Lohra

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Lohra

Location of Lohra within Marburg-Biedenkopf district

Coordinates: 50°45′N 08°40′E / 50.750°N 8.667°ECoordinates: 50°45′N 08°40′E / 50.750°N 8.667°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Georg Gaul (Independent politician)

Area

• Total

49.18 km² (18.99 sq mi)

Elevation

210 m (690 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

5,465

• Density

110/km² (290/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

35102

06462 oder 06426

Website

Lohra is a community in Marburg-Biedenkopf district in the administrative region of Gießen in Hesse, Germany.

Lohra's municipal area, measuring 49 km², stretches across the middle Salzböde valley and the Versgrund. Among its neighbouring communities are Weimar an der Lahn in the northeast, Fronhausen in the southeast and in the northwest Gladenbach, all in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district, as well as the town of Lollar, Wettenberg and Biebertal in Gießen district, and Bischoffen in Lahn-Dill district.

The community of Lohra is found in the so-called Marburger Land. Together with the communities of Fronhausen, Weimar and Ebsdorfergrund, Lohra forms the southern part of Marburg-Biedenkopf. The community of Lohra is sometimes wrongly said to be part of the Hessisches Hinterland, but not even any of the old villages now belonging to Lohra were part of the old Biedenkopf district, and therefore they were not part of the Hinterland; they had been part of the old Marburg district since days of yore.

Lohra has a population of 6,800, 2,554 of those in the namesake constituent community (as of late 2005).

The community includes the following constituent communities:

Witness to Lohra's early occupation is the gallery grave found at the Gernstein in 1931, which puts the earliest habitation no later than the dying days of the New Stone Age. The men, women and children buried here, whose number must have been about 20, had been burnt in a surprising way. Furthermore, unlike what has been found at other gallery graves in North Hesse, the dead were richly furnished with ceramics and other everyday objects for their trip to the hereafter. Handled beakers (which owing to their unique style have also come to be called Lohra beakers in archaeological jargon), cups, bowls, a serpentine axe, a small stone hatchet, a retouched radiolarite blade and pieces of bronze plate are all things that have been found at the site. Some of the finds have been kept at the Hesse State Museum since 1931.

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