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Wetzlar is a town in the German federal state (Bundesland) of Hesse, capital of the Lahn-Dill district. Located at 8° 30' E, 50° 34' N, there are (as of 2002) approximately 54,000 inhabitants. The town is situated on the Lahn river. Germany is a Federal Republic made up of 16 States, known in German as LÃ¤nder (singular Land). ... Hesse (German: Hessen) is a state of Germany with an area of 21,110 kmÂ² and just over six million inhabitants. ... Lahn-Dill is a Kreis (district) in the west of Hesse, Germany. ... The river Lahn in Limburg The Lahn is a river in Germany. ...

Notable architectural features include the Eisenmarkt and the steep grades and claustrophobic street layout of a medieval town. The sandstone cathedral of St. Mary was commenced in the 12th century as a Romanesque building. In the later Middle Ages the construction was continued under a masterplan in Gothic style. The church was never finished, as one steeple still is uncompleted. The cathedral suffered heavy damage in the Second World War by aerial bombing, but was restored in the 1950s. On the outskirts of town exist the ruins of several masonry towers arranged along the river. The cathedral to Wetzlar is not an actual cathedral, because Wetzlar is not a bishop seat. ... (11th century - 12th century - 13th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century was that century which lasted from 1101 to 1200. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... Interior of Cologne Cathedral Gothic architecture is a style of architecture, particularly associated with cathedrals and other churches, which flourished in Europe during the high and late medieval period. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... The aerial bombing of cities became a common tactic in World War II. // World War I The first ever aerial bombardment of civilians was on January 19, 1915, in which two German Zeppelins dropped 24 fifty-kilogram high-explosive bombs and ineffective three-kilogram incendiaries on Great Yarmouth, Sheringham, Kings...

Geography

Wetzlar lies in the Lahn-Dill area in Middle Hesse on the river Lahn, not far downstream from its change in direction from south to west in the heights near the mouth of the Dill. The town lies at a division between Hessian low mountain ranges: south of the Lahn lies the Taunus; north of the Lahn and west of the Dill begins the Westerwald; north of the Lahn and east of the Dill begins the Rothaargebirge. The highest point within town limits is the Stoppelberg at 401 m above sea level. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1229x922, 467 KB) Wetzlar, Germany: Altstadt Source: Photographed by Andreas Praefcke, 2003 File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Wetzlar ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1229x922, 467 KB) Wetzlar, Germany: Altstadt Source: Photographed by Andreas Praefcke, 2003 File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Wetzlar ... Hesse (German: Hessen) is a state of Germany with an area of 21,110 kmÂ² and just over six million inhabitants. ... The river Lahn in Limburg The Lahn is a river in Germany. ... The 68-km-long Dill is a tributary to the Lahn, joining it on the right bank, in Middle Hesse, Germany. ... View (from top of Frankfurt) of Altkoenig and Grosser Feldberg For the automobile, see Ford Taunus. ... The Westerwald is a mountain chain in Germany. ... Rothaargebirges location in Germany The Rothaargebirge (also called the Rotlagergebirge) is a low mountain range reaching heights of up to 843. ... For considerations of sea level change, in particular rise associated with possible global warming, see sea level rise. ...

Wetzlar's neighbouring towns and cities are Gießen (up the Lahn from centre to centre about 12 km), Koblenz 80 km down the Lahn, Limburg an der Lahn 40 km to the west, Siegen 50 km to the northwest, Dillenburg 30 km to the north, Marburg 30 km to the northeast and Frankfurt am Main 60 km to the south. theatre in Giessen Architecture in Giessen Giessen (German spelling GieÃŸen) is a city in the German federal state (Bundesland) of Hesse, capital of both the Giessen district and the Giessen Administrative Region. ... Map of the Koblenz region Koblenz (also Coblenz in pre-1926 German spellings; French Coblence) is a city situated on both banks of the Rhine at its confluence with the Moselle, where the Deutsches Eck (German Corner) and its monument ( Emperor William I on horseback) are situated. ... Limburg an der Lahn (Limburg on the Lahn river) is a German town and the capital of the district Limburg-Weilburg in the west of Hessen. ... Siegen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... Dillenburg (population ca 25,000) is a city and a castle in the German district of Lahn-Dill, in the federal state of Hessen. ... Marburg is a city in Hesse, Germany, on the Lahn river. ... Frankfurt am Main [ˈfraŋkfʊrt] is the largest city in the German state of Hessen and the fifth largest city of Germany. ...

Wetzlar and Gießen are the two cores of this small (about 200,000 inhabitants) urban agglomeration in Middle Hesse. Along the valleys of the Lahn (east and west) and Dill (north) are heavily built-up neighbouring communities, whose built-up areas in some places merge with Wetzlar's. The low mountain ranges around Wetzlar to the northwest, northeast and south, on the other hand, are heavily wooded and very thinly populated.

