Seßlach is a town in the district of Coburg

Coburg (district)

Coburg is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Kronach, Lichtenfels, Bamberg and Haßberge, and by the state of Thuringia . The district is surrounding, but not including the city of Coburg.- History :The history of the district is largely influenced by the city of Coburg...

, in northern Bavaria

Bavaria

Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...

, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. It is situated 12 km southwest of Coburg

Coburg

Coburg is a town located on the Itz River in Bavaria, Germany. Its 2005 population was 42,015. Long one of the Thuringian states of the Wettin line, it joined with Bavaria by popular vote in 1920...

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Seßlach consists of 15 parts:
(Inhabitants as of December 31, 2005)

Autenhausen (357) Bischwind (106) Dietersdorf (455) Gemünda (540) Gleismuthhausen (100)

Hattersdorf (143) Heilgersdorf (467) Krumbach (64) Lechenroth (70) Merlach (101)

Oberelldorf (149) Rothenberg (89) Seßlach (1.277) Setzelsdorf (32) Unterelldorf (166)

History

After the disruption of the Thuringian Empire (531) the Grabfeld

Grabfeld

The Grabfeld is a region in Germany, on the border between Bavaria and Thuringia. It is situated southeast of the Rhön Mountains. Its highest elevation is 679 m . The Grabfeld gave its name to the Bavarian district Rhön-Grabfeld and the Thuringian municipality Grabfeld....

gau was populated by Frankish peasants. From the East Slavic

Slavic peoples

The Slavic people are an Indo-European panethnicity living in Eastern Europe, Southeast Europe, North Asia and Central Asia. The term Slavic represents a broad ethno-linguistic group of people, who speak languages belonging to the Slavic language family and share, to varying degrees, certain...

 (Wendish) settlers pressed forward into the region of Schweinfurt

Schweinfurt

Schweinfurt is a city in the Lower Franconia region of Bavaria in Germany on the right bank of the canalized Main, which is here spanned by several bridges, 27 km northeast of Würzburg.- History :...

, who where on the run from their Avar

Eurasian Avars

The Eurasian Avars or Ancient Avars were a highly organized nomadic confederacy of mixed origins. They were ruled by a khagan, who was surrounded by a tight-knit entourage of nomad warriors, an organization characteristic of Turko-Mongol groups...

 enemies.
In the 11th century numerous Slavs in Franconia were not yet Christianized.
As fore-rectories of the Bishopric of Würzburg were (among others) Baunach

Baunach

Baunach is a town in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg and the seat of the administrative community of Baunach. Until administrative reform in 1972, Baunach belonged to the Lower Franconian district of Ebern....

, Pfarrweisach

Pfarrweisach

Pfarrweisach is a municipality in the district of Haßberge in Bavaria in Germany....

 and Seßlach created.
The patron saint of Seßlach, John the Baptist defers to the rectory's role as a base for the Slav mission. 1007 the Bishopric of Bamberg was founded.

The first written mention of the two settlements on the Kirchhügel (Church hill) and the Geiersberg (vulture mountain) comes from the year 800 AD. The Abbess Emhild of the monastery Milz transferred the monasterial properties by this certificate to the Abbey of Fulda

Fulda

Fulda is a city in Hesse, Germany; it is located on the river Fulda and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district .- Early Middle Ages :...

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