Kirtorf

Kirtorf is a city in the north of Vogelsberg district in Hesse. Through the city leads the German Fairytale Road.

2.1 Amalgamations
2.2 Kirtorf in the headlines

3.1 City Council
3.2 Town twinning

4.1 Exhibitions
4.2 Structures

5.1 traffic
5.2 energy

Geography

The city lies on the Gleen, a tributary of the Lahn Creek ohms in Northern Vogelsberg foreshore. The northern, significantly higher districts Arnshain, Gleim grove and elections are directly on the Rhine -Weser watershed, so some rivers in an urban area also drain via Antrift and Wiera to Schwalm.

Climate

The annual rainfall is 707 mm, which is relatively normal, since it falls in the middle third of the detected values in Germany. At 42% of the stations of the German Weather Service lower values are registered. The driest month is February, the most rainfall comes in May. In May, falling 1.6 times more precipitation than in February. Precipitation varies little and are very evenly distributed throughout the year. At only 7% of the monitoring stations, lower seasonal swings are recorded.

Neighboring communities

Kirtorf bordered to the north by the town of Neustadt ( Marburg- Biedenkopf ), to the east by the municipality Antrifttal, the city of Alsfeld and the community Romrod, in the south on the community Gemunden, and in the west on the town of Homberg ( Ohm) and the city Stadtallendorf ( Marburg- Biedenkopf ).

Boroughs

History

In a document from the year 917 the abbot of Fulda Haicho exchanged with a Gramann his land, including all the basic pieces to " Glene, ubi ecclesia aedificata est ", ie to Glene where a church is built. Since Kirtorf was the seat of the Court Send Gleener Mark, his church must have been older than that of the surrounding places. Therefore, it is obvious that with Glene the place is meant the church had the oldest in the district, so Kirtorf = Kirchdorf. However, one last clarification is not possible, so that low- Small local historians relate the certificate on their site.

In the district Lehrbach the ruins of the castle Lehrbach is from the 12th century.

As of 1205, the town belongs to the abbey of Fulda. According to a deed of 1323 the counts of goats grove had the Kirchsaß to Kirtorf, the church area were about 40 places. After the Counts of goats grove were extinct, Kirtof fell in 1450 to the Landgrave of Hesse. For places outside Kirtorfs was no exclusive jurisdiction of the Landgrave, but shared with the Baron von Schenck ( the Eußergericht ). The city charter can be dated back to the year 1489. On April 1, 1725 the town was burnt down almost completely, only the Town Hall (built in 1559 ) is to stand still undamaged. However, it was canceled late 18th century. The present Town Hall was built according to an inscription in a bar on the main page 1791. The Protestant Church in Kirtorf was rebuilt after the fire and was inaugurated in 1731. In the Grand Duchy of Hesse Kirtorf belonged first to the Official Romrod, from 1821 District District Kirtorf and from 1832 to the circle Alsfeld.

According to the census of 1846 Kirtorf himself had 1232 inhabitants. On 31 December 2007 the population of the greater community was 3532 inhabitants and of itself Kirtorf 1417th

Incorporations

On December 31, 1971, the formerly independent communities Gleim grove Lehrbach, top Gleen and elections were incorporated. Arnshain and Heimertshausen were added on August 1, 1972.

Kirtorf in the headlines

In 2004, the city Kirtorf came through regular neo-Nazi meetings on a farm in the headlines. The ARD magazine contrasts showed a short film, " Berserk camaraderie Kirtorf " sang along in the 250 neo-Nazis the noisy bawling anti-Jewish songs a neo-Nazi band. Since the events took place in a soundproof, former stable building and were declared as "private", they could not be suppressed easily by the local police.

In the year 2004, Action against right-wing extremism Kirtorf was founded by Kirtorfer citizens, which had made it particularly aims to banish the Neorechten out of town and keep such large events. But Nevertheless, a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Borussenfront took place in 2006 in Kirtorf. Meanwhile Kirtorf applies only as a former Mecca of the scene.

Policy

City Council

The city council Kirtorf counts 23 city council. The municipal election held 27 March 2011 yielded the following results:

Mayor of the district Kirtorf Ernst Bauer ( March 2012).

Twinning

Kilb ( Lower Austria in Austria, since 1983)

Culture and sights

Exhibitions

Museum Kirtorf
Art Gallery in the barn

Structures

Historical Market Square with Town Hall
City Church Kirtorf
Historical Museum at the Town Hall
Doctor House in Kirtorf
Schmeer oven at Kirtorf
Castle ruins Lehrbach
Schmitthof with the historic mill in forest Lehrbach
Cherry bridge in Lehrbach (built 1541)
Church ruins Folk Arts Hain ( Church stump ) at Lehrbach (. Remains of a church from the time before Boniface This church was built by iro -Scottish monks, who - in contrast to Boniface - preached an independent from the Pope Christianity. )
Schmitt 's historical courtyard Gleim grove
Church of Ober- Gleen
Bathhouse Kirtorf

" Church stump " of the left desolate village folk arts grove

Doctor House

Schmeer oven

Museum Kirtorf

City Church - Organ and altar

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Through the city leads the federal highway 62 A rail connection or a direct motorway connection is missing. The bus connection is carried out by the VGO lines VB -11, VB -12 and VB - 13th

Energy

Kirtorf has a wind farm with 4 wind turbines of the type DeWind D6 1000 kW rated power, 68.5 m tower height and 62 m rotor diameter, which went into operation in 2001 (3 other identical facilities are located on the territory of the nearby municipality Erbenhausen ). One of these systems, the D 60077 at 50 ° 45'40 " N 9 ° 5'36, 6" O, collapsed on June 18, 2011.

Sons and daughters of the town

Adolf Korell ( born March 20, 1872 in Ober- Gleen, † September 17, 1941 in Eschbach ) priest, politician ( DDP), and Minister of Economics and Labour of the People's State of Hesse
Hauke Lang ( b. 1963 ), surgeon and university lecturer
Konrad Christoph von Lehrbach (* December 12, 1677, † September 14, 1767 in Ellingen ), the Teutonic Knights
Ludwig Konrad Graf von Lehrbach (* 1750, † 1805), Minister of War, and in 1796 Hofkommissär in Tyrol under Emperor Franz II

Swell

Karl Wagner, Gustav Georg Lange, Johann Wolfgang Appell: The Grand Duchy of Hesse, Darmstadt 1849, vol 2, pp. 84
Otto Christ: From Kirtorfs past. Kirtorf 1932
Annette Weber Möckl (ed.): Kirtorf and Eußergericht. From the beginnings to the present. Kirtorf 1989

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