Freiensteinau


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

Geography

Location

Freiensteinau lies on the southern slopes of the Vogelsberg Mountains.

Neighbouring communities

Freiensteinau borders in the north on the community of Grebenhain, in the northeast on the community of Hosenfeld, in the east on the community of Neuhof, in the south on the town of Steinau an der Straße and in the west on the community of Birstein.

Constituent communities

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

Politics

Municipal council

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:

Music

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 take place around the organ.

Sundry

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.