Gössitz

Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Saale-Orla district
Management Community :	Ranis-Ziegenrück
Height :	480 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.84 km 2
Residents:	307 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	24 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	07389
Area code :	036483
License plate :	SOK, LBS, PN, SCZ
Community key :	16 0 75 035
Association administration address:	Pößnecker Str. 2 ; 07389 Ranis
Website :	Gössitz on the VG website
Mayor :	Sandro Schindler
Location of the community of Gössitz in the Saale-Orla district

Location

Gössitz is a municipality in the Ranis-Ziegenrück administrative community in the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia .

location

Gössitz is located on a higher plateau of the southeast Thuringian slate mountains to the northeast above the water level of the Hohenwarte dam . The demarcation is docked and surrounded by forest. There is a connection to the state road 1104 with a local road . Pößneck , Saalfeld and Ziegenrück are close towns in this area.

history

Gössitz was first mentioned in a document in 1108 with the Slavic name "gozd" or "goozd" (mountain forest). It has been known by its current name since 1644. In 1603 Gössitz received market rights . To the southeast of Gössitz on the "Burgstädel" there was most likely a fortified manor house. Gössitz belonged to the Electoral Saxon Office of Ziegenrück until 1815 and after its assignment, decided at the Congress of Vienna , came to the Prussian district of Ziegenrück , to which the place belonged until 1945.

Population development

Development of the population (from 1994: as of December 31) :

1933: 435
1939: 405
1994: 441
1995: 432
1996: 419
1997: 403

1998: 393
1999: 391
2000: 394
2001: 393
2002: 391
2003: 370

2004: 358
2005: 354
2006: 349
2007: 351
2008: 345
2009: 340

2010: 334
2011: 322
2012: 317
2013: 323
2014: 320
2015: 317

2016: 314
2017: 304
2018: 301

Data source from 1994: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

coat of arms

Description : “Three golden grain stalks with ears of wheat growing in red on a green three-mountain. Above that is a stinging helmet, which is studded with a growing Justitia holding the sword on the right and the scales on the left. "

Web links

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

Individual evidence

^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).
↑ Michael Köhler : Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 77.
^ Entry on Wallburg Burgstädel in the private database "Alle Burgen". Retrieved June 10, 2020.
^ ^A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Ziegenrück district. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-TH-1] Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).

[2] Michael Köhler : Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 77.

[3] Entry on Wallburg Burgstädel in the private database "Alle Burgen". Retrieved June 10, 2020.

[Deutsche_Verwaltungsgeschichte_Provinz_Sachsen,_Kreis_Ziegenrück-4] A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Ziegenrück district. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).