Volkmarsen
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Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ' N , 9 ° 7' E |
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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 |
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Website : | ||
Mayor : | Hartmut Linnekugel ( independent ) | |
Location of the city of Volkmarsen in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district | ||
Volkmarsen is a small town in the northern Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg .
geography
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
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:
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Parties and constituencies |
% 2016 |
Seats 2016 |
% 2011 |
Seats 2011 |
% 2006 |
Seats 2006 |
% 2001 |
Seats 2001 |
|
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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
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
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
Web links
- Internet presence of the city of Volkmarsen
- Volkmarsen, Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Link catalog on the topic of Volkmarsen at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 ).
- ↑ a b Law on the reorganization of the districts of Hofgeismar, Kassel and Wolfhagen (GVBl. II 330-17) of July 11, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 17 , p. 225 , §§ 6 and 14 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
- ^ Municipal reform: mergers and integration of municipalities from January 20, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 6 , p. 248 , para. 3 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.2 MB ]).
- ^ 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. 409, 411 .
- ↑ Suspicion is confirmed: The act in Volkmarsen was a rampage , hna.de, February 26, 2020
- ↑ hessenschau de, Frankfurt Germany: The number of people injured after the car attack in Volkmarsen rises to 122. March 6, 2020, accessed on March 10, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Anna Fischhaber: What we know - what we don't know. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . February 25, 2020, accessed February 25, 2020 .
- ↑ Article in the Jüdische Allgemeine from July 4, 2014
- ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .
- ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
- ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
- ↑ Volkmarsen independent list
- ↑ Hessian State Statistical Office: Direct elections in Volkmarsen ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Waldeckische Landeszeitung from April 20, 2016: Fourth inauguration for Mayor Linnekugel, accessed on August 2, 2016
- ↑ Website of the working group Flashback - Against Forgetting eV
- ↑ Website of the "National GeoPark GrenzWelten! - geostations "
- ↑ Discovered a unique Jewish ritual bath in Volkmarsen. In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine . Retrieved December 13, 2013 .
- ↑ "Verein für Computergenealogie eV" on Medical Council Dr. med. Franz Josef SCHERF