Gessertshausen

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Coat of arms of the community of Gessertshausen
Gessertshausen
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Gessertshausen highlighted

Coordinates: 48 ° 20 '  N , 10 ° 44'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Swabia
County : augsburg
Management Community : Gessertshausen
Height : 478 m above sea level NHN
Area : 41.35 km 2
Residents: 4362 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 106 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 86459
Area code : 08238
License plate : A , SMÜ, WHO
Community key : 09 7 72 148
LOCODE : DE XGH
Community structure: 9 parts of the community
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Hauptstrasse 31
86459 Gessertshausen
Website : www.gessertshausen.de
Mayor : Jürgen Mögele ( CSU )
Location of the community of Gessertshausen in the Augsburg district
Augsburg Landkreis Aichach-Friedberg Landkreis Dachau Landkreis Dillingen an der Donau Landkreis Donau-Ries Landkreis Fürstenfeldbruck Landkreis Günzburg Landkreis Landsberg am Lech Landkreis Ostallgäu Landkreis Starnberg Landkreis Unterallgäu Landkreis Neuburg-Schrobenhausen Schmellerforst Adelsried Allmannshofen Altenmünster Aystetten Biberbach (Schwaben) Bobingen Bonstetten (Schwaben) Diedorf Dinkelscherben Ehingen (Landkreis Augsburg) Ellgau Emersacker Fischach Gablingen Gersthofen Gessertshausen Graben (Lechfeld) Großaitingen Heretsried Hiltenfingen Horgau Kleinaitingen Klosterlechfeld Königsbrunn Kühlenthal Kutzenhausen Langenneufnach Langerringen Langweid am Lech Meitingen Mickhausen Mittelneufnach Neusäß Nordendorf Oberottmarshausen Scherstetten Schwabmünchen Stadtbergen Thierhaupten Untermeitingen Ustersbach Walkertshofen Wehringen Welden Westendorf (Landkreis Augsburg) Zusmarshausenmap
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Gessertshausen is a municipality in the Swabian district of Augsburg and the seat of the Gessertshausen administrative community . The community of Gessertshausen is largely shaped by the recreational area of ​​the Schmutter and Schwarzach valleys. The Schmuttertal is now a designated FFH area with Europe-wide importance. A big draw in the vicinity is the Oberschönenfeld Monastery , a Cistercian monastery that was founded in 1211. The Oberschönenfeld Museum is located in the former farm buildings . Gessertshausen is located in the Augsburg - Western Woods Nature Park , an area of ​​1200 km² west of Augsburg . The area is of great importance for the region, especially for those looking for relaxation, but also as a supplier of wood.

geography

location

The main town of Gessertshausen is about 15 kilometers west of Augsburg on the Schmutter and in the Augsburg-Westliche Wälder nature reserve .

Landscapes and parts of the municipality

The municipality consists of five districts and has nine officially named municipal parts (non-officially named districts are in italics ):

Gessertshausen

The district of Gessertshausen also includes the monastery settlement Oberschönenfeld, the hamlet Dietkirch with parish church and the solitude of Engelshof. The place name "Gotsherhusen" appears in a document for the first time around the year 1150. Gessertshausen is one of the first settlements in the Schmuttertal and is considered the starting point for settlement in the area. In the Middle Ages, the Augsburg episcopal possessions in Gessertshausen were given as fiefs to various citizens of Augsburg, including Sieboto Schongauer. Through donations and purchases, all of these possessions gradually passed to the Oberschönenfeld monastery, which exercised the manorial power until secularization .

Originally on an island, now on the Schmutter, is the regionally important baptistery in Dietkirch; the current church building dates from 1723 and is the work of the South Tyrolean master builder Franz Beer . In the valley of the Schwarzach, southwest of Gessertshausen, lies the Cistercian convent Oberschönenfeld. In addition to the art-historically remarkable monastery church by Franz Beer, the entire monastery complex in its original form is unique in the whole of Germany.

In the middle of the woods south of Gessertshausen is the solitude of Engelshof, which was probably created by clearing in the eleventh century and purchased in 1151 from the Augustinian canons of St. Georg in Augsburg. The small castle estate was used by the canons as a summer residence until secularization, and the Michael's Chapel, built there in 1613, was demolished in 1834.

