page_title: Melsungen
section_title: Modern Age
hierarchical_section_title: Melsungen / History / Modern Age
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Bartenwetzer-Skulptur auf der Bartenwetzerbrücke in Melsungen.
context_page_description: Melsungen is a small climatic spa town in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse, Germany. In 1987, the town hosted the 27th Hessentag state festival.
context_section_description: In 1554, a fire destroyed parts of the heart of town. In 1637, during the Thirty Years' War, the constituent community of Günsterode was laid waste.
  From 1821 to 1974, Melsungen was an administrative centre and an independent district seat, until the Melsungen district was combined with the neighbouring Fritzlar-Homberg and Ziegenhain districts.
  The town's 14,000 or so inhabitants call themselves Bartenwetzer ("Axe whetters").
caption: Sculpture Bartenwetzer
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