Altenbrunslar

Altenbrunslar
Suburb of Felsberg
Altenbrunslar from the west, on a spring evening
Altenbrunslar
Coordinates: 51°10′1.26″N 9°26′42.59″E / 51.1670167°N 9.4451639°E / 51.1670167; 9.4451639Coordinates: 51°10′1.26″N 9°26′42.59″E / 51.1670167°N 9.4451639°E / 51.1670167; 9.4451639
Country	Germany
State	Hesse
District	Schwalm-Eder-Kreis
Town	Felsberg
Founded	1381
Government
• Local representative	Günter Sippel (SPD)
Area
• Total	9.092 km2 (3.510 sq mi)
Elevation	154 m (505 ft)
Population (16 Dec 2014)
• Total	328
• Density	36/km2 (93/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	34587
Dialling codes	05662
Vehicle registration	HR
Website	www.altenbrunslar.de

Altenbunslar is one of the sixteen constituent communities that form the town of Felsberg in Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, North Hesse, Germany. The nearest city is Kassel, which is 23 km (14 mi) to the north.

The boundary of the village encompasses an area of about 9.1 km² (3.5 sq mi), of which about 80% is covered by forest. Approximately 306 people live in the village.

The village is situated on the eastern (cut) bank of the Eder River. To the east of the village is the Quillerwald (English: Quiller Forest) or Markwald (English: common forest), the latter so-called because once it belonged to all the surrounding villages, at least in terms of the right to cut wood and graze animals, but not hunting. The Eder River confluences with the Fulda River just 9 km (5.6 mi) upstream from Altenbrunslar at Edermünde (English: mouth of the Eder).

The bedrock is composed of Triassic Buntsandstein, so-called because it is composed of a multitude of different-coloured sandstones. The rolling hills that are caused by the nearly even erosion of the sandstones, are punctuated by steep basaltic outcrops, which are the remains of Neogene (Miocene) volcanic necks (i.e. the cone of the volcano has been eroded which left behind the harder central region (neck) where the magma previously made its way to the surface).

The Rhünda Skull, found near the town of Rhünda, which is just south of Felsberg, proves that this area was populated already 12000 years ago. Archaeological finds show that around c. 2900–2450 cal. BC, in the nearby Quiller Forest, a prehistoric people of the Corded Ware culture settled. During the building of the A7 motorway in 1935, many burial mounds were found on Schleifsteinskopf, a hill within Quiller Forest (see above). At around the same time, the Riesenstein, a menhir weighing more than 40 metric tons (39 long tons), was erected close to Wolfershausen.