Goersbach

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Goersbach
Map of Germany, position of the municipality of Görsbach highlighted

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 '  N , 10 ° 56'  E

Basic data
State : Thuringia
County : Nordhausen
Fulfilling municipality : Pegs / helmets
Height : 154 m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.9 km 2
Residents: 1030 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 130 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 99765
Area code : 036333
License plate : NDH
Community key : 16 0 62 008
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Strasse der Einheit 42/43
99765 Heringen / Helme
Mayoress : Angela Simmen (independent)
Location of the municipality of Görsbach in the Nordhausen district
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Görsbach is a municipality in the Nordhausen district in Thuringia . The city ​​of Heringen / Helme is the fulfilling municipality for Görsbach .

location

Görsbach is located in an agricultural region . It is a village in the Golden Aue at the Kelbra dam east of Nordhausen . The foothills of the Harz Mountains begin at Uftrungen to the north and the floodplain is bounded by the Hainleite and the Kyffhäuser massif to the south. The federal highway 38 grazes the district of the village to the north. Görsbach itself is located on Landesstraße 3080. The village has a stop on the Halle – Hann railway line. Münden . The Aumühle district also belongs to Görsbach .

history

St. Mauritius Church in Görsbach

The place was first mentioned in a document in 772 as Gerhelmesbach . Originally surrounded by a wall, the area information referred to the upper and lower gate. With the immigration of the Flemings in the 12th century north of the wall on barren land, the area name Hofestatt was added. The Flemings and monks from the Walkenried monastery improved the floodplain. From 1952, the forced collectivization of farms took place in Görsbach .

One of the main attractions in Görsbach is the Church of St. Mauritius .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Görsbach consists of twelve council members:

  • CDU 1 seat
  • Citizens Committee 11 seats

(Status: local elections on June 7, 2014)

Partner communities

The community of Görsbach has had a partnership with Kaisersesch in Rhineland-Palatinate since 1992 .

Sons of the place

  • Moritz Steinmetz (born April 27, 1529 in Görsbach; † July 1, 1584 in Leipzig), scholar and professor at the University of Leipzig
  • Valentin Steinmetz (* around 1547 in Görsbach; † around 1597 in Tunzenhausen), German Protestant pastor, astronomer and calendar editor
  • Aegidius Müller (born July 2, 1766 near Görsbach; † August 14, 1841 in Braunschweig), chamber musician, father of the Müller brothers , of a well-known 19th century string quartet at the Braunschweig Opera House .

literature

  • Council of the community of Görsbach (Hrsg.): Festschrift 1200 years Görsbach . Görsbach 1973, p. 95 .
  • R. Schuhmann: Festschrift 1225 years Görsbach from 4th to 12th July 1998 . Ed .: Council of the community of Görsbach. o. O. 1998, p. 88 .

Web links

Commons : Görsbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ Ortschronik