Neighbouring communities

Wetzlar borders in the northwest on the town of Aßlar (Lahn-Dill-Kreis), in the north and northeast on the communities of Hohenahr (Lahn-Dill-Kreis) and Biebertal (Gießen district), in the east on the communities of Lahnau (Lahn-Dill-Kreis) and Heuchelheim and the town of Gießen (both in Gießen district), in the south on the communities of Hüttenberg and Schöffengrund and in the west on the town of Solms (all in Lahn-Dill-Kreis). AÃŸlar (or Asslar) is a town near Wetzlar in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse, Germany. ... Hohenahr is a community in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse, Germany. ... Biebertal is a municipality in the district of GieÃŸen, in Hesse, Germany. ... GieÃŸen is a Kreis (district) in the middle of Hesse, Germany. ... Lahnau is a community in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse, Germany, and lies about midway â€“ about 6 km each way â€“ between the towns of Wetzlar and GieÃŸen. ... HÃ¼ttenberg is a community in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse, Germany. ... SchÃ¶ffengrund is a community in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse, Germany. ... Solms is a town west of Wetzlar in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Hesse, Germany. ...

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Constituent communities

The core area of Wetzlar is divided into 12 urban wards or boroughs (Stadtbezirke). Furthermore, there are 8 communities outside the core area. Five of them have long since been swallowed up in Wetzlar's main built-up area. All, however, became part of Wetzlar with the dissolution of the city of Lahn in 1979.

Below is a chart of all Wetzlar's constituent communities, both within the main built-up area and without:

History

The town's founding date has heretofore never been established or known. There were "Bandkeramiker" settlements right on the western town limits, partly from 5,000 years BC, and Roman settlements right on the western and eastern town limits, partly from the 5th century BC and continuing for 1,400 years. Roman settlements just west of town have been verified. An old Roman path network exists. The Linear Pottery culture or (German) Linearbandkeramik (abbr. ... Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea. ... (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium) The 5th century BC started on January 1, 500 BC and ended on December 31, 401 BC. // The Parthenon of Athens seen from the hill of the Pnyx to the west. ...

The name "Wetzlar" had come into being most likely by the 3rd century to the 8th century. The last syllable "―lar" suggests that the town was in existence by the 3rd century. The ending may be Celtic or Frankish (in the latter case, most likely referring to wooden defences around the town). The Conradine Gebhard, Count in the Wetterau, and as of 904 Duke of Lorraine, had a Church of the Saviour consecrated in 897, which replaced earlier structures. In the early 10th century came the founding of the Marienstift (monastery). // Overview Events 212: Constitutio Antoniniana grants citizenship to all free Roman men 212-216: Baths of Caracalla 230-232: Sassanid dynasty of Persia launches a war to reconquer lost lands in the Roman east 235-284: Crisis of the Third Century shakes Roman Empire 250-538: Kofun era, the first... (7th century — 8th century — 9th century — other centuries) Events The Iberian peninsula is taken by Arab and Berber Muslims, thus ending the Visigothic rule, and starting almost 8 centuries of Muslim presence there. ... // Overview Events 212: Constitutio Antoniniana grants citizenship to all free Roman men 212-216: Baths of Caracalla 230-232: Sassanid dynasty of Persia launches a war to reconquer lost lands in the Roman east 235-284: Crisis of the Third Century shakes Roman Empire 250-538: Kofun era, the first... The Celtic languages are the languages descended from Proto-Celtic, or Common Celtic, spoken by ancient and modern Celts alike. ... Old Frankish was the language of the Franks. ... The Conradines were a dynasty of Franconian counts and dukes of the 8th to 11th Century, named after Konrad the Elder and his son Conrad I (or Konrad), Duke of Franconia, King of Germany. ... The Wetterau is a fertile undulating tract, watered by the Wetter, a tributary of the Main, in German region of Hesse, between the hilly province Oberhessen and the north-western Taunus mountains. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Lorraine (province). ... As a means of recording the passage of time, the 10th century was that century which lasted from 901 to 1000. ... Monastery of St. ...

Free Imperial City

At some unknown time, Wetzlar was granted market rights, and thereby, the right to levy market duties. Within a year, a market community came into being. The monastery's forerunners were surely part of the crystallization point at which believers, traders and craftsmen met, above all on holidays. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (995x1355, 313 KB)[edit] Summary Kalsmunt castle ruins, Wetzlar, from here. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (995x1355, 313 KB)[edit] Summary Kalsmunt castle ruins, Wetzlar, from here. ...

The Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa created a Reichsvogtei (roughly "Imperial Bailiwick"), and in 1180 put Wetzlar's citizens on the same level as Frankfurt's. Wetzlar became a Free Imperial City and kept this distinction until 1803. For the town's protection, and to secure the Wetterau as an Imperial Province, he expanded high above Wetzlar the Imperial Castle (Reichsburg), which had likely already stood in one form or another before then. The origin of the name "Reichsburg Kalsmunt" is not quite clear. The following explanation cannot be ruled out: Kals- = Karls and munt ≈ vassal, that is, a liege of the Frankish court. Thus it would seem to be a case of a building work from Charlemagne's time ("Charlemagne" is "Karl der Große" – "Charles the Great" (in 748 to 814 BC) – in German). Imperial coinage was struck at Kalsmunt. The commercial road, which crossed the Lahn at Wetzlar, the town's iron production, to which the Iron Market (forum ferri) still bears witness, the wool weaving mill and tanning seemed a good basis on which to develop the town further. Arms of the Hohenstaufen Dynasty The Hohenstaufen (or the Staufer(s)) were a dynasty of Kings of Germany, many of whom were also crowned Holy Roman Emperor and Dukes of Swabia. ... Frederick Barbarossa in a 13th century chronicle. ... For other uses, see Frankfurt (disambiguation). ... A portrait of Charlemagne by Albrecht DÃ¼rer that was painted several centuries after Charlemagnes death. ... General Name, Symbol, Number iron, Fe, 26 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 8, 4, d Appearance lustrous metallic with a grayish tinge Standard atomic weight 55. ... Long and short hair wool at the South Central Family Farm Research Center in Boonesville, Arizona Wool is the fiber derived from the fur of animals of the Caprinae family, principally sheep, but the hair of certain species of other mammals such as goats, alpacas, llamas and rabbits may also... Tanned leather in Marrakech This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

In 1285 came the "false emperor" Dietrich Holzschuh, called Tile Kolup, who claimed to be Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (who actually had already died, in Italy in 1250) to Wetzlar. When the rightful king, Rudolph I heard of this and came to Wetzlar, the city leaders seized Tile Kolup and handed him over. He was sentenced as a warlock, a heretic and a blasphemer to a fiery death, which he suffered the next day in Wetzlar at the stake. Tile Kolup (died July 7, 1285 in Wetzlar, Germany), also known as Dietrich Holzschuh, was an impostor who in 1284 began to pretend to be emperor Frederick II. He was able to take advantage of persistent rumors that the emperor, who had died in 1250, was not really dead and... Frederick II (December 26, 1194 â€“ December 13, 1250), of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, was a pretender to the title of King of the Romans from 1212 and unopposed holder of that monarchy from 1215. ... The brass of the tomb of Rudolph I in Speyer Rudolph I (Rudolph of Habsburg) (May 1, 1218 â€“ July 15, 1291) was a German king, who played a vital role in raising the Habsburg family to a leading position among the royal dynasties of Germany. ... Warlocks are, among historic Christian traditions, said to be the male equivalent of witches (usually in the pejorative sense of Europes Middle Ages), and were said to ride pitchforks instead of broomsticks. ... Look up Heretic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of God or the gods, and by extension any display of gross irreverence towards any person or thing deemed worthy of exalted esteem. ... Burning of two sodomites at the stake outside ZÃ¼rich, 1482 (Spiezer Schilling) Execution by burning has a long history as a method of punishment for crimes such as treason and for other unpopular acts such as heresy and the putative practice of witchcraft (burning, however, was actually less common...

Until 1250, most of the town fortifications, whose remains can still be seen today, were complete. By the middle of the 14th century, it is reckoned, the town's population was 6,000, making it by the standards of the time a "city". About 1350, the high point of the town's development in the Middle Ages was reached. This 14th-century statue from south India depicts the gods Shiva (on the left) and Uma (on the right). ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ...

Decades-long feuds with the Counts of Solms, who were trying to make Wetzlar into a Solms-domain city, threatened the vital commercial road. The Emperor supported the town, albeit vainly. The city plunged into debt and in 1387 it fell under forced administration; however, it was incorporated into the Swabian League of Towns. The town's decline led by the end of the Thirty Years' War to a drop in population, to 1,500. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

