Schlitz (Vogelsbergkreis)

Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	to water
County :	Vogelsbergkreis
Height :	245 m above sea level NHN
Area :	142.09 km 2
Residents:	9702 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	68 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	36110
Primaries :	06642, 06648 (Ützhausen), 06653 (Unter-Schwarz), 06625 (Unter-Wegfurth)
License plate :	VB
Community key :	06 5 35 015
LOCODE :	DE SIZ
City structure:	17 districts
; City administration address :	At the church 4 ; 36110 Schlitz
Website :	www.schlitz.de
Mayor :	Alexander Old Town ( CDU )
Location of the town of Schlitz in the Vogelsbergkreis

Slit from above

Schlitz is a small town in the east of the central Hessian Vogelsberg district . Due to the five castles in the city, Schlitz is known beyond Hesse and is therefore also known as the romantic castle town of Schlitz .

geography

Geographical location

The town of Schlitz is located on the Schlitz river just before it flows into the Fulda . In terms of area, with 142.09 km² it is the fourth largest city in Hesse after Frankfurt , Wiesbaden and Oberzent .

Neighboring communities

Schlitz borders the communities of Breitenbach and Niederaula (both districts of Hersfeld-Rotenburg ) in the north, the communities of Haunetal (district of Hersfeld-Rotenburg) and Burghaun and the city of Hünfeld (both districts of Fulda ) in the east, and the city of Fulda (district of Fulda), in the south to the communities of Großenlüder and Bad Salzschlirf (both districts of Fulda), in the northwest to the city of Grebenau , in the southwest to the community of Wartenberg and in the west to the district town of Lauterbach (all three Vogelsberg district ).

City structure

Schlitz is divided into the following districts: Bernshausen , Fraurombach , Hartershausen , Hemmen , Hutzdorf , Nieder-Stoll , Ober-Wegfurth , Pfordt , Queck , Rimbach , Sandlofs , urban area Schlitz, Üllershausen , Ützhausen , Unter-Schwarz , Unter-Wegfurth and Willofs .

On June 30, 2017, Schlitz itself had 4,513 residents.

climate

Average monthly temperatures for Schlitz

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C )	0.0	1.0	5.0	8.0	12.0	16.0	18.0	17.0	14.0	9.0	5.0	2.0	O	9
Min. Temperature (° C)	−2.0	−2.0	1.0	4.0	8.0	11.0	13.0	12.0	10.0	7.0	2.0	-2.0	O	5.2

Hours of sunshine ( h / d )	1.0	2.0	4.0	5.0	6.0	6.0	6.0	6.0	5.0	3.0	2.0	1.0	O	3.9

Rainy days ( d )	12.0	9.0	10.0	10.0	11.0	11.0	11.0	11.0	9.0	9.0	11.0	12.0	Σ	126

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history

Schlitz view of the old town

The oldest surviving mention of Schlitz comes from 812.

In the Middle Ages and early modern times, the lords of Schlitz built a lordship from fiefs that they had received from the Fulda bishopric . With the introduction of the Reformation in 1546 and as a result of the Thirty Years' War , they broke away more and more from Fulda. In 1806 the sovereignty of the Schlitz rule fell to the newly formed Grand Duchy of Hesse in the course of the formation of the Rhine Confederation and the mediatization of the Counts of Schlitz . As a result, the Schlitz rule was a Hessian class rule , which included 16 villages in addition to the town of Schlitz.

In Schlitz, the Schlitzer ordinances from the 18th century, together with parts of the Fulda law, were considered particular law . The Common Law applied only to the extent these special regulations did not contain provisions for a fact. This special right retained its validity during the affiliation to the Grand Duchy of Hesse in the 19th century. In judicial practice, however, the ordinances were only rarely applied. The particular law was replaced on January 1, 1900 by the civil code that was uniformly valid throughout the German Empire .

Linen weaving was an important handicraft branch up to the middle of the 19th century, in 1823 there were 176 linen weavers.

see also Castle Niederschlitz

Incorporations

Hutzdorf has been part of Schlitz since January 1st, 1969. In the run-up to the regional reform in Hesse , the previously independent municipalities of Bernshausen, Fraurombach, Hemmen, Nieder-Stoll, Ober-Wegfurth, Pforth, Queck, Rimbach, Sandlofs, Üllershausen, Ützhausen, Unterwegfurth and Willofs were incorporated on December 31, 1971. On August 1, 1972, Hartershausen and Unter-Schwarz were added by virtue of the state law.

