Gaissach

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Bavaria
County :	Bad Toelz-Wolfratshausen
Height :	735 m above sea level NHN
Area :	38.55 km 2
Residents:	3097 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	80 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	83674
Primaries :	08041, 08042
License plate :	TÖL, WOR
Community key :	09 1 73 124
Community structure:	23 parts of the community
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Bahnhofstrasse 8 ; 83674 Gaißach
Website :	www.gaissach.de
Mayor :	Stefan Fadinger (non-party)
Location of the community Gaißach in the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district

Gaißach is a municipality and a parish village of the same name in the Upper Bavarian district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen in the Isarwinkel .

geography

Geographical location

The widely scattered municipal area is at an altitude of 660 to 740 m above sea level. NN . The place Gaißach is about 2 km southeast of Bad Tölz , at the foot of the local mountain Rechelkopf ( 1328 m ), with Gaißach-Dorf enthroned on a hill above all other districts. The largest elevation is at 1562 m in the southeast of the community on Fockenstein . The Grosse Gaißach , which gives the entire community its name, flows from Attenloher Filzen and the Kleine Gaißach that flows into it through the Mühl district into the Isar . To the south you have a clear view of the Bavarian and Tyrolean Limestone Alps and the Karwendel Mountains .

Gaißach, together with the neighboring municipality of Wackersberg to the west, forms the northern border of the Isarwinkel . The community also borders Bad Tölz and Greiling in the north, Bad Wiessee in the east and Lenggries in the south .

The Isar lies between Bad Tölz and Lenggries completely on the Gaißacher municipality area, which in this area extends relatively far across this mountain river to the west to the municipality border (Wackersberg).

Community structure

The municipality has 23 officially named municipal parts (the type of settlement is indicated in brackets ):

Gaißach ( parish village )
Grundnern ( hamlet )
Cellars (hamlets)
Fiefdom ( village )
Lexen (hamlet)
Lus ( wasteland )
Mosses (wasteland)
Mill (village)

Obergries (village)
Oberreut (hamlet)
Obersteinbach (hamlet)
Pfistern (hamlet)
Puchen (village)
Rain (village)
Reut (hamlet)
Schalchern (hamlet)

Taxern (hamlet)
Untergries (village)
Untermberg (hamlet)
Unterreut (hamlet)
Untersteinbach (hamlet)
Wetzl (hamlet)
Wiedmoos (hamlet)

At the ferry , Schalch unterm Berg and Winet there are no officially named parts of the municipality.

history

Settlement of the area is due to excavations of barrows and the finds found in them until the 2nd century BC. Demonstrable. Gaißach was first mentioned in a document in 817 as Kaizahu . From Kaizahu through Keizan, Kazzah, Gaizah, the current place name developed over time. The Kaizahu are said to have been an early lordly family of the Gaißach Urhofmarket. The area of today's Gaißach was probably cleared and systematically settled in the second half of the 8th century. With limited usage rights, farmers and craftsmen initially settled here.

St. Michael Church

Around 1300 the Isarwinkel is completely settled and the villages and corridors show their features as they have been preserved to this day. In the 16th century there were already 125 farms in Gaißach owned by around 10 landlords, as well as 12 free farmers. Like the entire Isarwinkel, Gaißach also suffered from the Thirty Years' War and almost the entire population was swept away by the plague . Before that, the Gaißach team helped the Tölz team to defend Tölz against the Swedes.

During the Austrian War of Succession , Colonel Franz von der Trenck invaded the Isarwinkel in 1742 with his plundering and robbing Pandours . Because a Gaißacher allegedly murdered one of his generals near Dietramszell, Trenck had 28 properties burned down in Gaißach on May 22, 1742 and killed 10 innocent people. The Pandurs were later driven out again through a merger of Isarwinkler farmers. Since then, the "Chapel of the Burned Down Cross" has existed as a memorial in the Puchen district.

In 1818, as part of the administrative reforms in the Kingdom of Bavaria , Gaißach became an independent political municipality. When the Holzkirchen – Lenggries railway from Bad Tölz to Lenggries was expanded in 1924 , Gaißach was also connected to the rail network. During the municipal reform in 1978 , Gaißach remained an independent municipality at its own request.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the municipality grew from 2,634 to 3,136 by 502 inhabitants or 19.1%.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council has 16 members. Another member and chairman of the municipal council is the first mayor.

Election results and distribution of seats:

Nomination	Seats 2014-2020	Share 2014–2020	Seats 2020–2026
CSU / Free Electoral Community	5 seats	(33.4%)	5 seats
FW	5 seats	(30.3%)	6 seats
Independent citizen list	4 seats	(23.0%)	2 seats
Free Gaißacher list	2 seats	(13.3%)	3 seats

mayor

The first mayor is Stefan Fadinger. He took office on October 1, 2012, after he was elected to succeed Nikolaus Trischberger on July 1, 2012 via the list connection “CSU / Free Electoral Community”. On March 15, 2020, he was confirmed with 94.26% of the valid votes for another six years.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In green a slanting left silver wave bar, on top of which a golden flaming sword is placed."

