Görau (Weismain)

Görau City of Weismain Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	515 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	133  (Jan. 1, 2013)
Postal code :	96260
Area code :	09575
Catholic chapel of St. Heinrich and Kunigunde

Görau is a district of the city of Weismain in the Upper Franconian district of Lichtenfels in the north of the Free State of Bavaria with 133 inhabitants.

Geographical location

Görau is located at 515  m above sea level. NN on a plateau, about 2.4 kilometers east of the Bärental . The plateau belongs to the northern foothills of the Franconian Jura in the Franconian Switzerland-Veldenstein Forest Nature Park . The city center of Weismain is around four kilometers to the north.

history

Early history

It is unclear when the area around today's village of Görau was first settled. Settlement from around 1400 BC at the latest. However, based on the finds from the Middle Bronze Age , which were made in two burial mound fields on the Görauer Anger around 100 years ago, this suggests itself. One of these mounds contained findings from the more recent burial mounds (1400–1300 BC). In addition to a bronze sword with an octagonal handle, an artfully crafted needle with a ball head and a heel ax (length 16.6 cm, width 3.5 cm, weight 320 grams), he hid jewelry in the form of bronze rings, including earrings. In two other graves, remains of wagons from the Hallstatt period were found , but these were largely destroyed due to the improper way of working at the time. Only an iron hump is preserved. The finds are in the museums of Bayreuth and Bamberg , in Thurnau Castle , in the State Archaeological Collection in Munich, in the prehistory and early historical collection of the University of Jena and in the collection of the seminar for prehistory and early history of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen displayed.

etymology

The name Görau is of Slavic origin. It is derived from the word gora , which means mountain. In 1137 the place first appeared in a document as "Goren", in 1382 as "Görein" and in 1421 as "Gore" and "Goraw". The form from 1382 was probably created as a result of a sound shift from the long i to ei . According to this, the origin of the place name is seen by many Slavists in the Old Slavic word gorina , which can be translated as mountainous country. The name can therefore be interpreted as a settlement in the mountains. Since the place name was not created by the residents, but by the surrounding neighbors, it can be concluded that the area of ​​the Jura plateau south of Weismain was inhabited by Slavic pasture farmers in the early Middle Ages, before 800, which archaeological finds confirm.

Recent history

In 1880 a volunteer fire brigade was founded in Görau . and in 1909 a water pipe was laid; the connection to the power grid took place in 1927.

Since the village had not had a church for decades, a chapel building association was founded on May 13, 1938. Construction of the chapel began that same year. The benediction took place on July 9, 1939. A major fire destroyed several properties on April 12, 1944, including the fire station with a bell tower.

In autumn 2010, the almost one kilometer long road to Neudorf was the first in the northern Bavarian region to be renewed using the in-situ cold recycling process from the Swiss road construction specialist Egli.

Population development

The table shows the population development of Görau based on individual data.

year	Residents	source
1987	141
2008	137
2010	135
2011	135
2012	134
2013	133
2015	125

useful information

In the competition Our village should become more beautiful - our village has a future , Görau was awarded in 2008 as the “most child-rich village in Germany”. According to Elsbeth Düthorn, chairman of Naturfreunde Görauer Anger, 33 of the 137 inhabitants at that time were children, which makes up a percentage of almost 25%, due to the strong village community in connection with the good job opportunities in the surrounding communities.

societies

In Görau there are six associations in which 85–90% of the population are active:

• Görau volunteer fire department
• Friends of nature Görauer Anger with youth group "Görauer Fröschla"
• Görau Hunting Association
• Kapellenbauverein Görau
• Senior district Görau
• Meet Halba Höih

literature

• Elsbeth Düthorn, Erika Münch: What grandmother tells - memories from Görau , Weismain 2004
• Johann Baptist Müller: One Hundred Years of Volunteer Fire Brigade Görau , Weismain 1980
• Helmut Haberkamm , Annalena Weber: Small collection of Franconian villages . Cadolzburg : ars vivendi Verlag , 2018. ISBN 978-3-86913-990-6 (pages 68 - 77)

Web links

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

• The Landespflege Lichtenfels on the Görau senior circle

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Information about the archaeological finds on the Görauer Anger ( memento of the original from June 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , kasendorf.de, accessed on December 29, 2011  
2. ↑ Notes on the Görauer burial mound find - Katharine Pászthory, Eugen Friedrich Mayer: Axes and axes in Bavaria , Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998, "The axes and axes in Bavaria" by Katharine Pászthory, Eugen Friedrich Mayer p. 88f.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Düthorn (2004), pp. 4–10
4. ↑ ^{a b} page no longer available , search in web archives: History of the volunteer fire brigade Görau , home.vr-web.de, accessed on December 29, 2011
5. ↑ Innovative road renewal between Görau and Neudorf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , obermain.de, accessed on December 29, 2011  
6. ↑ Görau Genealogical Place Directory , gov.genealogy.net, accessed on December 29, 2011
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Görau is the village with the most children in Germany! ( Memento of June 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), obermain.de, accessed on December 29, 2011
8. ↑ Data and facts on the Görau volunteer fire brigade  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ), feuerwehr-weismain.de, accessed on December 29, 2011
9. ↑ Distribution of residents in the city of Weismain on January 1st, 2011  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , stadt-weismain.de, accessed on December 29, 2011 (PDF, offline)  
10. ↑ Population distribution of the city of Weismain on January 1, 2012 ( Memento from January 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ Population distribution in the city of Weismain on January 1, 2013 ( Memento from May 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
12. ↑ Population distribution of the city of Weismain on January 1, 2015 ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )