Hörsel (municipality)

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 55 '  N , 10 ° 35'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Gotha
Area :	70.44 km 2
Residents:	4699 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	67 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	99880 (Aspach, Fröttstädt, Hörselgau, Laucha, Mechterstädt, Metebach, Teutleben, Trügleben) , 99869 (Ebenheim, Weingarten)
Primaries :	03621, 03622, 036254
License plate :	GTH
Community key :	16 0 67 088
Rural community division:	11 districts , one village
Address of the rural community administration:	Waltershäuser Str. 16 B 99880 OT Hörselgau Municipality of Hörsel
Website :	www.hoersel.de
Mayor :	Rainer Rudloff (CDU / Free Voters Hörsel)
Location of the rural community of Hörsel in the Gotha district

The municipality of Hörsel is a rural municipality in the Gotha district in Thuringia . The seat of the municipal administration is Hörselgau .

geography

Geographical location

The rural community of Hörsel is located in the west of the Gotha district, about 10 kilometers west of Gotha and about 15 kilometers east of Eisenach . The eponymous Hörsel flows through the south of the municipality .

Rural community division

Districts

The districts of the rural community Hörsel are Aspach , Ebenheim , Fröttstädt , Hörselgau , Laucha , Mechterstädt , Metebach , Neufrankenroda , Teutleben , Trügleben and Weingarten .

coat of arms	District	Residents Dec. 31, 2014	Area ha
	Aspach	411	588
	Ebenheim	226	645
	Fröttstädt	431	399
	Hörselgau	1,209	1,153
	Laucha	549	665
	Mechterstädt	1,044	1,242
	Metebach	120	563
	Teutleben	358	782
	Deceptive life	361	607
	Vineyard	163	402

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities in the district of Gotha are Nessetal and Sonneborn in the north, the city of Gotha in the east, Georgenthal in the southeast and Waltershausen in the south. The neighboring municipality of Hörselberg-Hainich to the west is in the Wartburg district .

history

The rural community of Hörsel was founded on December 1st, 2011 from the voluntary amalgamation of the communities of Aspach , Ebenheim , Fröttstädt , Hörselgau , Laucha , Mechterstädt , Metebach , Teutleben , Trügleben and Weingarten .

The ten municipalities had been united in the Hörsel administrative community since March 1994 . After the administrative community had fallen below the legally required minimum of 5000 inhabitants in 2009, the municipal council decided in spring 2010 to convert it into a rural community. From August 1 to September 9, 2011, the draft law for the municipal merger in the municipalities was available.

On November 16, 2011, the Thuringian state parliament approved the Thuringian law on the voluntary reorganization of districts in 2011 by a majority. The Hörsel administrative community was thus dissolved on December 1, 2011 and the Hörsel rural community was formed.

Population development

year	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Residents	4960	4962	4949	4933	4915	4773	4747	4753	4699

Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

politics

City council election 2019

Wbt .: 69.2% (2014: 62.4%)

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56.1%

43.9%

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Gains and losses

compared to 2014

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 12

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+ 19.1  % p

-5.9  % p

-13.1  % p

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CDU

SPD

Municipal council

The municipal council elections on May 25, 2014 and May 26, 2019 had the following results:

Parties and constituencies		2014				2019
		be right	%	Seats		be right	%	Seats
FWH	Free voters Hörsel	2728	37.0	6th		4423	56.1	9
CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	3670	49.8	8th		3457	43.9	7th
SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	967	13.1	2		-	-	-
total		7365	100	16		7880	100	16
voter turnout		62.4%				69.2%

mayor

On April 15, 2018, Rainer Rudloff (CDU / Free Voters Hörsel) was elected mayor. His predecessor was the former chairman of the Hörsel administrative association, Werner Oppermann (non-party). This was elected on May 6, 2012.

Economy and Infrastructure

The municipality of Hörsel is characterized by agriculture. Most of the residents work in the neighboring cities of Eisenach, Gotha and Waltershausen.

traffic

Rail transport

The Halle – Bebra railway runs through the community from west to east . At the station Fröttstädt and the breakpoint Mechterstädt hour hold regional rail line Eisenach - Erfurt - Halle . In Fröttstädt, the railway to Friedrichroda branches off to the south . With the Hörselgau stop, it opens up another part of the community. The old Mechterstädt-Sättelstädt train station now only serves as a depot .

Transportation

The regional transport association Gotha operates the bus transport . With its lines 820, 830 and 842 it opens up all districts of the community and connects them to Gotha .

Streets

The Bundesautobahn 4 Eisenach - Dresden runs through the community from west to east . In Laucha is the connection point Waltershausen, in Hörselgau the roadhouse Hörselgau North (for the direction west). To the north of the motorway - also in a west-east direction - federal road 7 crosses the districts of Mechterstädt, Teutleben, Aspach and Trügleben.

Web links

Commons : Hörsel (municipality)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Hörselbote - Official Journal of the Hörsel Administrative Association, 9th year, No. 8/2011 (PDF; 393 kB), ed. v. Administrative association "Hörsel", Hörselgau, September 30, 2011
• Hörselbote - Official Gazette of the Hörsel Administrative Community, 9th year, No. 10/2011 (PDF; 869 kB), ed. v. Administrative association "Hörsel", Hörselgau, November 25, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Hörselbote, No. 8/2011, p. 1
3. ↑ Hörselbote, No. 10/2011, p. 1
4. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 1st to December 31st, 2011
5. ↑ ^{a b} Local council election Hörsel 2014. In: wahlen.thueringen.de. Retrieved December 14, 2019 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Local council election Hörsel 2019. In: wahlen.thueringen.de. Retrieved December 14, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Mayoral elections in Hörsel. In: wahlen.thueringen.de. Retrieved December 14, 2019 .