Wabern is a municipality in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse,
Germany. It lies on the Main-Weser
Railway between
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 ...
and
Frankfurt. From Wabern, the Edersee Railway runs to
Bad Wildungen.
Geography
Location
The main centre of Wabern lies on the
Eder Eder may refer to:
People
* Eder (surname)
* Éder (given name), a Portuguese or Spanish given name
*Éder (footballer, born 1986), Brazilian footballer Éder Citadin Martins
*Eder (footballer, born 1987), Portuguese footballer from Guinea-Bissau E ...
and
Schwalm floodplain, a few kilometres south of where the Schwalm empties into the Eder.
Constituent communities
The community of Wabern consists of ten centres, the main centre, bearing the same name as the whole municipality, and the nine outlying villages of Hebel, Rockshausen, Falkenberg, Udenborn, Unshausen, Uttershausen, Zennern, Niedermöllrich and Harle.
Economy
For a long time, Wabern was an important railway hub, where the
Sauerland
The Sauerland () is a rural, hilly area spreading across most of the south-eastern part of North Rhine-Westphalia, in parts heavily forested and, apart from the major valleys, sparsely inhabited.
The Sauerland is the largest tourist region in ...
Line to
Brilon branched off the Frankfurt-Kassel-
Hanover mainline. Today the branchline ends at Bad Wildungen.
A big
sugar
Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food. Simple sugars, also called monosaccharides, include glucose, fructose, and galactose. Compound sugars, also called disaccharides or double ...
factory processes the
sugar beet
A sugar beet is a plant whose root contains a high concentration of sucrose and which is grown commercially for sugar production. In plant breeding, it is known as the Altissima cultivar group of the common beet (''Beta vulgaris''). Together wi ...
s in the autumn. These are grown over a wide area around the community.
Politics
Mayors
In June 2015 Claus Steinmetz (SPD) was elected mayor with 60.7% of the votes.
Municipal partnerships
*
Lormaison
Lormaison () is a commune in the Oise department in northern France.
See also
* Communes of the Oise department
The following is a list of the 679 communes of the Oise department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following intercomm ...
(Oise),
France (with Uttershausen)
Buildings
The local stately home,
Landgrave Karl von Hesse's ''Jagd- und Lustschloss Wabern'' (roughly "Wabern Hunting and Delight Palace"), was built in 1701, mainly so that the Landgrave could practise
falconry
Falconry is the hunting of wild animals in their natural state and habitat by means of a trained bird of prey. Small animals are hunted; squirrels and rabbits often fall prey to these birds. Two traditional terms are used to describe a person ...
in the nearby Reiherwald (forest). In 1770 some remodelling work was done under the well known
Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
architect Simon Louis du Ry
Simon Louis du Ry (13 January 1726 in Kassel - 23 August 1799 in Kassel) was a classical architect.
Biography
Simon Louis du Ry was the son of the Huguenot architect Charles du Ry and grandson of Paul du Ry of Kassel. He was from a French re ...
. The ''Schloss'' nowadays houses a youth centre.
The Evangelical Church was likewise built in the 18th century. It has a
Rococo organ
Organ may refer to:
Biology
* Organ (biology), a part of an organism
Musical instruments
* Organ (music), a family of keyboard musical instruments characterized by sustained tone
** Electronic organ, an electronic keyboard instrument
** Hammond ...
worth seeing.
Personalities
*
Karl Schmidt (1932-2018),
footballer
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...
*
Wilhelm Dilich
Wilhelm may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* William Charles John Pitcher, costume designer known professionally as "Wilhelm"
* Wilhelm (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname
Other uses
* Moun ...
(1571–1650),
engraver
*
Rolf Hocke Rolf is a male given name and a surname. It originates in the Germanic name ''Hrolf'', itself a contraction of ''Hrodwulf'' ( Rudolf), a conjunction of the stem words ''hrod'' ("renown") + ''wulf'' ("wolf"). The Old Norse cognate is ''Hrólfr''. ...
(1955- ), football official
*
Fritz Harney
Fritz originated as a German nickname for Friedrich, or Frederick (''Der Alte Fritz'', and ''Stary Fryc'' were common nicknames for King Frederick II of Prussia and Frederick III, German Emperor) as well as for similar names including Fridoli ...
(1879–1953),
industrialist
A business magnate, also known as a tycoon, is a person who has achieved immense wealth through the ownership of multiple lines of enterprise. The term characteristically refers to a powerful entrepreneur or investor who controls, through perso ...
*
Philipp Losch (1864–1953),
historian
* Ludwig Schneider (1893-1977), politician
*
Arnold Strippel
Arnold Strippel (2 June 1911 – 1 May 1994) was a German SS commander during the Nazi era and convicted criminal. As a member of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, while assigned to the Neuengamme concentration camp, he was given the task of murdering ...
(1911-1994), SS Obersturmführer and war criminal
References
External links
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