Wartenberg (Hesse)

Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	to water
County :	Vogelsbergkreis
Height :	261 m above sea level NHN
Area :	39.54 km 2
Residents:	3871 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	98 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	36367
Primaries :	06641, 06648
License plate :	VB
Community key :	06 5 35 019
Community structure:	2 districts
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Landenhäuser Strasse 11 ; 36367 Wartenberg
Website :	www.gemeinde-wartenberg.de
Mayor :	Olaf Dahlmann ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Wartenberg in the Vogelsberg district

Wartenberg is a municipality in the east of the Vogelsbergkreis in central Hesse .

geography

The waitingberg area

The community is located on the eastern foothills of the Vogelsberg , about 17 kilometers west of Fulda and 3 kilometers southeast of the city of Lauterbach (Hesse) in a wooded low mountain range. The area is located at an altitude between 248 and 494 meters above sea level . The forest portion of the district area is 22.05 km² (= 56 percent). The Lauter flows through the community and connects with the Altefeld to Schlitz in Bad Salzschlirf . The main wind directions in Wartenberg are north-east and south-west. In periods of high pressure and weak winds, primarily in autumn and winter, the valleys tend to form fog. Especially through the densely wooded mountain slopes there is an evening influx of clean and fresh forest air, which ensures pleasant cooling, especially after hot and humid days. The " Hoher Vogelsberg Nature Park " begins in the immediate vicinity .

Wartenberg borders the city of Schlitz in the north, the municipalities of Bad Salzschlirf and Großenlüder (both districts of Fulda ) in the east, the city of Herbstein in the south and the city of Lauterbach in the west .

The community consists of the two districts Angersbach and Landenhausen .

With 4,075 residents with main residence , Wartenberg is the third largest municipality in the Vogelsberg district today . The population consists of 2,019 females and 2,056 males. The population is distributed among the districts as follows:

District	Residents
Angersbach	2,692
Landenhausen	1,383
total	4,075

history

Wartenberg castle ruins : Gave Angersbach and Landenhausen their names after their merger in 1972 and the coat of arms in 1978

September 20, 812, the date of the first documentary mention in Codex Eberhardi von Angersbach and Landenhausen , is considered to be the official beginning of local history, although the beginning of settlement in this area goes back much further into pre-Christian times. Wartenberg is therefore, if one assumes the year 812, almost 1,200 years old. The names of Heinrich von Landenhausen and his son Herold von Landenhausen emerge from a Fulda certificate from 1114 .

In the 12th century the von Landenhausen family still existed. The fact that the gender of Angersbach is mentioned in the same document also suggests that the gentlemen von Landenhausen and von Angersbach were close. In the 12th and 13th centuries, the two districts were subject to the dominion of the noble family von Wartenberg , whose castle was built in the years around 1220 by Friedrich von Angersbach (called Friedrich von Wartenberg from 1232) on the "Wartenbachhügel" in Angersbach. However, the fortification was destroyed in 1265 by troops from Bertho II von Leibolz , Abbot of Fulda, who fought a collegiate feud with the bailiff Count von Ziegenhain , whose subordinates included the Wartenbergers. The von Wartenberg family died out towards the end of the 13th century. Through marital connections, the property of the Wartenbergers came with all rights to the Lords of Eisenbach. From this point on, the Riedesel knight dynasty determined and worked in the region for centuries.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, many people emigrated from the region.

After the Second World War , which also claimed many victims in the two villages, the main task was to restructure village life. Above all, hundreds of displaced persons from the former German eastern regions were integrated into village life.

The municipality of Wartenberg was created as part of the regional reform in Hesse on August 1, 1972 by state law from the previously independent municipalities of Angersbach and Landenhausen. The first official mayor of the new municipality was Karl Hans Roth from Angersbach. The Wartenberg castle ruins gave Angersbach and Landenhausen their names after their merger and, in 1978, the coat of arms. In June 2007 the parish celebrated its 35th anniversary.

politics

Community representation

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

	Voter turnout in%		57.9		49.0		45.4		54.4
Distribution of seats in the municipal council 2016 A total of 19 seats SPD : 7 CDU : 3rd FW : 9	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	FWGW	Free voter community Wartenberg	46.5	9	43.1	8th	42.3	10	37.6	9
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	39.2	7th	38.4	7th	36.8	8th	43.6	10
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	14.3	3	18.5	4th	20.9	5	18.6	4th
	WGL	Landenhausen voter community	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.2	0
	total		100.0	19th	100.0	19th	100.0	23	100.0	23

mayor

The first directly elected mayor was Manfred Dickel , who has been in office since the beginning of 1991 . His term of office ends after four terms on January 17, 2015, as he was no longer available for re-election.

