Zella/Rhön
Zella / Rhön is a municipality in the district of Wartburg in Thuringia. The municipality belongs to the administrative community Dermbach, which has its headquarters in the town of Dermbach.
- 2.1 municipal
- 2.2 Mayor
- 3.1 Population development
- 4.1 baroque church " Assumption "
- 4.2 Provost Zella (Rhön )
- 5.1 Road traffic
- 5.2 Rail transport
Geography
Geographical Location
The community Zella / Rhön is Auersberger Kuppenrhön and is part of the Rhön Biosphere Reserve.
Neighboring communities and cities
The municipality is bordered to the east by Diedorf (Rhön ), on the west by Brunnhartshausen, to the south and to the north by Empfertshausen Neidhartshausen.
Mountains
The landscape around cell is determined by the mountains and valleys of the Near Rhön.
East of the village flows the Felda ( Werra), which opens in Dorndorf into the Werra. The Schmerbach flows west past the cell and flows into the neighboring Neidhartshausen in the Felda.
Policy
Parish council
The municipal council of Zella / Rhön is composed of six council women and councilors.
- FWG Zella: 6 seats
(As at municipal election on June 7, 2009)
Mayor
The honorary mayor Stefan Cyriaci was elected on March 20, 2011 after longtime predecessor Roland combatants who resigned from the position on January 1, 2011.
History
The village was first mentioned in 1194 Zella in a deed and was over 700 years, a mere day laborer village.
During the Peasants' War, the Benedictine monastery, founded in 1136 was destroyed and dissolved soon after 1550. After that remained cell until the secularization in 1802, one Fulda provost, who took the heritage of the monastery, including its rich land.
Zella was in 1660 affected by witch hunts. Thomas N., " Warlock ", was caught in a witch trial. Although he obtained a confession under torture, he was punished with banishment.
On August 15, 1735 Built in 1715 Baroque Church " Assumption " was inaugurated. There is the coat of arms of the founder of Dalberg - six lilies and the cross of Above the main portal Fulda.
After the Congress of Vienna in 1815 Prussia received the Principality of Fulda and left in the fall of the same year the offices Dermbach ( with the community Zella ) and Geysa the Grand Duke of Saxe- Weimar. 1922-1950 was Zella, as the entire previous office- Dermbach, to the district of Eisenach, from 1950 to the district of Bad Salzungen and since 1994 Wartburg district.
Population Development
Development of the population (each 31 December):
- 2004: 491
- 2005: 476
- 2006: 467
- 2007: 465
- 2008: 452
- 2009: 453
- 2010: 452
- 2011: 453
Attractions
Baroque Church " Assumption "
The to 1732 on behalf of Provost was built in 1715 by Adolph Dalberg Baroque Church of the Assumption in the town center was inaugurated on August 15, 1735 She is equipped by highly visible and also inside is very ornate. For several years Lobpreisungsgottesdienste are regularly organized, have a strong appeal for pilgrims.
Altar
Sideview
Front view
Provost Zella (Rhön )
Next to the church there is the castle-like Provost, which was created in 1718 by the reconstruction of the ruin of the monastery building into a two-story baroque building. In the rehabilitated since 2001 Provost's a permanent exhibition about the Rhön biosphere reserve was opened in 2002; since 2009 has here the Thuringian management of the biosphere reserve their seat
View from the west
General view from the south
Provost Zella (Rhön )
Fountain in the courtyard
Traffic
Road
Immediately east of the village runs the federal highway 285 from Bad Salzungen to Mellrichstadt as a major north - south route in the eastern Rhön. In this south of Zella opens out from the direction of Tann (Rhön ) coming country road 1122. A county road connects cell with Brunnhartshausen.
Rail transport
Zella had its own railway station on the Feldabahn, it has ceased operations in 2003. 2008, the dismantling of the track system. The nearest train stations have since been located in the town of Bad Salzungen and east in Wasungen, each in the route network of the South -Thüringen -Bahn.