Bebra
Encyclopedia
Bebra is a small town in Hersfeld-Rotenburg
district in northeastern Hesse
, Germany
.
on the Fulda
. The town is easy to find on most maps thanks to its prominent location on the Fuldaknie (“Fulda Knee”). Ranges surrounding the town are the Stölzinger Gebirge (range) in the north, the Richelsdorfer Gebirge in the east, the Seulingswald in the southeast and the Knüll
gebirge in the southwest. The biggest neighbouring places are Rotenburg
and Bad Hersfeld
. Frankfurt
is about 150 km southwest of Bebra.
Within Bebra’s town limits, the Bebra, Solz, Lüder and Ulfe empty into the Fulda, while the Iba empties into the Ulfe.
, Nentershausen
, Ronshausen
, Ludwigsau
and Rotenburg
.
today). Later this became first Bibera, and then today’s name Bebra.
In 786, the town had its first documentary mention in an estate directory of the Hersfeld Abbey
, which is confirmed as having been built in 769. The reason for the mention was that Bebra was donated to the Abbey to cover food demands, thus leading to the conclusion that the directory itself, and thereby Bebra’s existence as well, go back a few years further than that.
For the next several centuries the settlement was mainly a big farming village, even though important, heavily used roads already met at this spot even quite early on. For one, there was the road to the east leading by way of Eisenach
to Halle
. For another, there was the postal road running along the Fulda valley linking the region with southern Germany. Nevertheless, at that time the area was dominated by Rotenburg
, lying 6 km away, which enjoyed status as a small residence town.
An upswing came Bebra’s way when the railway network in Germany was expanded, reaching even this region by the mid 19th century. Towards the end of the century, the town was one of Germany’s most important railway junctions
. On the one hand, the town’s population thereby grew over about 70 years from some 1,300 to 5,063 by 1946. On the other hand, the town lost its formerly exclusively rural character with trade and businesses settling in town, among which the old Deutsche Reichsbahn
was the biggest employer. Town rights were granted Bebra on 20 September 1935 by the Chief President (Oberpräsident) of the Province of Hesse-Nassau, Philipp, Prince of Hesse.
The town’s growth kept up – interrupted only by the Second World War – into the 1970s. Given the good transport connections, a big industrial area arose in town. During the time of German division, there was a border checkpoint
in Bebra to handle both people and goods crossing between the postwar occupational zones and, later, between West
and East Germany. Before the fall of the Berlin Wall
, Bebra was the largest border checkpoint for rail transportation across East German territory between West Germany and Berlin
.
As of the mid 1980s, Bebra was gradually losing importance as a railway junction, which led to a noticeable decline in goods traffic and thereby to fewer jobs at Deutsche Bahn
.
In Bebra’s main town and its outlying centres stand 12 Evangelical
churches, one Catholic church, one Evangelical Methodist church and one Syriac Orthodox
church, with Free Evangelical
and State Church (landeskirchliche Gemeinschaft
) communities represented in town.
(¹ after amalgamation of 11 outlying centres)
The municipal election held on 26 March 2006 yielded the following results:
The town executive (Magistrat) is made up of 8 councillors, with 5 seats allotted to the CDU and three to the SPD.
might be described thus: Gules a beaver rampant, in the base two bendlets, thereover two bendlets sinister, the whole argent.
Bebra’s arms symbolize the town’s change from a village to an important railway junction. The tincture
s recall the Hersfeld Abbey
’s coat of arms, Bebra having belonged to the Abbey’s oldest holding. The crossed bendlets (thin diagonal bars, and more aptly described as such than as “a saltire voided”, given the way they are meant to be shown) are an heraldic way of representing a railway junction, which was the town’s main function when the arms were conferred in 1930, and had been since the middle of the foregoing century.
, Thuringia
since the early 1990s Knaresborough
, North Yorkshire
, England
, United Kingdom
since 1970
The railway museum in the historic watertower shows the railway history that was so important to Bebra. Right next door is found a 600 mm narrow-gauge railway that runs on some days from April to September. The toy museum in the outlying centre of Solz offers a glimpse of toys from almost forgotten times.
houses, the town’s parks and the Friedrichshütte are worthy of mention. There are a Catholic and an Evangelical
church as well, the latter of which was thoroughly restored after the Second World War.
loomed and the town lost cross-border traffic. This led to widespread job loss among the inhabitants, as the railway had long been the town’s biggest employer. An anecdote in Bebra has it that in the years after the war, people did not ask “Where do you work?” but rather “Where on the railway do you work?”.
