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{{distinguish|Fallen (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox German location
|image_coa            = DEU Fellen COA.svg
|coordinates       = {{coord|50|9|N|9|35|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|image_plan = Fellen in MSP.svg
|state        = Bayern
|region  = Unterfranken
|district         = Main-Spessart
|Verwaltungsgemeinschaft = Burgsinn
|elevation              = 236
|area            = 34.33
|postal_code               = 97778
|area_code           = 09356
|licence               = MSP
|Gemeindeschlüssel = 09 6 77 128
|website           = [http://www.fellen.de www.fellen.de]
|mayor             = Zita Baur<ref>[https://www.statistik.bayern.de/wahlen/kommunalwahlen/bgm/ Liste der ersten Bürgermeister/Oberbürgermeister in kreisangehörigen Gemeinden], [[Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik]], 15 July 2021.</ref>
|leader_term       = 2020&ndash;26
|party             = 
}}
'''Fellen''' is a [[Municipalities of Germany|municipality]] in the [[Main-Spessart|Main-Spessart district]] in the ''[[Regierungsbezirk]]'' of [[Lower Franconia]] (''Unterfranken'') in [[Bavaria]], [[Germany]] and a member of the ''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'' (Administrative Community) of Burgsinn.

==Geography==

===Location===
Fellen lies in the ''[[Mittelgebirge]]'' [[Spessart]], in the Würzburg Region.

===Subdivisions===
The community has the following ''Gemarkungen'' (traditional rural cadastral areas): Fellen, Rengersbrunn, Wohnrod and Neuhof.

==History==
Fellen was part of the [[County of Rieneck]]. In 1806, it was [[German mediatisation|mediatized]] within the [[Principality of Aschaffenburg]], with which it passed in 1814, with the odd small exception, to Bavaria. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, the current community came into being with the ''Gemeindeedikt'' (“Municipal Edict”) of 1818.

==Demographics==
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==Economy==
Municipal taxes in 1999 amounted to €367,000 (converted), of which net business taxes amounted to €44,000.

According to official statistics, there were 81 workers on the social welfare contribution rolls working in producing businesses in 1998, and in trade and [[transport]] 17. In other areas, 329 such workers worked from home. Nobody was employed in processing businesses. One business was in construction, and furthermore, in 1999, there were 29 agricultural operations with a working area of 328&nbsp;ha, of which 44&nbsp;ha was cropland and 200&nbsp;ha was meadowland.

==Governance==
The mayor is Zita Baur.

===Coat of arms===
The community's [[Coat of arms|arms]] might be described thus: Barry of six gules and Or, in base a mount of three vert on each side of the middle mount two oakleaves each acorned of one towards the nombril point, between the leaves in chief a crown argent.

==Education==
In 1999 the following institutions existed in Fellen:
*[[Kindergarten]]s: 50 places with 38 children

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category}}
* [http://www.vgem-burgsinn.de/sites/gensite.asp?SID=cms030620062346321706201&Art=021 Fellen as part of the ''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'' of Burgsinn] {{in lang|de}}

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[[Category:Main-Spessart]]