Battenberg (Eder)

Battenberg
Town
Oberstadt (Upper Town) with Neuburg (New Castle)
Coat of arms
Location of Battenberg within Waldeck-Frankenberg district
Ortsteile
Government
• Mayor (2020–26)	Christian Klein[1]
Area
• Total	64.73 km2 (24.99 sq mi)
Elevation	340 m (1,120 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	5,500
• Density	85/km2 (220/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	35088
Dialling codes	06452
Vehicle registration	KB
Website	www.battenberg-eder.de

Battenberg is a small town in the district of

The Battenberg cake and hence also the Battenburg markings both indirectly derive their name from the town.

Geography

Location

The centre of Battenberg lies in the Ederbergland, or Eder Highland, to which the Burgwald abutting the town to the east also belongs, on the southern edge of the

Battenberg borders in the north on the community of Bromskirchen, in the northeast on the community of Allendorf, in the southeast on the community of Burgwald (all three in Waldeck-Frankenberg), in the south on the community of Münchhausen am Christenberg (Marburg-Biedenkopf), and in the west on the towns of Hatzfeld (Waldeck-Frankenberg) and Bad Berleburg (Siegen-Wittgenstein in North Rhine-Westphalia).

Incorporated villages

Battenberg consists of:

• Battenberg proper including the tiny hamlet of Neu-Jägersdorf (de:Neu-Jägersdorf), also known as "Kröge", on the other side of the Eder.

and the incorporated villages of:

• Berghofen (de:Berghofen (Battenberg))
• Dodenau (de:Dodenau)
• Frohnhausen (de:Frohnhausen (Battenberg)): the farthest away from Battenberg proper.
• Laisa (de:Laisa)

Right next to Battenberg proper on the western side of the Eder is Battenfeld (de:Battenfeld), a district of the neighbouring town of Allendorf (Eder).

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  Map of the Rothaar Mountains with Battenberg visible at the eastern edges of the mountains, the Eder Uplands.
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  The course of the

  Frankenberg (Eder) and the Sackpfeife mountain. The Eder flows into the Fulda near Edermünde-Grifte (de:Grifte). Kassel is visible in the northeast, on the Fulda, and Marburg in the south, on the Lahn

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  Location of Battenberg within the district of Waldeck-Frankenberg

History

In 778 fighting took place near Laisa and Battenfeld as part of

Battenberg's civic coat of arms might heraldically be described thus: Per pale sable and argent.

The tinctures come from the arms borne by the town's old overlords, the Counts of Battenberg(a branch of the Counts of Wittgenstein). Battenberg's arms have their roots in the 13th century, putting them among Hesse's oldest municipal coats of arms.

Various other

• Senonches, France
• Romsey, United Kingdom
• Litvínov, Czech Republic
• Horní Jiřetín, Czech Republic
• Loon op Zand, Netherlands

Adoption

• In 1954, Battenberg "adopted" Sudeten Germans who had been driven out of the community of Obergeorgenthal (Horní Jiřetín) in the Brüx district.

Notable people

• Andreas Steinhöfel (born 1962), writer and translator
• Leonie Schwertmann (born 1994), volleyball player

References