Gichenbach

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Gichenbach
Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 13 ″  N , 9 ° 50 ′ 18 ″  E
Height : 420-480 m above sea level NN
Area : 9.98 km²
Residents : 170  (Sep 30, 2019)
Population density : 17 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 36129
Area code : 06656

Gichenbach is a district of Gersfeld (Rhön) in the eastern Hessian district of Fulda .

Geographical location

Gichenbach is located in the Rhön around 5.7 km west-southwest of the center of the Gersfeld core town. It is located in the Rhön Biosphere Reserve and in the Hessian Rhön Nature Park at the confluence of the Gichenbach in the Schmalnau , which up until then was also called the Rommerser Wasser, which flows through the village . At about 420 to 480  m above sea level. Located NN , it borders on the Gersfeld districts of Hettenhausen in the north-west, Altenfeld in the north, Rommers in the east-south-east and Dalherda in the south-south-west and Schmalnau (seat of the municipality of Ebersburg ) in the west-north-west.

history

Gichenbach was first mentioned in a document in 1560.

Territorial reform

On December 31, 1971, the previously independent municipality Gichenbach was in the course of administrative reform in Hesse on a voluntary basis in the city Gersfeld incorporated . For the district of Gichenbach, as for the other incorporated, formerly independent municipalities, a local district with a local advisory board and local head was set up in accordance with the Hessian municipal code.

Population development

Gichenbach: Population from 1834 to 2018
year     Residents
1834
  
 511
1840
  
 522
1846
  
 502
1852
  
 482
1858
  
 342
1864
  
 355
1871
  
 326
1875
  
 325
1885
  
 355
1895
  
 337
1905
  
 336
1910
  
 308
1925
  
 308
1939
  
 277
1946
  
 344
1950
  
 317
1956
  
 278
1961
  
 280
1967
  
 271
1970
  
 209
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 190
2005
  
 200
2010
  
 194
2011
  
 180
2015
  
 166
2018
  
 169
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources: up to 1970 :; After 1970 City of Gersfeld :; 2011 census

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Gichenbach, district of Fulda. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Population of the city of Gersfeld (Rhön). (PDF; 76 kB) Retrieved August 2020 .
  3. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 394 .
  4. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 791 kB) § 6. In: Website. City of Gersfeld, accessed August 2020 .
  5. ↑ Population figures from 2000 to 2018. City of Gersfeld, accessed in August 2020 .
  6. ↑ Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: 2011 Census . Hessian State Statistical Office;