Waldeck (city)

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Coat of arms of the city of Waldeck
Waldeck (city)
Map of Germany, position of the city of Waldeck highlighted

Coordinates: 51 ° 12 '  N , 9 ° 4'  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : kassel
County : Waldeck-Frankenberg
Height : 404 m above sea level NHN
Area : 115.73 km 2
Residents: 6742 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 58 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes : 34513,
34516 (Fürstental)Template: Infobox municipality in Germany / maintenance / zip code contains text
Primaries : 05623 (Waldeck district) , 05634 (Alraft, Freienhagen, Netze, Nieder-Werbe, Ober-Werbe, Selbach, Sachsenhausen districts)

05695 (Dehringhausen)Template: Infobox municipality in Germany / maintenance / area code contains text

License plate : KB, FKB, WA
Community key : 06 6 35 021
City structure: 10 districts

City administration address : 		Am Rathaus 1
34513 Waldeck
Website : www.waldeck-stadt.de
Mayor : Jürgen Vollbracht ( CDU )
Location of the city of Waldeck in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district
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Waldeck from the northeast

Waldeck is a town in the northern Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg with 10 districts. The eponymous core city is a recognized climatic health resort.

Waldeck is known nationwide for its location on the Edersee in the middle of the Waldecker Bergland or in the outer catchment area of ​​the Kellerwald-Edersee Nature Park , which includes the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park , for the Waldeck Castle , the landmark of the town of Waldeck and the Waldeck-Frankenberg district, and through the “Scheid” peninsula near Nieder-Werbe .

geography

Geographical location

The urban area of ​​Waldeck extends in northern Hesse about 30 km west-southwest of Kassel north of the Edersee through which the Eder flows , the second largest reservoir in Germany in terms of area and third largest in volume . It extends in low mountain ranges mainly used for agriculture and forestry.

The urban area is located in the northern part of the Kellerwald-Edersee nature park in the middle of the Waldecker Bergland and stretches from the banks of the Edersee in a northerly direction into the Long Forest . To the south of the reservoir lies the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park, located within the Kellerwald-Edersee Nature Park , which is part of the Kellerwald .

Sections of several rivers run through the Waldecker urban area or along its borders, including the Eder in the Fulda catchment area, its tributaries Netze and Werbe and in the Diemel catchment area the Twiste tributaries Watter and Wilde .

Neighboring communities

Waldeck borders in the north on the municipality of Twistor Valley , in the northeast on the city of Bad Arolsen (both in the district of Waldeck-Frankenberg), in the east on the cities of Wolfhagen and Naumburg (both in the district of Kassel ), in the south on the municipality of Edertal and in the west the municipality of Vöhl and the city of Korbach (all three in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district).

City structure

The town of Waldeck consists of ten districts : Alraft , Dehringhausen , Freienhagen , Höringhausen , Netze , Nieder-Werbe , Ober-Werbe , Selbach , Sachsenhausen and the core town of Waldeck .

history

View from the town of the Edersee
Waldeck Street with half-timbered houses

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the formerly independent communities of Alraft, Höringhausen, Netze and Nieder-Werbe and the two cities of Sachsenhausen and Waldeck merged to form the new city of Waldeck on October 1, 1971 .

The historically significant name "Waldeck" was chosen as the name for the newly created town, which initially referred to the castle in what is now the core of the city and after which the counts there named themselves from 1180 onwards. The county of Waldeck, the later Principality of Waldeck-Pyrmont, the former Free State of Waldeck (from 1918) and the later district of Waldeck (from 1942), today the district of Waldeck-Frankenberg, also had this name.

On January 1, 1974, the municipalities of Dehringhausen and Ober-Werbe (with the former municipality of Oberwerba incorporated on December 31, 1970) and the former city of Freienhagen were incorporated into Waldeck by state law . With this the city of Waldeck reached its present size. Local districts were established for all 10 of today's city districts .

politics

Administrative headquarters

Waldeck town hall in Sachsenhausen

The district of Sachsenhausen , which was founded by Count Adolf I von Waldeck and Schwalenberg and which is larger in terms of population, was chosen as the administrative seat of the town of Waldeck, which was established in 1972.