Population development

Swell:

politics

City Council

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

Current distribution of seats in the city council A total of 31 seats CDU : 13 SPD : 10 BLS : 5 FDP : 3	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	42.5	13	44.2	14th	47.8	18th	47.8	18th
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	31.6	10	38.2	12	36.4	13	34.7	13
	BLS	Colorful list Schlitzerland	15.9	5	10.7	3	-	-	-	-
	FDP	Free Democratic Party	10.0	3	6.9	2	7.7	3	8.0	3
	UBL	Independent citizen list slot	-	-	-	-	8.2	3	9.5	3
	total		100.0	31	100.0	31	100.0	37	100.0	37
	Voter turnout in%		55.1		52.6		52.6		52.6

mayor

1880–: Otto Zinsser , NLP
1919–: Friedrich Niepoth , DVP
1933: Alfred Klostermann , NSDAP
1960–1970: Hanns-Heinz Bielefeld , FDP
1970–1994: Siegfried Klee , SPD
1995–2019: Hans-Jürgen Schäfer, CDU
since 2019: Alexander Altstadt, CDU - result of the last election (runoff): November 11, 2018 with 55% with a turnout of 59.7%

The head of the Schlitz district is Thomas Landgraf (as of October 2014) .

Town twinning

There are city partnerships with the following cities:

Hungary Bogyiszló , Hungary

Culture and sights

Sports

Local sports clubs include TSG Slitisa e. V. Schlitz, FSV Pfordt, SV Willofs and SV Queck.

Associations (culture)

Schlitzer fair-boys
1. Ützhäuser Bauwagen Club
Backhuss-Jonge Willofs
Egerländer Gmoi
Friends and supporters of the Hess. Academy for musical and cultural education e. V.
Friends of Heraklius wall paintings in the Evangelical Church Fraurombach e. V. (seat in the village museum 'Buisch ahl Huss', Fraurombach)
Poultry breeding association Schlitz und Schlitzerland e. V.
Heimat- und Trachtenfestverein Schlitzerland e. V.
Hutzeljonge Hutzdorf
Rimbach youth fire brigade
Ützhausen Carnival Association
Fair fraternities
Kulturbund Queck
Country women's club Schlitz
Rad-Wander-Ski-Club Ützhausen e. V.
Schenne Association Hutzdorf
Schlitzerländer Trachten- und Volkstanzkreis e. V.
VHC branch club slot
Two-stroke friends Schlitzerland
Reit- und Fahrverein Schlitz und Schlitzerland e. V.

Leisure and sports facilities

The city has an outdoor swimming pool, a campsite and a three-field sports hall. There are two quarry ponds in the Pfordt district.

The following cycle paths run through Schlitz :

The extended Vulkanradweg , which leads on the former route of the Oberwaldbahn from Altenstadt (Hess) in the Wetterau to Lauterbach (Hess) and was later extended to Schlitz (Hess).
The Vulkanradweg is now part of the BahnRadweg Hessen , which leads from Hanau on former railway lines for approx. 250 km through the Vogelsberg and the Rhön.
The Hessian long-distance cycle route R7 connects Werra and Taunus via the Vogelsberg.
Until the Fuldatal it is where the R7 on the two kilometer Hessian cycle path R1 (Fulda Cycle Route) and the D-Route 9 (Weser Romantic Road) run. The R1 leads over 250 km from the heights of the Rhön along the Fulda to Bad Karlshafen on the Weser. D-Route 9 leads from the North Sea via Bremen, Kassel, Fulda and the Taubertal to Füssen in Allgäu (1,197 km).

Regular events

The Schlitzerländer Trachtenfest always takes place in odd years on the second weekend in July.
The Schlitzer Altbierfest, which always takes place in the even years in July.
The Schlitzerländer Christmas market. For this purpose, the back tower is transformed into a "red candle" by decoration.
The Schlitzer beet festival, where the whole city is decorated with beetroot.

Museums

Castle Museum Schlitz
Village museum 'Buisch ahl Huss', Fraurombach

Slot in the movie

Set the table, stretch your donkey, stick a stick out of the sack ( UFA 1921, director: Wilhelm Prager )
The Cloud (2006, Director: Gregor Schnitzler )
The fairy tale of the land of milk and honey ( ARD / HR 2016, director: Carsten Fiebeler )

Buildings

A special feature is the so-called Burgenring - the inner city area of the town of Schlitz, which, lying on a hill, with its collection of castles, towers, mansions, the town church and many half-timbered houses, represents a well-preserved, closed historical ensemble. Because of the castle ring and the scenic location of the city, Schlitz was called the "Hessian Rothenburg" in earlier times.

