Fell
coat of arms | Germany map | |
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Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ' N , 11 ° 51' E |
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Basic data | ||
State : | Thuringia | |
County : | Saale-Orla district | |
Height : | 550 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 45.22 km 2 | |
Residents: | 2477 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 55 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postal code : | 07926 | |
Area code : | 036649 | |
License plate : | SOK, LBS, PN, SCZ | |
Community key : | 16 0 75 131 | |
LOCODE : | DE GFL | |
City structure: | Core city; 6 districts | |
City administration address : |
Markt 11 07926 Gefell |
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Mayor : | Marcel Zapf (VUB) | |
Location of the town of Gefell in the Saale-Orla district | ||
Gefell is a country town in the Thuringian Saale-Orla district in Vogtland not far from Bavaria and Saxony .
geography
The area around Gefell is located in the Southeast Thuringian Slate Mountains . The floors are mainly made of quartz-banded slate and quartz sandstones. Spring troughs and narrow valley areas of the brooks are typical grassland locations. Agriculture is favored on plateau-like ridges, wavy plains and flat slopes. In other locations, forest use predominates.
Geographical location
The urban area of Gefell lies at the border triangle of Thuringia, Saxony and Bavaria and extends from this point about 15 kilometers to the west to the vicinity of the Bleiloch reservoir . The urban area occupies the altitude north and east of the arch, which the upper Saale describes in this region, on an average of three kilometers wide . A few small streams flow through the urban area to the south of the Saale, including the Ehrlichbach , which flows through the old town of Gefell. The Tannbach forms the border with Bavaria in the southeast . The highest point in the region is the 653 m high Rosenbühl north of the city on the border with Tanna .
City structure
In addition to the core city, the city of Gefell consists of the municipalities of Blintendorf , Dobareuth , Frössen , Gebersreuth (with Haidefeld , Straßenreuth and Mödlareuth ) as well as Göttengrün and Langgrün as districts, which were independent until the end of 1996 .
Haidefeld is east of the city center on the border with Saxony. Gebersreuth and Straßenreuth are to be found in the southeast, the latter being the settlement closest to the triangle. Gebersreuth and Mödlareuth to the south of it lie on the Tannbach, which forms the border with Bavaria at Mödlareuth and divides the place into a Thuringian west and a Bavarian east. Dobareuth is located south of the city center and, like it, on Ehrlichbach . In the northwest, Göttengrün borders the city center. Further west follows Blintendorf and finally Langgrün and Frössen in the far west.
Neighboring communities
Saalburg-Ebersdorf | Tanna | Tanna |
Bad Lobenstein | Weischlitz ( Vogtlandkreis ( Saxony )) | |
Rosenthal on the Rennsteig | Hirschberg | Feilitzsch , Töpen ( District of Hof ( Bavaria )) |
Adjacent communities are Birkenhügel , the towns of Bad Lobenstein , Hirschberg and Tanna in the Saale-Orla district, Burgstein and Weischlitz in the Saxon Vogtland district and Feilitzsch and Töpen in the Bavarian district of Hof .
history
The first documented mentions of the place were in 1211 and on February 28, 1303, as a town on June 9, 1395. The town of Gefell and the associated village of Blintendorf belonged as exclaves to the Saxon- Albertine office of Plauen ( Vogtland District ). After the Congress of Vienna , the two places were from 1815 to 1944 exclaves of the Prussian district of Ziegenrück , which was itself an exclave within the province of Saxony . The reason for this unusual type of administration was probably the marriage of Margrave Friedrich the Freidigen and Elisabeth, the fourteen-year-old daughter of his stepmother from the connection with Otto von Lobdeburg-Arnshaugk on August 24th, 1300. The young woman married Neustadt / Orla, Auma, Ziegenrück a. Elisabeth's guardian, the Reusser Heinrich von Plauen, received Triptis, Auma and Ziegenrück from Friedrich as pledge for the sum of 3,000 Schock Meissen groschen to settle debts . The residents of Gefell are referred to by outsiders as Ußßen, or sometimes call themselves as in the example of the Ußßenhausen carnival.
As part of the Thuringian reorganization, the town of Gefell and the communities of Blintendorf, Dobareuth, Frössen, Gebersreuth, Göttengrün and Langgrün were dissolved with effect from January 1, 1997. A new municipality was formed from the area of the dissolved municipalities, which bears the name Gefell and is entitled to use the designation "city".
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- Data source from 1994: Thuringian State Office for Statistics
politics
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City council
The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the results shown in the following diagrams:
Parties and constituencies | Percent 2019 |
Seats 2019 |
Percent 2014 |
Seats 2014 |
Percent 2009 |
Seats 2009 |
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VUB / CDU | Association of Dissatisfied Citizens / Christian Democratic Union | 39.7 | 5 | 56.3 | 8th | - | - |
CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | - | - | - | - | 22.4 | 3 |
VUB | Association of Dissatisfied Citizens | - | - | - | - | 16.3 | 2 |
FWG / IG / BI | Free voter community / IG flood protection / BI "City worth living in" 1 | 34.4 | 5 | 21.4 | 3 | 20.9 | 3 |
FWE | Free community of voters unitary community | 20.6 | 3 | 16.5 | 2 | 19.3 | 3 |
AL / UBV | Alternative list / independent citizen representation | - | - | - | - | 15.7 | 2 |
LEFT | The left | 5.3 | 1 | 5.8 | 1 | 5.4 | 1 |
total | 100 | 14th | 100 | 14th | 100 | 14th | |
voter turnout | 62.8% | 61.1% | 61.4% |
1 FWG / IG / BI - full name: Free voter community / IG flood protection against anti-social compulsory contributions / citizens' initiative “For a liveable city Gefell”; 2009 and 2014 without BI "City worth living in"
mayor
- 1997–2009: Ulrich Schmidt (FWE)
- since 2009: Marcel Zapf (VUB)
coat of arms
Blazon : “In silver a square red tower with a blue domed roof.” In impressions of the oldest city seal from around 1500, the tower stands in the damascene field. The coat of arms tower probably indicates the defense tower of the city church, which dates back to the 12th century.
