Diemelsee is a municipality in

Waldeck-Frankenberg Waldeck-Frankenberg is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the north of Hesse, Germany. Neighbouring districts are Höxter, Kassel, Schwalm-Eder, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Siegen-Wittgenstein, Hochsauerland. History The district was created in 1972 by mergin ...

in northwest

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, and is part of the low mountain region called

Upland Upland or Uplands may refer to: Geography *Hill, an area of higher land, generally *Highland, an area of higher land divided into low and high points *Upland and lowland, conditional descriptions of a plain based on elevation above sea level *I ...

Adorf Adorf () is a small town and Municipalities in Germany, municipality in the Vogtlandkreis to the south-west of the Saxony, Free State of Saxony, Germany. Gettengrün, a village within the municipality, borders on the Czech Republic. Etymology Th ...

is the seat of this municipality.

Geography

Location

Diemelsee lies on the river

Diemel The Diemel () is a river in Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is a western and orographically left tributary of the Weser. It is the first, and therefore southernmost, of the larger Weser tributaries after its formation by the confluen ...

in the Diemelsee Nature Park just upstream from and southwest of the Diemelsee

reservoir A reservoir (; ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to water storage, store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation. Reservoirs are created by controlling a watercourse that drains an existing body of wa ...

. The town of

Korbach Korbach (), officially the Hanseatic City of Korbach (German language, German: Hansestadt Korbach), is the district seat of Waldeck-Frankenberg in northern Hesse, Germany. It is over a thousand years old and is located on the German Timber-Frame Ro ...

is found about 10 km to the southeast, and the town of

Paderborn Paderborn (; Westphalian language, Westphalian: ''Patterbuorn'', also ''Paterboärn'') is a city in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the Paderborn (district), Paderborn district. The name of the city derives from the river Pade ...

39 km to the north.

Neighbouring communities

Diemelsee borders in the north on the town of

Marsberg Marsberg () is a town in the Hochsauerland district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. History Although its origins are obscure, Marsberg was a prospering town by the 13th century (it was even minting coins). It was a free city until 1807, when ...

(

Hochsauerlandkreis Hochsauerlandkreis (, ) is a (district) in the east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Soest (district), Soest, Paderborn (district), Paderborn, Höxter (district), Höxter, Waldeck-Frankenberg, Siegen-Wittgenstein, Olpe ...

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), in the northeast on the town of

Bad Arolsen Bad Arolsen (, until 1997 Arolsen, being the German name for ''Spa'') is a small town in northern Hesse, Germany, in Waldeck-Frankenberg district. From 1655 until 1918 it served as the residence town of the Princes of Waldeck-Pyrmont and then un ...

, in the east on the community of

Twistetal Twistetal is a municipality in Waldeck-Frankenberg in northwest Hesse, Germany, southwest of Bad Arolsen. Geography Location The community lies on the river Twiste, a tributary to the Diemel, itself a tributary to the Weser. Twistetal is only a ...

, in the south on the town of

, in the southwest on the community of

Willingen Willingen (official name: ''Willingen (Upland)'') is a municipality in Waldeck-Frankenberg in northern Hesse, Germany, some 80 km west of Kassel. Geography Location Willingen is found in Waldeck-Frankenberg district in the Upland. Its main ...

(all in Waldeck-Frankenberg), and in the west on the town of

Brilon 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 Ar ...

(Hochsauerlandkreis).

Constituent communities

The community of Diemelsee came into being as part of municipal reform in 1971 through the voluntary merger of the following 13 centres: *Adorf *Benkhausen *Deisfeld *Flechtdorf *Giebringhausen *Heringhausen *Ottlar *Rhenegge *Schweinsbühl *Stormbruch *Sudeck *Vasbeck *Wirmighausen The community's administrative seat is in Adorf, which with a population of 1750 is also the biggest of the 13 centres.

Politics

Municipal council

The council's 31 seats are apportioned in accordance with municipal elections last held on 26 March 2006. Results for the 1997 and 2001 elections are also shown.

Coat of arms

Diemelsee's civic

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might heraldically be described thus: Party per bend wavy, above, in Or an eight-pointed star sable, below, in azure a five-petalled rose argent with centre Or and sepals vert. The black eight-pointed star is the star of Waldeck.

Culture and sightseeing

Outings

Well known outing destinations near Diemelsee are the Diemelsee reservoir and the Upland (a

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name, pronounced , not as the

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Culture, language and peoples * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England * ''English'', an Amish ter ...

word). In Adorf is a

visitors' mine A show mine is a mine that is accessible to visitors. A mine, i.e. an industrial facility for the underground extraction of mineral products, has three operating phases: it may be open or running, or closed or it may be a working museum. Most m ...

, the ''Grube Christiane''.

Economy and infrastructure

The inhabitants earn their livelihood mainly through

agriculture Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...

, trades, small industry or the tourist trade.

References

External links

Gemeinde Diemelsee
{{Authority control Waldeck-Frankenberg