Nentershausen is a municipality in

Hersfeld-Rotenburg Hersfeld-Rotenburg is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the east of Hesse, Germany. Neighboring districts are Werra-Meißner, Wartburgkreis, Fulda, Vogelsbergkreis, Schwalm-Eder. History In 1821, districts were created in Hesse, including the districts H ...

district in northeastern

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Geography

Location

The community lies in the mountains in eastern Hesse, where it finds itself in the centre of the Richelsdorfer Gebirge (range) between the

Fulda Fulda () (historically in English called Fuld) is a town in Hesse, Germany; it is located on the river Fulda and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district (''Kreis''). In 1990, the town hosted the 30th Hessentag state festival. History ...

to the west and the

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to the east. The municipal area lies in the Hasel

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whose namesake river empties into the river Sontra near

Sontra Sontra is a small town in the Werra-Meißner-Kreis in northeastern Hesse, Germany. The air spa of Sontra is known as ''Berg- und Hänselstadt'', with ''Bergstadt'' referring to the time when there was bituminous shale mining (“mining” is ''B ...

. The nearest major towns are

Bad Hersfeld The festival and spa town of Bad Hersfeld (''Bad'' is "spa" in German; the Old High German name of the city was ''Herolfisfeld'') is the district seat of the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northeastern Hesse, Germany, roughly 50 km southeast ...

(some 25 km to the southwest),

Eisenach Eisenach () is a town in Thuringia, Germany with 42,000 inhabitants, located west of Erfurt, southeast of Kassel and northeast of Frankfurt. It is the main urban centre of western Thuringia and bordering northeastern Hessian regions, situat ...

(some 30 km to the east) and

Eschwege Eschwege (), the district seat of the Werra-Meißner-Kreis, is a town in northeastern Hesse, Germany. In 1971, the town hosted the eleventh ''Hessentag'' state festival. Geography Location The town lies on a broad plain tract of the river Wer ...

(some 25 km to the north).

Neighbouring communities

Nentershausen borders in the north and east on the town of

(in the

Werra-Meißner-Kreis Werra-Meißner is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the north of Hesse, Germany. Neighboring districts are Göttingen, Eichsfeld, Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis, Wartburgkreis, district-free Eisenach, Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Kassel. History The di ...

), in the southeast on the community of

Wildeck Wildeck is a municipality in Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northeastern Hesse, Germany lying right at the boundary with Thuringia, 54 km southeast of Kassel. Geography Location The community lies partly in the middle Werra valley, in th ...

, in the south on the community of

Ronshausen Ronshausen is a municipality and a ''Luftkurort'' (“air spa”) in Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northeastern Hesse, Germany. Geography Location The community lies in the valley of the Ulfe, which in Bebra empties into the Fulda. It lies in th ...

and in the west on the town of

Bebra Bebra () is a small town in Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northeastern Hesse, Germany. Geography Location Bebra lies some south of Kassel on the Fulda. The town is easy to find on most maps thanks to its prominent location on the ''Fuldaknie'' ...

and the community of

Cornberg Cornberg is a municipality in Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northeastern Hesse, Germany. It is the district's smallest municipality. Geography Location The community lies between the towns of Bad Hersfeld to the south and Eschwege to the no ...

(all in Hersfeld-Rotenburg).

Constituent communities

Nentershausen's ''

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e'', besides the main centre, also called Nentershausen, are Bauhaus, Dens, Mönchhosbach, Süß and Weißenhasel.

History

The first documentary mention of any of the constituent communities came from an interest register from the

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at Helmershausen (nowadays part of the unitary community of Rhönblick), wherein Hasels is mentioned in 1120 as ''Hasolo in Thuringia''. ''Tense'' followed in 1195 and ''Susse'' in 1267, which Hermann von Trott had acquired as a Lauterberg fief. The other places followed in the course of the 14th century. About 1300, Ludwig I of Baumbach built Tannenberg Castle.

Amalgamations

In the course of municipal reform, the above-named communities merged into the greater community of Nentershausen on 31 December 1971.

Politics

Community council

The municipal election held on 26 March 2006 yielded the following results:

Mayors

The former mayor Lothar Schmidt (SPD) was elected to a fourth term on 10 September 2000 with 90.6% of the vote. He had first been elected on 17 December 1982 for a term beginning on 1 January 1983. On 3 September 2006, Ralf Hilmes (SPD) was elected with 71.7% of the vote, thereby unseating Lothar Schmidt as the mayor on 1 January 2007.

Coat of arms

The community's

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might be described thus: Party per fess embattled of six vert a chief counter-sapiné of three argent, argent a mount of three of the first, surmounted by a sledgehammer and a cross-peen hammer per saltire Or. Although the arms shown in this article show the two tools in silver (white), the German blazon says that this

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should be gold. The coat of arms was conferred upon the community on 4 November 1981 by the Hessian Minister of the Interior. The fir trees in the upper part of the escutcheon refer to the community's wealth in woodland. The six battlements symbolize the six constituent communities and Tannenberg Castle. The mining tools refer to the community's historical mining. Until the mid 20th century, bituminous shale (''Kupferschiefer'') was mined in Nentershausen.

Town partnerships

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since 1990 *

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since 1990 * Bezirk Steglitz, today Bezirk Steglitz-Zehlendorf in

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, since 1966 There was once a sponsorship arrangement with 4 Company of the Armoured Reconnaissance Battalion (''Panzeraufklärungsbataillon'') 5 in

. This came to an end on 31 December 2007 when the battalion was disbanded.

Culture and sightseeing

Museums

* Heimat und Bergbau Museum (“Local and Mining Museum”), in the former ''

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'' court,

Buildings

* Tannenberg Castle, built in the 13th century in the

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style, since 1360 owned by the family von Baumbach * Nentershausen

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Church, remodelled between 1696 and 1706 in the

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style *

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town hall in Nentershausen

Natural monuments

In Nentershausen stands a protected village or court linden tree that is some 600 years old.

Regular events

* Denser Seefest (“Lake Festival”) * Burgfest (“Castle Festival”) at Tannenberg Castle

Famous people

Sons and daughters of the town

* Henriette Dorothea (Dortchen) Wild, wed

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in 1825 * Franz Brandl,

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awarded the miner the first

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in 1951.Photo and short text at the ''Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland''

People associated with the community

* Adolph Freiherr Knigge, wed Henriette von Baumbach in 1773, whose Tannenberg estates and castle are found here; he also lived here for a while

References

External links

Church in Dens
{{Authority control Hersfeld-Rotenburg