District of Rhön-Grabfeld

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Coat of arms of the district of Rhön-Grabfeld Map of Germany, position of the Rhön-Grabfeld district highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′  N , 10 ° 15 ′  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Lower Franconia
Administrative headquarters : Bad Neustadt ad Saale
Area : 1,021.77 km 2
Residents: 79,635 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 78 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : NES, CAN, MET
Circle key : 09 6 73
NUTS : DE266
Circle structure: 37 municipalities
Address of the
district administration: 		Spörleinstraße 11
97616 Bad Neustadt adSaale
Website : www.rhoen-grabfeld.de
District Administrator : Thomas Habermann ( CSU )
Location of the Rhön-Grabfeld district in Bavaria
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Hehtor in Bad Neustadt an der Saale

The district of Rhön-Grabfeld is the northernmost district of the Free State of Bavaria . It is located in the administrative district of Lower Franconia . The district town is Bad Neustadt an der Saale . The district is a member of the Regiopole region Mainfranken .

geography

location

The district is north of Schweinfurt . As the name suggests, the district area has a share of the Rhön and the Grabfeld landscape . The Rhön covers the west of the district area. There is also the highest elevation in the district, the Kreuzberg (928 m). The Grabfeld is a gently rolling hilly landscape east of the district town of Bad Neustadt an der Saale . The most important river in the district is the Franconian Saale , which rises in two sources in the east of the district at Trappstadt and Obereßfeld and crosses the district from east to west in Grabfeld and on the eastern edge of the Rhön before it leaves it southwest of Bad Neustadt. It takes in the Streu at Heustreu and the Brend in Bad Neustadt , two small rivers that have their source in the Rhön.

Neighboring areas

The district borders clockwise in the north, beginning with the districts of Schmalkalden-Meiningen and Hildburghausen (both in Thuringia ), Haßberge , Schweinfurt and Bad Kissingen (all in Bavaria) and Fulda (in Hesse ).

history

Regional courts

Most of today's district area belonged to the Würzburg monastery before 1800 . In 1803 the area became part of Bavaria . In 1804 the district courts of Bischofsheim , Hofheim , Königshofen , Mellrichstadt and Neustadt an der Saale were established. From 1817 they belonged to the Lower Main District , which was renamed Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg (later only Lower Franconia ) in 1838 .

District Offices

In 1862 the Neustadt and Bischofsheim district courts became the Neustadt district office , the Königshofen and Hofheim district courts became the Königshofen im Grabfeld district office, and the Mellrichstadt district office became the district office of the same name . In 1900 the area around Hofheim was separated from the Königshofen district office and declared an independent district office. This was expanded in 1920 to include parts of the former Principality of Coburg after it came to Bavaria; today it belongs to the district of Haßberge . The Neustadt district office was renamed Bad Neustadt an der Saale in 1934, after the city had taken over the bad rating from the incorporated municipality of Bad Neuhaus.

Counties

On January 1, 1939, the designation district was introduced as everywhere else in the German Reich . The district offices became the districts of Bad Neustadt an der Saale, Königshofen im Grabfeld and Mellrichstadt.

In 1947, the district of Mellrichstadt was expanded to include a few municipalities in Thuringia (exclave Ostheim before the Rhön ).

Bad Neustadt an der Saale district

As part of the regional reform , the Bad Neustadt an der Saale district was expanded on July 1, 1972 to include the dissolved districts of Mellrichstadt and Königshofen im Grabfeld and the community of Strahlungen in the Bad Kissingen district. On May 1, 1973 it was renamed the Rhön-Grabfeld district.

On May 1, 1978, the Burglauer community moved from the Bad Kissingen district to the Rhön-Grabfeld district.

Population development

From 1988 to 2008 the district of Rhön-Grabfeld grew by almost 6,000 inhabitants or around eight percent. Since 2000 the trend towards a high of approx. 87,000 inhabitants. In the period from 1988 to 2018, the number of inhabitants in the district rose from 78,027 to 79,690 by 1,663 inhabitants or remained an increase of 2.1%. The following figures refer to the territorial status on May 25, 1987.