The 37-year-old Dr. Olaf Dahlmann (SPD) elected with 57.2% of the vote. The turnout was 72.8%. He took office on January 18, 2015.

badges and flags

On June 16, 1978, the municipality of Wartenberg was awarded a coat of arms and a flag.

Blazon : "In a green shield a silver inclined right brook, above it in the left corner a six-pointed golden star."

The coat of arms of the municipality of Wartenberg is derived from the symbols of the von Wartenberg family who once lived in Wartenberg Castle .

Flag: On a wide white central panel, flanked by two narrower green side panels, the municipal coat of arms.

Town hall (Wartenberg)

Angersbach , first mentioned on September 20, 812

Landenhausen , first mentioned on September 20, 812

religion

Protestant church

Evangelical Church in Angersbach

Evangelical Church in Landenhausen

The majority of the population - around 3000 people (= 72 percent of the population) - in Wartenberg belongs to the Evangelical Church . Accordingly, there are two Protestant church buildings in Wartenberg, each with active parishes, which belong to the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau . The Protestant church in Angersbach is a Gothic church that was last rebuilt in 1763. The building of the Evangelical Church in Landenhausen was completed on October 14, 1748.

The regional church community Chrischona is located in the district Landenhausen.

Catholic Church

Angersbach Catholic Church

Catholic Church in Landenhausen

In addition, over 600 people (= 16 percent of the population) profess the Roman Catholic Church . The branch churches Angersbach and Landenhausen belong to the parish of St. Peter and Paul Lauterbach-Schlitz (until 2008: St. Michael and St. Bonifatius ), which is assigned to the diocese of Mainz . The Catholic branch in Angersbach was given its own church building on December 16, 1962. Furthermore, a Catholic branch church in the form of a modern chapel was built in Landenhausen in 1973 .

Around 500 people belong to other denominations or currents or are non-denominational .

Culture and sights

Buildings

Half-timbered buildings , tower of the evangelical church in Angersbach, built in the Gothic style

Wartenberg castle ruins

A castle from the Staufer era. In the years around 1220, Friedrich von Angersbach (called Friedrich von Wartenberg from 1232) had this castle built on the "Wartenbach Hill".

Wartenberg OVAL

The Wartenberg Oval is an event space and a multifunctional building complex. The 800 square meter hall with side rooms was built in modern architecture in a year of construction and is to be used for exhibitions and meetings of local companies as well as cultural and information events. Construction began in April 2003 and the opening event took place in September 2004.

Evangelical Church Angersbach

A Gothic church that was last rebuilt in 1763. The tower in its oldest parts is over 500 years old. A significant work of art is the 12th century fresco on the inside of the tower . It shows the image of Saint George .

Landenhausen Evangelical Church

The building of the church was completed on October 14, 1748. The coat of arms of the Barons Riedesel zu Eisenbach is attached as a beautiful stone carving above the west portal. The churchyard is walled and has a round-arched Renaissance portal from 1588. The font in front of the altar is from 1661.

Landenhausen Catholic Church

The clerical councilor Friedrich Faßhauer, who held the Catholic pastoral office in Lauterbach from 1967 to 1973 , campaigned for the construction of a Catholic church in Landenhausen . As a modern chapel with a community center, it was built at Steinweg 8 and consecrated on February 11, 1973 by the Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz, Wolfgang Rolly, in the name of “Maria, Hilfe der Christisten”.

Angersbach Catholic Church

On December 16, 1962, Domkapitular Finck from Mainz consecrated his own church with the name "Zum Heiligen Geist". The church in Angersbach became a gem after the interior renovation was completed in 2006. The artistic design was carried out according to a design by the painter and graphic artist Alois Plum from Mainz.

