Volkmarsen

Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	kassel
County :	Waldeck-Frankenberg
Height :	259 m above sea level NHN
Area :	67.47 km 2
Residents:	6746 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	100 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	34471
Area code :	05693
License plate :	KB, FKB, WA
Community key :	06 6 35 020
LOCODE :	DE VKN
City structure:	6 districts
; City administration address :	Steinweg 29 ; 34471 Volkmarsen
Website :	www.volkmarsen.de
Mayor :	Hartmut Linnekugel ( independent )
Location of the city of Volkmarsen in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district

Volkmarsen photographed from the Kugelsburg

Volkmarsen is a small town in the northern Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg .

geography

Volkmarsen and Kugelsburg

location

Volkmarsen is located in northern Hesse , around 28 km (as the crow flies ) west-northwest of Kassel on the northern edge of the Waldecker Tafelland and its flattening towards the Diemel valley. The Habichtswald Nature Park is located east of the city.

Volkmarsen is traversed or touched by the Diemel tributary Twiste in the west, into which the Watter flows southwest of the city center and the Wande and the eastern Erpe flow to the north . Nine brooks run through the district before their water is led over the Twiste into the Diemel. A canal derived from the Twiste as additional protection from the city walls can still be seen today in the western area of the old town as the "Mühlengraben".

Neighboring communities

Volkmarsen borders in the north on the city of Warburg ( district of Höxter in North Rhine-Westphalia ), in the east on the municipality of Breuna and the city of Wolfhagen (both in the district of Kassel ), in the south and west on the city of Bad Arolsen , and in the north-west on the city of Diemelstadt (both in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district).

City structure

In addition to the eponymous town of Volkmarsen, the districts Ehringen , Herbsen , Hörle , Külte and Lütersheim with the Hollenkammer natural monument belong to Volkmarsen .

history

The Protestant Church receives new bronze bells, 2010

City with castle ruins around 1800

town hall

Volkmarsen was first mentioned in a document in a Corveyer tithe list in 1155 . In a letter of protection from Pope Gregory IX. Volkmarsen was first referred to as a city in 1233. In 1304 the Corvey Abbey pledged half of the city and the Kugelsburg to the Archbishop of Cologne; the second half was acquired by his successor in 1440. Since 1507, the city and the castle belonged to the Duchy of Westphalia , after the Corvey Abbey waived its rights to repurchase. In 1802, Hessen-Darmstadt occupied the Duchy of Westphalia. It almost came to an armed conflict when troops from Hessen-Darmstadt and Hessen-Kassel fought over ownership of the city. At the same time, Hereditary Prince Wilhelm of Nassau-Orange raised claims to the city as the newly appointed Prince of Nassau-Orange-Fulda . Initially, Hessen-Darmstadt was able to assert itself until the said Hereditary Prince received the city in 1806, which, however, became part of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia a year later and became the seat of the so-called Canton Volckmarsen . After the Congress of Vienna in 1814, Prussia received the city, but ceded it to the Electorate of Hesse in 1817 . In 1866 the place became Prussian again when the Electorate of Hesse was annexed by Prussia. The city has belonged to the state of Hesse since 1945.

Territorial reform

As part of the municipal reform in Hesse Volkmarsen came on August 1, 1972 from the then district Wolfshagen for Waldeck , of the 1974 Waldeck-Frankenberg has been expanded. On February 1, 1971, the previously independent community of Ehringen, which also belonged to the Wolfhagen district, was incorporated. On August 1, 1972, Herbsen, Hörle, Külte and Lütersheim (all in the Waldeck district) were added by state law.

Rampage at the Rose Monday procession 2020

During the Carnival Monday procession , there was a rampage on February 24, 2020 , in which a car driver deliberately drove into a group of celebrating carnivalists. 122 people were injured, including at least 20 children. The driver and one other person who made film recordings were arrested. The Hessian Public Prosecutor's Office has taken over the investigation.

religion

Due to the fact that the city was part of the Duchy of Westphalia during and after the Reformation , the Catholic denomination remained predominant in the core city of Volkmarsen. The Catholic parish of Volkmarsen has been assigned to the diocese of Fulda since 1821 .

The Protestant parish was able to build its own church in the middle of the 19th century. In August 2010 it received new bronze bells, whose tone sequence b-des-es is coordinated with the ringing of the Catholic St. Mary's Church. The Protestant parish has belonged to the Twiste-Eisenberg parish since 2008.

A shaft mikvah discovered by hobby archaeologists in a half-timbered building in Steinweg documents a Jewish community in Volkmarsen as early as the late Middle Ages. The ritual bath could be dendrochronologically dated to the early 16th century. Architectural elements, however, assign the mikveh to a medieval building type. The Volkmarsener mikveh shows parallels to the Friedberger mikveh .

politics

City Council

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

Distribution of seats in the 2016 city council A total of 31 seats SPD : 8 FDP : 1 CDU : 12 FW : 5 Independent : 2 AfD : 3	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	38.0	12	41.9	13	40.1	13	39.0	12
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	26.7	8th	31.7	10	28.4	9	34.4	11
	FWG	Volkmarsen Free Voting Association	15.1	5	14.2	4th	17.2	5	15.0	5
	Independent	Independent list of Volkmarsen	6.4	2	7.3	2	-	-	-	-
	FDP	Free Democratic Party	4.1	1	4.9	2	7.1	2	6.2	2
	AfD	Alternative for Germany	9.8	3	-	-	-	-	-	-
	GREEN	Alliance 90 / The Greens	-	-	-	-	7.2	2	5.3	1
	total		100.0	31	100.0	31	100.0	31	100.0	31
	Voter turnout in%		54.7		54.7		57.6		64.3

mayor

According to the Hessian municipal constitution, the mayor is chairman of the magistrate , which in the city of Volkmarsen includes eight honorary councilors in addition to the mayor . Hartmut Linnekugel, a non-party member, has been mayor since August 22, 1998.

