Gaiganz
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Gaiganz
Effeltrich municipality
Coordinates: 49 ° 40 ′ 13 ″ N , 11 ° 7 ′ 38 ″ E
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| Height : | 332 m above sea level NHN |
| Residents : | 263 (1987) |
| Postal code : | 91090 |
| Area code : | 09199 |
 The Effeltrich district of Gaiganz
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Gaiganz is one of two officially named districts of the municipality of Effeltrich in the Upper Franconian district of Forchheim .
geography
The church village is located on the western edge of Franconian Switzerland , about three kilometers east-northeast of Effeltrich. It lies at an altitude of 332 m above sea level. NHN in the valley of the Wälenbach , a tributary of the Wiesent .
history
The area around Gaiganz was already settled in the Stone Age. About 800 m northwest of the present-day village center there was a more than three hectares of extensive open air site of the Mesolithic and settlement of the Neolithic period , as archaeological monument is protected. The settlement was built in its current location in the 10th or 11th century. A first written mention was after 1053 in connection with the Weißenohe monastery under the previous name "Geigitz". The oldest surviving components of the Catholic branch church St. Vitus date from the 12th / 13th centuries. Century, the first written mention of 1313. In the 16th and 17th centuries Gaiganz was one of the Jewish communities in Upper Franconia. The church received its baroque appearance during extensions and renovations in the period from 1737 to 1750, its organ is considered to be the oldest in the region. In addition to the church, around half a dozen architectural monuments from the 17th and 18th centuries have been preserved in the old town . See: List of architectural monuments in Gaiganz
In the early modern period, Gaiganz came into the possession of the imperial city of Nuremberg and formed an exclave of its land until the end of its existence. After that, the place became a rural municipality through the administrative reforms in the Kingdom of Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century .
The Bavarian original cadastre names Gaiganz in the 1810s as a cluster village with 27 hearths; the Walienbach was dammed into a 1500 m² pond , which is now filled in and overbuilt.
During the Nazi era , the community gained some attention through the Gaiganz murder . In the course of the municipal territorial reform in Bavaria in the 1970s, Gaiganz was incorporated into the municipality of Effeltrich on May 1, 1978. In 1987 Gaiganz had 263 inhabitants.
traffic
The connection to the public road network is mainly made by the state road 2242 , which comes from the west-south-west of Effeltrich through the town and continues in a north-easterly direction to Kunreuth . A communal road branches off from this road, which connects Gaiganz with the village of Ermreus , about a kilometer to the east .
literature
- Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 .
Web links
- Gaiganz in BayernViewer (accessed on September 12, 2018)
- Gaiganz on a historical map (accessed September 12, 2018)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of Gaiganz ( 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. (accessed on September 12, 2018)
- ↑ Gaiganz in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (accessed on September 12, 2018)
- ↑ Geographical location of Gaiganz in the BayernAtlas (accessed on September 12, 2018)
- ↑ a b LfD list for Effeltrich (.pdf)
- ↑ Archive for History and Archeology of Upper Franconia, Volume 3
- ↑ St. Vitus
- ^ Jewish cemeteries
- ↑ a b Gscheitgut
- ↑ Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 . Page 33
- ↑ Gaiganz on BayernAtlas Klassik
- ^ 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. 684 .
