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19-576: Hedemünden lies on the lower part of the river Werra . This river starts in Thuringia , runs through Hesse , and enters Lower Saxony in Hedemünden. The average elevation of Hedemünden is 130 m above  sea level (NN) , and the highest hill is 'Hohe Schleife' at 442 m above sea level. Hedemünden lies on the highway A7(E45) from Frankfurt to Hamburg and on the Halle–Kassel railway . In addition

38-403: A large wall so it could be used as a fortress as well. 300 years later, the church and the municipality built the first school on this wall. In 1589, the village got the right to brew its own beer, and in 1645, it is first mentioned as a municipality of its own by Herzog Christian Ludwig. A new school building was erected in 1731, and in 1860 the municipality got its first constitution. In 1913

57-702: Is a small town in Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in eastern Hesse , Germany lying right at the boundary with Thuringia . The nearest major towns and cities are Bad Hersfeld (28 km to the west), Eisenach (30 km to the northeast) and Kassel (80 km to the north). The town lies on the river Werra , surrounded by outliers of the Thuringian Forest , the Seulingswald and the Anterior Rhön , all mountain or hill ranges. The lowest point in town

76-453: Is being developed. This is the largest free industrial area in the municipality of Hann. Münden . Werra The Werra ( German pronunciation: [ˈvɛʁa] ), a river in central Germany , is the right-bank headwater of the Weser . "Weser" is a synonym in an old dialect of German. The Werra has its source near Eisfeld in southern Thuringia . After 293 kilometres (182 mi)

95-506: Is currently the northernmost known Roman camp in Germany. In the year 1017 Hedemünden was mentioned for the first time in a document: Emperor Henry II. donated the farm "Hademinni" to the abbey in Kaufungen , which was founded by his wife Kunigunde. By the early medieval era (9th century CE) a church existed in Hedemünden. In the year 1210 it was remodeled with a newly designed church surrounded by

114-623: Is found on the Werra floodplain at 210 m above sea level . The highest point within town limits is the Lehnberg at 471 m above sea level. Clockwise from the north, these are Wildeck , Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Berka/Werra , Philippsthal (Werra) und Friedewald . Heringen's Stadtteile , besides the main centre, also called Heringen, are Bengendorf, Herfa, Kleinensee, Leimbach, Lengers, Widdershausen and Wölfershausen. In 1153, Heringen had its first documentary mention. The Fulda Abbey enfeoffed

133-687: The German Patent Office ( Reichspatentamt ) were removed from Berlin and secretly stored in the deep Wintershall potash mine in Heringen. There they were discovered by the US Third Army in March 1945, and removed to the US. The German Patent Library was later restored to Germany, but the military geology materials of maps, reports and books, often stolen from other countries during the invasions, were retained by

152-462: The escutcheon , stands for the river Werra. The three fish come from the arms formerly borne by the Lords of Heringen ( Hering is German for “herring”). The mining tools are, of course, a traditional miner's symbol. This charge was added to the coat of arms in 2003, as potash had been being mined here for a hundred years. The old arms are shown at right. In 2007, partnership documents were signed with

171-494: The US as Nazi materiel . Most of these maps and books remain in the US Geological Survey Library today, with an obscure United States Army Corps of Engineers stamp on each that reads "Heringen Collection". Market rights were granted the community in 1526, and in 1977 came town rights to what was then a greater community (formed out of several smaller former communities). There are also successor buildings of

190-468: The WGH. Manfred Wenk is the first ever WGH councillor. Mayor Daniel Iliev was elected in 2016 and 2022. The town's arms might be described thus: Azure a bend wavy sinister argent between a sledgehammer and a cross-peen hammer per saltire, and three fish of the last. The bend wavy sinister, that is, slanted wavy stripe beginning on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side and stretching down across

209-660: The Werra joins the river Fulda in the town of Hann. Münden , forming the Weser. If the Werra is included as part of the Weser, the Weser is the longest river entirely within German territory at 744 kilometres (462 mi). Its valley, the Werratal , has many tributaries and is a relative lull between the Rhön Mountains and the Thuringian Forest . Its attractions include Eiben Forest near Dermbach , an unusual sandstone cave at Walldorf ,

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228-425: The deepest lake in Germany formed by subsidence (near Bernshausen ), and Krayenburg , the ruins of a castle. The towns and main settlements along the Werra are Hildburghausen , Meiningen , Bad Salzungen , Tiefenort , Merkers-Kieselbach , Vacha , Heringen , Philippsthal , Gerstungen , Wanfried , Eschwege , Bad Sooden-Allendorf , Witzenhausen and Hannoversch Münden. Heringen Heringen (Werra)

247-415: The following towns: It was in Heringen that the groundbreaking invention of the electrostatic salt separation facility ( elektrostatische Salz-Trennungsanlage , or ESTA) was first realized and further developed. After former mining director Prof. Dr.-Ing. Arno Singewald's research and inventions, the German potash-mining industry could introduce a thoroughly novel, environmentally friendly means of processing

266-480: The infrastructure (river, Autobahn, and railway). The village Hedemünden developed a comparatively large industrial area due to its closeness to the Autobahn and the cities of Göttingen and Kassel . A large distribution center of the German discounter Aldi was built in the 1970s, a cable factory followed in the 1980s and an online retailer in the 1990s. Currently a new industrial area Hedemünden 2 with 27 hectares

285-546: The knightly estate of Vultejus. Between 1968 and 1972 the above-named centres were amalgamated into a greater community, which was granted town rights in 1977 by the Hesse Land government. The municipal election held on 26 March 2006 yielded the following results: The town's executive ( Magistrat ) is made up of six councillors, with two seats allotted to the SPD, two to the CDU and 2 to

304-404: The national road B80 ran through the center of the village until 1995; it now bypasses Hedemünden. The bypass was planned since the early 1960s but only built in the early 1990s when traffic in town became unbearable due to the reunification of Germany. The B80 connects Nordhausen in eastern Germany with Hann. Münden and the Weser area. In about 1 CE, a Roman camp existed near Hedemünden. It

323-589: The nobleman Heinrich von Heringen about 1170 with the place. The Heringen court comprised in the early 15th century not only the current town area but also the Thuringian centres of Vitzeroda, Gasteroda and Abteroda, all of which now belong to the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Berka/Werra . In 1432, Margarethe von Heringen sold the court to the Landgraves of Hesse , thereby binding Heringen to Hesse. With

342-576: The opening of the Wintershall potash works, which began mining in 1903, the community got its first industrial jobs. Later, the Neu-Heringen and Herfa-Neurode potash mines were built. The mine is today the world's biggest potash-mining area and has an area about the same as Greater Munich's. At the end of World War II, the libraries of the German Army's Military Geology Unit ( Wehrgeologenstellen ) and

361-405: The school moved to a new building 300 m away from the first and in 1930 the municipality of Hedemünden ceded its independence, becoming part of Hann. Münden . The Autobahn A7 was built in 1937 as part of the German war efforts. By this time most Jews had left the village or were deported. After the war, rebuilding began. Factories of different kinds began to settle in the village for access to

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