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It has not been verified or approved by the developer or homeowners association. 55places.com does not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of information or assume any liability for its use. 55places.com is not affiliated with the builder, developer, or HOA of any communities displayed on this website. Cascade Lakes residents can take full advantage of the community's recreational complex. The complex offers a 28,000 square-foot clubhouse surrounded by lush landscaping, which houses a library with computers, card room, billiard tables, an arts and crafts studio, as well as an elegant ballroom with a stage. The clubhouse is also home to a fully-equipped fitness center, aerobics room, and saunas.
If you wish to be active from day to night with rewarding and friendly activities, then Cascade Lakes may be for you. We moved here almost four years ago to retire from the frozen north and couldn't be happier. Between tennis, pickleball, a resort style indoor/outdoor pool, nearby golf courses and over thirty different clubs to join there is never any lack of activities; not to mention community parties, movies and shows in our ballroom. If you're looking for an active, adult community, Cascade Lakes is the place for you. Cascade Lakes is an active adult community in Boynton Beach, Florida.
Cascade Lakes Clubs, Groups, Activities & Classes
Our biggest problem is which of the many activities do we participate in each day. We regularly participate in the gym where there are 10 free classes a week and certified trainers. We enjoy tennis, pickleball, water volleyball and community bike rides. The nights are filled as well with movies, stage shows and lectures as well as over 30 clubs from which to choose.
The Frankfurt Central Station is the most important hub for German trains, with over 1,100 trains per day. In the 2018 state elections the two leading parties, CDU and SPD, lost 11.3% and 10.9% of the vote respectively. The Green party, a member of Hesse's previous governing coalition with CDU, gained 8.7% .
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The prominent written language in Hesse has been Standard German since the 16th century. Before, the Low Saxon part used Middle Low German, the rest of the Land Early Modern German as prominent written languages. The flag colors of Hesse are red and white, which are printed on a Hessian sack.
Companies with an international reputation are located outside the Rhine-Main region in Wetzlar. There is the center of the optical, electrical and precision engineering industries, Leitz, Leica, Minox, Hensoldt and Brita with several plants in central Hesse. In the mechanical and automotive engineering field Opel in Rüsselsheim is worth mentioning.
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The leather industry was predominantly based in Offenbach, but is now extinct, existing only in museums. The same happened with Frankfurt's fur industry and Hanau's jewelry industry. Beverage industry is well-developed and manufactures sparkling wine , white wine , mineral waters , beers and cider.
Other major towns in Hesse are Fulda in the east, and Kassel and Marburg an der Lahn in the north. The densely populated Rhine-Main region is much better developed than the rural areas in the middle and northern parts of Hesse. Hessia, from the early 7th century on, served as a buffer between areas dominated by the Saxons and the Franks, who brought the area to the south under their control in the early sixth century and occupied Thuringia in 531.
The Hessian coat of arms shows a lion rampant striped with red and white. The official anthem of Hesse is called "Hessenlied" ("Song of Hesse") and was written by Albrecht Brede and Carl Preser . Hesse has been a parliamentary republic since 1918, except during Nazi rule (1933–1945). The German federal system has elements of exclusive federal competences, shared competences, and exclusive competences of the states. Hesse is famous for having a rather brisk style in its politics with the ruling parties being either the center-right Christian Democratic Union or the center-left Social Democratic Party of Germany .
Hessia occupies the northwestern part of the modern German state of Hesse; its borders were not clearly delineated. Its geographic center is Fritzlar; it extends in the southeast to Hersfeld on the river Fulda, in the north to past Kassel and up to the rivers Diemel and Weser. Frankfurt Airport is by far the largest airport in Germany with more than 57 million passengers each year, is and among the world's ten largest. Frankfurt Egelsbach Airport lies to the south, and is frequented by general aviation and private planes.
Satisloh is a machine manufacturer in Wetzlar for the production of lenses and components for the optical industry. Alstom, after takeover of Bombardier, has a large plant that manufactures Traxx locomotives in Kassel. With Hesse's largest city Frankfurt am Main being home of the European Central Bank , the German Bundesbank and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, Hesse is home to the financial capital of mainland Europe. Furthermore, Hesse has always been one of the largest and healthiest economies in Germany. This makes Hesse itself one of the largest economies in Europe and the 38th largest in the world.
The largest gains during the election were made by Alternative for Germany at 13.1%. As AfD had not passed the 5% threshold in the 2013 state election, this marked its first entry into the Hessian parliament . The major losses of the two leading parties closely mirrors the results of the 2018 state elections in Bavaria. In the current parliament the conservative CDU holds 40 seats, the centre-left SPD and the leftist Green party each hold 29 seats, the right-wing AfD holds 19 seats, the liberal FDP party holds 11 seats and the socialist party Die Linke holds 9 seats. Hesse is a unitary state governed directly by the Hessian government in the capital city Wiesbaden, partially through regional vicarious authorities called Regierungspräsidien. Municipal parliaments are, however, elected independently from the state government by the Hessian people.
