Gefell is a town in the
Saale-Orla-Kreis
Saale-Orla is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the east of Thuringia, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from the north clockwise) the districts Saale-Holzland, Greiz, the Vogtlandkreis in Saxony, the Bavarian districts Hof and Kronach, and the district ...
district, in
Thuringia
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Erfurt is the capital and lar ...
,
Germany
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.
Overview
It is situated 16 km south of
Schleiz, and 14 km northwest of
Hof. It is where the Berlin professional audio company
Georg Neumann GmbH relocated during
World War II
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. During the time of the
GDR
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...
, Gefell was in East Germany and private companies were nationalized, including this factory. Since reunification, the company, now known as
Microtech Gefell, has specialized in microphones and is once again privately owned, this time by the families of managers of the pre-war Neumann company.
See also
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Mödlareuth
References
External links
Saale-Orla-Kreis
Inner German border
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