Cölbe

Coat of arms

Cölbe

Location of Cölbe within Marburg-Biedenkopf district

Coordinates: 50°51′02″N 08°47′03″E / 50.85056°N 8.78417°ECoordinates: 50°51′02″N 08°47′03″E / 50.85056°N 8.78417°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Volker Carle (Ind.)

Area

• Total

26.66 km² (10.29 sq mi)

Elevation

213 m (699 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

6,799

• Density

260/km² (660/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

35091

06421/ 06427

Website

Cölbe is a community in Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Hesse, Germany.

Cölbe's municipal area lies on the southern edge of the Burgwald, a low mountain range and part of the Hessisches Bergland (Hessian Highland), and borders directly on the university city of Marburg to the south. The namesake constituent community is found on a bow in the river Lahn where it bends from its mainly easterly flow to a mainly southerly one.

Cölbe borders in the northwest on the town of Wetter, in the northeast on the town of Rauschenberg, in the east on the town of Kirchhain, in the south on the town of Marburg, and in the west on the community of Lahntal (all in Marburg-Biedenkopf).

The community consists of six constituent communities named Bernsdorf, Bürgeln, Cölbe, Reddehausen, Schönstadt and Schwarzenborn.

Cölbe's civic coat of arms might be described thus: Gules a bend argent surmounted by six hearts reversed gules in bend three and three. Reversed hearts are also taken in heraldry as stylized testicles.

As of municipal elections on 26 March 2006, seats on municipal council are apportioned thus:

The Institute for Theoretical Geodesy in Bonn has ascertained that the European Union's centre point after the 2004 expansion lies at the coordinates 50°51′10″N 8°46′43″E / 50.85278°N 8.77861°E / 50.85278; 8.77861. This spot is to be found within Cölbe's municipal limits, 895 m from the community's own centre point. Newer efforts delving into this question, however, have yielded different results, putting the EU's centre point at Kleinmaischeid in the Westerwald.

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