Saasen (; ) is a
village
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in the
municipality
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of
Reiskirchen
Reiskirchen () is a municipality in the district of Gießen, in Hesse, Germany and is located 11 km east of Gießen
Giessen, spelled Gießen in German (), is a town in the German state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of both the distric ...
in Central
Hesse
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,
Germany
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. It includes the hamlets of Bollnbach, Veitsberg and Wirberg, a former
castle
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.
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
Saasen (german: Bahnhof Saasen) is a station in Saasen, Hesse, Germany.
Rail services
The station is served daily by hourly Regionalbahn (RB 45) services on the Limburg (Lahn)–Weilburg–Wetzlar–Gießen– Alsfeld (Oberhess)–Fulda
Fuld ...
is on the
Vogelsberg Railway
The Vogelsberg Railway (german: Vogelsbergbahn) is a single-track main line from Gießen via Alsfeld to Fulda in the German state of Hesse.
Name
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. 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
![Saasenmap](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Saasenmap.png)
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
half-timbered
Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...
buildings and the river Wieseck runs through it.
Bollnbach
Bollnbach is the biggest area of Saasen. Today, 48 people live in Bollnbach. In the middle of town is a
Maibaum with all family names where the people live. Bollnbach has only two roads, the Wirbergerstraße and Saasenerstraße. In the middle of Bollnbach is also standing the "Schäferhaus" the main hall in Bollnbach.
Wirberg
Wirberg
Wirberg is a former monastery complex in the Giessen (district), district of Giessen. It is located on the eastern edge of the municipality of Reiskirchen between Saasen (Reiskirchen), Saasen and Göbelnrod, and about eight miles north-west of Gr ...
is a former monastery located between Saasen and
Göbelnrod
Göbelnrod is a village and urban district of Grünberg in the district of Gießen, in Hesse, Germany.
Geography
Göbelnrod is situated 2 km west of Grünberg and 20 km east of Gießen.
Sights
* Wirberg
Wirberg is a former mona ...
.
Church of Veitsberg
The Veitsberg Church is a
Romanesque components and from the time received in 1250. Next to the church, in the former schoolhouse in the years 1734-1785, lived the "man of the calendar Veitsberg", the mathematically and scientifically versed Jacob Conrad Justus. He was here the village schoolmaster and taught the children of Saasen and Lindenstruth.
[Kirche Veitsberg](_blank)
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Wieseck
The river Wieseck originates in Saasen.
Geography
The village square of Saasen was established on the eastern bank of the Wieseck on a ridge of land backed by a steep hill. It is at this point and the spring of Wieseck. The site is located east of the main town in the valley on the Busecker tal and at the Wieseck in central Hesse.
Demographics
The village has been expanding in size quite considerably in recent years, with a population estimate of 1,200 in 2006, up over 60 from the census in 2001.
Sport
The best known football club in Saasen is the sports club SV 1936 Saasen. SV Saasen has also other sections for bowling, gymnastics, and table tennis. Another known club is the youth academy. JSG Saasen/Harbach/Ettingshausen[SV SAASEN the official website](_blank)
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Places of interest
* Church of Wirberg
* Wirberger view on Saasen
* Church
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Religion
* Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities
* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
* Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship
* Chris ...
of Veitsberg Saasen
* Little Lake
* Home museum Saasen (closed)
* Central of Saasen
* Half-timbered
Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...
buildings
* Stadion am Wingert
* Old Train Station
Railway station
Saasen railway station is on the Vogelsberg Railway
The Vogelsberg Railway (german: Vogelsbergbahn) is a single-track main line from Gießen via Alsfeld to Fulda in the German state of Hesse.
Name
The name of the Vogelsberg Railway was originally used for the now closed and dismantled branch line ...
line from Giessen to Fulda).
References
External links
Information on the settlement on the Reiskirchen website
Saasen in the Hessian Regional History Information System (LAGIS)
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Villages in Hesse
Giessen (district)