Lohra

Geschichte

Lohra is a community in Marburg-Biedenkopf district in the administrative region of Gießen in Hesse, Germany.GeographyLohra'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).Community divisionsThe community includes the following constituent communities:Altenvers (about 602 inhabitants)Damm / Etzelmühle (about 269 inhabitants)Kirchvers (about 992 inhabitants)Lohra (about 2,554 inhabitants)Nanz-Willershausen (about 277 inhabitants)Reimershausen (about 140 inhabitants)Rodenhausen (about 242 inhabitants)Rollshausen (about 311 inhabitants)Seelbach und (about 78 inhabitants)Weipoltshausen (about 615 inhabitants)