still standing. In the short living Napoleonic kingdom of Westphalen (1807 - 1813), Niedenstein was the smallest city. The city experienced a very late growth in population. Until 1939, there were only 630 people living there, by the end of 2020 there were 5392 people living in Niedenestein. Politics Town council Niedenstein's town council is made up of 23 members. SPD 11 seats CDU 5 seats FWG (citizens' coalition) 5 seats Greens 2 seats (as of municipal elections held on 26 March 2006) Town partnership Niedenstein maintains a partnership with one place: Saint-Germer-de-Fly, France It lies about 80 km northwest of Paris in Picardy. Culture and sightseeing Museums Niedenstein is home to the Heimatmuseum Kirchberg ("Kirchberg Homeland Museum") Buildings Evangelical Village Church Altenburg; a settlement built up on a basalt crag, once a pre-Germanic castle village that was forsaken even before the Christian Era, making its earlier identification with the Chatti's capital Mattium unfounded. There are many archaeological finds on show from the Altenburg at the Hessian State Museum in Kassel. Natural monuments Niedensteiner Kopf (475 m above sea level) Tanz- und Gerichtslinde ("Dance and Court Linden", on the way out of town to the west) Personalities Jürgen Schweinebraden, Freiherr von Wichmann-Eichhorn, gallery owner and publisher References External links Kirchberg's homepage Heimatmuseum Kirchberg Schwalm-Eder-Kreis