Selb () is a town in the district of Wunsiedel, in

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. It is situated in the

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, on the border with the

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, 20 km northwest of

Cheb Cheb (; ) is a town in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 33,000 inhabitants. It lies on the Ohře River. Before the Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, expulsion of Germans in 1945, the town was the centre of the G ...

and 23 km southeast of Hof. Rosenthal_AG_Logo

Selb is well known for its porcelain manufacture, and is the home of the Rosenthal factory, founded in 1879 by Philipp Rosenthal as a family business. In the 1960s the town was the location for an unrealized town development plan prepared by

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shortly before his death. It includes Spielberg village, which is regarded as Selb town part. The "Selber Wiesenfest", a traditional fair with thousands of visitors per day, always takes place on the "Goldberg" on the second weekend of July.

Villages

* Spielberg

Notable people

* Manfred Ahne (born 1961), German icehockey player *

Sebastian Bösel Sebastian Bösel (born 24 October 1994) is a German former professional association football, footballer who played as a midfielder. References

1994 births Living people People from Wunsiedel (district) Footballers from Upper Franconia Ge ...

(born 1994), German football player * Siegfried Hausner (1952-1975), a member of the

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, was born and raised in Selb *

Florian Ondruschka Florian Ondruschka (born 24 June 1987) is a German ice hockey coach and former professional ice hockey defenceman, currently an assistant coach to the Germany women's national ice hockey team, German women's national ice hockey team. Playing ca ...

(born 1987), German icehockey player *

Richard Rogler Richard Rogler (19 September 1949 – 11 August 2024) was a German Kabarett artist and professor of Kabarett at the University of the Arts in Berlin. Early life Rogler studied French and sport at the University of Würzburg. From 1974 to 1978 h ...

(1949-2024), German satirist, Kabarett artist and professor of Kabarett at the University of the Arts in Berlin * Philipp Rosenthal (1855-1937) founder of Rosenthal enterprise * Philip Rosenthal (industrialist) (1916-2001) son of above, reclaimed factory from Nazis, became leading SPD politician * Peter Schiller (1957-2020), German ice hockey player * The ski mountaineer and mountain biker Andreas Strobel was born 1972 in Selb Netzsch Arena

References

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