A stroke of luck came Wetzlar's way in 1689 when the Holy Roman Empire's highest court, the Reichskammergericht (Imperial Chamber Court) was moved from Speyer to Wetzlar after Speyer had been badly devastated by the French in the war of the Palatinate succession. Besides Vienna (residence of the Emperor) and Regensburg (seat of the Imperial Diet) Wetzlar thus gained a central function within the Holy Roman Empire and although it remained a tiny town it was regarded as one of its capitals. In the summer of 1772, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was at the Reichskammergericht as a trainee. His novel The Sorrows of Young Werther is inspired by real events, Goethe came to know in Wetzlar. In 1803 Wetzlar came under the rule of Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg, the Archchancellor of the Holy Roman Empire and a close ally of Napoleon Bonaparte ans thus lost its status as a free town. With the Empire's dissolution in 1806, the great court also met its end. It was replaced by a school of law founded by Karl von Dalberg. After the Congress of Vienna, the area passed to Prussia in 1815, and in 1822 it became the seat of the newly formed district of Wetzlar, which later in an administrative sense was part of the Prussian Rhineland (although Wetzlar does not identify itself in any was as a "rhenish" town). Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1536x2048, 747 KB) Wetzlar, Germany: former seat of the Reichskammergericht (Imperial Court of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation) Photographed by Andreas Praefcke, 2003 File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1536x2048, 747 KB) Wetzlar, Germany: former seat of the Reichskammergericht (Imperial Court of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation) Photographed by Andreas Praefcke, 2003 File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other... The extent of the Holy Roman Empire in c. ... The Reichskammergericht was the highest judicial institution in the Holy Roman Empire, founded in 1495 by the Reichstag in Worms. ... Speyer (English formerly Spires) is a city in Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate) with approx. ... Speyer (English formerly Spires) is a city in Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate) with approx. ... Vienna (German: , see also other names) is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. ... Regensburg (also Ratisbon, Latin Ratisbona) is a city (population 151. ... The extent of the Holy Roman Empire in c. ... , IPA: , (28 August 1749 â€“ 22 March 1832) was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, theorist, humanist, scientist, and painter. ... The Sorrows of Young Werther (Die Leiden des jungen Werther, originally published as Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) is an epistolary and loosely autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774. ... Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg (1744â€“February 10, 1817) was archbishop-elector of Mainz, arch-chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire, and afterwards primate of the Confederation of the Rhine and grand-duke of Frankfort. ... Bonaparte as general Napoleon Bonaparte ( 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a general of the French Revolution and was the ruler of France as First Consul (Premier Consul) of the French Republic from November 11, 1799 to May 18, 1804, then as Emperor of the French (Empereur des... The Congress of Vienna by Jean-Baptiste Isabey, 1819. ... Motto: Suum cuique Latin: To each his own Prussia at its peak, as leading state of the German Empire Capital KÃ¶nigsberg, later Berlin Political structure Duchy, Kingdom, Republic Duke1 - 1525â€“68 Albert I - 1688â€“1701 Frederick III King1 - 1701â€“13 Frederick I - 1888â€“1918 William II Prime Minister1,2... The Rhineland (Rheinland in German) is the general name for the land on both sides of the river Rhine in the west of Germany. ...

Wetzlar becomes an industrial town

Industrialization began once the Lahn was made into a navigable waterway. With the opening of two railway lines in 1862-1863 (the Lahntalbahn from Wetzlar to Koblenz and the Cologne-Gießen Railway), which met in Wetzlar, the town found itself connected to raw material and outlet markets, becoming an industrial town. Map of the Koblenz region Koblenz (also Coblenz in pre-1926 German spellings; French Coblence) is a city situated on both banks of the Rhine at its confluence with the Moselle, where the Deutsches Eck (German Corner) and its monument ( Emperor William I on horseback) are situated. ... For other uses, see Cologne (disambiguation). ...

In 1869, in the municipal area alone, 100 ore mines were in operation. Wetzlar's first blast furnace, built by the brothers Buderus, went into service in 1872. As well, world-famous optical and precision mechanics companies such as Leitz (Leica), Hensoldt (Zeiss), Pfeiffer, Philips, Loh, Seibert, Hollmann, and many others set up shop in town. Iron ore (Banded iron formation) Manganese ore Lead ore Gold ore An ore is a volume of rock containing components or minerals in a mode of occurrence which renders it valuable for mining. ... Blast furnace in Sestao, Spain. ... Image:Leica-Logo. ... Carl Zeiss The Carl Zeiss company is a German manufacturer of optical systems, industrial measurements and medical devices originally founded in Jena in 1846 by Carl Zeiss, Ernst Abbe and Otto Schott. ... Philips HQ in Amsterdam Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Royal Philips Electronics N.V.), usually known as Philips, (Euronext: PHIA, NYSE: PHG) is one of the largest electronics companies in the world, founded and headquartered in the Netherlands. ...

For more than one hundred years, the iron ore found in the Lahn-Dill area (haematite) was worked at the Sophienhütte ironworks. As of 1887, iron ore mines were being shut down one by one, interrupted only by the First World War, because foreign ore from strip mines was being offered at lower prices on the world market. In 1926, mining came to an end altogether. This heap of iron ore pellets will be used in steel production. ... Hematite (AE) or haematite (BE) is the mineral form of Iron (III) oxide, (Fe2O3), one of several iron oxides. ... Ironworks at Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England An ironworks or iron works is a building or site where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and/or steel products are made. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Strip mining is the practice of mining a seam of mineral ore by first removing all of the soil and rock that lies on top of it. ...

