Herleshausen

Coat of arms

Herleshausen

Location of Herleshausen within Werra-Meißner-Kreis district

Coordinates: 51°01′N 10°10′E / 51.017°N 10.167°ECoordinates: 51°01′N 10°10′E / 51.017°N 10.167°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Helmut Schmidt

Area

• Total

59.52 km² (22.98 sq mi)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

2,816

• Density

47/km² (120/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

37293

05654

ESW

Website

www.herleshausen.de

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

Herleshausen lies north of a section of the boundary with Thuringia in the thickly wooded area between the Ringgau and the Thuringian Forest (ranges) with the Thuringian Forest Nature Park in the southeast. It is found between the river Werra in the south and the Autobahn A 4 (Aachen–Görlitz) in the north.

Herleshausen borders on the municipal area of the district-free town of Eisenach, whose main centre lies some 12 km eastsoutheast. To the district seat of Eschwege to the northnorthwest, it is about 22 km, and to Kassel, the nearest city, to the northwest, it is about 60 km (each time as the crow flies).

Herleshausen borders in the north on the communities of Ringgau (Werra-Meißner-Kreis) and Ifta (Wartburgkreis in Thuringia), in the east on the town of Creuzburg and the community of Krauthausen (both in the Wartburgkreis), in the southeast on the Thuringian district-free town of Eisenach, in the south on the community of Gerstungen (Wartburgkreis) and in the west on the town of Sontra (Werra-Meißner-Kreis).

The community’s eleven Ortsteile are Herleshausen, Wommen, Nesselröden, Breitzbach, Unhausen, Holzhausen, Markershausen, Altefeld, Archfeld, Willershausen and Frauenborn.

In 1019, Herleshausen had its first documentary mention in a donation document in which ownership was transferred to the Kaufungen Monastery, which then held the village until Secularization in 1521. Thereafter, it passed to the Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel, who enfeoffed various lords with it.

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