Zierenberg

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Zierenberg
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Coordinates: 51 ° 22 '  N , 9 ° 18'  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : kassel
County : kassel
Height : 279 m above sea level NHN
Area : 86.53 km 2
Residents: 6572 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 76 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 34289
Area code : 05606
License plate : KS, HOG, WOH
Community key : 06 6 33 029
LOCODE : DE ZXB
City structure: 7 districts

City administration address : 		Poststrasse 20
34289 Zierenberg
Website : www.stadt-zierenberg.de
Mayor : Stefan Denn ( SPD )
Location of the city of Zierenberg in the Kassel district
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View of Zierenberg from the Bärenberg tower on the Großer Bärenberg , with Hohem Dörnberg (right) and Schreckenberg tower on the Großer Schreckenberg (left)

Zierenberg is a small town in the northern Hessian district of Kassel . The city is a state-approved resort .

geography

location

Zierenberg is located in the Habichtswälder Bergland in the Habichtswald Nature Park . In this mountainous region, the core city is located at around 242 (at the Untermühle ) to 345  m above sea level. NHN (on the slope of the Großer Schreckenberg ) in the Zierenberger Grund , the valley section through which the warmth flows between Hohem Dörnberg ( 578.7  m ) in the southeast and Großer Bärenberg ( 600.7  m ) in the southwest. To the northwest, also as part of the mountainous region, is the Malsburg Forest .

Neighboring communities

Zierenberg borders in the north on the municipality of Breuna , in the east on the municipalities of Calden , Ahnatal and Habichtswald and in the southwest and west on the city of Wolfhagen (all in the district of Kassel). A few kilometers south-south-west of the city center is an urban exclave with the two districts of Burghasungen and Oelshausen, which is separated from the main part of the Zierenberg area by a spur of the Habichtswald community that is only a few hundred meters wide and borders the town of Wolfhagen . This area is surrounded in the northeast and east by the municipality of Habichtswald, in the south by the municipality of Schauenburg and in the west and northwest by the city of Wolfhagen (all in the district of Kassel).

City structure

In addition to the core town of Zierenberg, the city also includes the districts of Burghasungen , Escheberg , Hohenborn , Laar , Oberelsungen and Oelshausen . The hamlet of Friedrichsaue and the neighboring hamlets of Heilerbach and Friedrichstein also belong to Zierenberg.

Population on December 31, 2015:

Main residence Adjoining apartment total
Zierenberg 3738 177 3915
Oberelsungen 1267 45 1312
Burghasungen 930 30th 960
Oelshausen 532 16 548
Escheberg 25th 2 27
Laar 12 2 14th
Hohenborn 16 2 18th
Total: 6520 274 6794

history

Matthäus Merian : Zyrenberg 1655, engraving from the Topographia Hassiae

Zierenberg was founded in the late 13th century and served the Hessian Landgrave Heinrich I to secure his rule in the upper Warmetal . In 1293 the construction of the church began; In 1298 Zierenberg received city ​​rights . Zierenberg was the seat of the Zierenberg office . The town hall , built by Heinrich Brant around 1450, is the oldest dated Gothic half-timbered house in Hesse. The Escheberg castle is by the family since it was built around 1530 by the Malsburg inhabited. Zierenberg was the administrative seat of the Landgrave-Hessian office of Zierenberg and during the time of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia (1807-1813) of the canton of Zierenberg .

Incorporations

In the course of administrative reform in Hesse until then independent municipality Laar was on a voluntary basis on December 1, 1970 incorporated . On December 31, 1970, Escheberg and Hohenborn joined the city of Zierenberg. Burghasungen, Oberelsungen and Oelshausen followed on February 1, 1971.

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 : 14
  • FDP : 2
  • CDU : 8
  • UFW : 7
 Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006 		%
2001 		Seats
2001
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 44.7 14th 52.3 16 44.6 14th 45.3 14th
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 25.9 8th 21.9 7th 24.9 8th 23.6 7th
UFW Independent Free Voting Community 22.6 7th 21.3 7th 23.1 7th - -
FDP Free Democratic Party 6.9 2 4.6 1 7.4 2 7.5 2
UWG Independent voter community - - - - - - 16.2 5
FWG Free community of voters - - - - - - 7.5 3
total 100.0 31 100.0 31 100.0 31 100.0 31
Voter turnout in% 53.5 52.4 49.9 61.5

The political majority in the city council since 2016 is formed from the coalition of CDU, FDP and UFW.

mayor

On September 28, 2014, Stefan Denn (SPD) was re-elected for a second term in the first ballot with 56.2% of the vote, against three opposing candidates, after having been elected on September 14, 2008 with 50.9% in the first ballot had been. His predecessor, whom he replaced on January 1, 2009, was Jürgen Pfütze, who was re-elected for the third time in a run-off election on October 10, 2002 with 58.6% of the votes.