Wetzlar in the 20th century

As part of the progressing industrialization, the town outgrew its mediaeval town limits. In 1903 came the amalgamation of Niedergirmes with its extensive industrial works and the railway station neighbourhood. By the end of the First World War, the population had risen to over 15,000. Owing to increasing transportation problems, a ringroad was built in the west of the Old Town (Altstadt), taking the load off the old stone bridge across the Lahn by building a further bridge. In the Second World War, the town, being an industrial stonghold, also became the target of heavy bombings, which destroyed much of the railway station neighbourhood and Niedergirmes. The historic Old Town, however, was mostly spared the air raids. Passengers bustle around the typical grand edifice of Londons Broad Street Station in 1865. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Strategic bombing is a military strategem used in a total war style campaign that attempts to destroy the economic ability of a nation-state to wage war. ...

After the Second World War ended in 1945, Wetzlar found itself in the American occupation zone, and later, once new boundaries had been drawn, in the Federal State of Hesse. By the beginning of the 1950s, owing to the huge numbers of displaced people from lost territories and refugees flooding into the town, the population had doubled to 30,000. Germany is a Federal Republic made up of 16 States, known in German as LÃ¤nder (singular Land). ... Hesse (German: Hessen) is a state of Germany with an area of 21,110 kmÂ² and just over six million inhabitants. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ...

On 1 January 1977, as part of Hesse's municipal reforms, Wetzlar was united with the neighbouring town of Gießen and fourteen outlying communities to form the city of Lahn. This district-free city had about 156,000 inhabitants. The amalgamation was very unpopular, and after persistent protests – not least of all from Wetzlar – the city of Lahn was dissolved on 31 July 1979, and Wetzlar once again became an independent town. The municipal reforms, however, had been "worth the trouble" for Wetzlar inasmuch as the town gained eight new outlying communities in the deal, making both the town's area and population considerably greater than they had been. Moreover, Wetzlar has since this time been the seat of the Lahn-Dill-Kreis, which also came into being at the same time. January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ... theatre in Giessen Architecture in Giessen Giessen (German spelling GieÃŸen) is a city in the German federal state (Bundesland) of Hesse, capital of both the Giessen district and the Giessen Administrative Region. ... Lahn was city which was created on January 1, 1977 when the two cities of GieÃŸen and Wetzlar were merged. ... July 31 is the 212th day of the year (213th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ...

Politics

Town council

Elections for town council were last held on 26 March 2006 for a five-year term. The SPD lost one seat, the Greens gained one. Voter participation fell from 45.9% in 2001 to 37.2%. Out of 38,918 eligible voters, 14,468 went to the polls. Hesse's next municipal elections will be held in March 2011. March 26 is the 85th day of the year (86th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

Note: FWG is a citizens' coalition. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1421x948, 168 KB) [edit] fÃ¼r das wappen gilt: originaldatei [edit] fÃ¼r die restliche grafik gilt: selbst erstellt von Dirk <Â°Â°> File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1421x948, 168 KB) [edit] fÃ¼r das wappen gilt: originaldatei [edit] fÃ¼r die restliche grafik gilt: selbst erstellt von Dirk <Â°Â°> File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed... The Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU - Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands) is the largest conservative political party in Germany. ... SPD redirects here. ... BÃ¼ndnis 90/Die GrÃ¼nen (literally: Alliance 90/The Greens), the German Green Party, is a political party in Germany whose regional predecessors were founded in the late 1970s as part of the new social movements. ... The Free Democratic Party (Freie Demokratische Partei - FDP) is a liberal political party in Germany. ...

The majority of seats, and thereby the power, is held by a CDU-FWG-FDP coalition which holds, as also before the elections, 31 of the 59 seats.

Oberbürgermeister

The directly elected Oberbürgermeister, or First Mayor, is the FDP politician Wolfram Dette. His deputy Klaus Breidsprecher was supplied by the CDU.

Coat of arms

Wetzlar's civic coat of arms might heraldically be described thus: In gules a spreadeagle sable armed, langued and crowned Or, over its wing dexter a cross pattée argent. A modern coat of arms is derived from the medi val practice of painting designs onto the shield and outer clothing of knights to enable them to be identified in battle, and later in tournaments. ...

The black Imperial eagle on a red background and with a golden crown stands for the town's former Imperial immediacy as a Free Imperial City (see History). The silver cross stands for the former Imperial City's right to mint coins. The arms are almost unchanged from those borne in the 12th century. (11th century - 12th century - 13th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century was that century which lasted from 1101 to 1200. ...

A new version of the coat of arms was to have been introduced in 2003, but it did not catch on. In the end, the "old" arms were kept.