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
Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006 		%
2001 		Seats
2001
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 25.3 8th 33.0 10 37.5 12 40.7 13
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 31.9 10 31.4 10 31.8 10 31.1 10
FWG Free community of voters 20.8 6th 17.5 5 18.0 6th 14.8 5
GREEN Alliance 90 / The Greens 11.5 4th 11.6 4th 4.8 1 3.9 1
FDP Free Democratic Party 10.4 3 6.5 2 7.9 2 4.9 1
REP The Republicans - - - - - - 4.6 1
total 100.0 31 100.0 31 100.0 31 100.0 31
Voter turnout in% 54.9 54.5 57.6 61.6

magistrate

The magistrate consists of the mayor and 6 city ​​councilors . Two seats are allocated to the SPD , two to the CDU and one seat each to the FWG and the FDP .

mayor

year Candidates Political party %
Result
2012 Jörg Feldmann 64.1
Marko Haselböck SPD 35.9
Voter turnout in% 62.4
2006 Jörg Feldmann 72.7
Walter Voigt 27.3
Voter turnout in% 65.3
2000 Peter Brandenburg SPD 80.9
Voter turnout in% 41.3
1994 Peter Brandenburg SPD 75.8
Dieter Wirtz CDU 24.2
Voter turnout in% 66.2

Town twinning

Coat of arms, flag and official seal

The city of Waldeck has a coat of arms, a flag and an official seal.

Description of coat of arms
"In gold, a six-pointed black star with a white lily on top."

Taking into account the special historical circumstances of the newly founded city, the Waldeck coat of arms was chosen as the basis. The Sachsenhausen coat of arms also contained this star, from which the lily comes. The six-pointed star and the lily represent the formerly independent municipalities and cities that merged to form the city of Waldeck in 1971.

Flag description
"The flag of the city of Waldeck shows the city's coat of arms on two equally wide strips of black and gold in the upper half."

The flag was approved on May 13, 1976 by the Hessian Minister of the Interior.

  • Waldeck district

  • Sachsenhausen until 1971

  • City of Waldeck from 1972

Culture and sights

Waldeck Castle, the landmark of the city of Waldeck
The Edertalsperre (August 2011)

Buildings

Museums

  • Castle museum in Waldeck Castle
  • Local history museum in Höringhausen
  • Dorfstube in Nieder-Werbe

Parks

  • Waldeck-West bank promenade (directly on the Edersee)
  • Wall garden below Waldeck Castle, core town of Waldeck

Sports

Sports facilities and events in Waldeck are:

  • Outdoor swimming pool in the district of Freienhagen
  • Lido Waldeck (Waldeck-West) on the Edersee
  • Golf course in the core town of Waldeck
  • Edersee Triathlon: Every year in July - the largest sporting event in the large community, with start and finish in the core town of Waldeck
  • Whitsun contest tournament: in even years in the core town of Waldeck, in odd years in Sachsenhausen; with jumping and dressage competitions up to class S

Economy and Infrastructure

The core city is a state-recognized health resort, the Niederwerbe district is a recognized resort.

traffic

The districts of the city of Waldeck can be reached via federal highways 485 and 251 .

The railway operated on the Ederseebahn in the section from Bad Wildungen to Korbach , on which the districts of Waldeck, Netze, Selbach, Sachsenhausen and Höringhausen are located, was discontinued on May 27, 1995. The Korbach – Waldeck – Buhlen cycle path is now on the old route .

The Waldecker Bergbahn connects the Ederseeufer with the Schlossberg as a small cabin lift. The 650 meter long gondola lift overcomes an altitude difference of 120 meters.

In Waldeck-West is the main pier of the Edersee passenger shipping company , which offers round trips with two modern passenger ships between the pier Waldeck-West, Edertal-Sperrmauer, Scheid peninsula, Bringhausen, Asel and Herzhausen.

Public facilities

  • City administration and library in the Sachsenhausen district
  • Citizens' and tourism office of the city of Waldeck in the core city of Waldeck
  • Kindergartens (Freienhagen, Höringhausen, Sachsenhausen, Waldeck)

education

  • Four primary schools (Freienhagen, Höringhausen, Sachsenhausen, Waldeck)
  • Sachsenhausen center school with support level and secondary school branch

Personalities

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. ↑ Hessian Ministry for Economic Affairs, Energy, Transport and Regional Development: 81st meeting of the specialist committee for health resorts, recreation areas and healing wells in Hesse on October 13, 2015 . State Gazette for the State of Hesse 7/2016 page 218
  3. ↑ 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. 408, 409 .
  4. ↑ 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 , § 4 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2,3 MB ]).
  5. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .
  6. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
  7. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
  8. ↑ Mayoral election in Waldeck, St. 2012 . Hessian State Statistical Office. Archived from the original on January 24, 2016. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
  9. ↑ Mayoral election in Waldeck, St. 2006 . Hessian State Statistical Office. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
  10. ↑ Mayoral election in Waldeck, St. 2000 . Hessian State Statistical Office. Archived from the original on December 29, 2015. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
  11. ↑ Mayoral election in Waldeck, St. 1994 . Hessian State Statistical Office. Archived from the original on December 25, 2015. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
  12. ↑ a b § 1 of the main statute of the city of Waldeck in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district
  13. ↑ Waldeck Castle at www.burgen-und-schloesser.net
  14. ↑ Outdoor swimming pools of the city of Waldeck , accessed in May 2019.
  15. ↑ Kindergartens of the City of Waldeck , accessed in May 2019.

Web links

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