Lohfelden is a municipality in the district of Kassel

Kassel (district)

Kassel is a Kreis in the north of Hesse, Germany. Neighboring districts are Northeim, Göttingen, Werra-Meißner, Schwalm-Eder, Waldeck-Frankenberg, Höxter...

, in Hesse

Hesse

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, Germany

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. It is situated 6 km southeast of Kassel

Kassel

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. It has three parts Crumbach, Ochsenhausen and the former independent Vollmarshausen

Vollmarshausen

Vollmarshausen is a village of 3000 inhabitants incorperated into the municipality of Lohfelden in Hesse, Germany.- History :The area around Vollmarshausen was settled in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age . 1951 a large burial site was found...

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Geography

Lohfelden / Vollmarshausen borders in the northwest to the independent city of Kassel

Kassel

Kassel is a town located on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Kassel Regierungsbezirk and the Kreis of the same name and has approximately 195,000 inhabitants.- History :...

, in the northeast and east to the municipality Kaufungen

Kaufungen

Kaufungen is a municipality in the district of Kassel, in Hesse, Germany. It is situated in the narrow valley of the river Losse, surrounded by the steep, wooded hills of the Kaufunger Wald, approx...

, in the south with the municipality Söhrewald , oin the west with the municipality Fuldabrück (all three in the district of Kassel).

History

The monastery of St. Alban in Mainz get rights in Crumbach in the 14th and 15 Century.

On 1 June 1941, merged the two communities Crumbach and Ochsenhausen were unified to the new community of Lohfelden. On 1st December 1970 with the local government reform the former independent Vollmarshausen was added. The new Town Hall was built between the previous Lohfelden and Vollmarshausen.

Main sights

• Carriages and Coaches Museum of Hessen (Museum Hessisches Kutschen- und Wagenmuseum)
• Protestant church in Crumbach (with a round tower from the 12. century)
• Protestant church in Ochshausen (gothic style)
• Protestant church in Vollmarshausen (early sample of neoclassicism)
• basswood tree at the old square (and fourmer court place) of Vollmarshausen
• Bronze age tombs near Vollmarshausen
• Old mill Obermühle
• Garden town Siedlung

Source: Eco Pfad Kulturgeschichte Lohfelden

Schools and sports

Lohfelden has two primary schools, five kindergartens, two nurseries and a nursing home; also four gyms and two football stadiums.

The soccer division of the FSC Lohfelden

FSC Lohfelden

FSC Lohfelden is a German association football club based in Lohfelden, Hesse.-History:It was established in 1895 as the gymnastics and sports club Turn- und Sportverein Crumbach and formed a football department in 1924...

 plays in the Hessenliga

Hessenliga

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Business parks

In 1971, Lohfelden developed the business park Kassel-Waldau together with Kassel. A second business park with the name Lohfeldener Rüssel followed in 2009 also together with Kassel. It is well known for the service area with the same name on the autobahn.

Twin towns – Sister cities

Lohfelden twinned

Town twinning

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 with, or has sister city

Town twinning

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 relationships with: Berg im Drautal

Berg im Drautal

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, Austria

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, since 1988 Trutnov

Trutnov

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, Czech Republic

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, since 2007 Alcalá la Real

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, Spain

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