Gänswirthshaus

Gänswirthshaus Large district town of Weißenburg in Bavaria Coordinates: 49 ° 2 ′ 12 ″ N , 11 ° 0 ′ 54 ″ E
Height :	460 m above sea level NN
Residents :	105 (1987)
Postal code :	91781
Area code :	09141
Location of Gänswirthshaus in Bavaria
	View in north direction on Gänswirtshaus, May 2008

Gänswirthshaus is a district of the large district town Weißenburg in Bavaria in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . The place is at an altitude of about 460 meters above sea level and has 105 inhabitants (as of 1987).

location

The village is located in the Franconian Alb , not far northeast of Weißenburg, on the southern slopes of the Rohrberg . Further to the east are Niederhofen , Kreuzwirtshaus and Oberhochstatt . To the south lie the Wülzburger Berg , on the top of which is the Wülzburg Fortress and on the northern slope of the mountain the neighboring town of Kehl . The Bösbach , also called Rohrbach or Klingenbach in sections, flows through the village from the east . Some streets connect Gänswirtshaus with the neighboring towns. To the north is the nature reserve Quellhorizonte and Magerrasen am Albtrauf near Niederhofen, which was designated in 1986 .

history

The place name goes back to the former field name "Gäns-Espan", ie a goose pasture where Johann Georg Loy set up an inn in 1768. In 1846 a house, a family and three souls are recorded there. In 1871 there were six people living with five cattle in two buildings. Today the place includes about 40 households. Gänswirthshaus belonged to the municipality of Oberhochstatt before the Bavarian regional reform of May 1, 1978 .

There are no authorities, post offices, cultural institutions or shops. The nearest doctors and shops are in Weißenburg. Ecclesiastically, the place belongs to the Evangelical Weißenburg city church St. Andreas in the Evangelical Lutheran deanery Weißenburg and to the Catholic parish St. Willibald in Weißenburg in the deanery Weißenburg-Wemding in the diocese of Eichstätt .

Web links

Geographical Lexicon 1799-1804. 6th Volume , pp. 743-744
Gänswirthshaus in the location database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on September 1, 2017.

Individual evidence

↑ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB 94240937X , p. 353 ( digitized version ).
↑ ^a ^b Topographic Maps , Bavarian Surveying Office ( BayernAtlas )
↑ Nature reserve 49 - Spring horizons and rough grassland on the Albtrauf near Niederhofen, Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district , Government of Middle Franconia , accessed on February 22, 2015
^ Eduard Vetter: Statistical handbook and address book of Middle Franconia in the Kingdom of Bavaria , 1846, page 273
↑ Kgl. Statistical Bureau (ed.): Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria. According to districts, administrative districts, court districts and municipalities, including parish, school and post office affiliation ... with an alphabetical general register containing the population according to the results of the census of December 1, 1875 . Adolf Ackermann, Munich 1877, 2nd section (population figures from 1871, cattle figures from 1873), Sp. 1266 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00052489-4 ( digitized ).

[1] Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB 94240937X , p. 353 ( digitized version ).

[BY-2] Topographic Maps , Bavarian Surveying Office ( BayernAtlas )

[3] Nature reserve 49 - Spring horizons and rough grassland on the Albtrauf near Niederhofen, Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district , Government of Middle Franconia , accessed on February 22, 2015

[4] Eduard Vetter: Statistical handbook and address book of Middle Franconia in the Kingdom of Bavaria , 1846, page 273

[5] Kgl. Statistical Bureau (ed.): Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria. According to districts, administrative districts, court districts and municipalities, including parish, school and post office affiliation ... with an alphabetical general register containing the population according to the results of the census of December 1, 1875 . Adolf Ackermann, Munich 1877, 2nd section (population figures from 1871, cattle figures from 1873), Sp. 1266 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00052489-4 ( digitized ).