Volkmarsen

Volkmarsen lies on the northern edge of the Waldeck Plateau, where it flattens out into the Diemel Valley, some 28 km northwest of Kassel and 7 km northeast of Bad Arolsen. Volkmarsen borders in the north on the town of Warburg (Höxter district in North Rhine-Westphalia), in the east on the municipality of Breuna and the town of Wolfhagen (both in Kassel district), in the south and west on the town of Bad Arolsen and in the northwest on the town of Diemelstadt (both in Waldeck-Frankenberg). Besides the main town, which bears the same name as the whole, the town of Volkmarsen consists of the centres of Ehringen, Herbsen, Hörle, Külte and Lütersheim. Volkmarsen's first documentary mention came in 1155. In a safe-conduct from Pope Gregory IX in 1233, Volkmarsen was first described as a town. On 24 February 2020, a car drove into a crowd at a carnival parade, injuring 88 people. The town council's 31 seats are apportioned thus, in accordance with municipal elections held in 2006: Note: FWG is a citizens' coalition. Volkmarsen's oldest seal dates from 1272.