Neustadt (Hesse)

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Neustadt (Hesse)
Map of Germany, position of the city of Neustadt (Hessen) highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 51 '  N , 9 ° 7'  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : to water
County : Marburg-Biedenkopf
Height : 242 m above sea level NHN
Area : 56.88 km 2
Residents: 9945 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 175 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 35279
Area code : 06692
License plate : MR, BID
Community key : 06 5 34 016
LOCODE : DE NDT
City structure: 4 districts

City administration address : 		Ritterstrasse 5-9
35279 Neustadt (Hesse)
Website : www.neustadt-hessen.de
Mayor : Thomas Groll ( CDU )
Location of the city of Neustadt (Hesse) in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district
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The Junker Hansen Tower, the city's landmark

Neustadt (Hesse) is a small town in the district of Marburg-Biedenkopf in central Hesse .

geography

Geographical location

Neustadt (Hessen) is located in the central Hessian mountainous region in the far east of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district. The Neustädter Sattel belongs to the Upper Hessian threshold and is part of the Rhine-Weser watershed . Neustadt is located on the Schwalm- tributary Wiera and thus - as the only municipality in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district - in the catchment area of the Weser . All other communities in the district belong to the catchment area of ​​the Lahn and its tributary Ohm and thus to that of the Rhine .

Neighboring communities

Neustadt borders in the north on the community Gilserberg , in the east on the town Schwalmstadt and the community Willingshausen (all three in the Schwalm-Eder district ), in the southeast on the community Antrifttal , in the south on the town Kirtorf (both in the Vogelsberg district ), as well to the west to the city of Stadtallendorf (Marburg-Biedenkopf district).

structure

In addition to the core town of Neustadt, the city also includes the districts Mengsberg , Momberg and Speckswinkel .

history

Neustadt was probably founded around 1250 by the Counts of Nidda from the Ziegenhain family. In 1270/71 Count Ludwig II of Nidda had a castle built there, but it was destroyed again in 1273 by Landgrave Heinrich I of Hesse. Count Ludwig's son and successor Engelbert I sold the castle, town and office of Neustadt to the Archdiocese of Mainz on March 12, 1294 for 2,200 marks of Cologne pfennigs. Neustadt was now as a Mainz enclave in the middle of the Landgrave-Hessian and Gräflich-Ziegenhain area.

During the Mainz collegiate feud , Neustadt was in 1464 to the Landgrave Heinrich III. pledged by Hessen-Marburg (Upper Hesse), but the city refused entry and only gave up after a siege. With the Peace of Zeilsheim , in which the Landgrave Hofmeister Hans von Dörnberg played a key role, Neustadt came into the possession of the Landgrave of Upper Hesse . He pledged the city in 1477 to Hans von Dörnberg, who had his Dörnberg Castle built on the basis of the old castle . After Landgrave Wilhelm III. von Oberhessen had a fatal accident in a hunting accident in 1500, Oberhessen was reunited with Niederhessen ( Hessen-Kassel ). Dörnberg, who was hated by Landgrave Wilhelm II of Lower Hesse , fled to Friedberg in 1505 , where he died in 1506 at the age of 79. He was inherited by his nephew. The rule of the Dörnbergers over Neustadt ended in 1549 when the Archdiocese of Mainz redeemed the pledge from 1464.

In 1802/03 the city came to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel as part of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss and was united with the other former Electorate Mainz enclaves Fritzlar , Amöneburg and Naumburg in the nominal principality of Fritzlar . From 1806 to 1813 it belonged with the entire Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel to the Napoleonic vassal kingdom of Westphalia and was the administrative seat of the canton of Neustadt . Until 1866 Neustadt was again part of Hessen-Kassel, then of Prussia . The Neustadt District Court (Hessen) existed until 1943 .

In 1933 around 120 Jews lived in Neustadt . This made the Jewish community the second largest in what was then the Marburg district. The Jewish cemetery on Simmesberg between Neustadt and Momberg still bears witness to this today

In Neustadt there are still remains of Trugelrode Castle from the 13th century and the Nellenburg .

