Zella / Rhön

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Zella / Rhön
Dermbach municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 19 ″  N , 10 ° 6 ′ 26 ″  E
Height : 438 m
Area : 1.72 km²
Residents : 412  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 240 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 2019
Postal code : 36466
Area code : 036964

Zella / Rhön is a district of the municipality of Dermbach in the Wartburg district in Thuringia .

geography

View of the Feldatal from the south, Diedorf in front , center: Zella
View from the west

Geographical location

Zella / Rhön is located in the Auersberger Kuppenrhön and is part of the Rhön Biosphere Reserve .

Neighboring municipalities and towns

At the time of its dissolution, the municipality of Zella / Rhön bordered Diedorf in the east , Brunnhartshausen in the west, Empfertshausen in the south and Neidhartshausen in the north .

mountains

The landscape around Zella is determined by the mountains and valleys of the Vorderen Rhön.

Rivers

The Felda (Werra) flows east of the village and flows into the Werra in Dorndorf. The Schmerbach flows west past Zella and flows into the Felda in the neighboring village of Neidhartshausen .

history

The village of Zella was first mentioned in a deed of donation in 1194 and was a pure day laborer village for over 700 years .

The Benedictine monastery founded in 1136 was destroyed during the Peasants' War and dissolved soon after 1550. Thereafter Zella remained a Fulda provost until secularization in 1802, which inherited the monastery including its rich property.

Zella was persecuted by witches in 1660 . Thomas N., "the sorcerer", got involved in a witch trial . Although he did not confess under the torture, he was sentenced to expulsion from the country.

On August 15, 1735, the baroque church "Mariä Himmelfahrt", built since 1715, was consecrated. Above the main portal is the coat of arms of the builder von Dalberg - six lilies and the cross of Fulda -.

After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Prussia received the Principality of Fulda and in the autumn of the same year left the offices of Dermbach (with the municipality of Zella) and Geisa to the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar . From 1922 to 1950 Zella, like the entire previous Dermbach office, belonged to the Eisenach district , from 1950 to the Bad Salzungen district and since 1994 to the Wartburg district.

On January 1, 2019, the municipality of Zella / Rhön was incorporated into Dermbach. Before that she belonged to the administrative community Dermbach .

Population development

Development of the population (December 31st each) :

  • 1994: 529
  • 1995: 527
  • 1996: 529
  • 1997: 530
  • 1998: 530
  • 1999: 528
  • 2000: 519
  • 2001: 509
  • 2002: 507
  • 2003: 498
  • 2004: 491
  • 2005: 476
  • 2006: 467
  • 2007: 465
  • 2008: 452
  • 2009: 453
  • 2010: 452
  • 2011: 462
  • 2012: 457
  • 2013: 445
  • 2014: 438
  • 2015: 424
  • 2016: 426
  • 2017: 412
Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council from Zella / Rhön consists of 6 councilors and councilors. Since there were no parties or voting communities, a majority vote took place, and the citizens who received the most votes entered the local council.

(As of: local elections on May 25, 2014 )

mayor

The honorary mayor Stefan Cyriaci was elected on March 20, 2011 after his predecessor of many years, Roland Kämpf , resigned from office on January 1, 2011.

Attractions

Baroque Church of the Assumption of Mary

The 1732 to 1715 on behalf of Provost Adolph von Dalberg built Baroque church of the Assumption in the town center was on August 15, 1735 consecrated .

  • Front view

  • altar

  • Side view

  • Front view

Propstei Zella (Rhön)

Next to the church is the castle-like provost's office, which was created in 1718 by converting the ruins of the monastery building into a two-story baroque building. A permanent exhibition on the Rhön Biosphere Reserve was opened in 2002 in the provost building, which has been renovated since 2001 ; The Thuringian administration of the biosphere reserve has been based here since 2009.

  • General view from the north

  • View from the west

  • General view from the south

  • Propstei Zella (Rhön)

  • Fountain in the courtyard

traffic

Road traffic

Immediately to the east of the village, the federal road 285 runs from Bad Salzungen to Mellrichstadt as an important north-south connection in the eastern Rhön . In this south of Zella the direction of flows Tann (Rhön) next country road in 1122 a. A district road connects Zella with Brunnhartshausen .

Rail transport

Zella had its own train station on the Feldabahn , which was shut down in 2003. In 2008 the track system was dismantled. Since then, the nearest train stations have been in the district town of Bad Salzungen and to the east in Wasungen , both in the route network of the South Thuringia Railway .

Personalities

literature

  • Adalbert Schröter: Country by the road. The history of the Catholic parishes in the Thuringian Rhön . St. Benno Verlag, Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-7462-0430-5 , p. 77-80 .
  • Bruno Kühn: The history of the Dermbach district . In: Journal of the association for Thuringian history and antiquity . tape 1 , 1854, ISSN  0943-9846 , p. 249-296 .
  • Johannes Mötsch, Fuldische Frauenkloster in Thuringia. Regesta on the history of the monasteries Allendorf, Kapellendorf and Zella / Rhön , (Publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia: Large series; 5), Urban & Fischer, Munich a. Jena 1999.

Web links

Commons : Zella / Rhön  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b rhoen.de accessed on March 11, 2011
  2. ↑ Ronald Füssel: The witch persecutions in the Thuringian area , publications of the working group for historical witchcraft and crime research in Northern Germany, Volume 2, Hamburg 2003, p. 239f.
  3. ↑ a b c jahrfeier-zella.de  ( page no longer available , searching web archives )  Info: The link is automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 11, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.jahrfeier-zella.de  
  4. ^ Werner Herrmann: Dorfkirchen in Thüringen Verlagshaus Thüringen, 1992, ISBN 3-86087-014-9 , p. 89
  5. ↑ 2014 municipal council elections in Thuringia - preliminary result. The regional returning officer, accessed on June 17, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Südthüringer Zeitung of March 21, 2011
  7. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: FREIES WORT: Resignation of Zella's mayor on Freies-Wort.de (accessed on February 1, 2011)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.freies-wort.de
  8. ^ Isolde Lehmann: The baroque church of Zella. In: Eisenacher Land issue 3/4, Eisenach 1997, pp. 24-27.