Staufenberg, Hesse
Staufenberg is a city in the northern part of the casting in Hesse ( Germany ).
- 2.1 Amalgamations
- 2.2 spin-offs
- 3.1 City Council
- 3.2 Mayor
- 3.3 Town twinning
- 4.1 Soil and cultural monuments
Geography
Geographical Location
The development of the city dates to the west directly into the neighboring town Lollar. The university town of Gießen, a center middle of Hesse, is Staufenbergs southern neighbor city. Marburg an der Lahn lies about 20 km north.
Neighboring communities
Staufenberg borders in the north on the community Fronhausen ( Marburg- Biedenkopf ), to the east by the city of Allendorf ( Lumda ), to the south by the municipality of Buseck and in the west on the town of Lollar (all in the district of Gießen).
Boroughs
To Staufenberg consists of the quarters Daubringen, Mainzlar, Staufenberg and Treis at the Lumda.
The approximately 8,500 inhabitants distributed among the four districts Staufenberg (2600), Treis (2300), Mainzlar (1800) and Daubringen ( 1800). The district Staufenberg has since at least 1336 city rights.
History
Incorporations
In the course of municipal reform in Hesse, the previously independent municipalities Daubringen, Mainzlar and Treis at the Lumda were merged with the city to the new city Staufenberg Staufenberg on 1 July 1974. This was from 1 July 1974 to the re-establishment of the district casting on 1 August 1979 the Lahn- Dill-Kreis on.
Spin-offs
On July 1, 1974 with parts of the territory at that time a little less than 100 inhabitants, was ceded to the neighboring town of Lollar.
Policy
City Council
The local elections 27 March 2011 yielded the following results:
Mayor
The Social Democrat Peter Gefeller has been elected as the new mayor of Staufenberg. The 44 -year-old lawyer received 54.66 percent of the vote. His challenger Dennis Pucher (FDP) was able to record 41.1 percent of the vote, Sabine Lochnit (independent) reached 4.3 percent of the vote. The turnout was 53.02 percent. The Social Democrat Peter Gefeller shall be the successor of Horst Münch ( SPD), which was not taken up for election.
Twinning
- Moravian Třebová ( Moravian- Trübau ), the Czech Republic since 2004
- Tarjan, Hungary since 1990
Culture, Sports, Attractions
Soil and cultural monuments
The dead mountain in the district of Treis on the district border to Allendorf has several archaeological features. Upon investigation of so-called Quarzitabris at the southeastern foot of the slope Paleolithic stone tools were unearthed; a ring wall on the mountain plateau yielded archaeological finds scattered different time position, in particular the Michel Berger culture, the early Iron Age and the early Middle Ages.
The castle Staufenberg, a hilltop castle on the eponymous Staufenberg, formed the nucleus for the development of the market town Staufenberg in the Middle Ages. Even today characterizes the district Staufenberg with the ruins of the upper castle, the gastronomic used under castle and its decorated from late medieval gate tower old town the landscape in the northern district of Gießen.
Traffic
Car: direct connections consists of the B3a north of Giessen Northern Cross, via the connection to the Federal Highway 480 Wetzlar rice churches. The country road (L 3146 ) leads through the Lumdatal.
From 1902 to 1981 there were passengers on the Lumdatalbahn that leads from the station Lollar about Londorf to Grünberg. Currently, freight transport will take place up to the connection of Didier-Werke. Since 1993 there are regular special trips that end in Mainzlar station since 1997. In Daubringen there is another breakpoint. Passenger transport by bus operation is done with the line 520 on the relation Grünberg - Londorf - Lollar - casting and the student transportation with the line 52
Sports
The most important sports club in the city is the TV 05 Mainzlar, the women's handball team has played for a long time in the first Bundesliga and in the Europa Cup and even won the DHB Cup to Staufenberg. Currently plays the first team in the national league center ( Hesse). In each district sports associations exist with a wide range of amateur and professional sports. Most important festivals of each year is the Staufenberger and Mainzlarer and Treiser fair that takes place in the center of the respective districts respectively. Organizer is in Staufenberg the fraternity " Germania " eV, In Mainzlar the fraternity " cheerfulness " eV and in Treis eV " Träser Muspretzer "
Staufenberg in the literature
The writer Peter Kurzeck, grew up as a refugee child in Staufenberg, No spring made the " village of his childhood," the Staufenberg of the 1950s, the subject of his novel ( 1987, amended 2007 ), which won for the Kurzeck 1991 with the Alfred Döblin Prize been.
His memories of the Staufenberg the postwar period has Kurzeck also held in the form of oral narrative as a sound document ( A summer that remains, 2007), which was awarded by hr2 as an audio book of the year 2008. The work was hailed as a " literary historical event " and collectively referred to as an authentic piece of memory, as it was quite without text template and is still viewed as a novel.
Personalities
- Peter Kurzeck spent his youth in Staufenberg ( "A Midsummer who remains " )
- Wolfgang Schutzbar called milk Ling (1483-1566), including later Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, was born in Treis.
- Caspar Schutzbar called Milchling (1535-1588) was lord of the manor in Treis, landgräflich - Hessian bailiff and captain in Giessen