Freiensteinau

Freiensteinau
Coat of arms
Freiensteinau
Location of Freiensteinau within Vogelsbergkreis district
Coordinates: 50°26′N 09°24′E / 50.433°N 9.400°E / 50.433; 9.400Coordinates: 50°26′N 09°24′E / 50.433°N 9.400°E / 50.433; 9.400
Country	Germany
State	Hesse
Admin. region	Gießen
District	Vogelsbergkreis
Government
• Mayor	Friedel Kopp
Area
• Total	65.67 km2 (25.36 sq mi)
Elevation	444 m (1,457 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	3,131
• Density	48/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	36399
Dialling codes	06666
Vehicle registration	VB
Website	www.freiensteinau.de

Freiensteinau is a community in the Vogelsbergkreis in Hesse, Germany.

Freiensteinau lies on the southern slopes of the Vogelsberg Mountains.

Freiensteinau borders in the north on the community of Grebenhain, in the northeast on the community of Hosenfeld (Fulda district), in the east on the community of Neuhof (Fulda district), in the south on the town of Steinau an der Straße (Main-Kinzig-Kreis) and in the west on the community of Birstein (Main-Kinzig-Kreis).

The community consists of the twelve centres of Freiensteinau (administrative seat), Holzmühl, Fleschenbach, Salz, Ober-Moos, Nieder-Moos, Gunzenau, Reichlos, Weidenau, Reinhards, Hessisch Radmühl and Preußisch Radmühl.

The municipal elections on 26 March 2006 yielded the following results:

Elections in March 2016

In July 2014 Sascha Spielberger was elected the new mayor, he started in office in December 2014.

Former mayors:

The organ at the Evangelical Church in Nieder-Moos was built in 1790-1791 by Johann-Markus Oestreich from Oberbimbach near Fulda. Every year, the Nieder-Mooser Sommerkonzerte (Nieder-Moos Summer Concerts) take place around the organ.

A curious fact about the community's political history is that before Hesse's municipal reforms in the 1970s, the 12 constituent communities nowadays within Freiensteinau not only were not united, but even belonged to four different districts: Fulda, Gelnhausen, Lauterbach and Schlüchtern.