Wildeck

Wildeck is a municipality in northeastern Hesse, directly on the border with Thuringia.

  • 2.1 Amalgamations
  • 2.2 Population development
  • 3.1 Municipal Council
  • 3.2 Mayor
  • 4.1 traffic
  • 4.2 Established businesses
  • 5.1 Structures
  • 5.2 Nature
  • 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Geographical location

The municipality is located partly in the valley of the middle Werra, in Berka - Gerst Unger Basin, with its small side valleys, the upper basin Suhler and Kleinenseer bay. This valley is surrounded by hills. In the southwest lies the Seulingswald, in the south the foothills of the Front Rhön, to the east the foothills of the Thuringian Forest and in the north the Richelsdorfer Mountains, which belongs to the Southern Fulda- Werra- Bergland. Part of the community lies in the latter Mountains.

The nearest large towns are Bad Hersfeld ( about 25 km southwest) and Eisenach ( about 25 km east). The lowest point of the municipality is 208 m in the floodplain at Obersuhl, the highest point is the red floor at Hönebach to 456 meters above sea level. NN.

Community structure

The municipality comprises the five districts of Upper Suhl, Bosserode, Hönebach, Richelsdorf and Raßdorf.

Neighboring communities

Wildeck borders in the north on the community Nentershausen ( in Hersfeld -Rotenburg ) and the city Sontra ( in the Werra- Meißner -Kreis), in the east on the community Gerstungen, in the southeast of the city Berka / Werra, in the south on the communities Dankmarshausen and Großensee (all four in the Thuringian Wartburg district) and the city of herring, on the southwest by the municipality of Friedewald and in the west on the community of Ronshausen (all three in Hersfeld -Rotenburg ).

History

The name of the village comes from the Office Wildeck, which belonged to some of today's districts and under stand the medieval abbey of Fulda. The seat was at the castle Wildeck, which stood on the castle hill in Raßdorf.

The first mention was Richelsdorf 1277 when the monastery in Fulda the place ceded temporarily for the construction of a convent at the Nikolai monastery in Eisenach. The monastery was never built. 1325 was the office as a fief to the brothers Friedrich and Hermann von Colmatsch. The present district of Eisenach, Hötzelsroda go in exchange for Nikolai to the monastery. The seigniory fall 1539 to the Landgrave of Hessen. After the extinction of those Colmatsch in 1562 the town fell to Hesse.

The rugged border in the south and east offers today a testimony to the clashes between the Landgrave of Hesse and Thuringia and the Abbey of Fulda. These clashes were talking about the Middle Ages until modern times.

The copper recovery in Wildeck was mentioned in 1460 for the first time. In the Richelsdorfer hut also cobalt was mined since 1708. Thus the importance of the cottage and the not far distant Friedrichshütte in Iba rose ( now part of Bebra ), so that as a result the mining office of Sontra was moved to Richelsdorf.

From 1945 to 1990, was the town close to the German border.

Incorporations

As part of local government reform was on 31 December 1971, the new church Wildeck by the merger of the previously independent municipalities Bosserode, Hönebach, Upper Suhl, Raßdorf and Richelsdorf.

Population Development

Data for each state and territory at 31.12. of each year:

Policy

Municipal council

The municipal election held 27 March 2011 yielded the following results ( in comparison to previous elections ):

Mayor

The Mayor Jürgen gray (non-party ) was elected in the runoff election on 23 November 2003 with a vote share of 58.3 %. He was the successor of Willi Müller ( SPD) was elected as the only candidate for mayor at that time, on 9 November 1997. Jürgen Grau was elected mayor again on 27 September 2009.

Economy

Traffic

The municipality is situated on the A4 motorway (junction 34 and 35). In addition, the municipality has three breakpoints ( upper Suhl, Bosserode and Hönebach ) at the Thuringian railway from Eisenach to Bebra.

Established businesses

  • Company alsecco Chemical Building Products GmbH & Co KG ( successor of Richelsdorfer hut, since 2004, a 100 % subsidiary of Caparol Group)

Culture and sights

Structures

  • Evangelical Church Richelsdorf ( "peasant baroque church " )
  • Evangelical Church Bosserode with winged altar and Pieta
  • Ruins of the hunting lodge Blumenstein, successor of the once built at the same place medieval castle Wildeck
  • Remains of the park of the Summer Palace Blumenstein with Island Pond and Obelisk

Nature

  • Nature and bird reserve " Rhäden " with Information Centre in Upper Suhl

Further, there are a lot of trails, especially on the ruins Blumenstein around Wildecker valley. Here you cross the courtyard location Bellers. Particularly diverse forests are crossed, while you pass the French oak. The municipal boundaries are affected by four major municipalities.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Constantine to Hohenlohe (1828-1896), First Lord High Steward and General of Cavalry
  • Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer (1896-1969), Nazi physician at the University of Frankfurt am Main
  • Oskar Loeber, author, Lutheran pastor, theologian and senior executive officer, born in the district of Upper Suhl
  • Wilfried Gliem ( born 1946 in Upper Suhl ), singer of the Wildhearts
  • Margrit Klinger (* 1960 in Hönebach ), athlete (including a bronze medal at the European Championships 1982 in Athens )
  • Werner Heckmann (* 1961 in Upper Suhl ), solo trumpeter at the Staatstheater Stuttgart and member of German Brass
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