Edertal
Eder is located at the Eder community in Waldeck -Frankenberg in northern Hesse ( Germany ).
Nationally known the church is by the Lake Eder and the Natural Park basement Edersee, which includes the National Park basement Edersee.
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Geography
Geographical location
The community Eder is about 30 km ( straight line ) southwest of Kassel on the northern and north-eastern edge of the basement Forest and spreads out on the south bank of the Edersees and east and southeast of its dam. It is with a few parts of the municipality in the Natural Park basement Edersee or mostly just outside the eastern boundary; Part of this natural park is the National Park basement Edersee.
Eder is traversed by the Eder, the largest river of the municipality in northwest-southeast direction; in these flows - downriver considered - the district Lieschensruh (part of the community part flours ) nets at the community town of Bergheim Wesebach and just north of it the Boehner Bach. The Affolderner lake, not far southeast of the Edersees spreads in the municipal area, is another reservoir, which serves as the Lake Eder for power generation and recreation, so that the use of water power at the local Eder section is strong.
The highest mountain near the village Eder is the Traddelkopf, of 626 m above sea level. NN simultaneously represents the highest mountain in the National Park basement Edersee. Well known is the Peter head ( " energy hill " ), because it is the place of pumped storage Waldeck with their upper reservoir, and also the watch head with view option on the Eder dam wall and the Hammerberg with the wild Edersee.
Neighboring communities and circles
The 11,740 -acre district in the Edertal Bordering the towns of Waldeck and Naumburg ( Kassel district ) in the north, Fritzlar ( Schwalm- Eder-Kreis ) in the east, the south and Bad Wildungen Frankenau and the community Vöhl in the west (all three in the district Waldeck -Frankenberg ).
Community structure
The community Eder today from 13 districts:
- Affoldern
- Anraff
- Bergheim
- Böhne
- Bringhausen
- Woo
- Gellershausen
- Giflitz
- Hemfurth- Edersee
- Kleinern
- Königshagen
- Flours ( with Lieschensruh )
- Waves
The administrative center is Giflitz. With the northeast neighboring village Bergheim part of this place is the community center and is therefore reported in the regional plan as the basic center.
Geology
The area belongs to the foothills of the Rhenish Massif. Parent rock is here mainly shale and greywacke.
History
1908 was found in roadworks reindeer antlers and other findings in a clay pit at lovers. In 1967 they were re-examined, with the presumption confirmed that in the area of today's paramour settlement existed Neanderthals. This locality is one of the most important anthropological settlement sites of the Neanderthal in Germany today. Unique are found there numerous animal bones, wedge knife and artifacts from bones.
Incorporations
On 1 July 1971, the municipality Eder was newly formed by the merger of the previously independent municipalities Bergheim and Giflitz. On 1 October 1971, added Gellershausen. Affoldern, Anraff, Böhne, Bringhausen, lovers, Hemfurth- Edersee, King Hagen, flours and waves followed on 31 December 1971. The series of incorporations was completed with the inclusion of Kleinern on 1 January 1974.
Policy
Municipal council
The municipal election held 27 March 2011 yielded the following results:
Monuments and sights
Located in the municipality Edertaler part Bergheim is the Schlossberg home that was remodeled in 1785 /86 Count Josias II of Waldeck -Bergheim in the classical style. The key cultural monument is currently unused and empty.
Long distance routes
Along the Eder and the southern shore of Edersees perform the following cycle routes:
- The 180 km long Eder- trail starts at Rothaargebirge in North Rhine -Westphalia and is called here Ederauenweg. The largest part performs Hesse and is then called Eder bike path. It follows the course of Eder to the mouth of the river Fulda (river) in Guxhagen.
- A bicycle lane on the Orange Route connects the cities Diez, Nassau, Braunfels, Dillenburg, Siegen and Bad Arolsen, which are closely connected with the royal house of the Netherlands for many centuries, some 400 kilometers.
- 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 Hessian Radfernweg R6 ( the Rhine Valley from Waldecker Land) begins in Diemelstadt in the north of Hesse and runs with a total length of about 380 km to Lampert 's home in Southern Hesse.