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Seßlach

Field	Value
type	Stadt
image_coa	DEU Sesslach COA.svg
image_photo	Sesslachmai08 2.jpg
image_caption	Town gate
coordinates
image_plan	Seßlach in CO.svg
state	Bayern
region	Oberfranken
district	Coburg
elevation	271
area	72.53
postal_code	96145
area_code	09569
licence	CO
Gemeindeschlüssel	09 4 73 165
divisions	14 villages one town
website	www.sesslach.de
mayor	Maximilian Neeb
leader_term	2019–25
party	FW

Seßlach () is a town in the district of Coburg, in northern Bavaria, Germany. It is situated 12 km southwest of Coburg and has a population close to 4,000.

Seßlach is notable for its largely intact medieval town wall and overall historic appearance with few modern structures.

Geography

Location

Seßlach is located in Upper Franconia. To the north, the municipal territory borders on Thuringia. To the west and south lies the district Haßberge.

Subdivisions

Seßlach consists of 17 Stadtteile: (inhabitants as of July 2015)

(312)
(101)
(426)
(25)
(522)
(99)
(133)
(454)
(74)
(73)
(83)
(142)
(94)
Seßlach (1,248)
(36)
(146)
(25)

History

The first written mention of the two settlements on the Kirchhügel (church hill) and the Geiersberg (vulture hill) comes from the year 800. The Abbess Emhild of the monastery Milz transferred the monasterial properties by this certificate to Fulda Abbey.

In 1335, the emperor Ludwig der Bayer awarded Seßlach the status of town. This gave the residents the permission to fortify their settlement which they soon did. By 1343 the first town gate had been erected. Later that century, the town became the seat of an Amt and a Centgericht of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg.

Seßlach was part of the Hochstift Würzburg until secularization in 1803. Over the centuries, the town suffered more under the German Peasants' War (1525) than nearby Coburg and was also damaged and plundered during the Thirty Years' War, the Seven Years' War and the Napoleonic Wars.

In 1810, the Amt Seßlach came to the Kingdom of Bavaria and gradually lost importance. In 1812, an Amtsgericht was established but in the 1929 Staatsreform it was sidelined. In 1972, Seßlach became part of the Landkreis Coburg.

Attractions

Seßlach is notable for its largely intact medieval town wall and overall historic appearance with few modern structures. It features many half-timbered buildings. The parish church, St. Johannes, was built in the 13th century and later redesigned in Baroque style.

The 2006 movie of The Robber Hotzenplotz was filmed in Seßlach.

Infrastructure

Transport

Bundesstrasse 303 passes through the municipal territory north of the town itself.

References

[https://www.statistik.bayern.de/wahlen/kommunalwahlen/bgm/ Liste der ersten Bürgermeister/Oberbürgermeister in kreisangehörigen Gemeinden], [[Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik]], accessed 19 July 2021.
[http://www.sesslach.de/index.php/stadtinfo/stadtteile-chronik www.sesslach.de Stadtteile]
[http://www.sesslach.de/index.php/stadtinfo/zahlen-daten www.sesslach.de Zahlen Daten]
Klüglein, Norbert. (1991). "Coburg Stadt und Land (German)". Verkehrsverein Coburg.

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