Impressions from Wartenberg
Renaissance portal with the year 1588 and half-timbered house from 1697 in Landenhausen
Forest house "Im Erlich" Landenhausen
Evangelical Church in Landenhausen

Reconstruction of Wartenberg Castle
View of the old town center of Angersbach with its Gothic church
Evangelical Church in Angersbach

and display information about the image

Angersbach panorama picture

and display information about the image

Panoramic picture of Landenhausen

Orchestra and choirs

Musikverein Landenhausen e. V .; founded in 1909
Men's Choir 1891 Landenhausen; founded in 1891
Men's choir "Eintracht" Angersbach
Vocal ensemble Contraste, founded in 1997

District youth home and tent camp

District youth home and camp in Landenhausen

The district youth home and tent camp in the Wartenberg district of Landenhausen , built in 1958, is located between Lauterbach and Fulda in a quiet location on the edge of the forest above the village. From this location, the heights of the Rhön ( Wasserkuppe , Pferdskopf and Milseburg ) and a broad view of the Fuldaer Land are given on the horizon . The youth home offers space for 61 people. The youth home is equipped with a dining room, three seminar rooms, a photo laboratory, a work room and media and seminar equipment. The camp with a total of 24 tents and 220 beds is located around the district youth home. There is also a floodlit soccer field on the premises. A campfire and barbecue area is also available.

District youth home - part of the building wing
A wide view from the Landenhausen camp into the Fuldaer Land up to the heights of the Rhön
View from the district youth home and camp Landenhausen towards the health resort Bad Salzschlirf (district of Fulda)

Outdoor swimming pool

Years later, the construction of the district youth home and tent camp was taken as an opportunity to build an outdoor swimming pool in Landenhausen for the young people and the population. This developed into an important part of the community, which is adjacent to the sports center with two football fields, a gym and a riding facility. The swimming pool is frequented by the camp, by the community population and by many people from the area and beyond. The swimming pool includes a swimmer's pool with diving blocks, a non-swimmer's pool and a children's pool.

Bike trails

The following cycle paths run through the Angersbach district :

The extended volcano cycle path , which follows the former route of the Vogelsbergbahn from Altenstadt in der Wetterau to Lauterbach and was later extended to Schlitz .
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 path R2 (The Four Rivers Tour) starts in Biedenkopf and leads over 202 km through the river valleys from Lahn , Lauter , Lüder and Fulda to Sinntal in the Spessart .
The Hessian long-distance cycle route R7 connects Werra and Taunus via the Vogelsberg.
The regional themed route summit tour connects the Wasserkuppe in the Rhön with the Hoherodskopf in Vogelsberg.
The Wartenberger Panorama-Weg leads around the municipality of Wartenberg and is intended for hikers, riders, mountain bikers and Nordic walkers.

Regular events

Landenhausen riding arena: here Federal Music Festival 2005 of the Fulda-Land-West music association

Wartenberg with its districts Angersbach and Landenhausen is a place for festivities of all kinds. The following events take place regularly:

February: The " Hutzelfire " is lit on the Sunday after Ash Wednesday in accordance with an old custom since 1990 in Landenhausen.
May: The "Castle Festival" takes place every year on May 1st on the castle grounds of the "Wartenbach" in the Angersbach district.
May : A large horse show is held in Landenhausen over Pentecost.
August: The "Knight's Festival with Market and Tournament" takes place every two years in August at Wartenberg Castle.
September / October: The “ Kirmes ”, the annual commemoration of the consecration day, takes place in Angersbach as well as in Landenhausen.
November: Since 2005, the Landenhausen Cultural Association has organized its “Landenhausen Art Walk” every year. The event takes place on the weekend around Eternal Sunday
November: Every two years a “pre-Christmas concert” is held by the local musical associations in the Protestant church in the Landenhausen district.
November / December: At the end of November, the “Wartenberg Christmas Market” takes place around the Protestant church in Angersbach.

Economy and Infrastructure

Business location

The Wartenberg OVAL is an event space and a multifunctional building complex

With the development of a Wartenberg industrial park in the Angersbach district, the community has largely developed from an original agricultural structure to a commercial location for companies. The commercial structure is made up of companies from a wide variety of industries. As a result, industrial manufacturing companies from the wood processing sector, as well as companies from the electronics, mechanical engineering and IT sectors, settled here. In addition, wholesalers and retailers as well as craft businesses from a wide variety of sectors and service companies are represented. Over 200 companies are currently registered in Wartenberg. Essentially, these are geared towards the private services , craft and retail sectors .