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Transport

Motorway: Wetzlar lies on the A 45 (Sauerland-line Dortmund - Aschaffenburg) with the junctions Wetzlarer Kreuz [Wetzlar Cross] (to A 480 to Wetzlar-north, Asslar and Wetzlar-Blasbach), Wetzlar-Ost [Wetzlar-East] (to B49 in direction city center) and Wetzlar-Süd [Wetzlar-South] (into the southern quarters Münchholzhausen and Dutenhofen). The motorway A 480 should actually lead from the Luxembourg border over Trier through the Westerwald up to the Hattenbacher Dreieck ([Hattenbach Triangle] to the A7). This distance was planned as A 48. From cost reasons it was never completely realized. Now the B 49 are to take up the traffic. Today the part of the A48 between Gißen and Wetzlar is called A 480 and leads only from the departure Wetzlar-North/Asslar up to the Wetzlarer Cross and beyond that up to the present motorway end with the improvised exit after Wetzlar-Blasbach. Some kilometers in the northeast of Gießen continues the part removed so far and leads from Heuchelheim to the Reiskirchener Dreieck [Reiskirchen Triangle] at the A 5. Bundesautobahn 45 (translates from German as Federal Motorway 45, short form Autobahn 45, abbreviated as BAB 45 or A 45) is an autobahn in Germany, connecting Dortmund in the west with Hanau in the southwest. ... The Sauerland is a rural hilly area spreading across most of the east of North Rhine-Westphalia, heavily forested and sparsely inhabited. ... Dortmund is a city in Germany, located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. ... Aschaffenburg is a city in Bavaria, Germany. ... Stack interchange The Wetzlarer Kreuz is an Autobahn interchange in the city of Wetzlar in Hesse, Germany where the autobahns A45 and A480 meet. ... The Bundesautobahn 480 (BAB 480 or A 480, named A48 until the early 1980s). ... Trier (French: ; Luxembourgish TrÃ©ier) is a city in Germany on the banks of the Moselle River. ... The Westerwald is a mountain chain in Germany. ... Bundesautobahn 7 (translates from German as Federal Motorway 7, short form Autobahn 7, abbreviated as BAB 7 or A 7) is the longest German Autobahn at 935 km (581 mi) . It splits the country almost evenly from north to south. ... Bundesautobahn 48 (translates from German as Federal Motorway 48, short form Autobahn 48, abbreviated as BAB 48 or A 48) is an autobahn in western Germany. ... Bundesautobahn 5 (translates from German as Federal Motorway 5, short form Autobahn 5, abbreviated as BAB 5 or A 5) is a 445 km (277 mi) long Autobahn in Germany. ...

Federal Highway: The following federal highways lead through the city: B 49 (Trier-Wetzlar- Alsfeld) in direction east-west and B 277 (Siegen-Dillenburg-Wetzlar) as north-south connection. The B277a is rather a bypassroad, it connects Asslar with Wetzlar-Dalheim. Between Wetzlar and Limburg (B49) is the federal route momentarily in the extension from one track up to two in each direction. Alsfeld [] is a town in the center of Hesse. ... A bypass is a road or highway that avoids (bypasses) a built-up area, town, or village, to let through traffic flow without interference from local traffic, to reduce congestion in the built-up area, and to improve road safety. ...

Railways: Wetzlar lies on the Railroad lines Frankfurt am Main - Siegen - Cologne and Gießen - Limburg - Koblenz, which meet at Wetzlar Station and gets operated from RegionalBahn and RegionalExpress-Trains. Beside the station Wetzlar, it exist a further station in the quarter of Dutenhofen. The earlier station in the quarter of Wetzlar-Garbenheim was closed with the quiet putting of the distance to Wetzlar. The goods station became smaller, now since February 2007 again the goods trains are arranged for centralhesse by (Railion). Larger cities, which are directly attainable from Wetzlar are: Aachen, Cologne, Kassel, Koblenz, Frankfurt am Main and Siegen. For other uses, see Cologne (disambiguation). ... RB train The RegionalBahn (abbreviated RB) is a type of regional train in Germany. ... RE4 (NRW) in Dortmund Hbf The term RegionalExpress denotes a type of regional train in Germany. ... Railion is a European (mainly German) railroad cargo carrier. ... Oche redirects here; in darts the oche is the line from which players must throw. ...