Town twinning

Volkmarsen maintains partnership relationships with

of the city of Buttelstedt (since 2019 part of the city of Am Ettersberg ) in Thuringia since 1990.

Culture and sights

Catholic parish church St. Marien, 2014

Scheidwarte south of Volkmarsen in the NSG Scheid

Local museum

In the house of Dr. Bock , Kasseler Str. 6, there is the Volkmarser Heimatmuseum and the exhibition, the history workshop and the documentation and information center of the association "Rückblende - Gegen das Vergessen eV" about Jewish life in Volkmarsen and the surrounding area.

Geopark

There are three stations of the Grenzwelten Geopark in the Volkmarser urban area: Kugelsburg, Sauerbrunnen and the mining tunnels of the Ralekesberg.

Buildings

Catholic Church, St. Marien (Marienkirche) in the city center (built around 1260)
Wittmarkapelle St. Marien and Martin (Wüstung Wittmar), renovated 2000–2003
Kugelsburg , built around 1200, destroyed in the Seven Years War
Burgstall Fürstenstein also known as Vorstenstene or locally Ödelbeck castle ruins , north of the Lütersheim district
Scheidwarte , watch tower in the Volkmarsen-Ehringen-Lütersheim triangle
Judenwarte , guard tower between the city center and the Herbsen district
Old building of the St. Elisabeth Hospital (built 1901–1902)

Cultural monuments

Old court square, west of the Ehringen district
Jewish ritual bath ( mikveh ) from the 16th to 18th centuries Century, 2013 in a private house in Steinweg

Natural monuments

Hollenkammer , a small sandstone rock cave near the Lütersheim district
Huckershöhlen , between Volkmarsen and Lütersheim
Volkmarser Sauerbrunnen, mineral water spring with state recognition as a healing spring

Local legends

A number of popular sagas and legends have been handed down from the area of Volkmarsen: see Volkmarser sagas .

traffic

Volkmarsen train station

Kurhessenbahn in Volkmarsen station

The Volkmarsen train station is on the route from Marburg , which continues from here in the direction of Kassel . A regional express runs hourly to the Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe train station and to Korbach Süd . The regional bus service offers connections to Korbach, Warburg and Breuna. In addition, a collective call taxi (AST) drives from all bus stops in Volkmars to almost all places in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Volkmarsen is part of the NVV network . There is a junction of the A 44 (section Dortmund - Kassel ) at the location .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Nikolaus Dentel (around 1630–16? 0), master builder
Bernhard Heinrich von Germeten (1680–1737), professor of law in Prague and high-ranking official in the Habsburg service.
Theodor Vernaleken (1812–1907), professor, Germanist, ethnologist, author
Adolf Henze (1814–1883), publisher, author, graphologist and numismatist
Theodor Rumpf (1851–1934), physician, professor in Marburg, Bonn and Hamburg
Adolf Gottlob (1857–1930), historian
Franz Josef Scherf (1865–1929), doctor, spa director of Bad Orb , 1926–1929 member of the provincial council in Kassel
Hugo Wilmes (* 1949), German badminton player
Wolfgang Büscher (* 1951), author, journalist
Heinrich-Hermann Engemann (* 1959), show jumper
Britta Bannenberg (* 1964), legal scholar and criminologist
Katja Eichinger (* 1971), journalist and author
Thomas Viesehon (* 1973), German politician (CDU), 2013–2017 member of the German Bundestag

Other personalities associated with the city

Johann Heinrich Unkraut (1758–1815) was a trade and mayor in Brilon
Walter Schliephacke (1877–1955), late Romantic painter
Hans Schäfer (soccer player) (1927-2017), soccer world champion 1954, played one season 1947/48 at VfR Volkmarsen

literature

Paul Lebrecht Kailuweit: Chronicle of the city of Volkmarsen . History and local history association Volkmarsen e. V., Volkmarsen, Volume 1, 1993; Vol. 2, 1996
Michael Gosmann: An unknown cityscape of Volkmarsen with the Kugelsburg from 1803 . In: SüdWestfalen Archive. Regional history in the former Electoral Cologne Duchy of Westphalia and the County of Arnsberg, Arnsberg 2001, pp. 167–171
Manfred Schöne: The Duchy of Westphalia under Hesse-Darmstadt rule 1802–1816. Olpe 1966
Wolf Vervoort: 750 years of the city of Volkmarsen - chronicle of a small town. Publisher: Festival committee for the 750th anniversary of the city of Volkmarsen, Hans Sauerland printing company, Volkmarsen 1983
Wolf Vervoort: Guide through the old town of Volkmarsen and its district . Local history and history association Volkmarsen, Volkmarsen 2004
Ernst Klein: Disappeared Neighbors - Repressed History. 2nd Edition. Flashback Against Forgetting eV, 2012/2013 (304 pages)
Ernst Klein: Seeing old things with young eyes - Volkmarsen - my city, past and present . Ernst Klein, 2013 (110 pages, 200 photos)
Ernst Klein: “but it's better than bread and butter in D.” - history is lived life. Ernst Klein, 2016 (250 pages).
Literature on Volkmarsen in the Hessian Bibliography