Grabfeld (municipality)

Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Schmalkalden-Meiningen
Height :	360 m above sea level NHN
Area :	121.08 km 2
Residents:	5632 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	47 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	98631 Grabfeld , ; 98617 Wölfershausen
Primaries :	036944, 036945, 036947
License plate :	SM, MGN
Community key :	16 0 66 094
Community structure:	13 districts
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 28 ; 98631 Grabfeld
Website :	www.grabfeld.de
Mayor :	Christian Seeber ( CDU )
Location of the municipality Grabfeld in the district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen

Grabfeld is a municipality in the district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen . About 5700 inhabitants live in the municipality.

geography

Geographical location

The municipality grave field is located in the Franconian dominated southern Thuringia and is located directly on the border with Bavaria and includes the northern area of the eponymous region grave field , which mainly via Jüchse and Bibra for Werra drained, while almost all other grave field to the catchment area of the River Main heard .

Neighboring communities

The municipality of Grabfeld borders (counterclockwise from the northeast) on the following municipalities: Leutersdorf , Vachdorf , Neubrunn , Ritschenhausen , Untermaßfeld , Sülzfeld , town of Meiningen with the district of Henneberg in the district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen, town of Mellrichstadt , Hendungen and Höchheim in the Bavarian district of Rhön -Grabfeld as well as Römhild , Dingsleben , St. Bernhard , Beinerstadt and Themar in the Hildburghausen district .

Districts

history

The Grabfeld community was created on December 1, 2007 from the merger of the member communities of the administrative community of the same name . On January 1, 2012, the Schillerort Bauerbach joined the community. The municipality of Wölfershausen joined the municipality of Grabfeld on January 1, 2019.

The districts of Bauerbach , Exdorf , Jüchsen , Obendorf and Queienfeld were affected by the persecution of witches .

Population development
year	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Residents	5502	5449	5426	5361	5248	5503	5448	5403	5345	5337	5337	5308

Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics - values from December 31st

politics

Municipal council

The town council of Grabfeld consists of 20 councilors. The local election on May 26, 2019, with a turnout of 60.2%, resulted in the following distribution of votes and seats:

Party / list	Share of votes	Seats	G / V
CDU	45.9%	9	- 1
The left	7.6%	2	+ 1
SPD	4.1%	1	- 1
Free voters	27.1%	5	+ 1
FW / SV / PG Jüchsen	15.31%	3	+ 1

mayor

The full-time mayor Christian Seeber was elected on January 12, 2014. Since 2010 he has been the chairman of the Feldstein administrative community in Themar, replacing the previous mayor Ingo Hein.

mayor	Political party	Period
Ingo Hein	CDU	2007-2014
Christian Seeber	CDU	since 2014

coat of arms

Blazon : “The coat of arms of the municipality of Grabfeld is square in blue and silver and shows a silver rider with a lance and round shield on top, a sun on top, a silver hen on a hill at the bottom and a red beech branch with three at the top, back and bottom in front Leaves and a fruit. "

traffic

Street

The municipality of Grabfeld is criss-crossed by several state and district roads for the development of the individual districts. The most important here is the L 1131, which represents a supra-regional connection between Meiningen and Bad Königshofen . Other important transport links which are close by, but which are not in the municipality, are the L 3089 or federal road 89 (Meiningen – Hildburghausen – Sonneberg) and the L 3019, the former federal road 19 (Eisenach – Meiningen – Würzburg).

The municipality of Grabfeld is accessed via junction 23 “Rentwertshausen” on the 71 federal motorway . It lies between the districts Rentwertshausen and Queienfeld. A 1.3 km long bypass has been under construction for the Queienfeld district since November 2018. It is intended to relieve the narrow, winding town through traffic and also ensure better connections to the industrial areas of Queienfeld (“Thuringian Gate”) and Wolfmannshausen. The bypass should be completed in June 2020.

Rail transport

The Schweinfurt – Meiningen railway runs through the community . The regional express 7 Mainfranken-Thüringen-Express Erfurt-Würzburg and the regional train EB 40 Unterfrankenshuttle Meiningen-Schweinfurt run on it. There are stops for the EB 40 in the districts of Wölfershausen, Bibra and Rentwertshausen and for the RE 7 in Rentwertshausen (individual trains). The nearest major train station is in the district town of Meiningen, around 12 km away, where there are direct connections to Eisenach , Erfurt , Sonneberg and Schweinfurt .

Personalities

Friedrich Georg von Stein (1759–1851), officer and landowner
Herta Amm (1924-1950); Fatality of the dictatorship in the GDR, lived in the district of Behrungen

Individual evidence

^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).
↑ StBA Area: changes from 01.01. until December 31, 2007
^ Thuringian State Office for Statistics: Municipal Council Election 2019 - Grabfeld .
↑ Grabfeld municipality, homepage
^ Thuringian State Office for Building and Transport: L 2668 Queienfeld bypass. March 4, 2019, accessed April 19, 2019 .

2014 municipal council elections in Thuringia - preliminary result

Web links

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

Website of the municipality of Grabfeld

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-TH-1] Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).

[2] StBA Area: changes from 01.01. until December 31, 2007

[3] Thuringian State Office for Statistics: Municipal Council Election 2019 - Grabfeld .

[4] Grabfeld municipality, homepage

[5] Thuringian State Office for Building and Transport: L 2668 Queienfeld bypass. March 4, 2019, accessed April 19, 2019 .