Petersberg (Hesse)

Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	kassel
County :	Fulda
Height :	360 m above sea level NHN
Area :	35.51 km 2
Residents:	16,052 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	452 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	36100
Area code :	0661
License plate :	FD
Community key :	06 6 31 020
Community structure:	6 districts
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Rathausplatz 1 ; 36100 Petersberg
Website :	www.petersberg.de
Mayor :	Carsten Froß ( CDU )
Location of the community Petersberg in the district of Fulda

Petersberg is a suburb of Fulda in the Fulda district in East Hesse , Germany .

geography

location

The community is located directly on the north-eastern city limits of Fulda in the western foothills of the Rhön . The Haune flows through the municipality .

Neighboring communities

Petersberg borders in the north on the city of Hünfeld , in the east on the municipality Hofbieber , in the southeast on the municipality Dipperz , in the south on the municipality Künzell and in the west on the city of Fulda (all in the district of Fulda).

Community structure

In addition to Petersberg, the community consists of the districts Haunedorf , Marbach , Margretenhaun , Steinau (with the hamlet of Götzenhof) and Steinhaus .

history

The history of the place began with the foundation of a Benedictine monastery on the Ugesberg (Eulenberg), which was consecrated on September 28, 836 by the Fulda abbot Rabanus Maurus . On this day, St. Lioba was reburied in St. Peter's Basilica . The monastery developed into a provost house in the 12th century , which was closed in 1802.

From 1130 the Ugesberg was called Petersberg. A settlement emerged at the foot of the mountain, which was first mentioned in 1153 as the Bru-bus (brewery). The name of the place Petersberg became common by the Hessian electoral ordinance from 1837, when the place and the provost district were united.

Today there is again a Cella St. Lioba , which was founded by the Benedictine nuns of St. Lioba . They also took care of St. Peter's Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

Incorporations

On December 31, 1971, the previously independent communities of Haunedorf, Marbach, Margretenhaun, Steinau and Steinhaus were merged into the new community of Petersberg as part of the municipal reform.

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 Left : 3 SPD : 6 FDP : 2 CDU : 20 CWE : 6	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	54.0	20th	60.5	22nd	63.1	23	65.3	24
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	17.8	6th	23.1	9	24.0	9	24.7	9
	CWE	Christian voter unit eV	16.6	6th	13.0	5	10.4	4th	10.0	4th
	The left	Die Linke.open list	7.1	3	3.4	1	-	-	-	-
	FDP	Free Democratic Party	4.4	2	-	-	2.5	1	-	-
	total		100.0	37	100.0	37	100.0	37	100.0	37
	Voter turnout in%		54.9		52.5		46.4		52.5

mayor

After the Hessian municipal constitution is the Mayor Chairman of the Municipal Board , the six volunteers in the municipality Petersberg next to the Mayor Councilor belong. As the first directly elected mayor in Petersberg, Karl-Josef Schwiddessen (CDU) has been in office since 1994 in his fourth term of office, which lasted until 2018. His successor Carsten Froß (CDU) took office in March 2018.

Community partnerships

Billère ( Pyrénées-Atlantiques , France )
Sabiñánigo ( Spain )
Breitungen / Werra (in Thuringia)

Culture and sights

St. Peter (Petersberg)

One of the sights is the Church of St. Peter (Liobakirche) with the crypt in which the bones of St. Lioba are locked. Another attraction is the former nun's garden with a flower wall, which was created in the 14th century. In the summer of 2013, the nun's garden was converted into a park as part of the “ 72-hour campaign ” and has been accessible since then. Today the nunnery is no longer in the same place. Since July 2006, a small nunnery of the Benedictine Sisters of St. Lioba, the Cella St. Lioba , has been located on the Peterberg next to the Church of St. Peter .

Museums

Active museum - rural customs

Buildings

Bergkirche St. Peter , Holy Sepulcher Church of St. Lioba , which was consecrated in 836
Baroque chapel of St. Boniface (in the cemetery) from 1698/99 with a baroque wooden altar and some epitaphs from the 16th to 18th centuries
Rabanus Maurus Church from 1957 with a free-standing bell tower
Haunetalsperre
Petersberg watch tower on the Rauschenberg, which was later converted into an observation tower

Bike trails

The Milseburgradweg runs through the districts of Almendorf and Melzdorf . As part of the Hessian long-distance cycle route R3 and the Hesse rail cycle route, it runs on the former Rhön railway route Biebertalbahn / Rhönbahn over a length of 27 kilometers from Petersberg- Götzenhof to Hilders through the Hessian Rhön .

traffic

Petersberg is in the immediate vicinity of the Fulda-Mitte motorway junction. Federal roads 27 and 458 also run through the municipality . The closest train station is in Fulda .

Personalities

Jan-Philip Glania (* 1988) - swimmer
Johannes Hack (1875–1950) - teacher and local history researcher
Markus Meysner (* 1966) - politician and member of the Hessian state parliament
Apollo of Vilbel (around 1480-1536) - Benedictine abbot in the monastery Limburg , provost at the Petersberg , chronicler, lived temporarily and died here, get grave plate in the St. Peter's Church

literature

Werner Kathrein and Johannes Burkardt: Petersberg (Fulda) . In: Friedhelm Jürgensmeier et al.: The Benedictine monasteries and nunneries in Hessen (Germania Benedictina 7 Hessen), Eos, St. Ottilien 2004, pp. 900–909. ISBN 3-8306-7199-7 .
Michael Mott : Baroque chapel without “host” / The cemetery chapel of St. Bonifatius on Petersberg is to be renovated and then opened to visitors / Riot at church facilities. In: Fulda newspaper. March 25, 1993, p. 12 (series: DENK-mal!).