Public transport: The city has a well removed urban bus-linear-network with twelve Lines. These have all a connection to the central bus station (ZOB), in addition come still various lines in the overland traffic into the surrounding countryside of Wetzlar. For the late evening hours drives the night bus line 007, the so-called DiscoBus, which starts nearly all quarters. On all lines applies the prices of the RMV. Additionally the CityBus links the Oldtown to the proce of 50 cent ,weekdays from 10 to 19 o'clock and on workdays to 15 o'clock with the station and the shopping centre FORUM Wetzlar every 20-minutes. The Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ŻOB, Polish for the Jewish Fighting Organization) - a World War II resistance movement, which supposedly was instrumental in engineering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (ZZW fighters from second Jewish resistance organisation claim otherwise). ... The Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (abbreviated RMV) is a transport association in the German state of Hesse, centered around Frankfurt am Main. ... Oldtown can refer to: Oldtown, Dublin Oldtown, Idaho Oldtown, Maryland This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ...

Airtraffic The distance to the Airport Frankfurt is approx. about 70 km, to the regional airport Siegen approx. 40 km. Frankfurt International Airport (German: Flughafen Frankfurt am Main) is located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. ...

Economy and Business

Retailing

Wetzlar has two large shopping centres of those the FORUM Wetzlar is the largest in central- hesse (Mittelhessen). It has approx. 110 shops and accommodates a large multi-storey car park of 1700 places. The retail trade is mainly in the ranges Bahnhofsstraße, Karl-Kellner-Ring and the historic oldtown settled. In the Bahnhofstraße, the Karl-Kellner-Ring and in the two shopping centers is almost every stuff represented.

Enterprises

The city is location of some internationally active and world-well-known enterprises. The Buderus company was created in the year 1731 and is thereby European-wide one of the oldest still existing (large) enterprises. As BBT Thermotechnik in the meantime to Bosch duly, Buderus was for many decades with distance largest employers in the centralhessian area with more than 10,000 persons employed alone in Wetzlar (world-wide over 16.000) within the ranges casting (with cement), high-grade steel and heating technique as well as the head office at the place. Economic changes, repeated assumptions of the stock majority as well as locking and sales of divisions changed the company in the meantime strongly. It ranks however still among the large enterprises in Hesse. Wetzlar is apart from Jena and Oberkochen a German center of the optics as well as the most important German location for the fine-mechanical industry. Their manufactured products brought it to world-wide reputation, everything in front the microscopes to the company Leica Microsystems (in former times Ernst Leitz), which had in its point times in the city over 7000 persons employed. The small picture photography was invented in Wetzlar. In addition are cameras of the companies Leidolf and Minox, the binoculars and telescopes of the company Hensoldt AG (now Carl Zeiss), group of Zeiss (also in point times over 2.000 persons employed). Other well-known enterprises are Philips (with about 1,200 employed at that time) or Siemens AG and Siemens VDO or the Sancura BKK, a supraregional health insurance, which are fused with the Taunus BKK. The Business park Spilburg, former barracks, became for a number of innovative enterprises, particularly from the ranges optics/precision mechanics, information technology and services, an predominantly positively evaluated location. In addition traffic-technically well opened areas are in the Westend as well as the Hörnsheimer Eck and the Dillfeld available for the settlement of further, new trades. Events 10 Downing Street becomes the official residence of the United Kingdoms Prime Minister when Robert Walpole moves in. ... Logo of Robert Bosch GmbH Robert Bosch GmbH [1] is a German corporation which was started in 1886 by Robert Bosch in Stuttgart, Germany. ... This article is about the German town of Jena. ... Oberkochen is a town in the Ostalbkreis, Baden-WÃ¼rttemberg, Germany. ... Leica is the name of several cameras produced by a German company of the same name. ... The Minox, the archetypal sub-miniature camera, was invented by Estonian engineer Walter Zapp of Riga, Latvia, in 1936. ... Carl Zeiss (September 11, 1816 â€“ December 3, 1888) was an optician commonly known for the company he founded, Zeiss. ... Philips HQ in Amsterdam Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Royal Philips Electronics N.V.), usually known as Philips, (Euronext: PHIA, NYSE: PHG) is one of the largest electronics companies in the world, founded and headquartered in the Netherlands. ... Siemens AG (ISIN: DE0007236101, FWB: SIE, NYSE: SI) is one of the worlds largest technology companies. ... VDO (Vereinigte DEUTA (Deutsche Tachometerwerke GmbH) OTA (OTA Apparate GmbH)) is a manufacturer of information and cockpit systems, navigation, telematics, communication and audio systems and control and fuel systems. ... A business park in Santa Barbara County, California A business park or business estate is an area of land in which many office buildings are grouped together. ...

Sister cities

Wetzlar's sister cities are: Sign denoting twin towns of Neckarsulm, Germany Town twinning is a concept whereby towns or cities in geographically and politically distinct areas are paired with the goal of fostering human contact and cultural links. ...

