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Geisa

Geisa
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Coat of arms of Geisa
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Geisa   is located in Germany
Geisa
Geisa
Coordinates: 50°43′N 09°58′E / 50.717°N 9.967°E / 50.717; 9.967Coordinates: 50°43′N 09°58′E / 50.717°N 9.967°E / 50.717; 9.967
Country Germany
State Thuringia
District Wartburgkreis
Government
 • Mayor Martin Henkel (CDU)
Area
 • Total 71.75 km2 (27.70 sq mi)
Elevation 318 m (1,043 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
 • Total 4,698
 • Density 65/km2 (170/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 36419
Dialling codes 036967
Vehicle registration WAK
Website www.geisa.de

Geisa is a town in the Wartburgkreis district, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated in the Rhön Mountains, 26 km northeast of Fulda. The near border with Hesse was the border between West Germany and the GDR during the Cold War. Thus, Geisa was in the East German border restriction area of the former inner German border, which meant that until reunification access to the town was limited. The town is the westernmost municipality in what was formerly East Germany.

Geisa is a town in the north of the Rhön Mountains in Thuringia. It is located on the Ulster River. The region is also referred to by the old name of Buchonia. The closest city is Fulda.

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Geisa is mentioned first in a written document in 817 AD as a property of the Benedictine abbey of Fulda. Its oldest area of settlement is located on Gangolfiberg, which is the highest point of the town proper (at 322 m NN). This is also the location of the only surviving medieval place of jurisdiction in Thuringia, the so-called Zentgericht - dating from around the 11th century. A town wall, still largely extant today, was built around the year 1265. The deed of town ordinances and privileges was lost, the first notation as civitas is from 1302.

As an administration centre of the Abbey of Fulda, Geisa was a Catholic-dominated region. Athanasius Kircher was born on 2 May in either 1601 or 1602 in Geisa.

In 1802/03, in the German mediatisation, the ecclesial states including the Bishopric of Fulda were abolished. After the Congress of Vienna, Geisa was a part of the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach until 1918.


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