Giebelstadt

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Giebelstadt
Coat of arms	Location

Administration
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Lower Franconia
District	Würzburg
Municipal assoc.	Giebelstadt
Local subdivisions	7 Ortsteile
Mayor	Paul Merklein (Unabh. Wählergem.)
Basic statistics
Area	48.06 km² (18.6 sq mi)
Elevation	300 m (984 ft)
Population	2,201 (30/06/2005)
- Density	46 /km² (119 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	WÜ
Postal code	97232
Area code	09334
Website	www.giebelstadt.de Coordinates: 49°39′00″N 09°57′00″E / 49.65, 9.95

Giebelstadt is a municipality in the district of Würzburg in Bavaria in Germany.

The town is the birthplace of Florian Geyer (1490-1525), also known as "Florian Geier from Giebelstadt", a Franconian nobleman who led the Black Company during the Peasants War resulting from the Protestant Reformation in Germany in the 16th century.

The town is surrounded by fields characterized by a rolling landscape.

In the twentieth century, Giebelstadt hosted a military airfield operated first by the German Luftwaffe in World War II and then by the U.S. forces during the Cold War.

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