Schwalmstadt is the largest town in the

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district, in northern

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. It was established only in 1970 with the amalgamation of the towns of

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and Ziegenhain together with some outlying villages to form the town of Schwalmstadt.

Geography

Location

Schwalmstadt lies in the Schwalm region in the western

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, a low mountain range. Through the town flows the river Schwalm. The nearest large towns are

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(about 50 km to the north),

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(about 35 km to the east),

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(about 40 km to the southwest) and

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(about 70 km to the southeast).

Constituent communities

Besides the core of Treysa, Ziegenhain and Ascherode, the town consists of the centres of Allendorf an der Landsburg, Dittershausen, Florshain, Frankenhain, Michelsberg, Niedergrenzebach, Rommershausen, Rörshain, Trutzhain and Wiera.

History

In the 8th century, ''Treise'' was owned by the Abbots of Hersfeld. The Counts of ''Cigenhagen'' were named in a document for the first time in 1144. In 1186, Treysa was taken over by the Counts and fortified. Treysa's landmark, the Martinskirche (Church of St. Martin), nowadays known as the Totenkirche (Church of the Dead), was built in 1230. Treysa was granted town rights sometime between 1229 and 1270, and the same rights were bestowed upon Ziegenhain in 1274. After the last Count's death in 1450, the county passed to Hesse. The

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s of Hesse had the

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in Ziegenhain remodelled into a stately home in 1470, and then between 1537 and 1548,

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had it built into a fortification with a

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. In August 1945, the proceedings to establish the

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(EKD) took place in Treysa in an event known as the Church Conference of Treysa. The meeting brought about the merger of the

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and United state churches. Two further church gatherings in May 1946 and June 1947 tried to start discussion about divergent perceptions of the

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, and also dealt with

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. As part of Hesse's municipal reforms, the two towns of Treysa and Ziegenhain, along with their outlying villages, were united in 1970 into the Town of Schwalmstadt, and ever since then they have existed only as constituent communities of a larger municipality. In 1995, with the motto "Hessisch Willkommen", Schwalmstadt hosted the 35th ''

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'' state festival.

Rommershausen

In the Marburg State Archive, Rommerhausen is first mentioned under the name "Rumershusen" in 1243. In 1360 it was called "Romirshusin" and in 1365 "Rumershusen", but it has gone by its current name since 1419. On 3 April 1916 at 15:30, a cosmic lump of

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fell to earth in a woodlot near Rommershausen. This was later named, after the place where it was found, the

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of Rommershausen, and it has gone down in German astronomic history as Germany's greatest verifiable observed meteorite impact. Rommershausen has been part of Schwalmstadt since the municipal reforms in the 1970s.

Trutzhain

During the

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, Ziegenhain was home to a

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camp, Stalag IX-A (one of the French prisoners there,

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, later became

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), and after the war, also to a

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at the same facility. The camp is now the constituent community of Trutzhain. Some of the barracks still stand and have been converted into houses.

Politics

Schwalmstadt Town Council has 37 members. As of the municipal elections held in 2011, the council seats are apportioned thus:

Council

Mayor Wilhelm Kröll (

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) was re-elected on 7 May 2006 with a share of the vote of 61.4%. On 3 June 2012, Dr. Gerald Näser (CDU) was elected new mayor with 53% of the vote. His opponent was Dr. Fabio Longo of the SPD. The turnout was 54.1%. Näser took office on 1 October 2012. He died in 2016 and was temporarily replaced by Detlef Schwierzeck (SPD). In 2016, Stefan Pinhard was elected as the new mayor and took office on 1 December 2016.

Coat of arms

Schwalmstadt's civic

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might be heraldically described thus: Or a goat-headed spreadeagle sable armed, langued and attired gules, surmounted by a roundel argent in which a mullet of six of the third. The heraldic elements are historical symbols from both former towns and the old County of Ziegenhain. Schwalmstadt's coat of arms bears a keen likeness to both Neukirchen's and Schwarzenborn's.

Town partnerships

* Canton of Loriol-sur-Drôme, Département Drôme,

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Public institutions

State institutions

Bundesanstalt Technisches Hilfswerk

Schwalmstadt's local

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association was founded in 1961. The local association has, among other things, a technical team (''Technischer Zug'') with a positioning section (''Fachgruppe Ortung'').

Educational institutions

* Eckhardt-Vonholt-Schule (

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) * Ziegenhainer

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am Alleeplatz * Brüder-Grimm-Schule Allendorf (primary school) * Grundschule Niedergrenzebach * Mittelpunkt Grundschule * Herrmann-Schuchard-Schule * Ludwig-Braun-Schule * Schule im Ostergrund ( Haupt- and

Realschule ''Realschule'' () is a type of secondary school in Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It has also existed in Croatia (''realna gimnazija''), the Austrian Empire, the German Empire, Denmark and Norway (''realskole''), Sweden (''realskola''), ...

) * Friedrich-Trost-Schule * Carl-Bantzer-Schule (

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) * Sankt-Martin-Schule (school for learning aid) * Schwalmgymnasium ( Gymnasium) * Berufliche Schulen Schwalmstadt (occupational school) *

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Hephata (Evangelische Fachhochschule Darmstadt) * Stenografenverein 1925 Treysa e. V. (education centre, computer school)

Other

Sports and leisure

* Schwalmstadion (

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) * Stadion am Fünften (stadium) * Landsburg Stadion Allendorf (stadium) * Europabad und ein Freibad (

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s) *

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course * Riding *

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path *

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s * Schwalmstadt

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ground *

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grounds * several

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fields

Culture and sightseeing

Theatre

* Schwalmberg Open-Air Stage * Totenkirche Open-Air Stage * Castle Theatre (''Burgtheater'') * Culture Hall (''Kulturhalle'') * Trutzhain Theatre Club: "''Trutzhainer Bühne''"

Museums

* German Typewriter Museum (''Deutsches Schreibmaschinenmuseum'') * Museum of the Schwalm, Ziegenhain *

Trutzhain Schwalmstadt is the largest town in the Schwalm-Eder district, in northern Hesse, Germany. It was established only in 1970 with the amalgamation of the towns of Treysa and Ziegenhain together with some outlying villages to form the town of Schwalms ...

