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Saasen (Reiskirchen)
Saasen is a village in the municipality of Reiskirchen in Central Hesse, Germany. It includes the hamlets of Bollnbach, Veitsberg and Wirberg, a former castle.
The village is located on the River Wieseck, east of the main town of Reiskirchen, in the Busecker Tal region (the valley of the River Buseck), and a few hundred metres from the Bundesstraße 49 arterial road. There is a train station of the Vogelsberg Railway at Saasen. Saasen has a population of about 1100.
The settlement was first mentioned in a document in the year 1111.
The name of the village has changed over the centuries:
- in Sahsun (1111/1137)
- fon den Sassen (1249)
- de Sahsen (1251)
- de Sasen (1279)
- von den Sayssin (1379)