Vorderburg
Hinterburg
Hinterturm (36 m) ascent to the dome by elevator, in the Advent season: biggest "candle" in the world. The back tower is wrapped in a red silk cloth and a candle tip made of several hundred lightbulbs is put on, which is visible from afar.
Schachtenburg
Ottoburg
Market fountain
town hall
Auerhahn brewery
Schlitzer grain distillery
Seeburg Castle (near Hartershausen district)
Catholic parish church of Christ the King
Sand church in the municipal cemetery, 1612
Hallenburg Castle
Berleburg Castle
Niederschlitz Castle
Ev. Fraurombach Church (Heraklius wall paintings)
Ev. City church (formerly St. Margarethen), consecrated in 812

City slot
Back tower
View from the back tower
Half-timbered buildings on the market
Stadtberg, stairway to the market square
Hallenburg Castle
Market square with Bornschorsch in winter

River station slot

From 1951 to 2006 the Schlitz river station was located in Schlitz , a working group of the Max Planck Institute for Limnology , which researches the ecology of the Breitenbach in the two nature reserves Breitenbachtal and Breitecke . A large number of studies and publications have made the Breitenbach one of the best researched and documented rivers in the world. In 2006 this research station was closed with the retirement of the scientific director of the Max Planck Society.

Schlitzerländer animal freedom (closed)

From 1972 to 1998, a private zoo was operated under the name Schlitzerländer Tier Freiheit , which was repeatedly criticized for not keeping its bears in a species-appropriate manner and for insufficient care.

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

Companies	Branch	in slot since	Employee	Remarks
Schlitzer Korn- & Edelobstbrennerei GmbH	spirits	1585	19th	one of the oldest distilleries in Germany
Lamp World GmbH	trade	2004	370	One of the largest online retailers for lights and bulbs in Europe
Langheinrich GmbH	Textile industry	1832	120	-
EICHHOFF capacitors GmbH	Electrical industry	1919	-	-
Schlitzer Leinen-Industrie Driessen GmbH & Co. KG	Textile industry	1933	30th	-
Pfeiffer Group	Timber industry	-	75	formerly Holzindustrie Schlitz GmbH & Co. KG
KEP AG	logistics	1993	-	-

traffic

Schlitz can be reached for long-distance traffic via the A 7 via the Hünfeld / Schlitz exit. The cities of Fulda and Lauterbach are nearby .

The station slot (Hess) was on the railway line Bad Salzschlirf Niederjossa . This railway line is closed.

Public facilities

There is a lending library, a music school, a community center and an outdoor pool.

education

In Schlitz is:

Hessian Academy for Music and Cultural Education gGmbH (State Music Academy) in Hallenburg Castle.
Schlitzerland comprehensive school
Dieffenbachschule (primary school)

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

In chronological order by year of birth

Friedrich Wilhelm von Schlitz (1647–1728), privy councilor and chamber president

Johann Eustach von Görtz (1737–1821), educator and diplomat

Heinrich Fresenius (politician) (1785–1846), member of the state parliament

Heinrich Schäfer (1794–1869), historian

Georg Christian Dieffenbach (1822–1901), pastor and poet

Friedrich Wilhelm Johannes Jäger (1833–1888), German painter

Ernst Süffert (1863–1933), administrative lawyer, President of the Chamber of Accounts and the Hessian Administrative Court

Carl Wilhelm Kern (1874–1945), composer, pianist and music theorist, active in the USA

Friedrich Niepoth (1888–1963), Mayor of Schlitz and Member of the State Parliament (DVP)

Jost Trier (1894–1970), Old Germanist

Bianca Döring (* 1957), writer, musician and painter

Volker Jung (theologian) (* 1960), Church President of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau

Florian Illies (* 1971), journalist, writer, who describes German country life in his book Local Talk using the example of his hometown.

Other personalities

In chronological order by year of birth

Cyriacus Spangenberg (1528–1604), Protestant theologian, hymn poet and historian. Was pastor in Schlitz from 1581 to 1595.
Johann Ferdinand Schlez (1759–1839), clergyman, educator and writer, local school inspector and consistorial councilor, reformed the school system
Gudrun Pausewang (1928–2020), author, lived in the city from 1972 to 2016. In 2003 she was made an honorary citizen of the city of Schlitz. She died on January 23, 2020 near Bamberg. Some of her two best-known books are set in Schlitz: The Cloud and The Last Children of Schewenborn (Schlitz is called Schewenborn here, but the description of the place and the surrounding area is clear. In an afterword, the author expressly points out that Schlitz is meant is).

literature

Karl Wagner, Gustav Georg Lange, Johann Wolfgang Appell: The Grand Duchy of Hesse , Darmstadt 1849, vol. 2, p. 99 ff.
Heinrich Sippel: A foray through the Schlitzer history , Schlitz 1987
Magistrate of the city of Schlitz (ed.), Puthz Volker, Braungart Jürgen, u. a .: 1200 years of Schlitz. Festschrift for the 1200th anniversary of the town of Schlitz and its town church , Schlitz 2011. ISBN 978-3-00-036833-2

Web links

Commons : Schlitz, Vogelsbergkreis - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Schlitz in Merian's Topographia Hassiae - Sources and full texts

Wikisource: Pieces of files in matters of the city of Schlitz against the Count zu Schlitz gen [annt] Görz and his advice Bingel - sources and full texts