Seiferts

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Seiferts
Coordinates: 50 ° 31 ′ 35 ″  N , 10 ° 0 ′ 51 ″  E
Height : 513 m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.86 km²
Residents : 591  (Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density : 101 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1970
Postal code : 36115
Area code : 06683
The Catholic Church "Sankt Michael" from 1879
The Catholic Church " Sankt Michael " from 1879

Seiferts is a district of the municipality of Ehrenberg (Rhön) in the eastern Hessian district of Fulda .

Geographical location

Seiferts is located in the Ulstertal in the Hessian Rhön at the confluence of the Birxgraben in the Ulster. The village extends in a north-south direction along the valley, which is surrounded by mountains up to 800 meters high. The border triangle Hesse-Thuringia-Bavaria lies near Seiferts.

Seiferts borders in the north on Thaiden , in the west on Wickers and Reulbach , in the south on Melperts and in the east on the Thuringian Birx and the Bavarian Rüdenschrecken .

history

Seiferts was first mentioned in 1057.

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , on December 31, 1970, the previously independent communities of Melperts, Seiferts and Wüstensachsen merged on a voluntary basis to form the new community of Ehrenberg. Wüstensachsen became the seat of the municipal administration. For Seiferts, as for the other formerly independent municipalities, local districts with local advisory council and local councilor were formed according to the Hessian municipal code.

Population development

Seiferts: Population from 1834 to 2019
year     Residents
1834
  
542
1840
  
502
1846
  
506
1852
  
512
1858
  
500
1864
  
511
1871
  
444
1875
  
420
1885
  
374
1895
  
369
1905
  
384
1910
  
385
1925
  
362
1939
  
504
1946
  
653
1950
  
634
1956
  
646
1961
  
663
1967
  
683
1970
  
712
1980
  
?
1992
  
609
1995
  
638
2000
  
615
2005
  
602
2010
  
575
2015
  
614
2019
  
591
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 :; from 1962

Culture and sights

The so-called apple sherry comes from the small village of Seiferts ; an award-winning wine made from apples and refined using the sherry process.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The federal road 278 runs through Seiferts in a north-south direction. To the east, the state road 163 offers a connection to Thuringia and Bavaria.

The Götzenhof – Wüstensachsen railway line, which formerly ran through Seifers, was closed in 1970.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Seiferts, district of Fulda. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. a b Resident Statute 2020 (PDF; 4 MB). In: website. Ehrenberg Municipality (Rhön), p. 2 , accessed in August 2020 .
  3. ↑ Amalgamation of communities to form the community "Ehrenberg", district of Fulda on January 7, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 4 , p. 140 , point 161 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.3 MB ]).
  4. main statute. (PDF; 120 kB) § 5. In: Website. Ehrenberg community, accessed in August 2020 .
  5. Norman Zellmer: How a Rhöner trumps apple sherry in Spain. Main-Echo, November 23, 2011, accessed January 25, 2017 .