Margertshausen

On the right bank of the Schmutter, 17 km southwest of Augsburg, lies the former independent municipality of Margertshausen. There was already a settlement there in the 10th century, but the place itself is likely to have originated in the 8th or 9th century. "Madelgershausen" was first mentioned in a document around 1140. Margertshausen belonged to the hospital built by Bishop Ulrich von Augsburg and in the 12th century passed to the Augustinian canon monastery Heilig Kreuz , which exercised the manorial rule until secularization.

history

Until the church is planted

Altar in the right transverse arm of the Mariae Himmelfahrt abbey church

Gessertshausen is one of the first branches in Schmuttertal and is seen as the starting point for settlement in the area. The place "Gotsherhusen" is first mentioned around the year 1150.

In the Middle Ages, the Augsburg episcopal possessions from Gessertshausen were lent to various Augsburg citizens as fiefs. Through donations and purchases, all of these possessions gradually passed to the Oberschönenfeld monastery, which ruled the land until the secularization of 1803. Since secularization, Gessertshausen has been Bavarian due to the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss .

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the municipality grew from 3,871 to 4,344 by 473 inhabitants or by 12.2%.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1972, the previously independent communities Gessertshausen, Margertshausen and Wollishausen were merged to form the new community Gessertshausen. Deubach and Döpshofen were added on May 1, 1978.

politics

Due to the local election on March 15, 2020 , the local council is composed as follows:

Compared to the 2014 to 2020 term of office, the CSU and SPD each lost one seat, the Free Voters' Association remained unchanged, and the Greens (2020 together with the ÖDP) gained two seats.

Jürgen Mögele (CSU) has been mayor since November 4, 2016.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Gessertshausen
 Blazon : "On a shield diagonally divided by red and silver, a standing, gold-crowned and nimbled Madonna in a blue cloak and red undergarment, the child on the right arm, holding a rose branch in the left."

Note: From a heraldic point of view, strictly speaking, it should read: "On a shield that is diagonally divided by silver and red", since the upper color is mentioned first in the case of a diagonal division. Here the official blazon differs from the usual heraldic practice.

Culture and sights

Architectural monuments

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Public transport

Gessertshausen is conveniently located on the Augsburg – Ulm railway line . On September 26, 1853, the Augsburg - Dinkelscherben section of the Bavarian Maximiliansbahn was opened and a station was built on this line in Gessertshausen . On May 1, 1854, the entire Maximiliansbahn line from Ulm to Munich was finally completed.

From October 12, 1910 to February 8, 1912, the Staudenbahn branching off from the Maximiliansbahn from Gessertshausen via Markt Wald and Ettringen to Türkheim was opened in several sections, making Gessertshausen a railway junction . On September 24, 1982, passenger traffic was stopped on the section from Markt Wald to Ettringen and freight traffic on May 28, 1983 due to the poor state of the superstructure , and the section was closed. On May 31, 1991 the passenger traffic between Gessertshausen and Markt Wald and on May 1, 1996 the freight traffic between Fischach and Markt Wald was stopped. On July 28, 2001, however, the line to Langenneufnach and on May 1, 2003 to Markt Wald was reopened. It is operated by Stauden-Verkehrs-GmbH for freight and excursion traffic, which offers excursion trains every second Sunday between Gessertshausen and Markt Wald. The route can only be reached via platform 1 of the newly built, double-track Gessertshausen station.

Today the Fugger-Express runs on the main line Ulm – Munich , which runs every hour as a regional express from Ulm to Munich and as a regional train from Dinkelscherben to Munich, so that there is a half-hourly service between Dinkelscherben and Munich.

There is a free park-and-ride space at Gessertshausen train station .

There are several bus stops in the community of Gessertshausen, which are served by the following lines of the Augsburg Transport Association :

Private transport

Gessertshausen's main thoroughfare is the federal highway 300 (section Memmingen - Augsburg). The St2026 also begins in Gessertshausen and connects to Bundesstraße 16 as a cross connection to Hausen (in the municipality of Pfaffenhausen) .

school

  • Gessertshausen primary school

Sons and daughters of Gessertshausen

Web links

Commons : Gessertshausen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
  2. ^ Community Gessertshausen in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on August 20, 2019.
  3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 424 .
  4. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 768 .
  5. ^ Greetings from the 1st Mayor. Community of Gessertshausen, accessed on July 23, 2020 .
  6. ^ Entry on the Gessertshausen coat of arms  in the database of the House of Bavarian History