Liebenau, Hesse
Liebenau ( Low German: Lebenogge ) is a small town in the district of Kassel in northern Hesse ( Germany ).
- 2.1 Amalgamations
- 4.1 City Council
- 4.2 Mayor
- 4.3 partnerships
Geography
Geographical Location
Liebenau located on the northern border of North Rhine -Westphalia almost in the extreme north of the district of Kassel on the southeastern edge of the Warburg flare. It is located about 25 km ( straight line ) northwest of Kassel between Warburg in the west and in the east Hofgeismar.
Liebenau is traversed in approximately west-east direction from the Diemel, in the above the village of Eggel ( from the north), in the Liebenau Vombach opens ( and north ) and below it the heat (from the south ).
Every few kilometers away are located northeast of Liebenau the Solling, east of the Reinhard Forest, south of Hawk Forest and northwest the Eggegebirge that are framed by the Reinhard Forest Nature Park.
Neighboring communities
Liebenau bordered to the north by the town of Trendelburg, on the east by the city Hofgeismar, in the southeast on the town Grebestein, to the south by the municipalities Calden and Breuna (all in the district of Kassel), and in the west and northwest by the towns of Warburg and Borgentreich ( both in the circle in Hoexter North Rhine -Westphalia).
Boroughs
The city is adjacent to the main town Liebenau ( 687 inhabitants) of the districts Bergersen ( 357 inhabitants), Grimelsheim (60 inhabitants), Haueda (372 inhabitants), Lamerden ( 426 inhabitants), Lower Meiser (760 inhabitants), Ostheim ( 387 inhabitants) and dwarves ( 373 inhabitants).
History
In quarries near Lamerden and Haueda the largest fossil locality is located in North Hesse. Among other things, the remains of Nothosauriern and fossil crinoids have been found here in the limestone. Owner of this reference is the Natural History Museum Kassel, which conducts excavations there regularly.
The Warburg flare with its gentle hills and fertile lowlands is an ancient settlement area. Numerous archaeological finds indicate a continuous settlement since the Neolithic period. Also borderlands is a long time here. Previously struggled chat, Cherusker and Saxony, later the bishops of Paderborn and the Landgrave of Hesse for the possession of the fertile landscape. In 1465 Landgrave Ludwig II in 1293 took the first documented Liebenau in the course of Hesse - Paderbornischen Feud ( 1464-1471 ) forcibly in possession, and since then the place is the Hessian. see also Burgliebenau
In the years 1945 to 1949 the station of Liebenau the border station between the British sector ( North Rhine -Westphalia) and the U.S. sector ( Hesse ) was.
Incorporations
On 1 February 1971, the formerly independent communities Grimelsheim, Haueda, Lamerden and Ostheim were incorporated into the city Liebenau. On April 1, 1972 Bergersen and low Meiser were added. Dwarfs followed on August 1, 1972.
Sage of the city Liebenau
A pearl, set in a shiny band are like you, once Marienau. You little town small at the beach Diemel to continue laughing Au. Umwogt sunny seeds of gold, comprises of the mountain Son arm. Were you once rich to hold a lot of women and rich in many hearts so warm.
But the enemy spiteful, envious glance he'll not begrudge peace nor rest. Your peace is gone, your happiness is threatened, the twilight glides near,. Protected by stormy, dark night wild sichs pulls up in the valley, around the walls, putting away the enemy's power and enemies away inland and Landauf.
And the knight swears it with angry mouth: Yes defies only their walls of stone and you were with all the devils in the covenant, my little town, I come in! Eh lift up the sun in the east away, starting the daily run, you will bow down to me, your Lord! I give my knight word on it!
The battering rams before, the ladders zoom! Floats Through me the icy flood! The walls up to the last man! Do not waver! I worth the courage! Since strikes the bell of serious emergency and she whimpers and howls through the night! However, in the little town inside you defy death and in the little town keeping good watch.
Who hasting so nimbly to the house stove and schüret and schüret the embers? Says to her women, who hats taught you? Who gave you the courage in your heart? Pour the oil into the boiler edge, stoke, ignite the fire. Not a word escaped the closed mouth, only hardworking stir hand.
And the boiling oil, they up wearing, where the spouses hold the watch. And it hasten the women, they come in heaps, the eye durchdringet the night. And where only shew an enemy figure, since they are not even funny here, in the enemy's face with cunning and force, they pour the oil and the broth.
Blinded eyes, burned her face, so they fall down crying. But the women, the faithful, they do not care. Down there, there's your grave. Since you is safe because found her alone! Passing your wrath, your anger! The waves of Diemel they cover to you, because their is safe and well!
The noble action, they became known, the ruler heard about it: The little town, it was called Liebenau, Women love to pay! So ists because was told since that time, the little town in laughing Aun, A monument, beautiful and forever, of the loyalty and love of women!
Policy
City Council
The municipal election held 27 March 2011 yielded the following results:
Mayor
Mayor Peter Lange ( FWG ).
Partnerships
Liebenau maintains since 1991 a partnership ring to the same places
- Liebenau in Lower Saxony,
- Liebenau in the Ore Mountains, part of Geising in Saxony and
- Liebenau in Upper Austria Upper Austria.
Traffic
Liebenau has a break point on the railway line Kassel- Warburg.
Personalities
- Gottfried Rabe von Pappenheim (1874-1955), District Administrator of Kassel