Burgwald | |
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Location of Burgwald within Waldeck-Frankenberg district ![]() | |
Coordinates:51°00′N08°45′E / 51.000°N 8.750°E /51.000; 8.750 | |
Country | Germany |
State | Hesse |
Admin. region | Kassel |
District | Waldeck-Frankenberg |
Subdivisions | 5Ortsteile |
Government | |
• Mayor(2020–26) | Lothar Koch[1] (Ind.) |
Area | |
• Total | 41.29 km2 (15.94 sq mi) |
Highest elevation | 400 m (1,300 ft) |
Lowest elevation | 250 m (820 ft) |
Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 5,034 |
• Density | 120/km2 (320/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
Postal codes | 35099 |
Dialling codes | 06451 / 06457 |
Vehicle registration | KB |
Website | www |
Burgwald is a municipality inWaldeck-Frankenberg inHesse,Germany.
Burgwald lies east ofBattenberg and roughly 30 km north of the university town ofMarburg. The community lies on the northwestern edge of the Burgwald range, Hesse's biggest contiguous woodland.
Burgwald borders in the north on the town ofFrankenberg, in the east on the community ofHaina, in the south on the town ofRosenthal (all in Waldeck-Frankenberg), in the southwest on the community ofMünchhausen (Marburg-Biedenkopf), and in the west on the town ofBattenberg and the community ofAllendorf (both in Waldeck-Frankenberg).
The community is divided into Birkenbringhausen in the northwest, Bottendorf somewhat more towards the northeast, Burgwald and Wiesenfeld towards the centre, and Ernsthausen to the south.
Burgwald is quite a new name for the main community. Until 1996, it was known asIndustriehof.
As part of Hesse's municipal reforms on 1 July 1971, the communities of Birkenbringhausen, Ernsthausen and Wiesenfeld merged to form the greater community. On 1 January 1974, Bottendorf was amalgamated with Burgwald as well.
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The council's 27 seats are apportioned thus, in accordance with municipal elections held on 26 March 2006 (each party's share of the vote is also shown, and figures in parentheses are for the 2001 election):
Note: The last three are citizens' coalitions.
Burgwald's civiccoat of arms has some unusual divisions. The crenellated wall and the line of fir trees are, as the German blazon describes them, not charges, but rather divisions of the shield, although most observers would see a castle wall and a line of trees (things, rather than dividing lines). According to the blazon, the only charge is the cross of theOrder of St. John in the shield's lowest division.
The shield's colours are blue, green and silver – blue for the sky, silver for a castle's battlements and the cross, and green for the treetops. The battlements refer to the Kesterburg (now called the Christenberg), a castle in the Burgwald range. The cross refers to local history, namely Wiesenfeld's. In 1238, this village was founded as a prospective Order of St. John centre.
Through the community runs Federal Highway (Bundesstraße) B 252 connectingMarburg andKorbach.
Birkenbringhausen, Wiesenfeld and Ernsthausen are stops on theBurgwaldbahnrailway line fromFrankenberg to Marburg. The stations in Burgwald are in the tariff zone of the North Hesse Transport Association (Nordhessischer Verkehrsverbund; NVV).
Several signpostedbicycle paths cross the municipal area or lead right to it. West past Birkenbringhausen run the Hessian cycle path R8 and theEderauenweg ("Eder floodplain way"), which runs alongside the Eder from its source in the Rothaargebirge to its mouth where it empties into theFulda. East of Bottendorf, the Hessian cycle path R6 runs through the Burgwald range. The Lahn-Eder cycle path, running from Marburg to Frankenberg reaches the former district seat of Frankenberg from Ernsthausen in the south by way of the Bottendorf area.