Rhön-Grabfeld
The district of Rhön - grave box is the northernmost district of Bavaria. It is located in the district of Lower Franconia and is bordered to the west by the district of Fulda, in Hesse, in the north and east by the Thuringian counties Schmalkalden- Meiningen and Hildburghausen and on the south by the counties Haßberge, Schweinfurt and Bad Kissingen. County seat with around 16,000 inhabitants, the town of Bad Neustadt an der Saale.
- 4.1 District
- 4.2 Kreistag
- 4.3 Coat of Arms
- 7.1 dialects in the district
Geography
The district area has, as the name indicates the circle, share in the Rhön and the countryside grave field. The Rhön comprises the western part of the county area. There is also the highest point of the circle, the Kreuzberg ( 928 m). The grave field is a gently undulating hills east of the town of Bad Neustadt an der Saale. The most important river of the district is the Franconian Saale, which rises in the east of the circle into two sources at Trappstadt and Obereßfeld and in the grave box and on the eastern edge of the Rhön the circle area from east to west runs through before it leaves it southwest of Bad Neustadt. It takes at Heustreu the litter and in Bad Neustadt on the Brend, two small rivers that flow down from the Rhön.
History
The majority of today's county territory belonged before 1800 to the Bishopric of Würzburg. 1803, the area to Bavaria. 1804, the District Courts Bishop Home, Hofheim, Königshofen, Mellrichstadt and Neustadt were established. They belonged in 1817 to the Lower Main Circle, in Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg ( later only Lower Franconia ) was renamed in 1838.
1862 of the Regional Courts Neustadt and Bishop Home, the district office Neustadt, the eponymous district office of the District Courts Königshofen Hofheim and the district office Königshofen in grave field and from the district court Mellrichstadt. 1900, the area was separated from the district office to Hofheim Königshofen and declared a separate district office. This was established in 1920 to parts of the former princely Coburg expanded after it had come to Bavaria; it now belongs to the district Haßberge. The district office of Town was renamed in 1934 in Bad Neustadt an der Saale, after the city had taken over the title of the incorporated municipality Bad Bad Neuhaus. The county offices were since 1939 in District Offices, renamed the associated districts in counties. 1945, the district Mellrichstadt was to some communities in Thuringia extended ( exclave Ostheim vor der Rhön ).
As part of local government reform on 1 July 1972, the district of Bad Neustadt received its present size, by being added to the existing counties Mellrichstadt and Königshofen in the grave field. On May 1, 1973, he was renamed in the district of Rhön - grave field.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
The Bavarian State Railways have set up all the routes in the county. It began in 1874 with the main railway Meiningen - Bad Neustadt -Schweinfurt, which ended after the Second World War in Mellrichstadt, shortly before the former GDR border and traveled by going back since the gap closure in 1991.
From the county seat from 1885 local railways were in the Rhön by Bishop home and opened the grave box to Bad Königshofen 1893.
Another branch line in the Rhön wrong since 1898 by Mellrichstadt from over Ostheim vor der Rhön after Fladungen. After the closure of the passenger traffic in 1976 and freight traffic in 1987, she was awakened in the years 1996-2000 as a museum railway back to life.
The regular passenger services on branch lines 60 km has been set:
Only the main line with 27 km of track and three stations ( Bad Neustadt an der Saale, Burglauer and Mellrichstadt station ) is still with Deutsche Bahn and the Lower Franconia shuttle train of Erfurt (EB ) in operation.
Demographic Change
For the Bavarian part of the grave field in 2010 created a population forecast of pupils of the elementary school in Bad Königshofen and presented as a basis for policy decisions. She explains the consequences of population development and points to measures that may be how to respond to the future higher proportion of elderly residents with a simultaneous significant decrease of younger people.
Information technology broadband infrastructure
In November 2010, the district council has accepted an offer from Deutsche Telekom for broadband roll-out of the county. The expansion is based on a fiber optic (fiber to the curb ). At the local street cabinets DSL AMs be established, which are connected via fiber optic cable to the backbone of the Telekom. The last mile is implemented via the existing two-wire copper line via DSL. The concept is to expand into 24 municipalities, the street cabinet to DSL AMs, thereby improving broadband coverage throughout the county is reached. Rhön- grave box is the first county in Germany, which is developed in this way.
Policy
District
Council
The council consists of 60 members:
- CSU 32 seats
- Free Wählergemeinschaft Rhön- grave field 12 seats
- SPD 8 seats
- GREEN 4 seats
- Voter initiative Old County Königshofen ( WI KÖN ) 2 seats
- FDP 2 seats
(As at municipal election 2008)
Coat of arms
Launched in 1976, coat of arms of the district of Rhön- grave field consists of two halves, which are separated by a silver waagrechtes wave band. The upper half shows a crown on a red background, the lower half shows three crosses on green background, which with respect to the landmark of the Rhön, the Kreuzberg takes. The silver band symbolizes the Franconian Saale, the green color of the forest wealth.
Cities and Towns
(Population at 31 December 2012)
Cities
Markets
Free community areas ( 79.49 km ²)
Communities
Management Communities
Geotopes
The district is 20 (as of September 2013) are the Bavarian State Office for Environmental designated geological sites. See the list of geological sites in the district of Rhön- grave field
Others
Dialects in the district
To the east of the district mainly dialects of Grabfeldischen are spoken, which is part of the Main-Franconian dialects. In the West, however, the Rhön Platt is widespread.