Hessian Hinterland

Formerly it snaked its way from Bromskirchen in the north to Rodheim (near Gießen), in the municipality of Biebertal.

[1] The Hinterland was originally territory belonging to Hesse-Darmstadt, from which it was almost completely isolated, and managed by the Ämter of Blankenstein (Gladenbach) with the Breidenbacher Grund, Biedenkopf and Battenberg (Eder).

Today the term is used locally for those parts of the old county of Biedenkopf that were absorbed into the Marburg-Biedenkopf.

The Hinterland Intercommunal Cooperative (Interkommunale Zusammenarbeit Hinterland, a special purpose association set up in 2006, has given the name for this small region a public institutional significance again.

The following towns and villages (arranged from north to south) are part of Hinterland:

The Hessian Hinterland (without the exclave of Vöhl and Itter) 1815–1866