Alheim
Alheim is a municipality in northeastern Hesse.
- 3.1 Municipal Council
- 3.2 Mayor
- 3.3 community partnerships
- 4.1 Structures
Geography
The municipality is located in Hersfeld-Rotenburg district about 35 km southeast of Kassel, and only a few kilometers northwest of Rotenburg an der Fulda. It extends on both sides of Fulda in the Knüllgebirge and Stölzinger Mountains into it. Situated in this mountain 549 m high mountain Alheimer gave the community its name.
Community structure
The municipality consists of the villages
- Baumbach
- Erdpenhausen
- Heinebach
- Hergershausen
- Licherode
- Lower Ellenbach
- Niedergude
- Oberellenbach
- Obergude
- Sterkelshausen
The population is about 5,300, of which more than 2,500 people in Heinebach, the largest of the ten districts and economic center Alheims live.
Neighboring communities
Alheim bordered to the north by the municipality of Decayed and the city Spangenberg (both in the Schwalm -Eder- Kreis), in the east on the town of Rotenburg an der Fulda, on the south by the municipality of Bad Hersfeld (both in Hersfeld -Rotenburg ), and on the west by the community Knüllwald ( in the Schwalm -Eder -Kreis).
History
As part of the municipal reform Baumbach, Erdpenhausen, Heinebach went (until then in the district of Melsungen ), Hergershausen, Licherode, Lower Ellenbach, Niedergude, Oberellenbach, Obergude and Sterkelshausen on 1 August 1972 in the new community Alheim on.
Policy
Municipal council
The municipal election held 27 March 2011 yielded the following results:
Mayor
The last mayor elections gave the following results:
In the last election on 14 September 2008, the incumbent mayor George Luedtke ( SPD), with 65.6 % against the non-party Lothar Schäfer, which reached 26.0%, and Michael Werner ( FDP), which reached 8.4% re-elected.
Community partnerships
Since 2001, the community partnership with the community Zandhoven in Belgium. Since 1971, a partnership between the largest district Heinebach and the village bottle that belongs meanwhile to Zandhoven.
Culture and sights
There themed hiking trails have been established. Here are mainly the mining Historical learning and adventure trail, the water adventure trail and the cultural and historical hiking trail to call. At the edge of the hamlet Heinebach following cycle paths run:
- The Hessian Radfernweg R1 ( Fulda Cycle Route ) performs more than 250 km from the heights of the Rhön along the Fulda to Bad Karl port on the river Weser.
- The Hessian Radfernweg R5 ( North Hesse route Eder- Fulda- Werra ) performs more than 220 km from Willingen in Upland along the southern shore of Lake Eder, on (Efze ) and Rotenburg an der Fulda until after Wanfried on the Werra.
- The D- Route 9 (Weser - Romantic Road ) leads from the North Sea via Bremen, Kassel, Fulda and the Tauber Valley to Füssen in the Allgäu ( 1197 km ).
Popular excursion and hiking destination is the Alheimer tower on the eponymous mountain in Stölzinger Mountains.
Structures
- The churches in the various districts are partly preserved even with its medieval ramparts.
- On the Heineberg remains of fortifications have been preserved, probably of fortifications dating from the 8th or 10th century. There the foundations of an early medieval church were found during excavations in 1974.
Personalities
- Franz Christian Gundlach, fashion photographer, curator and the first honorary citizen of the community (* 1926 in Heinebach )
- Manfred Siebald, Christian singer-songwriter ( b. 1948 in Baumbach )