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5 unusual facts about Gefell


Georg Neumann

Georg Neumann relocated his company to the much smaller town of Gefell in Thuringia and resumed production at the beginning of the following year.

After the reunification of Germany, the company in Gefell, which had continued to use the Neumann name, became known as Microtech Gefell.

Microtech Gefell

Gefell is the name of the town to which Georg Neumann fled from Berlin in 1943.

Mödlareuth

The Thuringian part of the village of Mödlareuth belongs to the town of Gefell, and the Bavarian part to the community of Töpen.

Sarmersbach

The French administration made Sarmersbach the administrative seat of the like-named mairie (“mayoralty”), to which belonged not only Sarmersbach but also Beinhausen, Boxberg, Kradenbach, Gefell, Hörschhausen, Katzwinkel, Neichen, Nerdlen, Schönbach and Utzerath.



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