Frielendorf
Frielendorf is a community in the Schwalm -Eder district in Hesse, Germany. She is a nationally recognized health resort. The nucleus was first mentioned as " Frilingendorf " in 1197 in an income index of the monastery Spieskappel documented.
- 2.1 Amalgamations
- 3.1 Municipal Council
- 3.2 community partnership
- 4.1 Museums
- 4.2 Structures
- 4.3 parks
- 5.1 Economics
- 5.2 traffic
Geographical location
Frielendorf lies on the northwestern edge of the crumpled mountain range about 8.5 km south-west of Homberg. North West of the town is the end mountain ( 339 m above sea level. NN ), northeast of Silver Lake and southeast of the marrow collected ( 382.7 m above sea level. NN ). Bathed it is from Efze inflow Ohebach.
Neighboring communities
Frielendorf bordered to the northeast and east by the town of Homberg, in the southeast on the town Schwarzenborn, in the south on the town of Neukirchen and to the community Willinghausen, in the southwest and west on the town Schwalm city, in the west on the community Neuental and to the northwest by the Borken; they all belong also to the Schwalm- Eder-Kreis.
Community structure
The municipality Frielendorf belong next to the nucleus, the fifteen districts:
- Allendorf
- Gebersdorf
- Großropperhausen
- Lanertshausen
- Leimsfeld
- Lender Scheid
- Leuderode
- Linsingen
- Obergrenzebach
- Schönborn
- Siebert Hausen
- Spieskappel
- Death Hausen
- Verna
- Welcherod
History
Incorporations
To professionalize the management to create better coordination and consultation opportunities for greater planning areas and the achievement of equality, the Hessian administrative and territorial reform was carried out. The first phase was the voluntary association of municipalities. This was also encouraged by financial incentives on the part of the country.
The main incorporations took place at 31 December 1971 and 1 January 1974.
Policy
Municipal council
Community partnership
The community Frielendorf maintains a partnership with the Thuringian Kleinschmalkalden and since 30 May 2009 the West Flanders town of Poperinge.
Culture and sights
Museums
The museum shop with the exhibition The colliery Frielendorf is informed of Frielendorfer history and the former brown coal mining in and around the village.
The Village Museum Verna informed about village home decor, furniture and hand tools.
Structures
In the district Spieskappel is the 1255 church dedicated to St. John of the former monastery Spieskappel, which originally belonged to the 1143 founded Premonstratensian Canons Cappel. The church is usually referred to only as a monastery church. The organ was built in the workshop of the organ builder John Schlottmann from Hersfeld.
(Also called " Spies Kappeler waiting " ) The spike tower is a medieval watchtower, on the road between Spieskappel and Obergrenzebach. He is at a point at which intersected important medieval trade routes, as well as on the former border between Upper and Lower Hesse Hesse. In the 15th and 16th centuries the country days of the Hessian estates were held on a spit. The tower is part of the spit Frielendorfer coat of arms.
Parks
The holiday park is located east of Silver Lake Frielendorf on the same lake.
Economy and infrastructure
Economy
About 150 years until the 1960s, lignite mining and briquettes were the economic base of the local core and the surrounding villages. Frielendorf was one of the most important lignite coalfields of Hesse, and open pits shaped the landscape. The village itself was dominated by the image of the union briquette Frielendorf. In the 1920s, at times some 1400 people worked in the Frielendorfer mining. A total of approximately 26.5 million tonnes of brown coal were mined and produced approximately 6.5 million tons of briquettes. Briquettes of the brand " Hassia " were known far beyond the region.
With the end of coal mining in Frielendorf a drastic structural change, mining and industry began to tourism. The core of this structural change was the conversion of a large opencast mine hole in a swimming and fishing, the Silver Lake, whose environment is now renaturisiert been back and around the holiday village was built.
Traffic
Frielendorf is located on the main road 254 ( Homberg - Fulda). At the federal motorway 49 (Kassel - Fritzlar - Marburg) junction Neuental, is only 11 km. The community belongs to the North-Hessian Traffic group. The next stations are Wabern, Schwalm -Treysa, Borken (Hessen) and Kassel -Wilhelm height. Previously Frielendorf had a station on the railway line field - Treysa.
Personalities
- Margot Käßmann (* 1958), theologian, former pastor in Spieskappel ( 1985-1990 )
- Kurt Lotz (1912-2005), former chairman of Volkswagen AG
- Stefan Marx, artists
- Regine Müller ( * 1959), Member of Parliament, former head of the kindergarten in Obergrenzebach