Population development
year 1840 1900 1939 1950 1961 1970 1987 1991 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015
Residents 53,305 53,028 59,216 79,359 75,585 79.504 77.197 82,516 86,269 86,609 86.094 82,916 79,723

Economy and Infrastructure

In the Future Atlas 2016 , the Rhön-Grabfeld district was ranked 122nd out of 402 districts, municipal associations and independent cities in Germany and is therefore one of the regions with “future opportunities”.

traffic

Rail transport

The Royal Bavarian State Railways built all of the railway lines in the district. It began in 1874 with the main railway line Schweinfurt – Bad Neustadt – Meiningen , which was interrupted by the inner-German border at Mellrichstadt after the Second World War and has been used continuously since the gap was closed in 1991.

From Bad Neustadt a local railway was opened in 1885 to the Rhön to Bischofsheim and in 1893 to Grabfeld to Bad Königshofen . Another branch line ran from Mellrichstadt via Ostheim before the Rhön to Fladungen since 1898 . After the end of passenger traffic in 1976 and goods traffic in 1987, it was revived in 2000 as a museum railway (Rhön-Zügle).

Regular passenger traffic on 60 kilometers of branch lines has been discontinued:

Only the main line of 27 km and three stations ( Bad Neustadt an der Saale , Burglauer and Mellrichstadt station ) is from the Deutsche Bahn and the Lower Franconia shuttle the Erfurt train traveled in transport.

Street

The federal motorway 71 (section Suhl - Schweinfurt ) runs through the district in a north-south direction . In addition, the federal highways 278 , 279 and 285 serve regional traffic.

Demographic change

For the Bavarian part of the Grabfeld, a population forecast was made in 2010 by students from the elementary school in Bad Königshofen and presented as a basis for political decisions. It explains the consequences of the population development and shows measures how to react to the future higher proportion of older residents with a simultaneous significant decline in younger people.

Information technology broadband infrastructure

In November 2010, the district council accepted an offer from Deutsche Telekom to expand broadband in the district. The expansion will be based on a fiber-optic network (fiber to the curb). DSL AMs are set up at the local cable distributors and connected to the Telekom backbone via fiber optic cables. The last mile will be realized via the existing two-wire copper lines via DSL. The concept envisages adding DSL AMs to the cable distributors in 24 municipalities, thereby improving broadband coverage in the entire district. Rhön-Grabfeld is the first district in Germany to be developed in this way.

politics

District Administrator

District council

District election 2014
Turnout: 63.6%
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The district council consists of 60 members:

(Status: 2014 local elections )

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the district of Rhön-Grabfeld
 Blazon : “Divided by red and green by a raised silver wavy bar; above a golden crown of leaves, below on a silver three-mountain three silver crosses. "
Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms of the district of Rhön-Grabfeld, introduced in 1976, consists of two halves, which are separated by a silver horizontal wavy band. The upper half shows a crown on a red background, the lower half shows three crosses on a green background, which refers to the symbol of the Rhön , the Kreuzberg . The silver ribbon symbolizes the Franconian Saale , the green color the wealth of forests.

Communities

(Residents on December 31, 2019)

Fladungen Hausen (Rhön) Bundorfer Forst Burgwallbacher Forst Forst Schmalwasser-Nord Forst Schmalwasser-Süd Mellrichstadter Forst Steinacher Forst rechts der Saale Sulzfelder Forst Weigler Willmars Nordheim vor der Rhön Sondheim vor der Rhön Stockheim (Unterfranken) Mellrichstadt Mellrichstadt Ostheim vor der Rhön Oberelsbach Bischofsheim in der Rhön Bischofsheim in der Rhön Sandberg Schönau an der Brend Hohenroth Niederlauer Burglauer Strahlungen Salz (Unterfranken) Bastheim Oberstreu Unsleben Wollbach (Unterfranken) Bad Neustadt an der Saale Heustreu Hendungen Hollstadt Rödelmaier Wülfershausen an der Saale Höchheim Saal an der Saale Aubstadt Herbstadt Trappstadt Großeibstadt Großbardorf Sulzfeld (im Grabfeld) Bad Königshofen im Grabfeld Bad Königshofen im Grabfeld Sulzdorf an der Lederhecke Thüringen Landkreis Haßberge Landkreis Schweinfurt Hessen Landkreis Bad KissingenMunicipalities in NES.svg
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Cities