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Sightseeing

Historic Old Town

The tightly woven ensemble of historic buildings and houses in the Old Town (Altstadt) with its half-timbered houses and stone buildings from Romanesque (Wetzlar Cathedral) to Gothic to Renaissance and Baroque is to a great extent as it was in the late 18th century, preserved and extensively restored. Thus the great squares of Buttermarkt/Domplatz ("Butter Market/Cathedral Square"), Fischmarkt ("Fish Market"), Eisenmarkt ("Iron Market"), Kornmarkt ("Corn Market"), and the former Franziskanerhof ("Franciscan Yard"), now called Schillerplatz. From the roughly 50 noteworthy buildings, a few are listed here: Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1598x1494, 556 KB) Wetzlar, Germany: Altstadt Source: Photographed by Andreas Praefcke, 2003 File links The following pages link to this file: Wetzlar ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1598x1494, 556 KB) Wetzlar, Germany: Altstadt Source: Photographed by Andreas Praefcke, 2003 File links The following pages link to this file: Wetzlar ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1419x1521, 492 KB) Wetzlar, Germany: Altstadt Source: Photographed by Andreas Praefcke, 2003 File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Wetzlar ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1419x1521, 492 KB) Wetzlar, Germany: Altstadt Source: Photographed by Andreas Praefcke, 2003 File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Wetzlar ... Braubach (Germany) Timber framing is the modern term for the traditional half-timbered construction in which timber provides a visible skeletal frame that supports the whole building. ... Interior of Cologne Cathedral Gothic architecture is a style of architecture, particularly associated with cathedrals and other churches, which flourished in Europe during the high and late medieval period. ... The Renaissance (French for rebirth, or Rinascimento in Italian), was a cultural movement in Italy (and in Europe in general) that began in the late Middle Ages, and spanned roughly the 14th through the 17th century. ... Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens. ... Look up corn in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Also in the old outlying towns of Langgasse and Neustadt ("New Town"), connected to the Old Town by the Old Lahn Bridge (Alte Lahnbrücke), a number of historic buildings are preserved and are worth seeing. The New Town, however, has lost its mediaeval feel owing to its 20th-century four-lane streets. The Sorrows of Young Werther (Die Leiden des jungen Werther, originally published as Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) is an epistolary and loosely autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774. ...

The stone Alte Lahnbrücke was first mentioned in 1288. A building meant to serve as the town hall, built in the mid 14th century, was used by the Reichskammergericht as their seat and offices from 1689 to 1806, after many remodellings. Considerable remains of the town's 13th- and 14th-century fortifications are still preserved, for instance a fortress tower known as the Schneiderturm ("Tailor's Tower") or Säuturm ("Sow's Tower"), the Kalsmuntpforte ("Kalsmunt Gate" – see History) which was the town gate for the earlier suburb of Silhofen, as well as great parts of the town wall.

Wetzlar Cathedral

The Wetzlarer Dom (Wetzlar Cathedral) is one of Wetzlar's landmark buildings. Building work began on the cathedral in 1230 and is still not finished. It is the successor to a former "Church of the Saviour" consecrated in 897. The monastery and parish church was called Cathedral as of the late 17th century. This designation was accomplished during the time that the Reichskammergericht was active in Wetzlar (1693 – 1806), when the Elector-Archbishop of Trier was Monastery Provost, making the church a "Bishop's Church". The cathedral to Wetzlar is not an actual cathedral, because Wetzlar is not a bishop seat. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1325x1997, 560 KB) Wetzlar, Germany: Wetzlarer Dom Source: Photographed by Andreas Praefcke, 2003 File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Wetzlar ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1325x1997, 560 KB) Wetzlar, Germany: Wetzlarer Dom Source: Photographed by Andreas Praefcke, 2003 File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Wetzlar ...

Culture

The Phantastische Bibliothek Wetzlar (Fantastic Library of Wetzlar) is one of the largest public libraries specialised in fantastic literature worldwide, it is the largest in Europe. It is generally a reference library, open for the public and scientists. The Phantastische Bibliothek Wetzlar (Fantastic Library of Wetzlar) was founded in 1989 and has become one of the largest public libraries specialised in Fantasy literature worldwide, it is the largest in Europe. ...

Arena Wetzlar is a multi-functional arena and is primarily used for pop concerts, shows and team handball and is the home arena of HSG Wetzlar (Handball Bundesliga). Mittelhessen-Arena Arena Wetzlar is an indoor sporting arena located in Wetzlar, Germany. ... HSG Wetzlar is a team handball club from Wetzlar. ...

Every summer, operas, music and drama are performed open air at the Freilichtbühne during the month-long Wetzlar Festival ("Wetzlarer Festspiele"). The Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy. ... For other uses, see Music (disambiguation). ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... The Wetzlarer Festspiele (in english:Wetzlar Festival) is since 1953 annually a Theatre festival, which taking place in the summer in the hessian city Wetzlar. ...

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Towns and municipalities in Lahn-Dill-Kreis

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