Memorial and Museum

Buildings

* Treysa's and Ziegenhain's historic Old Towns with many

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houses. * ''Totenkirche'' with "Buttermilk Tower" in Treysa * Town parish church * Old Hospital in Treysa * ''Hexenturm'' (

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) in Treysa * ''Schloss'' (stately home) with wall graves and parade square in Ziegenhain * Town Hall and Johannisbrunnen (

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) in Treysa

Other sights

* ''Hünengrab'' ("Giant's Grave") near Wiera

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

Through Schwalmstadt run Federal Highways (''Bundesstraßen'') B 254 (from

by way of Schwalmstadt to

) and B 454 (from

by way of Schwalmstadt to

). In the neighbouring community of

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ends (or begins) the

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A 49. The Main-Weser railway from

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runs through Schwalmstadt and serves two stations:

and Schwalmstadt-Wiera. There are hourly Regionalbahn trains from Kassel and the

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from Frankfurt ending at Treysa. In addition to that,

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trains and

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trains between Kassel and Frankfurt stop hourly in turn. At the station of Schwalmstadt-Wiera there is an hourly connection to Frankfurt via the Mittelhessen-Express. There was once a strategic railway running through the town between

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and

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(the latter now in France), known as the ''Kanonenbahn'', or " Cannons Railway".

Established businesses

* Erich Rohde Schuhfabriken (shoes) * Konvekta AG (heating and air conditioning) * Privatbrauerei Friedrich Haaß (brewery) * Horn & Bauer Folientechnik (protective, packaging and technical films) * Merkel-Freudenberg (gasket, packing, and sealing device manufacturing) * Hephata Hessisches Diakoniezentrum e. V. * Tieman (tank trucks, hoists, lifting devices) * Heidelmann Kühlhaus und intl. Spedition (cold storage and international shipping)

Media

*Schwälmer Allgemeine (daily) *Schwälmer Bote am Sonntag (Sundays) *Schwälmer Bote am Mittwoch (Wednesdays) *MAZ Mittelhessische Anzeigen Zeitung (Wednesdays)

Regular events

* Hutzelkirmes (

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in Treysa) * Bockbieranstich (Bock beer tapping, Treysa) * Salatkirmes (fair in Ziegenhain) * Kirmes (fair) in Allendorf an der Landsburg * Weindorf an der Totenkirche ("Wine village at the 'Church of the Dead'") * Bahnhofstraßenfest ("Street Festival") * "Ziegenhain vom Feinsten" ("Ziegenhain from its Finest") * Schwälmer Inlinerlauf (inline skating) * Weihnachtsmarkt (

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Market) * Scherzmarkt ("Fun Market") * Michaelismarkt * Johannisfest ("John's Festival") * "Sporthits für Kids" (Sportsfestival for kids) * Kirmes in Niedergrenzebach (fair) * Johannisfeuer (Niedergrenzebach) ("John's Fire", a

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festival) * Theaterabend der Trutzhainer Bühne (Theatre Evening in Trutzhain)

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

* Carl Bantzer, painter and art writer (born 6 August 1857 in Ziegenhain) * Stanisław Kubicki, artist, poet, philosopher (born 1889 in Ziegenhain, died 1943 in

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(murdered)) *

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, jurist and resistance fighter (born 1 August 1911 in Treysa, died 23 April 1945 in Berlin (executed)) *

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, historian, publicist and TV moderator (born 29 January 1948 in Treysa) * Wilhelm Böttner, Baroque painter (born 24 February 1752 in Ziegenhain, died 24 November 1805 in Kassel) *

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, pianist (born 28 July 1948 in Treysa) * Roswitha Aulenkamp, composer, pianist, piano lecturer at the ''Musikakademie Kassel'' (born 20 June 19xx in Ziegenhain) * Gereon Karl Goldmann (1916–2003) Franciscan father and former WW2 soldier and nazi opponent. * Alfred Hartenbach, Member of the Bundestag (SPD) (born 5 March 1948 in Niedergrenzebach) *

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, botanist and garden architect (born 9 March 1765 in Ziegenhain, died 2 January 1850 in

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) * Adam Dietrich, botanist (born 4 November 1711 in Ziegenhain, died 11 July 1782 in Ziegenhain) *

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, painter (born 4 August 1890 in Ziegenhain, died 17 May 1978 in

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) * Julius Weiffenbach, jurist (born 26 April 1837 in Ziegenhain, died 29 June 1910 in

) * Konrad Wiederhold, colonel (born 20 April 1598? in Ziegenhain, died 13 June 1667 in Kirchheim) * Klaus Stern, documentary filmmaker (born 1968 in Ziegenhain) *

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, one of the founders and first president (1955) of the

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(Born

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in Ziegenhain) He fled Germany with his family in mid-1930s when Nazis revoked citizenship to Jews.

References

External links

Museum der Schwalm

Gedenkstätte und Museum Trutzhain

Allendorf

Michelsberg

Rörshain
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