Diemelstadt

Diemelstadt
Town
Coat of arms
Location of Diemelstadt within Waldeck-Frankenberg district
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Coordinates: 51°27′36″N 08°58′48″E
Country	Germany
State	Hesse
Admin. region	Kassel
District	Waldeck-Frankenberg
Subdivisions	9 Stadtteile
Government
• Mayor (2023–29)	Andreas Fritz[1] (Ind.)
Area
• Total	82.58 km^2 (31.88 sq mi)
Elevation	304 m (997 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	5,354
• Density	65/km^2 (170/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	34474
Dialling codes	05694, 05641, 05642, 02992
Vehicle registration	KB
Website	www.diemelstadt.de

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. The River Diemel, the town's namesake, does not cross through the municipal area, forming only parts of the town limits, and at the same time parts of the boundary between Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia. One river that does cross through the municipal area, however, is the Orpe, a north-flowing tributary to the Diemel that empties into the larger river at the northern town limits. Diemelstadt lies 12 km north of Bad Arolsen, and 31 km southeast of Paderborn.

Neighbouring communities

Diemelstadt borders in the north and east on the town of Warburg (Höxter district in North Rhine-Westphalia), in the southeast on the town of Volkmarsen, in the south on the town of Bad Arolsen (both in Waldeck-Frankenberg), and in the west on the town of Marsberg (Hochsauerlandkreis in North Rhine-Westphalia).

Constituent communities

The town consists of the following centres:

• Ammenhausen (89 inhabitants)
• Dehausen (92 inhabitants)
• Helmighausen (320 inhabitants)
• Hesperinghausen (452 inhabitants)
• Neudorf (193 inhabitants)
• Orpethal (164 inhabitants)
• Stadt Rhoden (administrative seat) (1901 inhabitants)
• Wethen (423 inhabitants)
• Wrexen (1540 inhabitants)

(population figures as of 2018)

History

The town of Diemelstadt came into being on 1 November 1970 through the voluntary merger of the town of Rhoden (Stadt Rhoden – The centre is still known as such, although it is no longer an independent town) and the smaller municipality of Wrexen. Later the same year, Ammenhausen, Dehausen, Helmighausen, Neudorf and Wethen also joined, with Hesperinghausen and Orpethal following the next year.

Politics

Town council

The town council's 25 seats are apportioned thus, in accordance with municipal elections held on 26 March 2006:

SPD	10 seats
CDU	8 seats
FWG	5 seats
FDP	1 seat
BL-Bürgerliste für Diemelstadt	1 seat

Note: FWG and BL are citizens' coalitions.

Town partnerships

Diemelstadt maintains partnership links with the following:

• Kranichfeld, Thuringia, since 1990

Culture and sightseeing

Music

• Gesangverein 1865 Wrexen (singing club)
• Gesangverein "Concordia" (Rhoden) (singing club)
• Posaunenchor Rhoden (trombone choir)
• Posaunenchor Helmighausen (trombone choir)
• Shanty-Chor Hesperinghausen 1993

Buildings

• Rhoden stately home and hereditary princely tomb
• Gaulskopf settlement (early mediaeval fortification works)
• Alt-Rhoden church ruins
• Mediaeval Old Town in Rhoden with half-timbered buildings

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

• Highway
  • A 44 (Kassel – Dortmund)
  • Bundesstraße 252 (Gießen – East Westphalia)
  • Bundesstraße 68 (Paderborn)
  • Bundesstraße 7 (Ruhr area – Kassel – Eisenach)

Note: Bundesstraße = Federal Highway.

• Railway
  • ICE station in Warburg, Westphalia (about 15 min. away) (hub, trains to Berlin/Düsseldorf, Halle, Hagen, Hamm, Münster, Paderborn, Kassel)
  • Station in Scherfede (about 5 min. away) (regional trains to Hagen/Warburg)
  • Station in Bad Arolsen (about 10 min. away) (regional trains to Kassel/Korbach)
• Airports
  • Paderborn Lippstadt Airport (about 30 min. away)
  • Kassel-Calden Airport (about 25 min. away)

Established businesses

• Schnitzmeier & Sänger Gbr. – motor vehicle electrics and vehicle technology, in Diemelstadt-Rhoden (Warburger Weg 3)
• Smurfit Kappa C. D. Haupt Papier- und Pappenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
• Sprick GmbH Bielefelder Papier- und Wellpappenwerke & Co. (branch plant)
• Hewe Fensterbau GmbH & Co. KG
• Jäkel GmbH & Co. KG machine knife factory

Education

• Grundschule Wrexen (primary school)
• Schlossbergschule Rhoden ("coöperative comprehensive school")

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Wilhelm Dietzel, politician and Hessian State Minister for the Environment, Rural Space and Consumer Protection

References

1. "Ergebnisse der jeweils letzten Direktwahl von Landrätinnen und Landräte sowie (Ober-)Bürgermeisterinnen und (Ober-)Bürgermeister in Hessen" (XLS) (in German). Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt. 21 May 2024.
2. "Bevölkerung in Hessen am 31.12.2022 nach Gemeinden" (XLS) (in German). Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt. June 2023.

External links

• Diemelstadt
• Rhoden (private homepage)
• Wrexen (from Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Wrexen e. V.)
• Neudorf (from SV 1960 Neudorf)