Frankenheim

Frankenheim (also home to the Franconia Rhön) is a municipality between Meiningen and Fulda in the Rhön, she is a member of the administrative community Hohe Rhön, which has its headquarters in the town of Kaltensundheim.

  • 5.1 Structures

Geography

The municipality is located in the High Rhön, in Three Countries Corner Hesse, Thuringia and Bavaria, the Rhön Biosphere Reserve and is equipped with an altitude of 750-780 m above sea level. NN is the highest village of the Rhön. Above the town is the scenic mountain elbow (Rhön ). Neighboring towns are Hilders, Leubach, Reichenhausen and Birx.

History

The place was first mentioned in a document of 13 April 1228. For centuries, arguing the neighboring principalities monastery of Fulda, the bishopric of Würzburg, the county of Henneberg and the Empire Knights of the Tann francs home and Birx. 1569 was a comparison then from Henneberg's favor. The place belonged to the office since Kaltennordheim, which later belonged to Saxony -Weimar- Eisenach ( Eisenach Oberland). Until 1900 the only income opportunity lay in the whip making, weaving, brushes production and wood products sector; Therefore, the village has long been the poorest of the Rhön.

Policy

Parish council

The council consists of the mayor and 12 other elected municipal council members.

  • CDU 7 seats ( 54.3 %)
  • The Left 5 seats ( 45.7%)

(As at municipal election on June 7, 2009)

Mayor

Alexander Schmitt was first elected with 83.3 % of the vote on June 6, 2010 as the honorary mayor.

Economy

A special feature is the prevailing here in the Middle Ages real division (in contrast to the usual Anerbenrecht in Thuringia ). In GDR times, you led the possessions into LPG. Today there is a new agricultural cooperative law with only 5 employees. Due to its special climate of the place was once a mountain resort.

Culture and sights

Structures

The evangelical church is an easy- equipped neo-gothic building from 1885 /86 which was built to replace a wooden church. Architect was the Weimar state architect Carl manner.

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