Flieden

Infobox German Location
Art = Gemeinde
Name = Flieden
Wappen = Wappen_Flieden.pnglat_deg = 50 |lat_min = 25
lon_deg = 09 |lon_min = 34
Bundesland = Hessen
Regierungsbezirk = Kassel
Landkreis = Fulda
Höhe = 280 - 508
Fläche = 49.65
Einwohner = 8755
Stand = 2006-12-31
PLZ = 36103
Vorwahl = 0 66 55
Kfz = FD
Gemeindeschlüssel = 06 6 31 008
Straße = Hauptstraße 36
Gliederung = 9 districts
Website = [http://www.flieden.de www.flieden.de]
Bürgermeister = Winfried Kreß
Partei = none
year = before 806

Flieden is a municipality in the district of Fulda, in Hesse, Germany.As of a long tradition it is called a “Königreich” (Kingdom). Therefore it may show a crown in its coat of arms.

Geography

Flieden is located in a valley north west of the Landrücken between the Vogelsberg and the Rhön. The area is of low mountain range with the highest elevations "Knöschen" near Buchenrod (509 m) and the "Storker Küppel" near Oberstork (470 m).At the very center of Flieden the creeks "Magdloser Wasser" und "Kautzer Wasser" merge into the Fliede River which later flows into the Fulda River.

In the north Flieden borders Neuhof and in the east Kalbach both in the district of Fulda. In the south and west Flieden borders Schlüchtern and Steinau an der Straße (Main-Kinzig-Kreis).

Besides the main locality Flieden consists of the districts Berishof, Buchenrod, Döngesmühle, Federwisch, Fuldaische Höfe, Höf und Haid, Katzenberg, Kautz, Kellerei, Keutzelbuch, Langenau, Laugendorf, Leimenhof, Magdlos, Rückers, Schweben, Stork (Ober- and Unterstork), Storker Hof, Struth and Weinberg.

History

In 806 Flieden was first mentioned as “Mark Flieden” in a deed of donation to the monastery of Fulda.

In the middleages Flieden was located at the "Via Regia" from Frankfurt am Main to Leipzig which was a very important country and military road in the Holy Roman Empire.

In 1867 Flieden became a station at the railroad track Bebra–Hanau, in 1873 a setting-back track on the Landrücken has been accomplished, which connected Flieden to Frankfurt.

At the end of World War II about 1000 expellees from the former eastern territories of Germany settle in Flieden.

Statistics

Links

* [http://www.findcity.de/cgi-bin/start.pl?M=36103pb Map of Flieden] (german)
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