Wasenberg (Willingshausen)

Wasenberg Municipality Willingshausen Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 21 ″ N , 9 ° 11 ′ 17 ″ E
Height :	272 m above sea level NHN
Area :	14.96 km² [LAGIS]
Residents :	1464 (Jan. 1, 2015)
Population density :	98 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1974
Postal code :	34628
Primaries :	06691, 06697

Wasenberg is the largest district and the seat of the municipality of Willingshausen in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse .

geography

The cluster village is located in the south of the Schwalm am Leimbach . In the hit state roads 3263 and the 3145th

history

The village was first mentioned in writing in 1290 in a document from the Immichenhain monastery .

On 1 January 1974 Wasenberg was in the course of administrative reform in Hesse powerful state law with other municipalities and the community formed at 31 December 1971 Antrefftal to a new Village with the name Willingshausen together . Local districts were set up for all former communities and the Wasenberg district was designated as the administrative seat.

Infrastructure

In the village there is a Protestant church, whose 47 m high tower characterizes the townscape, a village community center (house of generations), a kindergarten, as well as many active clubs (among others: choir, rabbit breeding club, sports club, reservist camaraderie, old-timer IG, volunteer fire brigade , Fraternity, rural women’s association, trombone choir, DRK local association Wasenberg).

Panorama from Wasenberg

Individual evidence

↑ Economy and Transport. In: website. Willingshausen community, archived from the original on April 27, 2017 ; accessed in September 2018 .
↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts Fritzlar-Homberg, Melsungen and Ziegenhain (GVBl. II 330-22) of September 28, 1973 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1973 No. 25 , p. 356 , § 2 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2,3 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 412 .

literature

Literature about Wasenberg in the Hessian Bibliography
Search for Wasenberg (Willingshausen) in the archive portal-D of the German Digital Library

Web links

Wasenberg district. In: Internet presence. Willingshausen community; accessed in September 2018
Wasenberg, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 15, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

[1] Economy and Transport. In: website. Willingshausen community, archived from the original on April 27, 2017 ; accessed in September 2018 .

[2] Law on the reorganization of the districts Fritzlar-Homberg, Melsungen and Ziegenhain (GVBl. II 330-22) of September 28, 1973 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1973 No. 25 , p. 356 , § 2 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2,3 MB ]).

[3] 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 412 .