From the turn of the millennium, local politicians and Members of the Bundestag
from the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district strove to have Bebra’s railway station expanded into a marshalling yard
.
at a junction of the Bebra–Fulda, Bebra–Göttingen, Thuringian and Bebra–Kassel lines. Its station
, besides a passenger station, includes a marshalling yard, making reaching the town by rail problem-free. The town belongs to the Nordhessischer Verkehrsverbund (“North Hesse Transport Association”, NVV). As a stop on the InterCityExpress
east-west line, it has connections to the Ruhr area
, Leipzig
, Dresden
and Berlin
.
In the west of town, Bundesstraße
27 from the north and south meets Bundesstraße 83 coming from the west. The B 27 runs beyond town southwards reaching the A 4 (Aachen
–Görlitz
) and A 7 (Flensburg
–Füssen
) near Bad Hersfeld
after some 15 km. Bebra can also be reached from the east over the L 3251
state road.
Hersfeld-Rotenburg
Hersfeld-Rotenburg is a Kreis in the east of Hesse, Germany. Neighboring districts are Werra-Meißner, Wartburgkreis, Fulda, Vogelsbergkreis, Schwalm-Eder.-History:...
district in northeastern Hesse
Hesse
Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
.
Location
Bebra lies some 45 km south of KasselKassel
Kassel is a town located on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Kassel Regierungsbezirk and the Kreis of the same name and has approximately 195,000 inhabitants.- History :...
on the Fulda
Fulda River
The Fulda is a river in Hesse, Germany. It is one of two headstreams of the Weser . The Fulda is 218 km in length....
. The town is easy to find on most maps thanks to its prominent location on the Fuldaknie (“Fulda Knee”). Ranges surrounding the town are the Stölzinger Gebirge (range) in the north, the Richelsdorfer Gebirge in the east, the Seulingswald in the southeast and the Knüll
Knüll
Knüllgebirge or Knüll is a small mountain range in Hesse, Germany. It is located in the Northern part of Hesse approximately 45 km South of Kassel, its highest peak is the Eisenberg having an altitude of 636 m. Its area has a rather low population density and is heavily forested...
gebirge in the southwest. The biggest neighbouring places are Rotenburg
Rotenburg an der Fulda
Rotenburg an der Fulda is a town in Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northeastern Hesse, Germany lying, as the name says, on the river Fulda.- Geography :- Location :...
and Bad Hersfeld
Bad Hersfeld
The festival and spa town of Bad Hersfeld is the district seat of Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northeastern Hesse, Germany, roughly 50 km southeast of Kassel....
. Frankfurt
Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...
is about 150 km southwest of Bebra.
Within Bebra’s town limits, the Bebra, Solz, Lüder and Ulfe empty into the Fulda, while the Iba empties into the Ulfe.
Neighbouring communities
Clockwise from the north, these are CornbergCornberg
Cornberg is a community in Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northeastern Hesse, Germany. It is the district’s smallest municipality.- Location :The community lies between the towns of Bad Hersfeld to the south and Eschwege to the north, each 27 km away...
, Nentershausen
Nentershausen
Nentershausen is a community in Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northeastern Hesse, Germany.- Location :The community lies in the mountains in eastern Hesse, where it finds itself in the centre of the Richelsdorfer Gebirge between the Fulda to the west and the Werra to the east...
, Ronshausen
Ronshausen
Ronshausen is a community and a Luftkurort in Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northeastern Hesse, Germany.-Location:The community lies in the valley of the Ulfe, which in Bebra empties into the Fulda...
, Ludwigsau
Ludwigsau
Ludwigsau is a community in Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northeastern Hesse, Germany. With an area of 112 km² it is Hesse’s biggest community by land area.-Location:...
and Rotenburg
Rotenburg an der Fulda
Rotenburg an der Fulda is a town in Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northeastern Hesse, Germany lying, as the name says, on the river Fulda.- Geography :- Location :...
.
Constituent communities
Bebra’s 11 Stadtteile are, in alphabetical order, Asmushausen, Blankenheim, Braunhausen, Breitenbach, Gilfershausen, Iba, Imshausen, Lüdersdorf, Rautenhausen, Solz and Weiterode. Imshausen and Solz are the Trott zu Solz family’s seat.History
The name Bebra came from Biberaho (“Village on the Beaver River”; Biber still means “beaver” in GermanGerman language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
today). Later this became first Bibera, and then today’s name Bebra.
In 786, the town had its first documentary mention in an estate directory of the Hersfeld Abbey
Hersfeld Abbey
Hersfeld Abbey was an important Benedictine imperial abbey in the town of Bad Hersfeld in Hesse , Germany, at the confluence of the rivers Geisa, Haune and Fulda.-History:...