  1. Bad Königshofen i.Grabfeld (6013)
  2. Bad Neustadt adSaale ( district town ) (15,358)
  3. Bischofsheim idRhön (4822)
  4. Fladungen (2212)
  5. Mellrichstadt (5551)
  6. Ostheim vdRhön (3305)

Markets

  1. Oberelsbach (2678)
  2. Hall adSaale (1476)
  3. Trappstadt (953)

Unregulated areas (79.49 km²)

  1. Bundorfer Forst (18.06 km²)
  2. Burgwallbach Forest (16.18 km²)
  3. Forest Schmalwasser-Nord (1.69 km²)
  4. Forest Schmalwasser-Süd (14.31 km²)
  5. Mellrichstadter Forest (4.14 km²)
  6. Steinacher Forest to the right of the Saale (19.85 km²)
  7. Sulzfelder Forst (2.54 km²)
  8. Weigler (2.73 km²)

Other communities

  1. Aubstadt (707)
  2. Bastheim (2106)
  3. Burglauer (1712)
  4. Grossbardorf (879)
  5. Grosseibstadt (1080)
  6. Hausen (675)
  7. Hendungen (876)
  8. Herbstadt (583)
  9. Hay litter (1291)
  10. Hoechheim (1081)
  11. Hohenroth (3621)
  12. Hollstadt (1439)
  13. Niederlauer (1683)
  14. Nordheim vdRhön (1110)
  15. Top litter (1492)
  16. Rödelmaier (964)
  17. Salt (2303)
  18. Sandberg (2391)
  19. Schoenau adBrend (1231)
  20. Sondheim vdRhön (921)
  21. Stockheim (1064)
  22. Radiations (930)
  23. Sulzdorf adLederhecke (1098)
  24. Sulzfeld (1710)
  25. Unsleben (906)
  26. Willmars (581)
  27. Wollbach (1361)
  28. Wülfershausen adSaale (1472)

Administrative communities

  1. Bad Königshofen i.Grabfeld
    (with headquarters in Bad Königshofen i.Grabfeld; member communities: Markt Trappstadt, communities Aubstadt, Großbardorf, Herbstadt, Höchheim, Sulzdorf adLederhecke and Sulzfeld)
  2. Bad Neustadt adSaale
    (based in Bad Neustadt adSaale; member communities: Burglauer, Hohenroth, Niederlauer, Rödelmaier, Salz, Schönau adBrend and Strahlungen)
  3. Fladungen
    (City of Fladungen, municipalities of Hausen and Nordheim vdRhön)
  4. Heustreu
    (communities Heustreu, Hollstadt, Unsleben and Wollbach)
  5. Mellrichstadt
    (City of Mellrichstadt, communities Hendungen, Oberstreu and Stockheim)
  6. Ostheim vdRhön
    (City of Ostheim vdRhön, communities of Sondheim vdRhön and Willmars)
  7. Saal adSaale
    (Markt Saal adSaale, communities Großeibstadt and Wülfershausen adSaale)

ADAC Grabfeld rally

Once a year, the south-eastern part of the Rhön-Grabfeld district is the venue for the ADAC grave field rally of the AMC Bad Königshofen i. Grabfeld e. V. It is one of the most important major events in the entire district. The pivotal point of the "Grabfeld", as it is called by the active and fans, is the community Sulzdorf an der Lederhecke in the very southeast of the Rhön-Grabfeld bathing district. The rally has been held annually since 1994 at the end of June or beginning of July and is mostly held in the Altlandkreis Bad Königshofen in Grabfeld . But also in the neighboring Altlandkreis Mellrichstadt and on the Thuringian side of the Grabfeld (districts Hildburghausen and Schmalkalden-Meiningen) as well as in the northern district of Haßberge there are and have been special stages to be mastered. The Grabfeld rally has developed into the automobile rally event with the largest number of participants in Germany thanks to the great support of the population, local residents, farmers and hunting tenants as well as politicians. The anniversary event in the summer of 2013 was attended by over 10,000 spectators and a record number of more than 250 starters from Germany and abroad, making the Grabfeld rally one of the largest motorsport events of its kind in Europe. The very demanding routes in Grabfeld and the award ceremony in the rally tent on the sports field in Sulzdorf an der Lederhecke give the event its legendary reputation in motorsport circles. On July 1, 2017, the Grabfeld rally will take place for the 24th time in the entire south-eastern district of Rhön-Grabfeld.

