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Saasen (Reiskirchen)
Saasen (; ) is a village in the municipality of Reiskirchen in Central Hesse, Germany. It includes the hamlets of Bollnbach, Veitsberg and Wirberg, a former castle. The village is located on the River Wieseck, east of the main town of Reiskirchen, in the Busecker Tal region (the valley of the River Buseck), and a few hundred metres from the Bundesstraße 49 arterial road. Saasen station is on the Vogelsberg Railway. Saasen has a population of about 1100. The settlement was first mentioned in a document in the year 1111. The name of the village has changed over the centuries: * in Sahsun (1111/1137) * fon den Sassen (1249) * de Sahsen (1251) * de Sasen (1279) * von den Sayssin (1379) Division of the town The village consists of 9 hamlets or settlements: * Saasen centre (Mittelstadt) * New housing estate * Old village (Altstadt) * Western village * Eastern village * Wirberg * Stromberg * Veitsberg * Bollnbach The village square The village square in Saasen is surrounded by h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Though villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture, and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a church. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
