium was opened by the Patriotic Women's Association of the Red Cross in 1900. Today it is a specialist clinic for geriatrics with a day clinic and an old people's home , located in the beautiful Kaufunger Forest. The Lossetal Stadium was opened for sports operations in 1954.

The voluntary amalgamation of the municipalities of Oberkaufungen and Niederkaufungen to form the greater municipality of Kaufungen took place in the course of the regional reform in Hesse on December 1, 1970. A decisive step in improving the quality of life was the conversion of the former open-cast lignite mining area into the Steinertsee leisure and recreation park in 1970 . The Rossgang Mining Museum was opened in 1977 and the Old School Regional Museum in 1986 . After passenger traffic on the Kassel – Waldkappel railway was discontinued in 1985, the route is used again today after the community was connected to the city ​​of Kassel's tram network in 1998 . Until 2006 the RegioTram was also operated on this railway line .

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 37 seats
  • SPD : 17
  • GLLK : 4
  • Greens : 2
  • CDU : 9
  • KWG : 5
Parties and constituencies %
2016
Seats
2016
%
2011
Seats
2011
%
2006
Seats
2006
%
2001
Seats
2001
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 46.0 17th 36.8 14th 49.5 18th 51.5 19th
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 23.4 9 35.8 13 29.2 11 28.1 10
Green Alliance 90 / The Greens 7.1 2 13.3 5 - - - -
GLLK Green Left List Kaufungen 10.8 4th 8.4 3 18.0 7th 16.0 6th
KWG Kaufunger voter community 12.7 5 5.6 2 - - - -
FDP Free Democratic Party - - - - 3.4 1 4.4 2
total 100.0 37 100.0 37 100.0 37 100.0 37
Voter turnout in% 55.9 51.0 45.3 54.6

mayor

  • since July 2010 Arnim Roß (SPD)
  • July 2004 to July 2010 Peter Klein (non-party)
  • July 1992 to July 2004 Günter Burghardt (SPD)
  • 1966 to 1992 Gerhard Iske (SPD) mayor of today's district of Niederkaufungen
  • 1953 to 1977 Jean Roß (SPD) mayor of today's district of Oberkaufungen
  • 1952 to 1966 Gottfried Pfeil (SPD) mayor of today's district of Niederkaufungen
  • After the merger of the municipalities of Oberkaufungen, Niederkaufungen and the paper factory to form the municipality of Kaufungen, Gerhard Iske continued to work as mayor.

Town twinning

coat of arms

On January 23, 1973, the Hessian Minister of the Interior approved a coat of arms with the following blazon : "On blue, a Romanesque, silver arcade group with a parapet over a green shield base."

Crest Explanation: The Romanesque arcades are from the west gallery of the Collegiate Church Kaufungen For Holy Cross that there grace in excellent architectural design, the church and central part of the arms were. The color green refers to the location in the middle of the Kaufunger Wald, the color blue to the location on the Losse or the blue sky over the village and the Kaufunger Wald.

Culture and sights

Six-rail track in the Niederkaufungen Mitte stop of the RegioTram Kassel
  • The Oberkaufungen Collegiate Church is the most important late Ottonian building in northern Hesse . It was built on behalf of Empress Kunigunde and consecrated on July 13, 1025, one year after the death of her husband, Emperor Heinrich II . On the same day Kunigunde entered the Benedictine convent of Kaufungen, founded by her in 1017, as a nun.
  • Rossgang Mining Museum: This is an old shaft of the former Freudenthal lignite mine with horse pegs . It is of great cultural and historical importance as there are only a few of these mine buildings left in the German-speaking area.
  • The six-rail track at the Niederkaufungen Mitte stop is a special attraction for fans of railway rarities .
  • Regional Museum "Old School"
  • Hessian Brickwork Museum in Oberkaufungen
  • Sensory courses in the brickworks of Oberkaufungen
  • Kaufungen is on the German Fairy Tale Route , which leads from Hanau to Bremen.