Protected areas

The district has 20 nature reserves , two landscape protection areas , 19 FFH areas and 29 geotopes designated by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment (as of August 2016).

See also:

License Plate

On May 2, 1973, the district was assigned the NES , which has been valid since July 1, 1956 for the Bad Neustadt an der Saale district. It is still issued today. Since July 10, 2013, the distinguishing marks KÖN (Bad Königshofen im Grabfeld) and MET (Mellrichstadt) have also been available.

Dialects in the district area

In the east of the district, dialects of Grabfeld , which is one of the Main Franconian dialects, are predominantly spoken . In the west, however, the Rhöner Platt is common.

literature

(in chronological order)

  • Günther Ulrich Müller: Our Rhön-Grabfeld district. History, culture, landscape, population, administration and finance, communal institutions and communities, economic structure. Verlag Bild und Druck, Munich 1979, DNB 800625234 .
  • District of Rhön-Grabfeld (Hrsg.): Home year book of the district of Rhön-Grabfeld . Mellrichstadt since 1979, DNB 011343966 .
  • Gerhard Schätzlein: Stone crosses and cross stones in the Rhön-Grabfeld district. Atonement and memorial stones. Mack, Mellrichstadt 1985, DNB 890617287 .
  • Klaus Reder , Reinhold Albert : Rhön and Grabfeld in the mirror of the descriptions of the district doctors in the middle of the 19th century. Association for local history in Grabfeld, Bad Königshofen 1995, DNB 946572135 .
  • District of Rhön-Grabfeld (Ed.): Our district of Rhön-Grabfeld. A brochure from the district. 3. Edition. Bayerische Verlagsanstalt, Bamberg 1995, ISBN 3-87052-535-5 .
  • District of Rhön-Grabfeld (Ed.): Two landscapes, one district. Rhön-Grabfeld. Echter, Würzburg 1997, ISBN 3-429-01896-X .
  • District of Rhön-Grabfeld (Ed.): Annual report. District Office Rhön-Grabfeld, Bad Neustadt an der Saale since 2009, DNB 102607410X .
  • Roswitha Altrichter: Churches in the district of Rhön-Grabfeld. Rötter, Bad Neustadt an der Saale 2010, ISBN 978-3-939959-06-9 .
  • Culture agency of the district of Rhön-Grabfeld (ed.): Series of publications of the cultural agency of the district of Rhön-Grabfeld. Bad Neustadt an der Saale since 2015, DNB 108049085X .
  • Wolf-Dieter Raftopoulo: Rhön and Grabfeld culture guides. A complete documentation of the old cultural landscapes in terms of art and cultural history. RMd Verlag, Gerbrunn 2017, ISBN 978-3-9818603-7-5 .

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Rhön-Grabfeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
  2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 97 .
  3. ↑ Zukunftsatlas 2016. Archived from the original ; accessed on March 23, 2018 .
  4. ↑ http://www.mydatacation.de/mediadir/20081030164831757819000000/SERVICE/Grabfeldallianz_Praesentation_Auftakt_100517_fin2.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.mydatacation.de  
  5. ↑ http://www.mainpost.de/regional/rhoengrabfeld/Zuschlag-fuer-die-Telekom;art765,5822288
  6. ↑ http://www.mainpost.de/regional/rhoengrabfeld/Per-Glasfaser-schnell-ins-Internet;art765,5820706
  7. ↑ Steigerwald was the builder of the "Golden Bridge" and the steel and glass figure "Barbarossa" in the National Monument Sculpture Park German Unity
  8. ↑ Habermann was the client of the steel sculpture "Shot on the run" in the National Monument Sculpture Park German Unity
  9. ↑ a b c Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing
  10. ↑ Entry on the coat of arms of the Rhön-Grabfeld district  in the database of the House of Bavarian History , accessed on September 5, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Rhön-Grabfeld district. In: Internet portal Historisches Unterfranken. Retrieved September 5, 2017 .
  12. ↑ "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
  13. ^ Home yearbook of the Rhön-Grabfeld district. In: Rhoen-Grabfeld.de. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .