Freiensteinau

Infobox Ort in Deutschland
Wappen = Wappen Freiensteinau.svg
lat_deg = 50 |lat_min = 26
lon_deg = 09 |lon_min = 24
Lageplan = Mittelhessen Vogelsberg Fre.pngBundesland = Hessen
Regierungsbezirk = Gießen
Landkreis = Vogelsbergkreis
Höhe = 444
Fläche = 65.67
Einwohner = 3405
Stand = 2006-12-31
PLZ = 36399
Vorwahl = 06666
Kfz = VB
Gemeindeschlüssel = 06 5 35 004
Straße = Alte Schulstraße 5
Website = [http://www.freiensteinau.de www.freiensteinau.de]
Bürgermeister = Friedel Kopp

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

Geography

Location

Freiensteinau lies on the south slope of the Vogelsberg Mountains.

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).

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.

Politics

Municipal council

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

Partnerships

* Tourouvre, Normandy, France since 1977

Culture and sightseeing

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.

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.

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