A bypass is intended to relieve both districts of the heavy through traffic of the B 254 in the long term. The east and south-east industrial areas and commercial building sites in Angersbach will then be accessed directly via an exit from the new bypass. In a regional comparison, Wartenberg scores extremely favorably in terms of the price level of commercial building space. This is brought about primarily by a less costly and therefore advantageous planning and implementation of the area development, which in turn was favored by the flat geographical area and the soil conditions in the industrial area .

BALZER Angelgeräte GmbH should be mentioned as a nationally known company with its headquarters in Wartenberg-Angersbach , whose areas of activity are the development, manufacture and sale of fishing tackle and sporting goods.

traffic

Level crossing of the Vogelsbergbahn in Angersbach

The community is on the federal highway 254 , which leads via Alsfeld to Fulda. Wartenberg can be reached via the B 254 from the federal highways 5 and 7 . The Frankfurt airport is 129 km from Wartenberg removed.

Via the Angersbach train station, which is on the Gießen - Fulda railway line (see Vogelsbergbahn ),

there is access to the ICE network of Deutsche Bahn AG at Fulda station .

Wartenberg (Angersbach and Landenhausen) is served by the lines VB-26 and VB-28 of the Verkehrsgesellschaft Oberhessen mbH and the regional bus route 393 of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund GmbH (RMV).

education

Angersbach Center School

Primary school and secondary school with special needs

Center School Angersbach (MPS-Angersbach)

Community College

Branch of the community college of the Vogelsbergkreis

Kindergartens

A total of 150 places

Angersbach kindergarten
Landenhausen kindergarten

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

in chronological order:

Friedrich von Wartenberg (* around 1180 in Angersbach; † around 1249 in Angersbach), co-builder and master of Wartenberg Castle, knight and ministerial in the service of the Fulda monastery
Johann Alexander Ebel (born October 18, 1723 in Landenhausen; † February 11, 1803), was rector of the Lauterbach city school, city pastor, since 1781 inspector and chief pastor of Lauterbach, then the capital of the Riedesel area
Johann Georg Vollmöller (1742–1804) was a theologian, prince tutor and court master, court preacher in Offenbach and writer
Christian Dieffenbach (born July 16, 1791 in Angersbach; † August 5, 1853 in Künzell), dean and pastor of Schlitz , member of the First Chamber of the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt in the years around the German Revolution of 1848/49 , his son Georg Christian Dieffenbach was a poet and pastor
Karl Soldan (born November 9, 1801 in Angersbach; † August 17, 1846), Dr. theol., theologian, Grand Ducal Hessian school inspector and second teacher at the Protestant school teacher seminar in Friedberg
Georg Eurich (born November 21, 1920 in Landenhausen; † January 18, 2008 in Lauterbach-Blitzenrod), pedagogue, local photographer and author

Personalities related to Wartenberg

Horst-Wolfgang Heise (1917–2008), general pharmacist
Karl Maurer († 1975), was a teacher, local researcher, head of the Lauterbach Hohhaus Museum and SPD member of the state parliament
Rudolf Marx (* 1943), 2000 to 2012 District Administrator of the Vogelsbergkreis (CDU), grew up in Angersbach

literature

Association for the rescue of the Wartenberg castle ruins (ed.): The Wartenbergers and their castle. Wartenberg 2001.
Pastor Wilfried Hilbrig: Stroll through the history of our villages Angersbach and Landenhausen . Municipal council of the municipality of Wartenberg, Wartenberg / Hessen 1987.
Pastor Wilfried Hilbrig: Told from Angersbach's story ... to look at and debate. Wartenberg municipality, Wartenberg 1999.
Friedrich Schwarz: Angersbach Events Volume II. Fotoclub Lauterbach e. V., Lauterbach 1988.
Heinrich Reining: Landenhausen in old recordings. Fotoclub Lauterbach e. V., Lauterbach 1984, ISBN 3-89313-006-3 .
Pastor Wilfried Hilbrig: Landenhausen in twelve centuries. Hohhausmuseum and Hohhaus library, Lauterbach 1981, ISSN 0455-4000 .