Lautertal (Vogelsberg)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 35 '  N , 9 ° 17'  E
Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	to water
County :	Vogelsbergkreis
Height :	477 m above sea level NHN
Area :	53.61 km 2
Residents:	2296 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	43 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	36369
Primaries :	06643, 06645 , 06630
License plate :	VB
Community key :	06 5 35 012
Address of the municipal administration:	Rathausstrasse 3 36369 Lautertal
Website :	www.lautertal-vogelsberg.de
Mayor :	Dieter Schäfer (independent)
Location of the community Lautertal (Vogelsberg) in the Vogelsbergkreis

Lautertal (Vogelsberg) is a municipality in the Vogelsbergkreis in central Hesse .

geography

Geographical location

Lautertal is 400 to 700 meters above sea level in the Hoher Vogelsberg Nature Park .

Neighboring communities

Lautertal borders the municipality of Schwalmtal in the north, the town of Lauterbach in the east, the town of Herbstein in the south , and the town of Ulrichstein and the municipality of Feldatal in the west .

Community structure

The community Lautertal consists of the seven districts:

• Dirlammen
• Acorn grove
• Oak rod
• Engelrod
• Hörgenau (seat of the municipal administration)
• Hopfmannsfeld
• Meiches

history

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality Lautertal was newly formed on December 31, 1971 through the merger of the previous municipalities Eichelhain, Eichenrod, Engelrod, Hörgenau and Meiches. On February 1, 1972 Dirlammen and Hopfmannsfeld were added.

On February 1, 1980, the name of the municipality was officially changed to Lautertal (Vogelsberg) .

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 : 7 CDU : 6 UBG : 2	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	49.3	7th	47.7	7th	45.7	7th	45.2	7th
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	37.0	6th	41.4	6th	48.1	7th	49.1	7th
	UBG	Independent citizen list + Greens	13.7	2	10.9	2	6.2	1	5.7	1
	total		100.0	15th	100.0	15th	100.0	15th	100.0	15th
	Voter turnout in%		67.3		61.1		78.6		69.9

Town hall of the municipality in Hörgenau

mayor

In February 2018, Dieter Schäfer (* 1965) was elected Heiko Stock's successor with 54.3% of the vote. The previous incumbent Heiko Stock no longer wanted to run for full-time mayor after twelve years and decided not to be re-elected.

badges and flags

coat of arms

Blazon : "In gold and black, wavy field divided diagonally to the right, a red Turk's cap lily on the right, a golden seven-spoke wagon wheel on the left." The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Heinz Ritt in 1982 and approved by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior on June 29, 1983 . The main colors black and gold refer to the former local rule of the Riedesel barons of Eisenbach . The wagon wheel with its seven spokes (= seven districts) indicates the agricultural character of the community. Finally, the Turkish lily from the coat of arms of the Vogelsberg district symbolizes that the community belongs to this district. The diagonal wavy line indicates the Lauter , which gives the community its name.

flag

Along with the coat of arms, the flag was also approved.

Flag description: "The municipal coat of arms is placed on a gold / black flag strip."

Personalities

• Elard Briegleb (born May 5, 1822 in Hopfmannsfeld, † June 15, 1904 in Worms ), Hessian pastor and dialect poet
• Carl Spöhrer (born August 13, 1849 in Hörgenau, † January 24, 1912 in Calw), secondary school teacher, founder of the Calw Commercial School
• Else Bierau (born April 5, 1877 in Meiches, † October 1, 1966 in Darmstadt ), member of the Hessian state parliament ( DVP )

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. ↑ ^{a b} Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register 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. 367, 368 and 386 .
3. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 . 
4. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
5. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
6. ↑ Direct elections in Lautertal (Vogelsberg). Hessian State Statistical Office , accessed in December 2018 . 
7. ↑ HStAD inventory R 6 C No. 309 / 1-2  In: Archive information system Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen).
8. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms and a flag of the Lautertal (Vogelsberg) community from August 18, 1983 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1983 No. 29 , p. 1431 , point 815 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.0 MB ]).

Web links

Commons : Lautertal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lautertal, Vogelsbergkreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Literature on Lautertal in the Hessian Bibliography