Fellen is a community in the Main-Spessart district in the ''

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(''Unterfranken'') in

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and a member of the ''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'' (Administrative Community) of Burgsinn.

Geography

Location

Fellen lies in the ''

Mittelgebirge A ''Mittelgebirge'' (German: ''Mittel'', "middle/medium"; ''Gebirge'', "mountain range") is a type of relatively low mountain range or highland area typical of the geography of central Europe, especially central and southern Germany; it refers to ...

Spessart Spessart is a '' Mittelgebirge'', a range of low wooded mountains, in the States of Bavaria and Hesse in Germany. It is bordered by the Vogelsberg, Rhön and Odenwald. The highest elevation is the Geiersberg at 586 metres above sea level. Ety ...

, in the Würzburg Region.

Subdivisions

The community has the following ''Gemarkungen'' (traditional rural cadastral areas): Fellen, Rengersbrunn, Wohnrod and Neuhof.

History

Fellen was part of the

County of Rieneck The County of Rieneck was a comital domain within the Holy Roman Empire that lay in what is now northwestern Bavaria (in the west of Lower Franconia). It bore the same name as its original ruling family, the Counts of Rieneck, from whom the count ...

. In 1806, it was

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within the

Principality of Aschaffenburg The Principality of Aschaffenburg (german: Fürstentum Aschaffenburg) was a principality of the Holy Roman Empire created in 1803 and, following the dissolution of the Empire in 1806, of the Confederation of the Rhine, which existed from 1806 to ...

, with which it passed in 1814, with the odd small exception, to Bavaria. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, the current community came into being with the ''Gemeindeedikt'' (“Municipal Edict”) of 1818.

Demographics

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Economy

Municipal taxes in 1999 amounted to €367,000 (converted), of which net business taxes amounted to €44,000. According to official statistics, there were 81 workers on the social welfare contribution rolls working in producing businesses in 1998, and in trade and

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17. In other areas, 329 such workers worked from home. Nobody was employed in processing businesses. One business was in construction, and furthermore, in 1999, there were 29 agricultural operations with a working area of 328 ha, of which 44 ha was cropland and 200 ha was meadowland.

Governance

The mayor is Zita Baur.

Coat of arms

The community's arms might be described thus: Barry of six gules and Or, in base a mount of three vert on each side of the middle mount two oakleaves each acorned of one towards the nombril point, between the leaves in chief a crown argent.

Education

In 1999 the following institutions existed in Fellen: *

Kindergarten Kindergarten is a preschool educational approach based on playing, singing, practical activities such as drawing, and social interaction as part of the transition from home to school. Such institutions were originally made in the late 18th ce ...

s: 50 places with 38 children

References

External links

Fellen as part of the ''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'' of Burgsinn
{{Authority control Main-Spessart