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Liesen
Liesen is a village and a civil parish (''Ortsteil'') of the German town of Hallenberg, the southernmost town of the Hochsauerland region in expiring massif of Rothaar at the border to Hessen, just about 15 km from Winterberg in North Rhine-Westphalia. As of 2010 its population was of 780. . '' Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW''. 31 December 2010. History The village was first mentioned in 1313. As the two other ''Ortsteil'' of Hallenberg Liesen was, until 1974, an autonomous municipality belonging to the former[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hesborn
Hesborn is a village and a civil parish (''Ortsteil'') of the German town of Hallenberg, located in the Hochsauerlandkreis district in North Rhine-Westphalia. As of 2010 its population was of 1,060. . '' Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW''. 31 December 2010. History The village was first mentioned as ''Hersporen'' in 1126. As the two other ''Ortsteil'' of Hallenberg Hesborn was, until 1974, an autonomous municipality belonging to the former District of Brilon and to the[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hallenberg (Amt)
Hallenberg () is a town in the Hochsauerland district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Hallenberg is situated approximately 15 km southeast of Winterberg and 35 km north of Marburg (in Hesse). Neighbouring places * Allendorf (in Hesse) * Bad Berleburg * Bromskirchen (in Hesse) * Frankenberg, Hesse * Lichtenfels, Hesse * Medebach * Winterberg Division of the town Hallenberg consists of 4 districts: the town proper and 3 villages: * Hallenberg (2,660 inhabitants, 34.72 km²) * Braunshausen (350 inhabitants, 9.08 km²) * Hesborn (1,060 inhabitants, 14,18 km²) * Liesen (780 inhabitants, 7,38 km²) Personalities * Adolf Winkelmann (born 1946), film director and producer Currency From 1917 until the 1920s Hallenberg, like many German towns, produced its own currency, known as Notgeld (German language, German for 'emergency money' or 'necessity money') is money issued by an institution in a time of economic or political cri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Braunshausen
Braunshausen is a village and a civil parish (''Ortsteil'') of the Germany, German town of Hallenberg, located in the Hochsauerlandkreis district in North Rhine-Westphalia. As of 2010 its population was of 350. . ''List of statistical offices in Germany, Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW''. 31 December 2010. History The village was founded in 1474. As the two other ''Ortsteil'' of Hallenberg Braunshausen was, until 1974, an autonomous municipality belonging to the former Brilon (district), District of Brilon and to the Hallenberg (Amt), Amt Hallenberg.Geography Braunshausen is located in the south-eastern corner of the Hochsauerlandkreis, close to the borders with Hesse and to Rengershausen (Frankenberg), Rengershausen, a ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ortsteil
A village is a human settlement or Residential community, community, larger than a hamlet (place), hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a Church (building), church. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total population of over 84 million in an area of , making it the most populous member state of the European Union. It borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The Capital of Germany, nation's capital and List of cities in Germany by population, most populous city is Berlin and its main financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr. Settlement in the territory of modern Germany began in the Lower Paleolithic, with various tribes inhabiting it from the Neolithic onward, chiefly the Celts. Various Germanic peoples, Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a States of Germany, state () in Old states of Germany, Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the List of German states by population, most populous state in Germany. Apart from the city-states (Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen), it is also the List of German states by population density, most densely populated state in Germany. Covering an area of , it is the List of German states by area, fourth-largest German state by size. North Rhine-Westphalia features 30 of the 81 German municipalities with over 100,000 inhabitants, including Cologne (over 1 million), the state capital Düsseldorf (630,000), Dortmund and Essen (about 590,000 inhabitants each) and other cities predominantly located in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area, the largest urban area in Germany and the fourth-largest on the European continent. The location of the Rhine-Ruhr at the heart of the European Blue Banana make ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Statistical Offices In Germany ...
The statistical offices of the German states (German: ) carry out the task of collecting official statistics in Germany together and in cooperation with the Federal Statistical Office. The implementation of statistics according to Article 83 of the constitution is executed at state level. The federal government has, under Article 73 (1) 11. of the constitution, the exclusive legislation for the "statistics for federal purposes." There are 14 statistical offices for the 16 states: See also * Federal Statistical Office of Germany References {{Reflist Germany Statistical offices Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brilon (district)
Brilon (; ) is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, which belongs to the Hochsauerlandkreis. Geography Brilon is on the Brilon Heights, at an altitude of about 450m, and the upper reaches of the river Möhne. The town lies between the Arnsberg Forest nature reserve to the west and the Lake Diemel nature reserve and the Hoppecke to the south-east. Neighboring municipalities Division of the town After the local government reforms of 1975 Brilon consists of 17 districts: * Alme (1.273 inhabitants) * Altenbüren (1.453 inhabitants) * Bontkirchen (553 inhabitants) * Brilon Town (14.513 inhabitants) * Brilon-Wald (595 inhabitants) * Esshoff (80 inhabitants) * Gudenhagen/Petersborn (1.273 inhabitants) * Hoppecke (1.330 inhabitants) * Madfeld (1.395 inhabitants) * Messinghausen (898 inhabitants) * Nehden (503 inhabitants) * Radlinghausen (129 inhabitants) * Rixen (143 inhabitants) * Rösenbeck (858 inhabitants) * Scharfenberg (1.533 inhabitants) * Thülen (1.088 inhabitant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rothaargebirge
The Rothaar Mountains (, , also ''Rotlagergebirge''), or Rothaar, is a low mountain range reaching heights of up to 843.1 m in North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse, Germany. It is believed that its name must once have been ''Rod-Hard-Gebirge'', or "the cleared forest mountain range", as the range has nothing whatsoever to do with the colour red (''rot'' in German), nor with hair (''Haar''). Geography Location The thickly wooded Rothaar, rich in mineral deposits, is found (mostly) in Westphalia sandwiched between the Sauerland Mountain Range to the north, the Upland mountain range (northeastern foothills of the Rothaar) to the northeast, Wittgenstein Land to the southeast and the Siegerland to the southwest. The range's southeastern foothills are lies in Hesse, and is the only part that lies outside of Westphalia. It stretches from the upper Eder and the Lenne from the '' Kahler Asten'' (841 m) southwest of the Winterberg Tableland (''Winterberger Hochfläche'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bromskirchen
Bromskirchen is a village and a former municipality in Waldeck-Frankenberg in Hesse, Germany. On 1 January 2023, it was merged into the municipality of Allendorf (Eder). ''Hessenschau'', 14 March 2021. Geography Location Bromskirchen lies at the edge of the Rothaargebirge in southwest Waldeck-Frankenberg, right on the boundary with 's district of[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hesse
Hesse or Hessen ( ), officially the State of Hesse (), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt, which is also the country's principal financial centre. Two other major historic cities are Darmstadt and Kassel. With an area of 21,114.73 square kilometers and a population of over six million, it ranks seventh and fifth, respectively, among the sixteen German states. Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Germany's second-largest metropolitan area (after Rhine-Ruhr), is mainly located in Hesse. As a cultural region, Hesse also includes the area known as Rhenish Hesse (Rheinhessen) in the neighboring state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Etymology The German name , like the names of other German regions ( "Swabia", "Franconia", "Bavaria", "Saxony"), derives from the dative plural form of the name of the inhabitants or German tribes, eponymous tribe, the Hessians (, singular ). The geographical name represents a short equivalent o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
