Neustadt, Hesse

Neustadt ( Hessen) is a small town in the district of Marburg -Biedenkopf in Hesse, Germany.

  • 2.1 Amalgamations
  • 3.1 City Council
  • 3.2 Mayor
  • 3.3 Town twinning
  • 4.1 Structures
  • 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Geographical Location

Neustadt ( Hessen) is located in the extreme east of the district of Marburg -Biedenkopf at the central Hessian mountain country belonging Oberhessischen threshold. The city lies on the Schwalm Creek Wiera and thus - as the only municipality of the district of Marburg -Biedenkopf - in the catchment area of the river Weser. All other communes of the district belong to the catchment area of the river Lahn and its tributary ohms and thus to that of the Rhine.

By Neustadt State Road 454 and the Main- Weser Railway runs. There, the Neustadt train station is the last of the Rhine - Main Transport Association associated breakpoint. At the Rhine -Weser watershed between New Town and the Western Stadtallendorf neighboring town on the main road a landmark (stone) and on the railway line, a former block location.

Neighboring communities

Neustadt is bordered to the north by the municipality of Gilston, on the east by the city Schwalm town and commune Willinghausen (all three in the Schwalm -Eder- Kreis), in the southeast on the community Antrifttal, in the south on the town Kirtorf (both in the Vogelsberg ), as well as on the west by the city Stadtallendorf ( Marburg- Biedenkopf ).

Structure

For the city include: the core city of Neustadt the districts Mengsberg, Momberg and bacon angle.

History

Neustadt was probably founded around the year 1250 by the Earl of Nidda from the goats grove. 1270/71, Count Louis II of Nidda built there a castle, but was destroyed by 1273 Landgrave Henry I of Hesse again. Count Ludwig's son and successor, Engelbert I sold on March 12, 1294 the castle, town and Office Neustadt with the Archbishop of Mainz, for 2,200 marks by Cologne pennies. Neustadt was now as of Mainz enclave surrounded by landgräflich - Hessian and Counts goats hainer area.

During the Mainz Neustadt pin feud in 1464 was the Landgrave Henry III. pledged of Hesse- Marburg (Upper Hesse), but the city refused him entry and was only on for a siege. With the peace of Zeilsheim, at the conclusion of the Landgrave of Hans Hofmeister Dörnberg was instrumental, Neustadt came into the possession of the Landgrave of Upper Hesse. This pledged the city in 1477 to Hans von Dörnberg which his castle Dörnberg had built on the basis of the old castle. After Landgraf Wilhelm III. had an accident of Upper Hesse in a hunting accident in 1500 deadly Upper Hesse was reunited with Lower Hesse (Hessen -Kassel). The hated the Lower Hessian Landgrave Wilhelm II fled Dörnberg 1505 to Friedberg, where he died in 1506 at the age of 79 years. He was succeeded by his nephew. The rule of Dörnberger via Neustadt ended in 1549, when the Archdiocese of Mainz pledging of 1464 redeemed again.

1802/ 03, the city came in the wake of the Imperial Diet Losing to Hesse- Kassel, and was combined with the other former kurmainzischen enclaves Fritzlar, Amoeneburg and Naumburg in nominal Principality Fritzlar. From 1806 to 1813 she was with the whole Hesse- Kassel Napoleonic vassal kingdom of Westphalia and was the administrative center of the canton of Neustadt. Up to 1866 Neustadt was then part of Hesse-Cassel, then of Prussia. By 1943, the district court was Neustadt (Hessen).

In Neustadt still be remains of the castle Trugelrode from the 13th century and the Nellenburg.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1974, the formerly independent communities Mengsberg, Momberg and bacon angles were incorporated.

Policy

City Council

The municipal election held 27 March 2011 yielded the following results:

Mayor

Mayor since July 2007 Thomas Groll ( CDU). He replaced Manfred Hoim ( CDU).

Twinning

  • The city is a member of the International Association Neustadt in Europe, the 37 cities and municipalities named Neustadt in seven European countries ( Germany, Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and the Netherlands) belong (as of March 2014).

Culture and sights

Structures

Here is one of the largest Fachwerkrundbauten the world, the Junker -Hansen Tower. He is actually built as a tower of the city wall fortifications, built in 1480 by the military architect Hans Jacob of Ettlingen over the broken remains of the old castle in 1470, but then completed as a residential tower and has been integrated into the castle Dörnberg the plant.

Public institutions

In Neustadt is the marital status of the Hessian State Archives Hessen Marburg archive.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Carl Braun (1831-1907), Jesuit priest and astronomer
  • Ludwig Maria Florian (1900-1973), German administrative officer and local politician (CDU )

Gallery

Back of the Town Hall

City house of Vincentinerinnen

Cemetery chapel

Entrance to the cemetery

Catholic city church

Evangelical Church

Old Hessian Tenne House ( 1700 ); Today, the City Archives

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