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Country
  
Admin. region
  
Kassel

Time zone
  
CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

Local time
  
Monday 6:11 AM

State
  
District
  
Population
  
6,019 (30 Jun 2009)

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Elevation
  
371 - 950 m (−2,746 ft)

Weather
  
-1°C, Wind SE at 18 km/h, 80% Humidity

Points of interest
  
Wasserkuppe, Wildpark Gersfeld, German Gliding Museum, RADOM Flug gGmbH, Fliegerdenkmal

Gersfeld is a town in the district of Fulda, in Hesse, Germany. It is situated on the Fulda River, in the Rhön Mountains, 20 km (12.43 mi) southeast of Fulda. It belonged to the abbey-principality of Fulda before secularisation in 1803. It then belonged to the Principality of Nassau-Orange-Fulda between 1803 and 1806, to France between 1806 and 1810, and then later to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt between 1810 and 1813. After the Battle of Leipzig, it was occupied by the Allied troops of the Sixth Coalition between 1813 and 1815. After that, it was ceded to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1815. During the Austro-Prussian War, it was occupied by Prussia before its annexation in the newly established Hesse Nassau province. It was finally incorporated in the state of Hesse in 1945.

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Map of 36129 Gersfeld, Germany

Sons and daughters of the city

  • Helmut Bieler (born 1940), composer and pianist
  • Hubertus Primus (born 1955), lawyer and journalist, executive committee of the Stiftung Warentest
  • References

    Gersfeld Wikipedia


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