Freiensteinau

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Coordinates: 50°26′N, 9°24′E

Freiensteinau
Country	Germany
State	Hesse
Administrative region	Gießen
District	Vogelsbergkreis
Population	3,454 (31/12/2004)
Area	65.67 km²
Population density	53 /km²
Elevation	444 m
Coordinates	50°26′ N 9°24′ E
Postal code	36399
Area code	06666
Licence plate code	VB
Mayor	Friedel Kopp
Website	Gemeinde Freiensteinau

Freiensteinau is a community in the Vogelsbergkreis in Hesse, Germany.

Contents 1 Geography 1.1 Location 1.2 Neighbouring communities 1.3 Constituent communities 2 Politics 2.1 Municipal council 2.2 Partnerships 3 Culture and sightseeing 3.1 Music 4 Sundry 5 Reference

[edit] Geography

[edit] Location

Freiensteinau lies on the south slope of the Vogelsberg Mountains.

[edit] Neighbouring communities

Freiensteinau borders in the north on the community of Grebenhain, in the northeast on the community of Hosenfeld (Fulda district), in the east on the community of Neuhof (Fulda district), in the south on the town of Steinau an der Straße (Main-Kinzig-Kreis) and in the west on the community of Birstein (Main-Kinzig-Kreis).

[edit] Constituent communities

The community consists of the twelve centres of Freiensteinau (administrative seat), Holzmühl, Fleschenbach, Salz, Ober-Moos, Nieder-Moos, Gunzenau, Reichlos, Weidenau, Reinhards, Hessisch Radmühl and Preußisch Radmühl.

[edit] Politics

[edit] Municipal council

The municipal elections on 26 March 2006 yielded the following results:

Parties and voter coalitions		Share in %	Seats
CDU	Christian Democratic Union	25.1	5
SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	33.9	6
FW	Freie Wähler	41.0	8
total		100	19

[edit] Partnerships

• Tourouvre, Normandy, France since 1977

[edit] Culture and sightseeing

[edit] Music

The organ at the Evangelical Church in Nieder-Moos was built in 1790-1791 by Johann-Markus Oestreich from Oberbimbach near Fulda. Every year, the Nieder-Mooser Sommerkonzerte (Nieder-Moos Summer Concerts) take place around the organ.

[edit] Sundry

A curious fact about the community's political history is that before Hesse's municipal reforms in the 1970s, the 12 constituent communities nowadays within Freiensteinau not only were not united, but even belonged to four different districts: Fulda, Gelnhausen, Lauterbach and Schlüchtern.

[edit] Reference

This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.