Town hall Zierenberg (Gothic half-timbered house)

Mayor with term of office:

Conrad Brede 1856-1880 25 years
Karl Kupferschläger 1880-1911 32 years
Wiegand Pitz 1912-1933 22 years
Wilhelm Schäfer 1933-1945 12 years
Heinrich Ledderhose 1945-1948 4 years
Konrad Bürgel 1948-1956 9 years
Rudolf Walther 1957-1972 16 years
Georg Hildebrandt 1972-1984 13 years
Horst Buchhaupt 1984-1990 7 years
Jürgen Puddle 1991-2008 18 years
Stefan Denn 2009-2020 12 years
NN 2021– xx years

magistrate

The magistrate , elected by the city ​​council on April 25, 2016 for the 2016-2021 legislative period and enlarged by the new majority of CDU, UFW and FDP to expand the majority to ten voluntary city councilors, is composed as follows:

mayor Stefan Denn (SPD)
First councilor Helmut von Zech (FDP)
Councilor Gabriele Dörner-Knöppel (SPD) until July 31, 2018
City council Richard Leck (SPD)
City council Alexander Frese (SPD)
City council Günter Fett (SPD)
City council Hans-Peter Schäfer (SPD) from August 27, 2018
City council Rolf Balgheim (CDU)
City council Heinz Behr (CDU)
City council Joachim Dorr (CDU) additionally from May 30, 2016 until July 31, 2018
City council Heinrich Gerhardt (CDU) from August 27, 2018
City council Jürgen Behr (UFW)
City council Hans Ulrich Vreeman (UFW) until March 20, 2017
City council Marco Weigelt (UFW) from March 20, 2017

Partnerships

The city of Zierenberg maintains partnership relationships with

Culture and sights

Buildings

Zierenberg town church with Secco paintings

The sights of Zierenberg include:

Local legends

The destruction of the Gudenburgs

Two castles once stood on the Gudenberg . The upper castle was inhabited by the Bullheads of Gudenberg, the lower by the Wolff von Gudenberg . A love affair developed between the Groppe's wife and Eckhard Wolff from the lower castle, which the woman was unwilling to end despite Groppe's admonitions. He swore vengeance. When the castles were besieged by Landgrave Heinrich I a short time later , the bullhead made sure that his own castle could be taken, just to harm his neighbor. Now it was easy for the Landgrave's troops to conquer the lower castle from there. The landgrave had both castles destroyed and they were not rebuilt.

The foundation of Zierenberg

The inhabitants of the villages of Rohrbach, Lutzewarthen and Hilleboltzen had helped Landgrave Heinrich to take the Gudenburgs. As a thank you, he generously presented them with land in the vicinity of the Bear Mountain and the Gudenberg Mountains . They now left their villages and built the town of Zierenberg on this land from the stones of the destroyed Guden castles.

The child from Brabant am Heiligenborn

In the vicinity of the now desolate Zierenberg village Rohrbach flows a small brook called Heiligenborn because the Rohrbachers had their children baptized in it. This is where the later Hessian Landgrave Heinrich, known as the Child of Brabant, got lost. At the age of eight he was sent to the nearby Hasungen monastery , where he made friends with the son of a charcoal burner. One day Heinrich and his friend tried to catch a squirrel in the forest. They lost sight of each other and Heinrich got lost in the forest. The search for the boy was unsuccessful. Early the next morning the charcoal burner and his dog set out to look on their own. He finally found Heinrich sleeping by an oak near Heiligenborn. As a thank you, Heinrich's mother Sophie von Brabant brought the charcoal burner to her castle in Marburg as stable master .

The treasure in the Krambeul

One night, when a Zierenberg shepherd had penned his flock at the Krambeul, he noticed a mysterious light nearby. As he approached, he saw a maiden gesturing silently to a spot on the ground. The shepherd understood immediately and began to dig in the place. In fact, he found a cauldron full of riches that he was overjoyed to bring home. But the kettle was too heavy to carry. "Help God," said the shepherd as he tried to lift the kettle. Immediately all treasures, the cauldron, the light, the hole and also the maiden were gone and the shepherd stood alone in the night.

The Wichtelkirche

The king of the elves lived with his people on Dörnberg . One day he discovered a beautiful girl from Zierenberg who was picking flowers there. He immediately fell in love with the beautiful woman and asked her to marry him. But since elves are pagans, she declined his offer. The elf king now promised to have the marriage signed by a priest. Now the girl could no longer refuse. The elf king now had a huge church built in a hurry and received the bride there on St. John's night for a wedding. This was blinded by the splendor that the king had displayed, but at the same time she felt uncomfortable, because everything seemed cold and soulless in the church. When the priest asked her if she wanted to become the wife of the elf king, she couldn't help but answer "No". With thunder and lightning, the church froze to a rock that can still be seen on Dörnberg near Zierenberg and is called the Wichtelkirche.