Town twinning
The Gefeller city partnerships (in italics: partnership from Frössen ) | ||
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Gerlingen | Germany | |
Échenoz-la-Méline | France | |
Erlenbach am Berwartstein | Germany |
Culture and sights
Today's market is located directly on Bundesstrasse 2 , close to the striking onion dome of the town church “ Our dear women ”. The center of the market is the fountain from 1833, which was restored in 2012 with donations from the neighboring Hirschberg, as well as an old "peace oak". At the market is the Gefeller Town Hall in the architectural condition of 1860. In addition to the city administration and the town hall, the Ratskeller was operated until around 2000. The building yard and the fire brigade were housed in the adjacent building until 1990 and is now the seat of the city library.
The grave monuments of eleven prisoners who were murdered by SS men on a death march that led from Buchenwald to Flossenbürg through the area around the town are located in the cemetery in the Langgrün district . In the Mödlareuth district there is a memorial to the German-German division; the village was divided by a wall.
The triangle with the three-free state stone has been redesigned as a cultural monument since 2007.
Economy and Infrastructure
In sound engineering, the term Gefell stands for the microphones that have been manufactured in Gefell since the Second World War . Due to the war, Georg Neumann & Co. relocated its headquarters from Berlin to Gefell. After the war, Georg Neumann GmbH resumed production in West Berlin (since 1991 part of Sennheiser ), but the company in Gefell continued to operate under the name Georg Neumann & Co. , from 1972 under the name VEB Microphone Technology Gefell . The company, now called Microtech Gefell GmbH , was able to assert itself on the market with its high-quality products.
Agricultural production determined the economy in the Gefeller area. Both in the time before the establishment of the LPG and afterwards, good yields were achieved due to the natural conditions. The soil with its high proportion of fine earth and humus content as well as the natural climatic conditions in the Schleizer Oberland were and are a prerequisite for stable yields in the fields and livestock farming. Until the land reform after World War II, the incorporated village of Dobareuth was a state estate that farmed 203 hectares of land. The lessee was the qualified farmer Max Heydemann. During the land reform, the estate was divided between resettlers and smaller farmers.
traffic
Rail transport
The Göttengrün-Gefell stop , in the eponymous district of Göttengrün , is located on the Schönberg – Hirschberg railway line , which is no longer used for passenger transport. Nearby train stations with regular traffic are the train stations in Gutenfürst (Saxony), Feilitzsch (Bavaria), Bad Lobenstein (Saale-Orla district) and the main train station in Hof (Bavaria). The stations in Grobau and Reuth are served with just a few trips a day .
Road traffic
Gefell and the district of Dobareuth are located on Bundesstraße 2 , which runs through the entire area of the former GDR and Bavaria . At the roundabout in Heinrichsruh , about 20 km north of Gefell, the federal road changes into state road 3002 in order to reassume the status of a federal road in Gefell. The B 2 connects Gefell with the federal autobahn 72 and Hof in the south and Schleiz and Gera in the north. The entire route takes you via Leipzig and Berlin to Stettin in Poland , or via Bayreuth , Nuremberg , Augsburg and Munich to Innsbruck in Austria .
Gefell is also the eastern end of Bundesstraße 90 , which connects the city with Rudolstadt and Stadtilm . You can use it to get to the federal motorway 9 to the west of the city .
Local public transport
line | operator | Line course |
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155 | KomBus (in cooperation with the Bachstein transport company ) | Schleiz - Gefell - Töpen - Hof |
163 | KomBus | Hirschberg - Gefell - Tanna - Plauen |
710 | KomBus | Schleiz - Gefell - ( Gebersreuth ) - Hirschberg |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).
- ↑ feuerwehr-gefell.de
- ↑ Hans Weber: Introduction to the geology of Thuringia. German Science Publishing House, Berlin 1955.
- ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 5th, improved and considerably enlarged edition. Rockstuhl, Bad-Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 85.
- ↑ Wilfried Warsitzka: The Thuringian Landgrave. Bussert & Stadeler, Jena 2004, ISBN 3-932906-22-5 , pp. 260, 293, 294.
- ↑ Thuringian law on the reorganization of municipalities belonging to a district of December 23, 1996 GVBL No. 20 p. 333 , see § 18, page 4 of the PDF file.
- ↑ Local elections 2019
- ↑ 2014 local elections
- ↑ Hartmut Ulle: New Thuringian Wappenbuch. Volume 2: Ilmkreis, Jena, Kyffhäuserkreis, Saale-Orla-Kreis, Saalfeld-Rudolstadt (district), Schmalkalden-Meiningen (district), Suhl. 2nd, changed, revised edition. Working group Genealogy Thuringia, Erfurt 1997, ISBN 3-9804487-2-X , p. 35.
- ↑ stadt-gefell.de
- ↑ Werner Rauh: From the life of a small town. Part 1: City Chronicle. Gefell City Council, Gefell 1988.
- ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (Ed.): Local history guide to sites of resistance and persecution 1933–1945. Volume 8: Thuringia. VAS - Verlag für Akademische Schriften, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 , p. 221.
- ↑ The main town is Gefell.