Ebsdorfergrund Explained

Image Coa:Wappen Ebsdorfergrund.svg
Coordinates:50.7333°N 60°W
Image Plan:Marburg-Biedenkopf_Ebsdorfergrund.png
State:Hessen
Region:Gießen
District:Marburg-Biedenkopf
Elevation:219
Area:72.89
Postal Code:35085
Area Code:06424
Licence:MR
Gemeindeschlüssel:06 5 34 008
Website:www.ebsdorfergrund.de
Mayor:Hanno Kern[1]
Leader Term:2022 - 28

Ebsdorfergrund is a municipality consisting of eleven villages in the southeast of Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Hesse, Germany.

The community's municipal area extends over the Ebsdorfer Grund in the valley of the Zwester Ohm and the areas around its edges, connecting the Amöneburg Basin with the middle Lahn valley between Marburg and Gießen.

Through the municipal area runs a highway from Fronhausen (Autobahn interchange in Gießen by Bundesstraße B 3) to Kirchhain. Another one joins Marburg with Grünberg.

The old ring railway, the Marburger Kreisbahn, which opened in 1905 and ran through the municipal area to Dreihausen, was shut down in 1972.

Neighbouring communities

In the northwest, Ebsdorfergrund borders on the town of Marburg, in the north on the town of Kirchhain, in the northeast on the town of Amöneburg (all in Marburg-Biedenkopf) and the town of Homberg (Vogelsbergkreis), in the south on the community of Rabenau and the town of Allendorf, in the southwest on the town of Staufenberg (all three in Gießen district), and in the west on the communities of Fronhausen and Weimar (both in Marburg-Biedenkopf).

Centres

The community consists of the following centres (Ortsteile):

Politics

Municipal council

As of municipal elections held on 26 March 2006, seats on the municipal council are apportioned thus:

9 seats17 seats
Free Voters (citizens' coalition)4 seats
1 seat

Coat of arms

The community's municipal coat of arms might be described as: Or, on a three-knolled hill vert a crenellated tower gules, therein the Hessian shield.

The coat of arms recalls the Wittelsberg Schanze, who served the Hessian Landgraves by watching over traffic on the road running through the Ebsdorfer Grund between areas belonging to the Ecclesiastical Principality of Mainz.

Partnerships

The community of Ebsdorfergrund maintains partnerships with the following municipalities:

Important personalities

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ergebnisse der jeweils letzten Direktwahl von Landrätinnen und Landräte sowie (Ober-)Bürgermeisterinnen und (Ober-)Bürgermeister in Hessen, Stand 13.04.2023. de. Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt. XLS. 2023-07-06. 2023-07-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20230707162647/https://statistik.hessen.de/sites/statistik.hessen.de/files/2023-04/BVII_m04-2023_Direktwahlen_Tabelle_1a.xlsx. dead.