, which is confirmed as having been built in 769. The reason for the mention was that Bebra was donated to the Abbey to cover food demands, thus leading to the conclusion that the directory itself, and thereby Bebra’s existence as well, go back a few years further than that.
Eisenach
Eisenach is a city in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated between the northern foothills of the Thuringian Forest and the Hainich National Park. Its population in 2006 was 43,626.-History:...
to Halle
Halle, Saxony-Anhalt
Halle is the largest city in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is also called Halle an der Saale in order to distinguish it from the town of Halle in North Rhine-Westphalia...
. For another, there was the postal road running along the Fulda valley linking the region with southern Germany. Nevertheless, at that time the area was dominated by Rotenburg
Rotenburg an der Fulda
Rotenburg an der Fulda is a town in Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northeastern Hesse, Germany lying, as the name says, on the river Fulda.- Geography :- Location :...
, lying 6 km away, which enjoyed status as a small residence town.
An upswing came Bebra’s way when the railway network in Germany was expanded, reaching even this region by the mid 19th century. Towards the end of the century, the town was one of Germany’s most important railway junctions
Junction (rail)
A junction, in the context of rail transport, is a place at which two or more rail routes converge or diverge.This implies a physical connection between the tracks of the two routes , 'points' and signalling.one or two tracks each meet at a junction, a fairly simple layout of tracks suffices to...
. On the one hand, the town’s population thereby grew over about 70 years from some 1,300 to 5,063 by 1946. On the other hand, the town lost its formerly exclusively rural character with trade and businesses settling in town, among which the old Deutsche Reichsbahn
Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft
The Deutsche Reichsbahn – was the name of the German national railway created from the railways of the individual states of the German Empire following the end of World War I....
was the biggest employer. Town rights were granted Bebra on 20 September 1935 by the Chief President (Oberpräsident) of the Province of Hesse-Nassau, Philipp, Prince of Hesse.
The town’s growth kept up – interrupted only by the Second World War – into the 1970s. Given the good transport connections, a big industrial area arose in town. During the time of German division, there was a border checkpoint
Border checkpoint
A border checkpoint is a place, generally between two countries, where travellers and/or goods are inspected. Authorization often is required to enter a country through its borders. Access-controlled borders often have a limited number of checkpoints where they can be crossed without legal...
in Bebra to handle both people and goods crossing between the postwar occupational zones and, later, between West
West Germany
West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....
and East Germany. Before the fall of the Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin...
, Bebra was the largest border checkpoint for rail transportation across East German territory between West Germany and Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
.
As of the mid 1980s, Bebra was gradually losing importance as a railway junction, which led to a noticeable decline in goods traffic and thereby to fewer jobs at Deutsche Bahn
Deutsche Bahn
Deutsche Bahn AG is the German national railway company, a private joint stock company . Headquartered in Berlin, it came into existence in 1994 as the successor to the former state railways of Germany, the Deutsche Bundesbahn of West Germany and the Deutsche Reichsbahn of East Germany...
.
Religion
Evangelical Church in Germany
The Evangelical Church in Germany is a federation of 22 Lutheran, Unified and Reformed Protestant regional church bodies in Germany. The EKD is not a church in a theological understanding because of the denominational differences. However, the member churches share full pulpit and altar...
churches, one Catholic church, one Evangelical Methodist church and one Syriac Orthodox
Syriac Orthodox Church
The Syriac Orthodox Church; is an autocephalous Oriental Orthodox church based in the Eastern Mediterranean, with members spread throughout the world. The Syriac Orthodox Church claims to derive its origin from one of the first Christian communities, established in Antioch by the Apostle St....
church, with Free Evangelical
International Federation of Free Evangelical Churches
International Federation of Free Evangelical Churches is a worldwide federation of 42 national federations of evangelical free churches. The member federations predominantly originate from Europe and the Americas...
and State Church (landeskirchliche Gemeinschaft
Landeskirche
In Germany and Switzerland, a Landeskirche is the church of a region. They originated as the national churches of the independent states, States of Germany or Cantons of Switzerland , that later unified to form modern Germany or modern Switzerland , respectively.-Origins in the Holy Roman...
) communities represented in town.
