Fell

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Gefell (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '  N , 11 ° 51'  E
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
City structure:	Core city; 6 districts
City administration address :	Markt 11 07926 Gefell
Website :	www.stadt-gefell.de
Mayor :	Marcel Zapf (VUB)
Location of the town of Gefell in the Saale-Orla district

View of Gefell

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".

Town hall Gefell

Development of the population (from 1994 December 31st) :

1833: 1.319 1933: 1,515 1939: 1,553 1994: 1,487 1995: 1,506 1996: 1,468 1997: 3,056

1998: 3,034 1999: 3.033 2000: 3.014 2001: 2,928 2002: 2,870 2003: 2,825 2004: 2,839

2005: 2,827 2006: 2,779 2007: 2,792 2008: 2,747 2009: 2,708 2010: 2,675 2011: 2,629

2012: 2,584 2013: 2,566 2014: 2,498 2015: 2,508 2016: 2,491 2017: 2,465 2018: 2,468

Data source from 1994: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

politics

Local elections 2019

in percent

 %

40

30th

20th

10

0

39.7%

34.4%

20.6%

5.3%

VUB / CDU

FWG / IG / BI ^b

FWE

left

Gains and losses

compared to 2014

 % p

 14th

 12

 10

   8th

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

  -6

  -8th

-10

-12

-14

-16

-18

-16.6  % p

+ 13.0  % p

+ 4.1  % p

-0.5  % p

VUB / CDU

FWG / IG / BI ^b

FWE

left

Remarks:

^b in the 2014 election as FWG / IG

Allocation of seats in the city council 1 5 3 5 1 5 3 5  A total of 14 seats Left : 1 FWG / IG / BI : 5 FWE : 3 VUB / CDU : 5

City council

The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the results shown in the following diagrams:

Compilation of the election results of the last three elections

Parties and constituencies		Percent 2019	Seats 2019	Percent 2014	Seats 2014	Percent 2009	Seats 2009
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 )
	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

Bus routes in Gefell (as of April 2019)

line	operator	Line course
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

Commons : Gefell  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gefell's website
• City information

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ feuerwehr-gefell.de
3. ↑ Hans Weber: Introduction to the geology of Thuringia. German Science Publishing House, Berlin 1955.
4. ^ 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.
5. ↑ Wilfried Warsitzka: The Thuringian Landgrave. Bussert & Stadeler, Jena 2004, ISBN 3-932906-22-5 , pp. 260, 293, 294.
6. ↑ 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.
7. ↑ Local elections 2019
8. ↑ 2014 local elections
9. ↑ 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.
10. ↑ stadt-gefell.de
11. ↑ Werner Rauh: From the life of a small town. Part 1: City Chronicle. Gefell City Council, Gefell 1988.
12. ↑ 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.
13. ↑ The main town is Gefell.