Wehretal

Wehretal is a municipality in the Werra- Meißner-Kreis in the northeastern part of Hesse. The municipality is located in the district Reichensachsen as a community center.

  • 2.1 Amalgamations
  • 3.1 Municipal Council
  • 3.2 Mayor
  • 3.3 partnerships

Geography

Geographical location

Wehretal is located about 50km southeast of the North Hessian city of Kassel. It is located between Eschwege in the north and in the south Sontra.

To the north, the terrain falls over the course of weirs, after which the village was named, from their river mouth in the Werra near Eschwege out. To the east lies the Schlierbachswald, in the southeast of Ringwood, southwest of the mountains Stölzinger follows, and in the west rises the High Meissner on.

Neighboring communities

Wehretal bordered to the north by the county town of Eschwege, in the east on the community Weissenborn, in the south on the community of Ringwood and the city Sontra, and in the west on the town of Forest Kappel and in the extreme northwest of the town of Meissen (all in the Werra- Meißner-Kreis ).

Community structure

The five districts of Wehretal are:

  • Reichensachsen
  • Long grove
  • Hoheneiche
  • Oetmannshausen
  • Vierbach

History

1577 in Hoheneiche, the freak of Hoheneiche, born in a well-known ill- gebildets child. The Renaissance artist Dietmar Merluan made ​​to a woodcut of the child.

Incorporations

Ahead of municipal reform in Hesse there were some municipal mergers. On February 1, 1971, until then independent municipality Oetmannshausen was incorporated into the neighbor municipality Hoheneiche. On October 1, 1971 Vierbach came to Reichensachsen. These two towns merged on 31 December 1971 a new church named Wehretal. On April 1, 1972, including the neighboring village of Long Grove was incorporated.

Wehretal is a community that has, unlike many other communities in the Werra -Meißner -Kreis experienced a growing number of inhabitants. The largest district is Reichensachsen, today about 3500 inhabitants, who celebrated the 750th year of existence in 2003.

Policy

Municipal council

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

Mayor

The final result of the election as Mayor of Wehretal, on November 4, 2012 was as follows:

  • Kistner, Jochen (SPD ) 92.2 % ( turnout 48.6 %)

Thus exerts Jochen Kistner (SPD ) since 1 April 2013, his second term of the office of mayor of. He is since 1952 without interruption of the fourth mayor, which the SPD is.

Partnerships

Before 20 years now, in June 1992, was one ever since at various levels intensively cultivated partnerships with the communities Bellou -en- Houlme La Ferrière- aux- Étangs, La Coulonche and Saires -la- Verrerie in Orne Normandy in France sealed.

Since 2007 In addition, a partnership with the community Gánt in Hungary.

Festivals

Traditionally, in the district Reichensachsen in June, the home and elves hard place. The highlight of the five - day festivities is, next to the dance in the tent on Saturday evening in the marquee on the sports field, the Sunday big pageant. This is shaped for generations by the classes of the Friedrich -Ebert- school and local clubs. In addition, the procession will be accompanied musically by several marching bands from Reichensachsen and the surrounding towns. All marching bands play after the pageant still in the marquee in front of numerous spectators. Monday morning to early evening of traditional brunch at the tent will be held to present him to the local people and breakfast together and celebrate. The date is traditionally the third weekend in June.

Traffic

About Bundesstraßen 7 (Kassel -Eisenach ), 27 (Göttingen- Bad Hersfeld ) and 452 ( Eschwege - Wehretal ) the place in the Werra- Meißner-Kreis is achievable. In addition, the municipality has a train station ( Wehretal - Reichensachsen ) on the main railway line Göttingen- Bebra, a part of the old north-south route.

Personalities

  • Imelda Landgrebe, first honorary citizen of the community Wehretal, long-time chairman of the municipal council, holder of the Order of Merit, First Class and the Golden Badge of Honour of the community
  • Bernd Schleicher ( * 1947 ), directly elected member of the Hessian Parliament 1986-1999
  • Timo Hartmann ( born 1980 ), News Presenter / Moderator (including at Hit Radio FFH)
  • Markus Zimmer (1964-2006) was a German musician and singer of the band The Bates.
  • Rainer Cadenbach ( born 1944 ), musicologist and professor at the University of Arts in Berlin, born in Reichensachsen
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