Seiferts
Seiferts
Community Ehrenberg (Rhön)
Coordinates: 50 ° 31 ′ 35 ″ N , 10 ° 0 ′ 51 ″ E
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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
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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 | ||||
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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
- Seiferts district. On the website of the municipality of Ehrenberg (Rhön).
- Seiferts, Fulda district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Literature on Seiferts in the Hessian Bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Seiferts, district of Fulda. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ↑ a b Resident Statute 2020 (PDF; 4 MB). In: website. Ehrenberg Municipality (Rhön), p. 2 , accessed in August 2020 .
- ↑ 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 ]).
- ↑ main statute. (PDF; 120 kB) § 5. In: Website. Ehrenberg community, accessed in August 2020 .
- ↑ Norman Zellmer: How a Rhöner trumps apple sherry in Spain. Main-Echo, November 23, 2011, accessed January 25, 2017 .