Incorporations

On 1 January 1974 in the wake of were municipal reform in Hesse powerful state law, which until then independent municipalities Mengsberg, Momberg and bacon angle in the town of Neustadt incorporated . Local districts were established for the former communities .

politics

City Council

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the 2016 city council
   
A total of 25 seats
Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006 		%
2001 		Seats
2001
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 48.4 12 49.9 12 59.9 15th 57.1 18th
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 34.4 9 42.0 11 27.6 7th 28.2 9
FWG Free voter community 17.2 4th 8.1 2 6.4 2 6.2 2
REP The Republicans - - - - 6.1 1 8.5 2
total 100.0 25th 100.0 25th 100.0 25th 100.0 31
Voter turnout in% 48.3 45.1 48.3 56.9

mayor

Thomas Groll (CDU) has been mayor since July 2007. He replaced Manfred Hoim (CDU).

Town twinning

Working group Neustadt in Europe
  • The city is a member of the international working group Neustadt in Europa , which includes 37 cities and municipalities named Neustadt in seven European countries (Germany, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and the Netherlands) (as of March 2014).

Culture and sights

Buildings

Here, with a total height of over 50 m and a diameter of around 13 m, is the world's largest half-timbered building , the Junker-Hansen Tower . It is actually a fortification built as a tower of the city wall, built in 1480 by the fortress builder Hans Jakob von Ettlingen over the remains of the old castle demolished in 1470, but then completed as a residential tower and integrated into the grounds of Dörnberg Castle .

Public facilities

The Hessen civil status archive of the Hessian State Archives Marburg is located in Neustadt .

traffic

Reference to the watershed at the guard's house at the block

The federal highway 454 runs through Neustadt . In the Neustädter Sattel, a stone marks the Rhine-Weser watershed on the main road.

The Neustadt (Kr Marburg) train station is on the Main-Weser Railway . His reception building was designed by Julius Eugen Ruhl . The train station is the last stopping point belonging to the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund RMV . From Schwalmstadt the north Hessian traffic group begins NPT . In Neustädter Sattel in the direction of Stadtallendorf on the railway line there is a former block with a reference to the watershed between the Rhine and Weser rivers.

Personalities

Personalities born in Neustadt (Hessen)

Personalities who lived or worked in Neustadt (Hessen)

  • Franz von Roques (1826–1887), metropolitan, pastor (including in Neustadt (Hesse)) and pioneer of diaconia in Kurhessen

Picture gallery

  • Main building of Dörnberg Castle and since 1952 the town hall

  • Back of the town hall

  • Vincentine Sisters town house

  • Cemetery chapel

  • Entrance to the cemetery

  • Catholic city church

  • Protestant church

  • Old Hessian Tennenhaus (around 1700); today city archive

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. ↑ Gustav Könnecke: Article Dörnberg, Hans Freiherr von. In: Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (ed.): Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Volume 5 (1877), pp. 352–353 (digital full-text edition in “Wikisource” , version of July 4, 2015, 5:22 pm Clock UTC).
  3. ↑ Alemannia Judaica - Working group for research into the history of the Jews in southern Germany and neighboring areas. May 20, 2016, accessed June 26, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Andrea Freiberg / Gerhard Bieker: Nova Civitas - Neustadt (Hessen). A walk through the history of the city . Ed .: Magistrate of the City of Neustadt. Neustadt 2004, p. 109 .
  5. ^ Alemannia Judaica - Jewish cemetery Neustadt / Hessen. May 20, 2016, accessed April 11, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts Fritzlar-Homberg, Melsungen and Ziegenhain (GVBl. II 330-22) of September 28, 1973 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1973 No. 25 , p. 356 , § 26 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2,3 MB ]).
  7. ^ 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. 403 .
  8. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .
  9. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
  10. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
  11. ^ Siegfried Lohr : Planning and buildings by the Kassel master builder Julius Eugen Ruhl 1796–1871. A contribution to the building history of Kassel and Kurhessen in the 19th century . Masch. Diss. Darmstadt [1982], pp. 351f.

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