Butzbach () is a

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in the

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district in

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. It is located approximately 16 km south of

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and 35 km north of

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. In 2007, the town hosted the 47th Hessentag state festival from 1 to 10 June. The "Landgrafenschloss" ("

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s' castle"), used by the

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until 1990, is now utilized by the city council. The so-called "Roman Way Housing" of the

with more than 1000 apartments was returned to the German Government in October 2007 and since has been renovated and rented out to the public. The town's market place is enclosed by

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. The "Schrenzer" hill (or Heidelbeerberg, 385 m) overlooks the town and the country north of Frankfurt, called ''Wetterau''. Another much higher mountain nearby is the Hausberg which features a look-out tower.

Boroughs of Butzbach

Butzbach consists of the boroughs Bodenrod, Butzbach (urban core), Ebersgöns, Fauerbach vor der Höhe, Griedel, Hausen-Oes, Hoch-Weisel, Kirch-Göns, Maibach,

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, Nieder-Weisel, Ostheim, Pohl-Göns and Wiesental.

Twin towns – sister cities

Butzbach is twinned with: * Collecchio, Italy (2012) * Eilenburg, Germany (1990) * Saint-Cyr-l'École, France (2008)

Notable people

* Gabriel Biel (c. 1420–1495), scholastic philosopher and theologian; longtime Propst of the Brothers of the Common Life in Butzbach * Johann Jakob Griesbach (1745–1812), biblical textual critic. * Friedrich Ludwig Weidig (1791–1837), theologian, pastor and teacher; worked here 22 years as teacher and rector of the school * Lorenz Diefenbach (1806–1883), librarian, pastor, Germanist, lexicographer and writer * Friedrich Schwally (1863–1919), orientalist * Ernst Glaeser (1902–1963), writer * Peter Krick (born 1944), figure skater * Dieter Enders (born 1946), chemist and expert in the field of asymmetric synthesis * Siegfried Zielinski (born 1951), media scientist and university lecturer * Ron Gardenhire (born 1957), baseball manager

References

External links

Official website

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