Rauschenberg, Hesse

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Coordinates: 50°52′N 8°55′E

Rauschenberg
Country	Germany
State	Hesse
Administrative region	Gießen
District	Marburg-Biedenkopf
Population	4,809 (31/12/2004)
Area	67.33 km²
Population density	71 /km²
Elevation	227 m
Coordinates	50°52′ N 8°55′ E
Postal code	35282
Area code	06425
Licence plate code	MR
Mayor	Manfred Barth (SPD)
Website	Stadt Rauschenberg

Rauschenberg is a town in the north of Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Hesse, Germany.

Contents 1 Geography 1.1 Location 1.2 Neighbouring communities 1.3 Town divisions 2 History 3 Politics 3.1 Town council 3.2 Coat of arms 3.3 Town partnerships 4 Culture and Sightseeing 4.1 Buildings 5 Economy and infrastructure 5.1 Transport 6 Reference 7 Trivia 8 External links

[edit] Geography

[edit] Location

Rauschenberg lies at the southern edge of the Burgwald, a low mountain range, near Marburg and Kirchhain.

[edit] Neighbouring communities

Rauschenberg borders in the north on the town of Rosenthal (Waldeck-Frankenberg) as well as on the communities of Wohratal (Marburg-Biedenkopf) and Gilserberg (Schwalm-Eder-Kreis), in the east on the town of Stadtallendorf, in the south on the town of Kirchhain, in the southwest on the community of Cölbe, and in the west on the town of Wetter (all in Marburg-Biedenkopf).

[edit] Town divisions

Rauschenberg consists of the following centres: Albshausen, Bracht, Ernsthausen, Josbach, Rauschenberg, Schwabendorf and Wolfskaute.

[edit] History

Even as far back as 1000, a castle was built in what is now Rauschenberg. After a fire about 1250, almost the whole settlement was destroyed. Shortly after Rauschenberg was founded by the Counts of Ziegenhain, it was granted town rights. When the "von Ziegenhain" family died out in 1450, the castle and the town fell to the House of Hesse. In this time, the castle was expanded and made into a hunting lodge.

During the Thirty Years' War, Rauschenberg was mostly destroyed and thoroughly plundered by Swedish troops. Ever since the castle was blown up at a Kassel colonel's behest two years before the war ended, there has been nothing left of it but a ruin.

[edit] Politics

[edit] Town council

Results of municipal election on 26 March 2006:

Parties and voter coalitions		Share in %	Seats
CDU	Christian Democratic Union	32.9	8
SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	36.4	8
Greens	Alliance '90/The Greens	10.4	2
FBL	Freie Bürgerliste (citizens' coalition)	20.4	5
total		100.1	23

[edit] Coat of arms

Rauschenberg's civic coat of arms might be described thus: Party per fess; above, in sable a six-pointed star argent; below in Or. It matches the arms used by the town's old overlords, the Counts of Ziegenhain. The Hessisches Ortswappenbuch (1956, published by Verlag C. A. Starke, Limburg), a work about Hessian civic arms, shows an eight-pointed star in a modification of the Counts' coat of arms, as indeed does the International Civic Heraldry website.

[edit] Town partnerships

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[edit] Culture and Sightseeing

[edit] Buildings

There has not been much left of the castle, later stately home, of Rauschenberg since it was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War. The ruins on the hill over the constituent community – also known as Rauschenberg – are open and free to all.

[edit] Economy and infrastructure

[edit] Transport

Rauschenberg is connected to the road network by Federal Highway (Bundesstraße) B 3 between Frankfurt and Kassel, and by Bundesstraße B 62. As for public transportation, there is a bus connection to Kirchhain which runs many times daily.

[edit] Reference

This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.

[edit] Trivia

A Finnish industrial music group, named Rauschenmaschine (german for noisemaschine) has a song on their website called Rauschenberg.

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[edit] External links

• Town's official website