Neu-Eichenberg


Neu-Eichenberg is a community in the Werra-Meißner-Kreis in Hesse, Germany.

Geography

Location

Neu-Eichenberg lies near the three-state common point shared by Hesse, Thuringia and Lower Saxony between Kassel and Göttingen.

Neighbouring communities

Neu-Eichenberg borders in the north on the community of Friedland, in the east on the communities of Hohengandern and Bornhagen and in the south and west on the town of Witzenhausen.

Constituent communities

Neu-Eichenberg is made up of seven places named Berge, Neuenrode, Eichenberg Bahnhof, Eichenberg Dorf, Hebenshausen, Hermannrode and Marzhausen, but its five Ortsteile are Berge, Eichenberg, Hebenshausen, Hermannrode and Marzhausen.

History

The community of Neu-Eichenberg came into being in the course of municipal reform in Hesse on 1 February 1971 through the willing merger of the formerly self-administering communities of Berge, Eichenberg, Hebenshausen, Hermannrode and Marzhausen.

Politics

Community council

The municipal election held on 26 March 2006 yielded the following results:

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

Eichenberg’s railway station is a junction of the old North-South line and the Halle-Kassel line. There are connections to Kassel, Göttingen, Erfurt and Fulda. These are served by regional trains of Deutsche Bahn, cantus and Erfurter Bahn.
The community earned special importance through the Verkehrsprojekt Deutsche Einheit number 6, which saw the reconnection of the Eichenberg-Halle line formerly severed by the Inner German Border between East and West Germany.