Fronhausen is a municipality in the south of Marburg-Biedenkopf district in the administrative region of

Gießen Giessen, spelled in German (), is a town in the German state () of Hesse, capital of both the district of Giessen and the administrative region of Giessen. The population is approximately 90,000, with roughly 37,000 university students. Th ...

Hessen Hesse or Hessen ( ), officially the State of Hesse (), is a 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 Da ...

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. The municipal area stretches along the district's southern boundary in the

Lahn The Lahn () is a , right (or eastern) tributary of the Rhine in Germany. Its course passes through the States of Germany, federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia (23.0 km), Hesse (165.6 km), and Rhineland-Palatinate (57.0 km). ...

valley and its environs between

Marburg Marburg (; ) is a college town, university town in the States of Germany, German federal state () of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf Districts of Germany, district (). The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has ...

and

, and borders in the north on the community of

Weimar Weimar is a city in the state (Germany), German state of Thuringia, in Central Germany (cultural area), Central Germany between Erfurt to the west and Jena to the east, southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together w ...

, in the east on the community of

Ebsdorfergrund Ebsdorfergrund is a municipality consisting of eleven villages in the southeast of Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Hesse, Germany. The community's municipal area extends over the ''Ebsdorfer Grund'' in the valley of the Zwester Ohm and the areas a ...

, in the south on the towns of Staufenberg and

Lollar Lollar () is a town in the district of Gießen, in Hesse, in west-central Germany. It is situated on the river Lahn, 7 km north of Gießen. The biggest production site of Bosch Thermotechnology is located in Lollar. During World War II, i ...

, and in the west on the community of Lohra. It was formed out of seven former communities in the early 1970s as part of Hessen's municipal reforms at that time. The former communities were: *Bellnhause

*Erbenhausen *Fronhausen *Hassenhausen *Holzhausen *Oberwalgern *Sichertshausen

Politics

Municipal council

Since the last municipal elections held in March 2006, the seats on the municipal council have been distributed thus:

Coat of arms

The civic

coat of arms A coat of arms is a heraldry, heraldic communication design, visual design on an escutcheon (heraldry), escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the last two being outer garments), originating in Europe. The coat of arms on an escutcheon f ...

might be described thus: In gules a bend sinister wavy argent; above, a wing argent; below, seven lozenges argent. The arms were chosen from many proposals put forth after the greater community was formed. The bend sinister (the band) stands for the river Lahn, which flows through the community. The wing comes from the historic Fronhausen reeves' arms, and the lozenges from the Stewards (''Schenken'') of Schweinsberg, who were formerly the local nobility; the number of lozenges – seven – also represents the number of constituent communities.

Transport links

In the community are a connection with the four-lane Federal Highway (''Bundesstraße'') B 3, and a stop on the Main-Weser

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, with regional and regional express service.

Partnerships

* Sonchamp,

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* Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines, France * La Celle-les-Bordes, France All these partner communities are near

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Politics

Municipal council

Coat of arms

Transport links

Partnerships

Sons and daughters of the community

References

External links