Amalgamations
All constituent communities named above were amalgamated with municipal reform in 1972.Population development
| Year | 1821 | 1830 | 1849 | 1858 | 1880 | 1900 | 1925 | 1939 | 1946 | 1965 | 1968 |
| Inhabitants | 987 | 1,066 | 1,488 | 1,164 | 1,369 | 2,037 | 2,740 | 4,830 | 6,985 | 7,780 | 7,912 |
| Year | 1971 | 1972 ¹ | 1975 | 1977 | 1982 | 1988 | 1999 | 2002 | |||
| Inhabitants | 8,155 | 15,614 | 15,740 | 15,583 | 16,638 | 16,485 | 15,799 | 15,105 |
(¹ after amalgamation of 11 outlying centres)
Town council
| Parties and voter communities | % 2006 |
Seats 2006 |
% 2001 |
Seats 2001 |
|
| CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | 49.0 | 18 | 53.8 | 20 |
| SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany Social Democratic Party of Germany The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany... |
38.3 | 14 | 41.0 | 15 |
| FWG | Freie Wählergemeinschaft Bebra | 3.5 | 1 | 5.2 | 2 |
| Gemeinsam | Gemeinsam für Bebra | 9.2 | 4 | – | – |
| Total | 100.0 | 37 | 100.0 | 37 | |
| Voter turnout in % | 52.0 | 59.1 | |||
The town executive (Magistrat) is made up of 8 councillors, with 5 seats allotted to the CDU and three to the SPD.
Mayor
Mayor Horst Groß (CDU) was reëlected on 14 October 2001 with 71.6% of the vote, and again on und am 14 October 2007 with 63.2%.Coat of arms
The town’s armsCoat of arms
A coat of arms is a unique heraldic design on a shield or escutcheon or on a surcoat or tabard used to cover and protect armour and to identify the wearer. Thus the term is often stated as "coat-armour", because it was anciently displayed on the front of a coat of cloth...
might be described thus: Gules a beaver rampant, in the base two bendlets, thereover two bendlets sinister, the whole argent.
Bebra’s arms symbolize the town’s change from a village to an important railway junction. The tincture
Tincture (heraldry)
In heraldry, tinctures are the colours used to emblazon a coat of arms. These can be divided into several categories including light tinctures called metals, dark tinctures called colours, nonstandard colours called stains, furs, and "proper". A charge tinctured proper is coloured as it would be...
s recall the Hersfeld Abbey
Hersfeld Abbey
Hersfeld Abbey was an important Benedictine imperial abbey in the town of Bad Hersfeld in Hesse , Germany, at the confluence of the rivers Geisa, Haune and Fulda.-History:...
’s coat of arms, Bebra having belonged to the Abbey’s oldest holding. The crossed bendlets (thin diagonal bars, and more aptly described as such than as “a saltire voided”, given the way they are meant to be shown) are an heraldic way of representing a railway junction, which was the town’s main function when the arms were conferred in 1930, and had been since the middle of the foregoing century.
Town partnerships
FriedrichrodaFriedrichroda
Friedrichroda is a town in the district of Gotha, Thuringia, Germany. It is situated at the north foot of the Thuringian Forest, 21 km by rail southwest of the town of Gotha. It is surrounded by fir-clad hills and possesses numerous handsome villa residences, a Kurhaus and a sanatorium...
, Thuringia
Thuringia
The Free State of Thuringia is a state of Germany, located in the central part of the country.It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen states....
since the early 1990s Knaresborough
Knaresborough
Knaresborough is an old and historic market town, spa town and civil parish in the Borough of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, located on the River Nidd, four miles east of the centre of Harrogate.-History:...
, North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire is a non-metropolitan or shire county located in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, and a ceremonial county primarily in that region but partly in North East England. Created in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972 it covers an area of , making it the largest...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
since 1970
Museums
Buildings
Besides the old town hall, various timber-frameTimber framing
Timber framing , or half-timbering, also called in North America "post-and-beam" construction, is the method of creating structures using heavy squared off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs . It is commonplace in large barns...
houses, the town’s parks and the Friedrichshütte are worthy of mention. There are a Catholic and an Evangelical
Evangelical Church in Germany
The Evangelical Church in Germany is a federation of 22 Lutheran, Unified and Reformed Protestant regional church bodies in Germany. The EKD is not a church in a theological understanding because of the denominational differences. However, the member churches share full pulpit and altar...
church as well, the latter of which was thoroughly restored after the Second World War.
Regular events
Early in the year there is an Easter Market, and in autumn there is a harvest and homeland festival. A Christmas Market is held not long before Christmas. Besides the town festival (Stadtfest), a fishermen’s festival (Fischerfest) and a dragon festival (Drachenfest) are held in the summer. Every other year there is also a trade show.Economy and infrastructure
In the late 1980s, Bebra was losing its importance as a railway junction as German reunificationGerman reunification
German reunification was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany , and when Berlin reunited into a single city, as provided by its then Grundgesetz constitution Article 23. The start of this process is commonly referred by Germans as die...
loomed and the town lost cross-border traffic. This led to widespread job loss among the inhabitants, as the railway had long been the town’s biggest employer. An anecdote in Bebra has it that in the years after the war, people did not ask “Where do you work?” but rather “Where on the railway do you work?”.
