Ahnatal is a municipality in the
district of Kassel, in
Hesse
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,
Germany
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. It is situated roughly 9 km northwest of
Kassel
Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...
,
Germany
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.
Division of the municipality
It consists of three constituent villages,
Weimar
Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...
,
Heckershausen, and
Kammerberg.
Notable places
Although not famous for any particular sights, the "Bühl" in Weimar attracted geological interest at the beginning of the 20th century as it is one of the very few places where elementary iron (i.e. no iron compounds) can be found. The former mine is now a lake which is popular as a swimming pool.
Politics
From 1945 till 2008, Ahnatal has always had a social-democratic government. However, in the most recent elections of a mayor, the
Christian-democratic
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It was conceived as a combination of modern democratic ...
candidate Michael Aufenanger was elected.
References
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Kassel (district)