Ronshausen

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 57 '  N , 9 ° 52'  E
Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	kassel
County :	Hersfeld-Rotenburg
Height :	225 m above sea level NHN
Area :	37.65 km 2
Residents:	2339 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	62 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	36217
Primaries :	06622, 06678 (powerless)
License plate :	HEF, ROF
Community key :	06 6 32 017
Community structure:	2 parts of the community
Address of the municipal administration:	Eisenacher Strasse 12a 36217 Ronshausen
Website :	www.ronshausen.de
Mayor :	Markus Becker ( CDU )
Location of the community of Ronshausen in the district of Hersfeld-Rotenburg

Ronshausen is a municipality in the northeast of Hesse , in the district of Hersfeld-Rotenburg .

geography

Geographical location

The core community lies in the valley of the Ulfe , which flows into the Fulda in Bebra . West of Ronshausen the terrain rises towards the Seulingswald . The district of Machtlos is located about 5.5 kilometers northeast in the valley of the Schleifgraben, in the Richelsdorf Mountains .

The next larger cities are Bad Hersfeld (about 15 km southwest), Bebra (about 6 km west), Rotenburg (about 12 km northwest) and Eisenach (about 35 km east).

Neighboring communities

Ronshausen borders in the northwest on the town of Bebra (district Weiterode ), in the northeast on the community Nentershausen , in the east on the community Wildeck , in the south on the community Friedewald and in the west on the community Ludwigsau (all in the district of Hersfeld-Rotenburg).

Community structure

The community consists of the two districts Ronshausen and Machtlos . Within the local area of ​​Ronshausen is the Faßdorf estate about 1 kilometer southwest of the core municipality, in the valley of the Breitenbach.

In the district of Ronshausen there are also the Ziebach, Rode and Nausis desert areas in brook valleys leading south into the Seulingswald.

history

Runteshuson was first mentioned in 1061 in a deed of donation to the Fulda monastery . Around 1250 the right of patronage lay with the Hersfeld Abbey .

A customs post at Ronshausen has been documented since 1359, where road tolls for Ulfestraße were raised until 1834. Ronshausen belongs to the Landgraves of Hesse as early as 1386. The place belonged to the office of Rotenburg .

In the Thirty Years 'War from 1618 to 1648 and in the Seven Years' War from 1756 to 1763 the place was devastated several times, but as early as 1780 Ronshausen was mentioned as a large village with 468 inhabitants.

Until the middle of the 19th century the community was dominated by agriculture. That changed only with the construction of the railway (line Bebra to Eisenach). Tourism has played a role since the middle of the 20th century. Until 2014 the place was a recognized climatic health resort .

Incorporations

On December 31, 1971, the previously independent neighboring community was incorporated powerless.

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 : 6 FDP : 1 CDU : 5th WGR : 3	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	39.2	6th	49.4	8th	55.2	8th	57.6	9
	WGR	Ronshausen voter community	21.1	3	22.6	3	15.8	2	22.3	3
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	33.1	5	21.5	3	19.3	3	20.1	3
	FDP	Free Democratic Party	6.7	1	6.5	1	9.7	2	-	-
	total		100.0	15th	100.0	15th	100.0	15th	100.0	15th
	Voter turnout in%		66.9		63.0		62.2		72.2

Town hall on the main thoroughfare

mayor

The incumbent mayor Markus Becker (* 1975) was elected on October 30, 2011 in the first ballot with 70.5% of the votes cast. From April 2012, he replaced his predecessor Friedhold Zilch (SPD) in the mayor's office, who no longer ran for election after a 24-year term in office.

Community partnerships

• Genas ( Rhône department , France , since 1976)
• Frauensee ( Thuringia , since 1990)

traffic

The community is connected to the national transport network via the national road 3251. About 5 kilometers to the east you can reach the federal highway 4 and 5 kilometers west of the federal highway 27 .

Ronshausen has a stop on the Thuringian Railway from Eisenach to Bebra.

Culture and sights

Church in Ronshausen

Buildings

• The approximately 800-year-old church is essentially a Romanesque sacred building. The choir tower is dated to the beginning of the 13th century and has Romanesque style elements with its arched sound openings. The church was consecrated to Saint Catherine before the Reformation. The Romanesque nave was rebuilt in 1715. The interior was equipped with a three-sided gallery and the ceiling was provided with a board barrel. It was decorated in 1719 by Joh. Kaufuld with rich rural baroque paintings . In 1716 a new organ by Johann Eberhard Dauphin was installed, which is still there today as a monument organ. The tower was given its current dome in 1804. The chancel with groin vault, apse and south window date from 1900.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Ronshausen

Personalities

• Karl Sebastian Cornelius (1819–1896), physicist, born in Ronshausen
• Kurt Müller-Osten (1905–1980), pastor in Ronshausen

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. ↑ 79th meeting of the specialist committee for health resorts, recreational areas and healing wells in Hesse on November 21, 2012 . In: State pointer for the state of Hesse . No. 9 , 2014, ISSN  0724-7885 , p. 187 .
3. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 406 .
4. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 . 
5. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
6. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
7. ^ Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Hersfeld Rotenburg II, pages 749 to 759

literature

• Ellen Kemp: Cultural monuments in Hessen. District of Hersfeld Rotenburg II . Ludwigsau to Wildeck. In: State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Vieweg + Teubner, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 978-3-528-06247-7 .

Web links

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

Wikivoyage: Ronshausen  - travel guide

• Official website
• Link catalog on the subject of Ronshausen at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )