Volkmarsen Knowpia

Volkmarsen
Volkmarsen
Town
	July 2009 view from the castle Kugelsburg [de] on the town Volkmarsen
	Coat of arms
	Location of Volkmarsen within Waldeck-Frankenberg district
	Volkmarsen Volkmarsen
	Coordinates: 51°23′N 9°7′E / 51.383°N 9.117°E
Country	Germany
State	Hesse
Admin. region	Kassel
District	Waldeck-Frankenberg
Subdivisions	5 Ortsteile
Government
• Mayor (2022–28)	Hendrik Vahle
Area
• Total	67.47 km2 (26.05 sq mi)
Elevation	259 m (850 ft)
Population (2022-12-31)
• Total	6,769
• Density	100/km2 (260/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	34471
Dialling codes	05693
Vehicle registration	KB
Website	www.volkmarsen.de

Volkmarsen [ˈfɔlkˌmaʁzn̩] is a small town in Waldeck-Frankenberg district in northern Hesse, Germany. It is home to 6840 residents.

Geography edit

Location edit

Volkmarsen lies on the northern edge of the Waldecker Tafel (Waldecker Shield (geology)) where it flattens out into the Diemel Valley, some 28 km northwest of Kassel and 7 km northeast of Bad Arolsen.

Neighbouring communities edit

Volkmarsen borders in the north on the town of Warburg (Höxter district in North Rhine-Westphalia), in the east on the community of Breuna and the town of Wolfhagen (both in Kassel district), in the south and west on the town of Bad Arolsen and in the northwest on the town of Diemelstadt (both in Waldeck-Frankenberg).

Constituent communities edit

Besides the main town, which bears the same name as the whole, the town of Volkmarsen consists of the centres of Ehringen, Herbsen, Hörle, Külte and Lütersheim.

History edit

Volkmarsen's first documentary mention came in 1155. In a safe-conduct from Pope Gregory IX in 1233, Volkmarsen was first described as a town.

On 24 February 2020, a car drove into a crowd at a carnival parade.

Politics edit

Town council edit

The town council's 31 seats are apportioned thus, in accordance with municipal elections held in 2006:

CDU	13 seats
SPD	9 seats
FWG	5 seats
Greens	2 seats
FDP	2 seats

Note: FWG is a citizens' coalition.

Elections in March 2016:^[3]
CDU = 12 seats
SPD = 8 seats
FDP = 1 seats
FW = 5 seats
AfD = 3 seats
Unabhängige (Independents) = 2

Town-Hall of Volkmarsen

Coat of arms edit

catholic Church St. Mary

Volkmarsen's oldest seal dates from 1272. Like the current coat of arms, it shows two men, but sitting on a bench, the Count of Everstein and the Abbot of Corvey, the town's two overlords at the time. Another seal from the mid 14th century shows the now familiar church with two windows with religious figures in each one, believed to have been the Archbishop of Cologne and once again the Abbot of Corvey, reflecting the new ruling arrangement over the town. The two figures in the arms nowadays, however, are Saint Peter (holding the key) and Saint Paul (holding the sword). This became the arms in the 19th century.^[4]

Town partnerships edit

Volkmarsen maintains partnership links with the following:

Buttelstedt, Thuringia since 1990

Culture and sightseeing edit

Kugelsburg-Castle

Buildings edit

The castle Kugelsburg, built about 1200, destroyed in the Seven Years' War.
Catholic Church St. Mary (built 1260)
Lutheran Church (built 1845-1848)
Memorial Wall at the Jewish Cemetery ^[5]
St. Elisabeth-Hospital

Economy and infrastructure edit

Transport edit

Volkmarsen lies on Autobahn A44 Dortmund – Kassel and on the Warburg-Sarnau railway and offers hourly connections to Kassel.

Established businesses edit

Henkelmann - genuine Waldeck sausage specialities
Phönix Armaturen-Werke Bregel GmbH
Semtek - lighting, show technology, set-up rental
Teich Beratung Seele - Teichservice und Reinigung
Volkmarsen fire brigade

Personalities edit

Sons and daughters of the city edit

Katja Eichinger (* 1971), journalist and author, widow of Bernd Eichinger

Other personalities associated with the city edit

Hans Schäfer (* 1927), World champion 1954 in Bern, played a season 1947/48 with the VfR Volkmarsen

References edit

^ "Ergebnisse der letzten Direktwahl aller hessischen Landkreise und Gemeinden" (XLS) (in German). Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt. 5 September 2022.
^ "Bevölkerung in Hessen am 31.12.2022 nach Gemeinden" (XLS) (in German). Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt. June 2023.
^ "Kommunalwahlen 2016 in Hessen". statistik-hessen.de.
^ "Deutsche Wappen (Gemeindewappen Kreiswappen) - German Civic Heraldry-VOLKMARSEN". Archived from the original on 2001-07-31.
^ "Rückblende - gegen das Vergessen: Startseite".