Vellmar
| Sign | Map |
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| File:Vellmarwappen.gif | German map, with marked position of Vellmar |
| Vellmar | |
| federal state: | Hesse |
| district: | Kassel |
| Coordinates: | 51° 21' N, 09° 28' O |
| height: | 163 - 361 m above sealevel |
| area: | 13,97 km² |
| Inhabitants: | 19.743 (December 2005) |
| pop.density: | 1.385 citizens per km² |
| postal_code: | 34246 |
| area_code: | 0049 561 |
| licence: | KS |
| Adress of the municipality: |
Rathausplatz 1 34246 Vellmar |
| Website: | www.vellmar.de |
| E-mail-adress: | info@vellmar.de |
| Politics | |
| mayor: | Dirk Stochla (SPD) |
| Stadtverordnetenversammlung: | 37 Members: 21 SPD, 11 CDU, 4 Grüne, 2 F.D.P. |
Vellmar is a town in the north of Kassel district, Hesse, Germany and is located in the Ahna-valley. It has four districts. As of 2005 it has a population of 19,743 inhabitants.
History
Vellmar gained the cityrights at 30. August 1975 on the 1200-year-anniversary. At this time it was together with Baunatal the youngest city in the district of Kassel. From 1975 to the middle of the 1980ies the center of the city with the townhall, shops, medical-center and the residential area "Musikerviertel" was build. Throu the city floats the river Ahne, that gave the 1986 build local recreation area Ahnepark its name. The traffic infrastructure of Vellmar consists of the railwaystation Obervellmar, railwaystation Niedervellmar and the B 7. Recently it was planned to connect Vellmar in 2007 with the tram line of Kassel.
Town twinning
Vellmar is twinned with
- Zell am See in Austria since 1978,
- Bewdley near Birmingham in United Kingdom since 1986 and
- Szigetszentmárton (St. Martin) in Hungary since 1993.