Schwarzenborn, Hesse

Infobox German Location
Art = town
Name = Schwarzenborn
Wappen = Wappen Schwarzenborn.pnglat_deg = 50 |lat_min = 55
lon_deg = 9 |lon_min = 26
Bundesland = Hessen
Regierungsbezirk = Kassel
Landkreis = Schwalm-Eder-Kreis
Höhe = 479
Fläche = 26.90
Einwohner = 1158
Stand = 2006-12-31
PLZ = 34639
Vorwahl = 05686
Kfz = HR
Gemeindeschlüssel = 06 6 34 023
Website = [http://www.schwarzenborn.de/ www.schwarzenborn.de]
Bürgermeister = Jürgen Kaufmann

Schwarzenborn, Germany, is Hesse's smallest town.

Geography

Location

Schwarzenborn lies in the Schwalm-Eder district some 13.5 km from Homberg in the Knüll. Through the constituent community of Grebenhagen flows the river Efze.

Constituent communities

The town consists of the two centres of Grebenhagen and Schwarzenborn.

Politics

Coat of arms

Schwarzenborn's civic coat of arms might be heraldically described thus: In argent a goat-headed spreadeagle sable langued gules, on its breast an inescutcheon in sable a six-pointed star Or.

Schwarzenborn's arms bear a likeness to both Neukirchen's and Schwalmstadt's. All three have the goat-headed spreadeagle and a star on the inescutcheon (small shield within the bigger one), but colouring varies among the three.

Town partnerships

* Saint-Gervais-sur-Roubion, France since 7 May 2005

Economy and infrastructure

The town is well known for being a Bundeswehr base, furnishing some 300 jobs to local civilians, making the Bundeswehr the town's biggest employer. The garrison is home of the Jägerregiment 1 (1st Airborne Infantry Regiment) of the German Army.

Transport

The Hersfeld-West Autobahn interchange on the A 7 (Kassel – Würzburg) is about 15 km away.

Schwarzenborn is joined to the railway network through the stations at Schwalmstadt-Treysa and Bad Hersfeld.

References

External links

* [http://www.schwarzenborn.de/ Schwarzenborn]