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Zierenberg is a town in the district of Kassel, in
Hesse Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major histor ...
,
Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
. It is located 19 km east 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 ...
, and 15 km northwest of
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 ...
on the
German Timber-Frame Road The German Timber-Frame Road (German: ''Deutsche Fachwerkstraße'') is a German tourist route leading from the river Elbe in the north to the Black Forest and Lake Constance in the south. Numerous cities and towns each with examples of the vernacu ...
.


Local council

The elections from 06. March 2016 showed the following results: * CDU = 8 seats * SPD = 14 seats * FDP = 2 seats * UFW = 7 seats


Mayors

* Conrad Brede: 1856–1880 * Karl Kupferschläger: 1880–1911 * Wiegand Pitz: 1912–1933 * Wilhelm Schäfer: 1933–1945 * Heinrich Ledderhose: 1945–1948 * Konrad Bürgel: 1948–1956 * Rudi Walther: 1957–1972 * Georg Hildebrandt: 1972–1984 * Horst Buchhaupt: 1984–1990 * Jürgen Pfütze: 1991–2008 * Stefan Denn: 2009–2020 * since 2020: Rüdiger Gemeroth


Notable people

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Johann Jacob Friedrich Krebs Johann Jacob Friedrich Krebs, commonly known as Friedrich Krebs (c. 1749–1815) was an American fraktur artist. He was the most prolific of the Pennsylvania German fraktur artists. Born in Zierenberg, Hesse, Krebs was one of the Hessians who ...
,
fraktur Fraktur () is a calligraphic hand of the Latin alphabet and any of several blackletter typefaces derived from this hand. The blackletter lines are broken up; that is, their forms contain many angles when compared to the curves of the Antiqu ...
painter


References


External links


Official Webpage
Towns in Hesse Kassel (district) {{Hesse-geo-stub