Twistetal is a municipality in

Waldeck-Frankenberg Waldeck-Frankenberg is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the north of Hesse, Germany. Neighbouring districts are Höxter, Kassel, Schwalm-Eder, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Siegen-Wittgenstein, Hochsauerland. History The district was created in 1972 by merging t ...

in northwest

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, southwest of

Bad Arolsen Bad Arolsen (, until 1997 Arolsen, ''Bad'' being the German name for ''Spa'') is a small town in northern Hesse, Germany, in Waldeck-Frankenberg district. From 1655 until 1918 it served as the residence town of the Princes of Waldeck-Pyrmont and t ...

Geography

Location

The community lies on the river Twiste, a tributary to the Diemel, itself a tributary to the

Weser The Weser () is a river of Lower Saxony in north-west Germany. It begins at Hannoversch Münden through the confluence of the Werra and Fulda. It passes through the Hanseatic city of Bremen. Its mouth is further north against the ports of Bre ...

. Twistetal is only a short way downstream from, and southwest of, the

Twistesee The Twistesee is a reservoir on the Twiste in the county of Waldeck-Frankenberg in North Hesse, Germany. Location The Twistesee is located at the northern end of the Langer Wald around 30 km as the crow flies west-northwest of Kassel b ...

, a

man-made lake A reservoir (; from French ''réservoir'' ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam. Such a dam may be either artificial, built to store fresh water or it may be a natural formation. Reservoirs can be created in a number of ways, including control ...

. It is located about 6 kilometers southwest from Bad Arolsen.

Neighbouring communities

Twistetal borders in the north and east on the town of

, in the southeast on the town of Waldeck, in the southwest on the town of

Korbach Korbach (pronunciation: ˈkoːɐˌbax), officially the Hanseatic City of Korbach (German language, German: Hansestadt Korbach), is the district seat of Waldeck-Frankenberg in northern Hesse, Germany. It is over a thousand years old and is located o ...

and in the west on the community of

Diemelsee The Diemelsee or Diemel Reservoir (german: Diemelstausee) is a reservoir with a surface area of 1.65 km² and about capacity of 19.9 million m³ on the River Diemel in the counties of Waldeck-Frankenberg in North Hesse, and Hochs ...

(all in Waldeck-Frankenberg).

Constituent communities

Twistetal consists of the following centres: *Berndorf *Elleringhausen *Gembeck *Mühlhausen *Nieder-Waroldern *Ober-Waroldern *Twiste (main town and administrative seat)

Politics

The community's mayor is Stefan Dittmann ( FDP), elected in 2018. Twistetal's council is made up of 23 councillors, with seats apportioned thus, in accordance with municipal elections held in March 2021: * CDU 7 seats * FDP 5 seats *

SPD The Social Democratic Party of Germany (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, ; SPD, ) is a centre-left social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany. Saskia Esken has been the ...

4 seats *Wählergemeinschaft Twistetal 4 seats * Greens 3 seat Note: ''Wählergemeinschaft Twistetal'' is a citizens' coalition.

Infrastructure

Through Twistetal runs Federal Highway (''Bundesstraße'') 252 from Korbach to Bad Arolsen. Furthermore, Twiste is a stop on the

RegionalExpress In Germany, Luxembourg and Austria, the Regional-Express (RE, or in Austria: REX) is a type of regional train. It is similar to a semi-fast train, with average speed at about 70–90 km/h (top speed often 160 km/h) as it calls at ...

railway Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

service from

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 ...

to Korbach.

Outing destinations

Well known points of interest nearby are the Twistesee in the community itself, and a bit farther afield,

References

External links

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* {{Authority control Waldeck-Frankenberg Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont