Cölbe () is a municipality in Marburg-Biedenkopf district in

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Location

Cölbe's municipal area lies on the southern edge of the ''Burgwald'', a low mountain range and part of the ''Hessisches Bergland'' (Hessian Highland), and borders directly on the university city of

Marburg Marburg ( or ) is a university town in the German federal state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district (''Landkreis''). The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has a population of approximat ...

to the south. The namesake constituent community is found on a bow in the river

Lahn The Lahn is a , right (or eastern) tributary of the Rhine in Germany. Its course passes through the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia (23.0 km), Hesse (165.6 km), and Rhineland-Palatinate (57.0 km). It has its source i ...

where it bends from its mainly easterly flow to a mainly southerly one.

Neighbouring communities

Cölbe borders in the northwest on the town of Wetter, in the northeast on the town of Rauschenberg, in the east on the town of Kirchhain, in the south on the town of

, and in the west on the community of

Lahntal The municipality of Lahntal is found in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district in northwest Middle Hesse, Germany. Geography Lahntal lies on the upper Lahn about 83 km north of Frankfurt am Main and about 7 km northwest of Marburg. In the no ...

(all in Marburg-Biedenkopf).

Divisions

The community consists of six constituent communities named Bernsdorf, Bürgeln, Cölbe, Reddehausen, Schönstadt and Schwarzenborn.

Coat of arms

Cölbe's civic coat of arms might be described thus: ''Gules a bend argent surmounted by six hearts reversed gules in bend three and three''. Reversed hearts are also taken in heraldry as stylized testicles.

Clubs

* Fußballverein 1927 Cölbe (

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) * Fröhlicher Kreis e.V. Cölbe ("Merry District") * Turnverein 06 Cölbe e.V. (

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) * Freiwillige Feuerwehr Cölbe – Bürgeln (Volunteer

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) * Schützenverein 1930/63 Cölbe e.V. (

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club) * Männergesangsverein Cölbe 1878 e.V. (Men's singing club) * Bläserchor 1901 Schönstadt e.V. (Brass Band)

Politics

As of municipal elections on 26 March 2006, seats on municipal council are apportioned thus:

Partnerships

* Kościerzyna,

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Sundry

The Institute for Theoretical

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Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...

has ascertained that the

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational union, supranational political union, political and economic union of Member state of the European Union, member states that are located primarily in Europe, Europe. The union has a total area of ...

's centre point after the 2004 expansion lies at the coordinates . This spot is to be found within Cölbe's municipal limits, 895 m from the community's own centre point. Newer efforts delving into this question, however, have yielded different results, putting the EU's centre point at Kleinmaischeid in the Westerwald.

References

External links

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Deutschlandradio Berlin: Reise zum Mittelpunkt Europas
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