Twist valley

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′  N , 8 ° 57 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	kassel
County :	Waldeck-Frankenberg
Height :	266 m above sea level NHN
Area :	74 km 2
Residents:	4222 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	57 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	34477
Primaries :	05695, 05631 (Berndorf)
License plate :	KB, FKB, WA
Community key :	06 6 35 018
Address of the municipal administration:	Hip 7 34477 Twist valley
Website :	www.twzteal.de
Mayor :	Stefan Dittmann ( independent )
Location of the municipality of Twzte Valley in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district

Twisternal is a municipality in the northern Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg .

Twiste is the center of the municipality of Twist Valley and the seat of the municipal administration .

geography

Geographical location

The municipality of Twistenal is around 5.8 km (as the crow flies ) southwest of Bad Arolsen . It is from a portion of Twiste flows through that a few kilometers downstream and northeast by the Twistesee flows.

Districts

The municipality of Twistingal consists of seven districts :

Berndorf Elleringhausen Gembeck Mulhouse

Nieder-Waroldern Ober-Waroldern Twist

Neighboring communities

The neighboring municipalities and towns of Twist Valley are named clockwise: The town of Bad Arolsen borders the municipality in the north and east, the town of Waldeck in the south-east, the town of Korbach in the south-west and the town of Diemelsee in the west .

history

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality of Twist valley was created on December 31, 1971 through the merger of the previously independent municipalities of Berndorf, Elleringhausen, Mühlhausen, Niederwaroldern, Ober-Waroldern and Twiste between the two cities of Korbach and Arolsen . On January 1, 1974, by virtue of state law, the previously independent municipality of Gembeck was incorporated into Twist valley .

The administrative headquarters are in Twiste . Today, the municipality of Twistingal is housed in a former manor house.

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 23 seats SPD : 7 Greens : 2 FDP : 3 CDU : 8 WGT : 3	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	34.4	8th	42.2	10	40.3	9	38.2	9
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	28.9	7th	37.6	8th	37.0	9	39.7	9
	GREEN	Alliance 90 / The Greens	8.8	2	12.0	3	5.5	1	3.2	1
	FDP	Free Democratic Party	14.4	3	8.2	2	8.0	2	8.8	2
	WGT	Voting community in Twisting Valley	13.4	3	-	-	9.2	2	10.1	2
	total		100.0	23	100.0	23	100.0	23	100.0	23
	Voter turnout in%		57.9		57.3		57.7		63.0

Municipal administration - former manor house

mayor

Stefan Dittmann ( independent ) was elected to succeed Mayor Günther Hartmann ( SPD ) in November 2012 .

traffic

A section of the federal road 252 from Korbach to Bad Arolsen runs through the municipality of Twistingal . The Twiste district is also a stop on an RE connection from Kassel to Korbach.

Excursion possibilities

Well-known excursion destinations not far from the municipality of Twist valley are the Twistesee , Edersee , Diemelsee and Bad Arolsen as well as the Kellerwald National Park and the Twiste open-air theater .

Sons and daughters

• Ernst Wilke (* 1930), politicians (FDP), 1987-1991 Regierungspräsident of the administrative district of Kassel

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. ↑ ^{a b} Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register 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. 409 .
3. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Frankenberg and Waldeck (GVBl. II 330-23) of October 4, 1973 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1973 No. 25 , p. 359 , § 2 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2,3 MB ]).
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. ↑ http://www.statistik-hessen.de/themenwahl/wahlen/daten/direktwahlen/twzteal/index.html

Web links

Commons : Twist valley  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Internet presence of the municipality of Twist valley
• "Twist valley, Waldeck-Frankenberg district". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Literature about Twist valley in the Hessian Bibliography
• Link catalog on the subject of Twist Valley at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )