Gladenbach | |
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.jpg) Gladenbach from Koppe-Tower | |
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Location of Gladenbach within Marburg-Biedenkopf district  | |
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| Coordinates:50°46′5″N8°34′58″E / 50.76806°N 8.58278°E /50.76806; 8.58278 | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Hesse |
| Admin. region | Gießen |
| District | Marburg-Biedenkopf |
| Subdivisions | 15Stadtteile |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2020–26) | Peter Kremer[1] (Ind.) |
| Area | |
• Total | 72.28 km2 (27.91 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 262 m (860 ft) |
| Population (2023-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 12,594 |
| • Density | 174.2/km2 (451.3/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 35075 |
| Dialling codes | 06462 |
| Vehicle registration | MR |
| Website | www.gladenbach.de |
Gladenbach (German pronunciation:[ˈɡlaːdn̩bax]ⓘ) is a town in Hesse,Germany, in the west of Marburg-Biedenkopf district.
The town of Gladenbach lies on the eastern edge of theWesterwald in the Hessian Highland (Bergland). This part of the Lahn-Dill Highland is often also called theGladenbach Uplands. This has arisen from the great degree of correspondence between today's municipal area and the area covered by the historicalAmt of Blankenstein, the eastsoutheastern part of the so-called Hessian Hinterland and the later, albeit now former, Biedenkopf district.
Within the bounds of the municipality's southern centres of Weidenhausen, Erdhausen, Gladenbach and Mornshausen runs the river Salzböde, which rises inBad Endbach and flows through the municipal area, then running farther eastwards through the municipalities ofLohra,Fronhausen andLollar, where it empties into theLahn at Odenhausen. Farther north in Gladenbach, mostly west–east through the centres of Runzhausen, Bellnhausen, Sinkershausen, Frohnhausen and Friebertshausen runs another river, the Allna, which flows onwards toWeimar, likewise emptying into the Lahn. The two waterways are separated from each other by high ridges which even make for a local drainage divide where smaller streams are concerned. Nonetheless, the town of Gladenbach as a whole is commonly said to lie in the Salzböde valley.
An important east–west traffic thoroughfare in Gladenbach is the Federal Highway (Bundesstraße) 255 crossing the municipal area fromMarburg through the constituent municipalities of Weimar and Lohra, leaving the municipal area at Weidenhausen in the area of theZollbuche ("Customs Beech" – it once marked the border betweenHesse-Darmstadt andHesse-Nassau) southwestwards towards the municipality ofBischoffen inLahn-Dill district. The highway runs thence alongside the Aartalsee (areservoir) on toHerborn, ending atMontabaur. Bundesstraße 453 ends within the town of Gladenbach after running through the municipality ofDautphetal to the north and Gladenbach's constituent municipality of Runzhausen.
TheAar-Salzböde-Bahn, a single-trackrailway line that ran through the municipal area along the Salzböde valley, has been in desuetude since 1995, and owing to alevel crossing being torn up at Weidenhausen, meagre maintenance and the resulting overgrowth by bushes and trees, the line has also largely fallen apart.
In the north, Gladenbach borders on the municipality ofDautphetal, in the northeast on the town ofMarburg, in the east on the municipality ofWeimar, in the southeast on the municipality ofLohra (all in Marburg-Biedenkopf), in the southwest on the municipality ofBischoffen (Lahn-Dill-Kreis), and in the west on the municipality ofBad Endbach (Marburg-Biedenkopf).
Gladenbach's municipal area is divided into 15 constituent municipalities (Stadtteile).
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Within Gladenbach's current municipal area, between Mornshausen and Erdhausen, the so-calledPostraub in der Subach took place in 1822. A gang of poorfarmers andpoachers robbed a money-bearing mail coach running between Gladenbach and Gießen in a narrow pass above a small brook called the Subach, making off with the then unheard-of sum of more than 10,000Gulden. These details and others are contained in a contemporary police report, which also laid the groundwork for the German made-for-TV filmThe Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach (1971) byVolker Schlöndorff.
As of municipal elections held on 6 March 2016, town council seats are apportioned thus:
| CDU | 12 seats |
| SPD | 13 seats |
| FW (Free voters) | 9 seats |
| Young List/The Greens | 3 seats |
The town'scoat of arms might be described thus: Party per fess, above in azure the Hessian lion rampant striped in argent and gules armed Or crowned Or langued gules, below in vert a saltire Or.
Thelion is an emblem of the town's early affiliation with Hesse, and thesaltire (X-shaped cross) stands for the influence wielded before this time by the Lords of Merenberg.
Monteux,France (1987)
Bad Tabarz,Thuringia (1991)
Niemcza,Poland (1998)
Londerzeel,Belgium (2010)In 2004, there were four marches, declared legal but guarded by great police presence, byneo-Nazis from outside the town, which set off even bigger counterdemonstrations. In the end, the citizens' league, a group created at the instigation of headmaster Siegfried Seyler uniting churches,Jusos,DGBers and ordinary citizens, made an appeal. The centres for this rightwing extremism were Gladenbach, Kirtorf (Vogelsberg) andMarburg. The biggest rightwing extremist group with about 30 rightwing extremists and a large body of sympathizers was theAktionsbündnis Mittelhessen (Middle Hesse Action League; ABM), a fusion of regional "free comradeships". Late in 2004, the ABM dissolved itself unilaterally to get around a ban imposed by the Hessian Interior Ministry. The activists resumed their activities in other neo-Nazi groups. The ABM was the most active and biggest neo-Nazi group in Hesse.
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