Zierenberg is a town in the district of Kassel, in

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 ...

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 ...

. It is located 19 km east 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 ...

, and 15 km northwest of

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 ...

on the

German Timber-Frame Road The German Timber-Frame Road () is a German tourist route leading from the river Elbe in the north to the Black Forest and Lake Constance in the south. Numerous cities and towns each with examples of the vernacular Timber framing, timber-framed ho ...

Local council

The elections from 06. March 2016 showed the following results: * CDU = 8 seats * SPD = 14 seats * FDP = 2 seats * UFW = 7 seats

Mayors

* Conrad Brede: 1856–1880 * Karl Kupferschläger: 1880–1911 * Wiegand Pitz: 1912–1933 * Wilhelm Schäfer: 1933–1945 * Heinrich Ledderhose: 1945–1948 * Konrad Bürgel: 1948–1956 * Rudi Walther: 1957–1972 * Georg Hildebrandt: 1972–1984 * Horst Buchhaupt: 1984–1990 * Jürgen Pfütze: 1991–2008 * Stefan Denn: 2009–2020 * since 2020: Rüdiger Gemeroth

Notable people

* Johann Jacob Friedrich Krebs,

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painter

References

External links

Official Webpage
Towns in Hesse Kassel (district) {{Hesse-geo-stub