Waldeck-Frankenberg is a ''Kreis'' (

district A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...

) in the north of

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 hist ...

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. Neighbouring districts are Höxter,

Kassel Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in North Hesse, northern Hesse, in Central Germany (geography), central Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel (region), Kassel and the d ...

, Schwalm-Eder, Marburg-Biedenkopf,

Siegen-Wittgenstein Siegen-Wittgenstein is a Kreis (district) in the southeast of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Olpe (district), Olpe, Hochsauerlandkreis, Waldeck-Frankenberg, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Lahn-Dill, Westerwaldkreis, and Altenkirche ...

, Hochsauerland.

History

The district was created in 1972 by merging the two districts of Frankenberg and Waldeck. Much of the area of the district had previously been part of the Free State of Waldeck until 1929, and its predecessor the Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont before 1918.

Geography

The district is located in the mountains of the Sauerland, with the highest elevation in the district of . With , it's the largest district in Hessen. Four artificial lakes created by dams are in the district, the biggest is the Edersee, which covers an area of . The Eder is also the main river in the district; the Diemel in the north is a smaller river.

Mountains

* Osterkopf * Sähre

Hills

* Kohlenberg

Coat of arms

; Blason :''“Per bend sinister Azure a lion rampant issuant per fess Argent and Gules and Or a star with eight rays Sable.”'' The coat of arms shows the lion of

in chief. The eight-fold star in base is taken from the coat of arms of the counts and princes of Waldeck, and was also the coat of arms of the former district of Waldeck. Edersee Panorama Waldeck

Towns and municipalities

*Towns ** Bad Arolsen ** Bad Wildungen ** Battenberg (Eder) ** Diemelstadt ** Frankenau ** Frankenberg (Eder) ** Gemünden (Wohra) ** Hatzfeld (Eder) **

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 ...

** Lichtenfels ** Rosenthal ** Volkmarsen ** Waldeck *Municipalities ** Allendorf (Eder) ** Burgwald ** Diemelsee ** Edertal ** Haina (Kloster) ** Twistetal ** Vöhl ** Willingen (Upland)

References

External links

Official website
(German) {{Authority control Districts of Hesse Kassel (region)