Selb

Selb
Town
Martin Luther Square with the Church of Saint Andrew
Coat of arms
Location of Selb within Wunsiedel im Fichtelgebirge district
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Coordinates: 50°10′N 12°8′E
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Oberfranken
District	Wunsiedel im Fichtelgebirge
Government
• Lord mayor (2020–26)	Ulrich Pötzsch[1]
Area
• Total	62.37 km^2 (24.08 sq mi)
Elevation	562 m (1,844 ft)
Population  (2023-12-31)[2]
• Total	14,727
• Density	240/km^2 (610/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	95100
Dialling codes	09287
Vehicle registration	WUN, MAK, REH, SEL
Website	www.selb.de

Selb is a town in the district of Wunsiedel, in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. It is situated in the Fichtel Mountains, on the border with the Czech Republic, 20 km northwest of Cheb and 23 km southeast of Hof.

Rosenthal company 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 Walter Gropius shortly before his death.^[3] 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^[4]

Notable people

• Manfred Ahne (born 1961), German icehockey player
• Sebastian Bösel (born 1994), German football player
• Siegfried Hausner (1952-1975), a member of the Red Army Faction, was born and raised in Selb
• Florian Ondruschka (born 1987), German icehockey player
• Richard Rogler (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

Main sports venue in Selb. Home of the Selber Woelfe Oberliga Eishockey team.

References

1. Liste der ersten Bürgermeister/Oberbürgermeister in kreisangehörigen Gemeinden, Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik, 15 July 2021.
2. Genesis Online-Datenbank des Bayerischen Landesamtes für Statistik Tabelle 12411-003r Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes: Gemeinden, Stichtag (Einwohnerzahlen auf Grundlage des Zensus 2011).
3. Town plan for the development of Selb:. Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969., Leibbrand, Kurt, 1914-1985., Architects Collaborative, Inc., Verkehrs- und Industrieplanung, G.m.b.H. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. 1970 [1969]]. ISBN 0-262-07029-4. OCLC 102813.
4. "Stadt Selb - Ortsteile". www.selb.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-05-05.