The wild hunter

One evening the people from Zierenberg were startled by a loud roar. When they tried to find the source of the noise, they saw the savage hunter , doomed to chase through the air until Judgment Day, was sweeping across the city on a white horse with over 100 yapping dogs. When his white horse was seen grazing on the Guden Mountains the next morning, some men hurried up to catch it. But it was suddenly gone.

The origin of the Malsburg

The Malsburg once stood on a high basalt cone in the Warmetal at the gates of Zierenberg, and the family of the descendants of the lords of the castle tells the following story about it. A nobleman by the name of Otto had distinguished himself with particular courage under Charlemagne in conquering Brunsberg in Westphalia. In thanks, Karl pointed to a distant hill and allowed Otto to build a castle here. Otto now went to look at the mountain. When Karl asked him later what it was like on the mountain, Otto showed him three white flowers that he had taken from a thorn bush there. Karl now divided Otto's shield in half. One should carry a lion and the other the three flowers. This is still the coat of arms of the von der Malsburg family .

The white maiden from Schartenberg

A Zierenberg shepherd was once grazing his animals on the Schartenberg when he met a white maiden who pointed to a beautiful flower that the shepherd was picking. Immediately a crack opened up in the ground, in which the shepherd found unimaginable amounts of gold. He greedily stuffed his pockets with it and gathered as much as he could carry. When he started his way home, the mountain closed behind him again and all his gold was gone, for he had carelessly forgotten the most precious thing - the beautiful flower.

The treasure of the Schartenburg

In the ruins of the Schartenburg lies a treasure that three poor men from Zierenberg found. To recover it, they first had to build a ladder that they could use to climb the tower of the castle. There one of the men tied a rope around his stomach so that he could lower himself into the tower. He now looked into the tower and saw a bottomless, dark hole in front of him that filled him with terror. "And if I should remain a poor day laborer all my life , I will not climb this tower," he shouted. The three men turned back and the treasure is still in the tower.

The market under the Gudenberg Mountains

There is a parcel of land near the Gudenbergs called the “market”, because a long time ago the farmers from Oberelsungen had to bring their taxes there, which were then picked up by the people of their landlords, the nobles Wolff von Gudenberg .

traffic

Warmetal Viaduct

Zierenberg is on the Volkmarsen – Vellmar-Obervellmar railway with the nearby Zierenberg tunnel and the Warmetal viaduct (Zierenberg viaduct) . The railway line is part of the network of the North Hessian RegioTram Kassel , which has been running between Wolfhagen and Kassel since December 10, 2006 , and has a cycle time of around half an hour. Furthermore, the federal motorway 44 ( Dortmund – Kassel) runs through the Zierenberg district , which can be reached via the Zierenberg junction on federal road 251 near the Burghasungen district .

Personalities

see also:

Web links

Commons : Zierenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Zierenberg  - Travel Guide
Wikisource: Zierenberg in Merian's Topographia Hassiae  - Sources and full texts

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. ↑ 78th meeting of the specialist committee for health resorts, recreational areas and healing fountains in Hesse on November 15, 2012 . In: State pointer for the state of Hesse . No. 7 , 2013, p. 309 .
  3. ↑ R. Bremer: Hesse's oldest half-timbered town hall is 550 years old. In: Communications of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies NF 36, 2000, pp. 3–8, here p. 4.
  4. ↑ Incorporation of the Laar communities into the Zierenberg community in the Wolfhagen district on November 13, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 48 , p. 2254 , point 2252 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5,6 MB ]).
  5. ^ Incorporation of the communities Escheberg and Hohenborn into the town of Zierenberg in the Wolfhagen district on January 5, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 3 , p. 109 , point 108 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.5 MB ]).
  6. ^ 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. 411 .
  7. ^ 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. 2 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.2 MB ]).
  8. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .
  9. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
  10. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
  11. ↑ Historic buildings and squares in Zierenberg , accessed July 2018 (PDF; 225 kB)
  12. ↑ Selection of the unique Secco painting on www.kirche-zierenberg.de
  13. ↑ J. Schluz: Legends and stories . In: Pedagogical Working Group Wolfhagen (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch 1966 of the Wolfhagen district . tape 1 . Wolfhagen 1966, p. 84-86 .
  14. ↑ a b c d J. Schluz: Legends and stories . In: Pedagogical Working Group Wolfhagen (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch 1966 of the Wolfhagen district . tape 1 . Wolfhagen 1966, p. 86 .
  15. ^ The village of Rohrbach. Retrieved October 2, 2016 .
  16. ^ A b c Karl Lynker: German sagas and customs in Hessian districts . Kassel 1854, p. 84 .
  17. ↑ J. Schluz: Legends and stories . In: Pedagogical Working Group Wolfhagen (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch 1966 of the Wolfhagen district . tape 1 . Wolfhagen 1966, p. 84 f .