From the turn of the millennium, local politicians and Members of the Bundestag
Bundestag
The Bundestag is a federal legislative body in Germany. In practice Germany is governed by a bicameral legislature, of which the Bundestag serves as the lower house and the Bundesrat the upper house. The Bundestag is established by the German Basic Law of 1949, as the successor to the earlier...
from the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district strove to have Bebra’s railway station expanded into a marshalling yard
Classification yard
A classification yard or marshalling yard is a railroad yard found at some freight train stations, used to separate railroad cars on to one of several tracks. First the cars are taken to a track, sometimes called a lead or a drill...
.
Transport
Bebra is a classic railway townRailway town
A railway town is a settlement that originated or was greatly developed because of a railway station or junction at its site.In Victorian Britain, the spread of railways greatly affected the fate of many small towns...
at a junction of the Bebra–Fulda, Bebra–Göttingen, Thuringian and Bebra–Kassel lines. Its station
Bebra station
Bebra station is a railway station on the German passenger and freight rail network in the northern Hesse town of Bebra. It is a railway junction as well as an intercity stop on the Dortmund–Berlin–Stralsund route. The station was opened in 1846 and quickly became a major transport hub...
, besides a passenger station, includes a marshalling yard, making reaching the town by rail problem-free. The town belongs to the Nordhessischer Verkehrsverbund (“North Hesse Transport Association”, NVV). As a stop on the InterCityExpress
InterCityExpress
The Intercity-Express or ICE is a system of high-speed trains predominantly running in Germany and neighbouring countries. It is the highest service category offered by DB Fernverkehr and is the flagship of Deutsche Bahn...
east-west line, it has connections to the Ruhr area
Ruhr Area
The Ruhr, by German-speaking geographers and historians more accurately called Ruhr district or Ruhr region , is an urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With 4435 km² and a population of some 5.2 million , it is the largest urban agglomeration in Germany...
, Leipzig
Leipzig
Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...
, Dresden
Dresden
Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....
and Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
.
In the west of town, Bundesstraße
Bundesstraße
Bundesstraße , abbreviated B, is the denotation for German and Austrian national highways.-Germany:...
27 from the north and south meets Bundesstraße 83 coming from the west. The B 27 runs beyond town southwards reaching the A 4 (Aachen
Aachen
Aachen has historically been a spa town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Aachen was a favoured residence of Charlemagne, and the place of coronation of the Kings of Germany. Geographically, Aachen is the westernmost town of Germany, located along its borders with Belgium and the Netherlands, ...
–Görlitz
Görlitz
Görlitz is a town in Germany. It is the easternmost town in the country, located on the Lusatian Neisse River in the Bundesland of Saxony. It is opposite the Polish town of Zgorzelec, which was a part of Görlitz until 1945. Historically, Görlitz was in the region of Upper Lusatia...
) and A 7 (Flensburg
Flensburg
Flensburg is an independent town in the north of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Flensburg is the centre of the region of Southern Schleswig...
–Füssen
Füssen
Füssen is a town in Bavaria, Germany, in the district of Ostallgäu situated from the Austrian border. It is located on the banks of the Lech river. The River Lech flows into the Forggensee...
) near Bad Hersfeld
Bad Hersfeld
The festival and spa town of Bad Hersfeld is the district seat of Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northeastern Hesse, Germany, roughly 50 km southeast of Kassel....
after some 15 km. Bebra can also be reached from the east over the L 3251
Landesstraße
Landesstraßen are roads in Germany and Austria that are, as a rule, the responsibility of the respective German or Austrian federal state. The term may therefore be translated as "state road". They are roads that cross the boundary of a rural or urban district...
state road.
Sons and daughters of the town
- August Vilmar (1800–1868), theologian, professor, Staatsrat (“State Councillor”) and literary historian
- August von Trott zu SolzAugust von Trott zu SolzAugust Bodo Wilhelm Clemens Paul von Trott zu Solz was a German politician.Born in Hesse-Kassel into the noble Trott zu Solz family, he became Minister of Culture of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1909 to 1917, playing a leading role in the founding of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society.He was the father of...
(1855–1938), politician, 1909–1917 education minister, cofounder of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute - Hannelore Eckhardt (1954– ), politician
- Michael Minkenberg (1959– ), political scientist