Municipality down purchases

In 1986, the then largest and now oldest political municipality in Germany settled in the Niederkaufungen district . Around 80 people live and work there on an area of ​​around 10,000 square meters around a former farm. The common economy is an important and central principle. All assets and income of the residents - including salaries, inheritance sums or gifts - flow into the joint assets, an additional pension is also shared. Those who leave the community receive a previously negotiated sum, which is usually between five and ten thousand euros and can be adjusted over the course of the period of residence. Further principles are the left-wing understanding of politics, the principle of consensus and the dismantling of small families and gender-specific power structures.

Most residents work in one of their own businesses, such as a daycare center, a vegetable growing collective, an emigrant farm for dairy farming, a carpentry and locksmith's shop, a day care facility for people with dementia, an organic party service and a conference center.

Sports

  • athletics

In Kaufungen, the LG Kaufungen, a successful athletics club for students and young people throughout Hesse, is located. The high jumper Ariane Friedrich , who is now starting for the LG Eintracht Frankfurt , is internationally successful . Since the early 1970s, the association has organized two regionally known fun runs every year , the Kaufunger Silvesterlauf and the Kaufunger Volkslauf. In the larger run of the two, the Kaufunger New Year's Run, the number of starters is over 1000.

  • Inline hockey

The Kaufungen Sharks are a division of the SV Kaufungen 07 and three-time German inline hockey champions (2005, 2006, 2007) in the IHD inline hockey Bundesliga . After there was no majority in the community for the renovation of the gaming facility, gaming operations were discontinued and a gaming community was founded with the Baunatal penguins. There are also Hornet's purchases .

Economy and Infrastructure

Economic structure

The federal warehouse , the central warehouse of the army, is located in the paper mill industrial area .

education

The municipality of Kaufungen currently has six day care centers with all-day care, two primary schools and one integrated comprehensive school . Secondary schools are available in Kassel.

Personalities

  • Heinz Eggebrecht (1916–1994), b. in Oberkaufungen, Colonel and District Administrator of the Ministry of State Security
  • Peter-Matthias Gaede (* 1951), journalist, grew up in Niederkaufungen
  • Martina Müller (* 1980), soccer player, played for SG Kaufungen in her youth

literature

  • Ingrid Baumgärtner , Christian Presche: Kaufungen 1011. The first documentary mention in context . Kassel 2011, ISBN 978-3-933617-45-3
  • Winfried Wroz: 975 years of Kaufungen: 1011–1986; Contributions to local history . Kaufungen 1985.
  • Winfried Wroz: Kaufungen in Hessen. A tour. Edited by the municipality of Kaufungen. Langewiesche Nachf., Königstein i. Ts. 2011 (= The Blue Books), ISBN 978-3-7845-0752-1
  • Wolfgang Zeihe: The Niederkaufunger Dorfbuch . Edited by the community of Niederkaufungen, 1967
  • Literature on Kaufungen in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Kaufungen  - album with pictures, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Kaufungen  - 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. Bergbau Kaufungen. uni-kassel.de
  3. Merger of the municipalities of Oberkaufungen and Niederkaufungen in the district of Kassel to form the municipality of “Kaufungen” on November 12, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 48 , p. 2253 , point 2247 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.6 MB ]).
  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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 400 .
  5. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .
  6. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
  7. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
  8. KWG - Kaufunger Voting Community on the Internet ( Memento from June 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Direct elections in Kaufungen
  10. ^ Approval of a coat of arms of the municipality of Kaufungen, district of Kassel, administrative district of Kassel from January 23, 1973 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1973 No. 7 , p. 280 , point 196 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 8.4 MB ]).
  11. ^ Rossgang Mining Museum. webmuseen.de
  12. Hessian Brickwork Museum at Monuments Online
  13. Cash fight - community Niederkaufungen . brand eins , June 2014
  14. ^ Website of the municipality of Niederkaufungen
  15. Germany's largest municipality also looks after old people . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , August 26, 2004
  16. ^ Homepage of the community of Niederkaufungen
  17. Municipality of Niederkaufungen - Our stable, our tree, our bed. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 7, 2014
  18. ^ The revolution in the village . In: Die Zeit , No. 43/2017 (report)
  19. ^ Cooperation project ZEBEL ( Memento from February 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ; PDF)