Nieste (municipality)

Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	kassel
County :	kassel
Height :	260 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.19 km 2
Residents:	2021 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	482 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	34329
Area code :	05605
License plate :	KS, HOG, WOH
Community key :	06 6 33 019
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Wilhelm-Heitmann-Platz 3 ; 34329 Nieste
Website :	www.nieste.de
Mayor :	Edgar Paul ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Nieste in the Kassel district

Nieste is a municipality and a state-approved resort in the northern Hessian district of Kassel .

geography

Geographical location

Nieste is located in the Nieste valley on the western slope of the Kaufunger Forest , about twelve kilometers east of the center of Kassel . Its district extends along the Nieste to a length of about 7.5 km, whereby the width of the district upstream of the location corresponds in principle to the width of the forest-free valley floodplain and is therefore usually no more than 100 m. To the west of Nieste, the district spreads above the Niestetal around the approximately 355 m above sea level. NN high Gerholdsberg at least about 1.5 km to the south. The built-up location, however, lies like a bridgehead on the only part of the district of significant size north of the Nieste and is prevented from further expansion on all sides by the Lower Saxony state border. Nieste is on the German Fairy Tale Route , which leads from Hanau to Bremen .

Nieste only includes the district of the same name (Gmk.-Nr. 61554) and, along with Bad Salzschlirf, is the only municipality in the Kassel administrative district without districts. With 4.05 km² it is the smallest municipality in Hesse in terms of area.

Neighboring communities

Nieste borders in the north on the municipality of Staufenberg (in the district of Göttingen in Lower Saxony ), in the south on the non- parish district of Kaufunger Wald ( Werra-Meißner district ) and the municipality of Kaufungen , and in the west on the municipality of Niestetal (both in the district of Kassel) .

history

The oldest surviving written reference as de Nieste points in the year 1293. In another nomination Nieste is called in the year 1019, then Bardo was from Sichelnstein to Kaufungen on the road when he on the border of his possession a chapel of St. Anna , and had an inn built. Pilgrimages were made there every two years, and in 1306, Landgrave Heinrich von Hessen and Duke Albrecht von Braunschweig built a few houses there. The resulting village was named Nyste (new site). A noble family from Nieste is documented during the 13th century, so in 1290 the brothers Engelfried and Heimbert, as well as Hermann and Conrad von Nyste are named. Hermann was councilor in Münden in 1289 and 1301, and Conrad in 1323 . It was also Hermann who donated the altar in the church in Gimte in 1289 . In the contract of 1536 Nieste belonged to the Landgraviate of Hesse and the Brunswick principality of Calenberg in equal parts. Only the church has not been divided. In 1831 the Kingdom of Hanover ceded half of it to the Electorate of Hesse .

In 2010, a state treaty was signed between Hesse and Lower Saxony to swap 51 parcels of land in the Escherode district , which border the locality of Nieste, with 6 parcels of the municipality of Nieste near the locality of Dahlheim . The areas to be exchanged are each 14.48 hectares in size. The background to this change in boundary was that the entire sports facilities as well as the district school gym and the rain retention basin of the Nieste community were built on land in the Staufenberg community area. This created problems of responsibility for the municipalities. Residents were not affected by the change in border. The State Treaty entered into force on June 1, 2011 after the documents of ratification had been deposited .

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 : 3rd UWG : 3	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	20.0	3	-	-	20.3	3	23.0	3
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	63.3	9	100	15th	79.7	12	77.0	12
	UWN	Independent voters Nieste	16.8	3	-	-	-	-	-	-
	total		100.0	15th	100.0	15th	100.0	15th	100.0	15th
	Voter turnout in%		57.5		54.3		55.8		61.8

mayor

Paul, Edgar (SPD) was elected mayor in 2000 and confirmed in office in 2006 and 2012.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality of Nieste shows in a red crenellated shield head to three pinnacles, the outer edges of which emerge from the edge of the shield, a silver scythe leaf, under the shield head in a wavy cut-like shield with silver and green diagonally divided shields above and below in confused colors each a beech branch pulled out of the wave division to three sheets.

The scythe leaf and the battlements point to the former Sensenstein Castle in the area of today's municipality . The two three-leaved beech branches are symbols for the location of the municipality between the Kaufunger Wald nature reserve and the Münden nature reserve. The wave cut stands for the eponymous brook "Nieste".

Partnerships

The municipality of Nieste maintains partnership relationships with

Frankenhain , part of the rural community Geratal in the Ilm district in Thuringia .
Dunaszentgyörgy , Hungary

religion

St. Anne's Church

On January 1, 2011, the Evangelical Lutheran St. Anna parish was merged with the Paul Gerhardt parish Escherode in Staufenberg to form the new Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Parish Escherode-Nieste in Staufenberg. It belongs to the parish of Münden in the Hildesheim-Göttingen district of the Hanover regional church .

Attractions

Ramparts of the former Sensenstein Castle on the Gerholdsberg
“Niester Giant”, sequoias on Gerholdsberg
"Gläsnertal" hiking area
Leisure facility "Bleichwiesen"
German Fairy Tale Route , runs through the village
Oak near the youth castle Sensenstein with a chest height of 6.15 m (2016).

Economy and Infrastructure

Nieste is a residential community without industry and is surrounded by approx. 150 km of hiking and biking trails.

The place has a supermarket, car repair shop, doctors, car inspection center as well as a savings bank and restaurants. The Königsalm is also located here.

traffic

Nieste is connected to the highway network with the Kassel-Nord junction of the A 7, eight kilometers away . From Kassel , Nieste can be reached through the Niestetal via the L 3237 / L 563 state roads. On the country road L563 can be reached in an easterly direction, first by the Endschlagtal and further through the Wengebachtal and the Umschwang , the community Kleinalmerode or neighborhood of Witzenhausen . Connections to the neighboring towns are established through various district roads.

Nieste belongs to the KasselPlus tariff area of the North Hessian Transport Association ( NVV ) and is regularly served by bus line 34. There are travel connections to Kaufungen and from there on with the tram line 4 to Kassel , as well as to Escherode and from there on with the bus line 32, via Staufenberg and Niestetal , to Kassel.

education

The community has a kindergarten with all-day care and a primary school . A comprehensive school is located in Kaufungen, other secondary schools in Kassel.