Gellershausen (Heldburg)

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Gellershausen
City of Heldburg
Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 33 ″  N , 10 ° 41 ′ 42 ″  E
Height : 300 m
Residents : 353
Incorporation : March 23, 1993
Incorporated into: Bad Colberg-Heldburg
Postal code : 98663
Area code : 036871
St. Cyriacus Church
St. Cyriacus Church

Gellershausen is a district of the city of Heldburg in the Hildburghausen district in Thuringia .

location

The village of Gellershausen is located in the Heldburger Land on the state road 1135 between Heldburg and Bad Rodach in the Bavarian Coburg region. The Kappelhäck desert is close to the village .

history

Gellershausen was first mentioned in a document in 1157. The date is known to the place in 1158. Once the place was a Vorwerk of the princely office of Heldburg.

In 1700 the church of St. Cyriakus was rebuilt , the interior of which was painted in 1714. The village is called the center of the Heldburgerland. 353 inhabitants live in the place.

literature

  • Max-Rainer Uhrig: The Heldburger Land. In: Frankenland, magazine for Franconian regional studies and culture. Issue 6, Würzburg, June 1990. Available online on the website of the University Library of Würzburg at: [1] er
  • Norbert Klaus Fuchs: The Heldburger Land - a historical travel guide . Rockstuhl Publishing House, Bad Langensalza 2013, ISBN 978-3-86777-349-2 .
  • Hans Löhner: The “Bimmelbähnle” from Hildburghausen to Lindenau-Friedrichstal: A Thuringian narrow-gauge railway into Heldburger Land . Verlag Michael Resch, Neustadt / Coburg 2000, ISBN 3-9805967-5-3 .
  • Paul Lehfeldt and Georg Voss (eds.): Architectural and art monuments of Thuringia: Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen, Issue XXXI: Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen, district court districts of Heldburg and Römhild . Verlag Gustav Fischer, Jena 1904. (Reprint: Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2013, ISBN 978-3-86777-378-2 )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 87

Web links

Commons : Gellershausen (Bad Colberg-Heldburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

https://www.facebook.com/TourismusvereinHeldburgerLandeV