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Waldeck-Frankenberg

''Map of Hesse highlighting the district of Waldeck-Frankenberg
State| Hesse
Adm. region| Kassel
Korbach
1,848.58 km
170,427 (2002)
Pop. density| 92 /km
Licence plate code| KB
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Waldeck-Frankenberg is a Kreis (district) in the north of Hesse, Germany. Neighboring districts are Höxter, Kassel, Schwalm-Eder, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Siegen-Wittgenstein, Hochsauerland.

History

The district was created in 1972 by merging the two districts Frankenberg and Waldeck. Most of the area of the district was previously part of the Freistaat Waldeck, the successor of the principality Waldeck.

Geography

The district is located in the mountains of the Sauerland, with the highest elevation in the district of 843 m.

Four artificial lakes created by dams are in the district, the biggest is the Edersee, which covers an area of 12.00 km². The Eder is also the main river in the district; the Diemel in the north is a smaller river.

Coat of arms

Coat of arms
The coat of arms show the lion of Hesse in the top part. The eight-fold star in the bottom part is taken from the coat of arms of the counts and princes of Waldeck, and was also the old coat of arms of the district Waldeck.

Towns and municipalities

Towns Municipalities
  1. Bad Arolsen
  2. Bad Wildungen
  3. Battenberg (Eder)
  4. Diemelstadt
  5. Frankenau
  6. Frankenberg (Eder)
  7. Gemünden (Wohra)
  8. Hatzfeld (Eder)
  9. Korbach
  10. Lichtenfels
  11. Rosenthal
  12. Volkmarsen
  13. Waldeck
  1. Allendorf (Eder)
  2. Bromskirchen
  3. Burgwald
  4. Diemelsee
  5. Edertal
  6. Haina (Kloster)
  7. Twistetal
  8. Vöhl
  9. Willingen (Upland)

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   Urban and rural districts in the state of Hesse in Germany   
Urban districtsDarmstadt Frankfurt Kassel Offenbach Wiesbaden
Rural districtsBergstrae Darmstadt-Dieburg Fulda Gieen Gro-Gerau Hersfeld-Rotenburg Hochtaunuskreis Kassel Lahn-Dill-Kreis Limburg-Weilburg Main-Kinzig-Kreis Main-Taunus-Kreis Marburg-Biedenkopf Odenwaldkreis Offenbach Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis Schwalm-Eder-Kreis Vogelsbergkreis Waldeck-Frankenberg Werra-Meiner-Kreis Wetteraukreis
Länder (singular Land). Since Land is the literal German word for "country", the term Bundesländer (federal states; singular Bundesland
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Hessen
Hesse
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A Regierungsbezirk is a government region of Germany, a subdivision of certain federal states (Bundesländer). Regierungsbezirke are themselves further divided into districts (Kreise), either Landkreise
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Kassel

''Map of Hesse highlighting the Regierungsbezirk of Kassel
State| Hesse
Kassel
8,288.7 km
1,252,907 (31 Dec. 2005)
Pop. density| 0 /km
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Korbach

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Square kilometre (U.S. spelling: square kilometer), symbol km², is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of surface area, the square metre, one of the SI derived units. 1 km² is equal to:
  • 1,000,000 m²
  • 100 ha (hectare)
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German car number plates (Kfz-Kennzeichen) show the place where the car carrying them is registered. Whenever a person changes their main place of residence in Germany, or buys a new car, they are required to buy new number plates.
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districts are used, or have been used, in several countries.

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Hessen
Hesse
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Country Germany

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Anthem
"Das Lied der Deutschen" (third stanza)
also called "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit"
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Höxter

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State| North Rhine-Westphalia
Adm. region| Detmold

Höxter
1,119.764 km
152,627 (31/12/2006)
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Kassel

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State| Hesse
Adm. region| Kassel

Kassel
1,292.77 km
245,264 (2002)
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Marburg-Biedenkopf

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State| Hesse
Adm. region| Gießen

Marburg
1,262.55 km
253,039 (2002)
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Siegen-Wittgenstein is a Kreis (district) in the southeast of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Olpe, Hochsauerland, Waldeck-Frankenberg, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Lahn-Dill, Westerwaldkreis, Altenkirchen.
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Hochsauerlandkreis

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State| North Rhine-Westphalia
Adm. region| Arnsberg

Meschede
1,958.708 km
281,188 (2002)
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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
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1969 1970 1971 - 1972 - 1973 1974 1975

Year 1972 (MCMLXXII
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Waldeck (or later Waldeck and Pyrmont) was a sovereign principality in the German Empire and German Confederation and, until 1929, a constituent state of the Weimar Republic. It comprised territories in present-day Hesse and Lower Saxony (Germany).
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The Sauerland is a rural, hilly area spreading across most of the eastern part of North Rhine-Westphalia, heavily forested and sparsely inhabited. It has been chosen as the first place in Germany where the Wisent or European bison will be reintroduced mainly because of its large
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Location Hesse
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Lake type reservoir
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Eder

The Eder in the dry lake Edersee in 2003


Country | Germany
Region | Hesse
Major cities | Frankenberg,Fritzlar,Edermünde
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Hessen
Hesse
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Bad Arolsen

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Bad Wildungen is a state-run spa and a small town in Waldeck-Frankenberg district in Hesse, Germany.

Geography

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Bad Wildungen lies in the eastern foothills of the Kellerwald range in the so-called Waldeck
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Battenberg is a small town in Waldeck-Frankenberg district in Hesse, Germany.

Geography

Location

The middle centre (in terms of Walter Christaller's Central Place Theory) of Battenberg lies in the Ederbergland
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Diemelstadt is a small town in Waldeck-Frankenberg district in Hesse, Germany.

Geography

Location

Diemelstadt lies in a small "bay" of Hesse that thrusts into, and is surrounded on three sides by, North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Frankenau is a small town in Waldeck-Frankenberg district in Hesse, Germany.

Geography

Location

Frankenau lies in the Kellerwald range southwest of the Talgang (566 m-high mountain).
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Frankenberg an der Eder is a town in Waldeck-Frankenberg district in Hesse, Germany.

The mountain at a ford over the Eder north of the Burgwald range was for a long time a fortified place, playing an especially important rôle under the Franks in the Saxon Wars.
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Gemünden is a town in Waldeck-Frankenberg district in Hesse, Germany.

Geography

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Gemünden lies roughly 22 km northeast of Marburg on the edge of the Burgwald range to the west and near the Kellerwald range rising to the northeast.
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Hatzfeld (Eder) is a small town in Waldeck-Frankenberg district in Hesse, Germany.

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