Gestungshausen

Gestungshausen Municipality Sonnefeld
Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 15 ″  N , 11 ° 10 ′ 46 ″  E
Height :	337 m
Residents :	639  (2018)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1972
Postal code :	96242
Area code :	09266
Gate tower

Gestungshausen is a village east of Coburg .

It has around 700 inhabitants, a fortified church , St. Matthew's Church and remains of a church wall. Gestungshausen is the oldest place in the community of Sonnefeld . The first written mention comes from the year 1122.

The territorial reform forced the Gestungshausen community under Mayor Heinz Bär to give up their independence on January 1, 1972. Gestungshausen was intended to be incorporated into the Kronach district. By voting in citizens' assemblies, the citizens decided to remain in the Coburg district and incorporate them into Sonnefeld.

The former community of Weickenbach was incorporated as early as 1967 .

With around 200 employees (as of 2016), the Hartan family company founded in Gestungshausen in 1892 as a wickerwork manufacturer produces prams.

Personalities

• Werner Krauss (born June 23, 1884 - † October 20, 1959), actor
• Kurt Hertha (May 2, 1926 - July 8, 2007), composer

Web links

Commons : Gestungshausen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gestungshausen website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.sonnefeld.de/gemeinde-rathaus/gemeinde/zahlen.php
2. ↑ ^{a b} Wilhelm Volkert (Ed.): Handbook of the Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 442 .