Willingshausen | |
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Location of Willingshausen within Schwalm-Eder-Kreis district | |
Coordinates: 50°51′N09°12′E / 50.850°N 9.200°E Coordinates: 50°51′N09°12′E / 50.850°N 9.200°E | |
Country | Germany |
State | Hesse |
Admin. region | Kassel |
District | Schwalm-Eder-Kreis |
Government | |
• Mayor (2021–27) | Luca Fritsch [1] |
Area | |
• Total | 59.95 km2 (23.15 sq mi) |
Elevation | 239 m (784 ft) |
Population (2020-12-31) [2] | |
• Total | 4,754 |
• Density | 79/km2 (210/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
Postal codes | 34628 |
Dialling codes | 06691 und 06697 |
Vehicle registration | HR |
Website | www.willingshausen.de |
Willingshausen is a municipality in the Schwalm-Eder district in Hesse, Germany.
The community of Willingshausen lies in the Schwalm area.
Willingshausen borders in the north on the town of Schwalmstadt, in the northeast on the community of Frielendorf, in the east on the town of Neukirchen and the community of Schrecksbach (all in Schwalm-Eder), in the south on the town of Alsfeld and the community of Antrifttal (both in the Vogelsbergkreis), and in the west on the town of Neustadt (Marburg-Biedenkopf).
Willingshausen consists of the ten centres of Gungelshausen, Leimbach, Loshausen, Merzhausen, Ransbach, Steina, Steinatal, Wasenberg (administrative seat), Willingshausen and Zella.
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Willingshausen's municipal council is made up of 31 councillors.
As of the last municipal elections held on 26 March 2006, the council seats are apportioned thus:
SPD | 14 seats |
CDU | 7 seats |
BGL/FWG (citizens' coalition) | 6 seats |
FDP | 4 seats |
The Willingshausen Painters' Colony is Germany's oldest artists' association. It was founded by a man from Livonia named Gerhardt Wilhelm von Reutern after he had been badly wounded in the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1814 while serving as an officer in the Russian army; as a result, he had to have his right arm amputated. He came to convalesce with his brother's inlaws at the Schwertzellsche Haus in Willingshausen, where he met and got to know the lady whom in 1820 he would wed, Charlotte von Schwertzell. He settled down in Willingshausen and began to draw and paint. He procured an honorary stipend from the Russian Imperial Family, which afforded him financial independence.
In 1825 the Kassel painter Ludwig Emil Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's brother, came to Willingshausen to study landscapes. This is said to be the time when the colony was founded. Many painters worked – and still work today – at Willingshausen. The Museum "Malerstübchen" at the Gerhardt-von-Reutern-Haus documents the artists' work.
Two music festivals take place each year in the constituent community of Loshausen, the "World Music Festival der Klangfreunde" on the first weekend of August, and "Rock im Park" in July.
Federal Highway (Bundesstraße) B 254 (Homberg – Fulda) is about 6 km east of town. The Alsfeld-West interchange on Autobahn A 5 (Kassel – Frankfurt is about 15 km away.
The community belongs to the North Hesse Transport Network.
Felsberg is a town in the Schwalm-Eder district about 25 kilometres south of Kassel.
Alsfeld is a town in the center of Hesse, in Germany. Large towns nearby are Bad Hersfeld about 33 kilometres to the east, Fulda 36 kilometres to the southeast, Gießen 47 kilometres to the west and Marburg an der Lahn about 36 kilometres to the northwest. Alsfeld is located on the upper part of the Schwalm in the northern Vogelsberg and just to the south of the Knüll mountains at the western edge of the Alsfeld basin. It is well known for its well-preserved old town with hundreds of timber-frame houses, and part of the German Timber-Frame Road. In 1961, the town hosted the first Hessentag state festival, in 1985 the 25th.
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