The green ground represents the forest and meadow landscape of Gaißach, the wavy bar refers to the eponymous brook Gaißach and the flaming sword is the symbol of St. Michael , the patron saint of the parish church and the parish of Gaißach. The current coat of arms of the community Gaißach has only existed since 1959. It was designed by the Tölz architect Ernst Rössner.

View from Gaißach-Dorf to the south into the Isarwinkel . In the background: Karwendel Mountains (middle) and Benediktenwand (far right)

Culture and sights

In Gaißach is the late Gothic Catholic parish church of St. Michael , which, after the upper tower section collapsed in 1624, was built in 1649 in the baroque form with the onion dome that still exists today . This church was rebuilt in 1735 and the magnificent frescoes by the painter Christoph Anton Mayr were created around 1761 . The altar dates from 1910, the tabernacle from 1736 and most of the furnishings from the mid-18th century.

Farmhouse with delivery house in Pfistern

The rectory near the church dates back to the second half of the 18th century. In this parsonage you can see a wonderful, large nativity scene in the oriental style during Advent. In 1550 the Gaißacher refused to continue burying the dead from Lenggries here, as they had to do for centuries, and created their own cemetery here. In addition to the cemetery directly at the church, Gaißach has had a new, larger cemetery on the northeast edge of the village district since 1994.

Like all villages in the Isarwinkel , Gaißach is also rich in old farms and craftsmen's houses. They can be found in all districts and mostly date from the 17th and 18th centuries, as do the numerous small chapels. In 1998, across from the church, the war memorial was erected in honor of those who fell in the Franco-German War and the two world wars.

Gaißach rectory

To the north-east of Gaißach is the Korona Field , a large, listed prehistoric barrow field . A protected natural monument is also the hedge landscape , long, continuous hedges made of tall bushes and trees that were once built to demarcate the grazing areas. The hedge landscape extends south to Lenggries and in the east mostly to the mountain properties (meadows / mountain pastures) also known as Traten . This landscape can be overlooked from the Sonntagrats , a hill ( Schürfenkopf , 1096 m) on the way to the Rechelkopf.

On the northern border of Gaißach there is a small plague cross made of tuff stone. It was installed there after the Thirty Years War . Back then, when the plague raged in the area, people from Tölz wanted to make a pilgrimage to the Gaißach St. Michael Church (Bittgang). However, they were driven back halfway by angry Gaissachers, who feared infection, with pitchforks and flails. Irony of fate: Tölz was not hit as hard by the plague as Gaißach, which was almost completely depopulated. However, the Gaissachers later erected this cross as atonement for their hardness of heart. Approx. In 1985 the old cross was exchanged for a new one due to severe weathering. The original is in the Gaißach town hall.

Soil monuments

economy

Gaißach has remained an independent municipality to this day, in which agriculture and forestry are firmly anchored. Nevertheless, tourism is also becoming more and more important, which is why there are numerous offers, accommodation and inns in this regard.

traffic

Bundesstrasse 13 and Bundesstrasse 472
Holzkirchen – Lenggries railway line , Gaißach and Obergries stops .
Bus routes of the Regionalverkehr Oberbayern (RVO)

Public facilities

Healthcare

Specialist clinic Gaißach of the German Pension Insurance Bavaria South , rehabilitation clinic for chronically ill children, adolescents and young adults. The specialist areas include diseases of the respiratory tract, skin and metabolism, as well as gastrointestinal diseases and obesity.

Educational institutions

Elementary and middle school Gaißach
Kindergarten St. Michael

View of the Gaißacher corridor

Offices

Town hall and municipal administration in Mühl
Catholic parish office St. Michael in the parish association Gaißach-Greiling-Reichersbeuern in village
Evang. Parish office Bad Tölz

Leisure and sports facilities

Ski lift
Sports field in Obergries (of the SC Gaißach ) with soccer field, asphalt track for stick shooters, natural ice stadium
Shooting range (air rifle, air pistol and small caliber)

Events and festivals

Putting up the maypole
Corpus Christi procession
Church patronage (September 29th) "Michaelmas"
Solid Fat ( cruel ball , straw shooting, Tequilaboi, Schnabler- / annoyance Ball)
"Back international Schnablerrennen ". A fun race with so-called “Schnablern” (large horn sledges ) that takes place during the carnival season (since 1928) when there is enough snow . The Schnabler drive near the district of Lehen, down the Rechelkopf through the forest and on the last stretch on the open slope should jump with the sledge over a natural bump that serves as a ski jump to the finish (where it usually crashes and the vehicles break) . The disguised drivers (partly also sleds) should drive the race as fast, original and spectacular as possible. The drivers of the sledges must be locals, foreigners are only allowed as co-drivers (only two drivers in total). This race is a real crowd puller and made Gaißach known nationwide. The Schnablerrennen has been taking place in its current form since the post-war period.

Personalities

Caspar Haslinger (1858–1921), also called Lexenkaspar, Bavarian Wildschütz
Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski (1899–1966), Olympic champion in dressage and major general, died in Gaißach
Lotte Neumann (1896–1977), German actress, screenwriter and producer, died in Gaißach
Leonhard Pföderl (* 1993), German national ice hockey player and silver medalist at the 2018 Winter Olympics , from Gaißach
Gerhard Waldherr (* 1960), award-winning journalist, publicist and book author, from Gaißach