Gailbach

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Gailbach
Independent city of Aschaffenburg
Former coat of arms of the municipality
Coordinates: 49 ° 56 ′ 48 ″  N , 9 ° 12 ′ 18 ″  E
Height : approx. 220  (194–391)  m above sea level NHN
Residents : 1714  (December 31, 2018)
Incorporation : April 1, 1975
Postal code : 63743
Area code : 06021

Gailbach (local pronunciation: [ gɑːlmɪʃ ]) is a district of the independent city of Aschaffenburg with 1714 inhabitants (December 31, 2018) and belongs to the administrative district of Lower Franconia in the Free State of Bavaria in the Federal Republic of Germany .

geography

The district borders in the north on the community Haibach and its district Dörrmorsbach in the district of Aschaffenburg ; in the south to the district of Soden in the market town of Sulzbach am Main in the district of Miltenberg , to the forest department Weißberg, which, unlike the illustration "Stadtgliederung" in Wikipedia Aschaffenburg, does not belong to the district of Gailbach, but to the district of Schweinheim, and extends there to the Söder oak. In the southwest, Gailbach borders along the edge of the forest and with its sports fields on the Reichenbacher Wald forest department and, up to the observation tower on the Stengerts, on the Salzlacke forest department, which belongs to the Schweinheim district. To the west, Gailbach borders the Scheidgraben forest department and the forest district VI Elterwald of the Schweinheim district . The district is traversed by the Gailbach of the same name . The highest peak is that of the Findberg at approx. 355 m above sea level. NN. Also in the municipal area, below the Pfaffenberg transmitter, at 391.477 m, is the highest point in the Aschaffenburg city area.

history

Gailbach (excerpt from the Pfinzigatlas 1594)
New Matthew Church

Neolithic finds suggest an early settlement. Gailbach was first mentioned on March 28, 1262 in a necrology from the St. Peter and Alexander monastery . A documentary record is proven for 1284. The name changed from Galinbach , Gauelbach , Geuelbach and Gauwelnbach , in 1325 to Geuwelinbach , 1784 to Gaulbach and 1812 to Gailbach . The name Geilbach appears for the first time on a map in 1575, followed by Gaylenbach in the Jurisdictionalbuch of the Vicedomamt Aschaffenburg from 1624. At the end of the Electorate of Mainz Gailbach belonged to the district bailiwick Schweinheim of the Vizedomamt Aschaffenburg, which had its seat in Aschaffenburg.

In 1812 Gailbach had 41 fireplaces and 230 souls (residents) and was part of the Schweinheim district fair in the Aschaffenburg department of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt. Maire was Peter Hasenstab, adjunct Johann Roth, school teacher Joseph Hornung.

After the transfer to the Crown of Bavaria, Gailbach belonged to the district court of Aschaffenburg, which was established on October 1, 1814. In 1830 Gailbach had 308 residents who lived in 41 houses. It had a school and was a branch of the Schweinheim parish. With the district court of Aschaffenburg, Gailbach came to the district office of Aschaffenburg in 1862, which from 1939 was called the district of Aschaffenburg.

After the Second World War , numerous expellees came to Gailbach. The population rose in a few years from approx. 800 to 1,100. In 1970 the road connecting the Sulzbach district of Soden was opened to traffic (Weißbergstraße, or district road MIL 30). Before the incorporation, the main street was renamed "Aschaffenburger -" and "Dörrmorsbacher Straße", and in 1975 "Ohmbachgasse" was renamed "Waldackerstraße". As part of the municipal reform, the municipality of Gailbach was incorporated into the city of Aschaffenburg on April 1, 1975 with 1,367 inhabitants. A city bus route had already existed before. In 2012, on July 14th and 15th, Gailbach celebrated the town's 750th anniversary with a festival mile in Glaserstraße (formerly Friedensstraße) below the gym and the inauguration of a model of the old church.

coat of arms

The formerly independent municipality of Gailbach had a municipal coat of arms: a red-winged, otherwise silver spear divides upright and a silver wavy line divides a red shield lying down. Each of the two upper quarters is adorned with a silver horseshoe.

Worth seeing

  • The half-timbered house Kitz-Haus is a former farm from 1803.
  • New Church of St. Matthew
  • Two-part cave in the forest below Dörrmorsbach

Clubs and culture

Several clubs exist in Gailbach, including

  • the local soccer club Kickers Gailbach
  • the association for local history and culture Gailbach e. V.
  • the Musikverein Gailbach 1923 e. V.
  • the TSV Gailbach 1895 e. V. with the departments of gymnastics, athletics, jiu jitsu, table tennis and wrestling, with Gailbach wrestling in the 2nd Bundesliga.
  • the voluntary fire brigade Gailbach - fire engine 7 of the city of Aschaffenburg
  • the German Scouting Association Sankt Georg (DPSG Gailbach)
  • the hiking club "Wanderlust Gailbach 1930 e. V. "

Personalities

  • Albrecht Velte (born June 17, 1920 - September 14, 1992), mayor from 1965 to 1975
  • Karl Schuck (* October 21, 1922; † September 6, 2009), brush binder, telephone operator, honorary member of the hiking club “Wanderlust Gailbach 1930 e. V. "
  • Gregor Türk (* 1932 in Frickenhausen), pastor in Gailbach since 1966

Oddities

The native Gailbachers are teased by the residents of the surrounding towns and the Aschaffenburg districts, for example by the Haibacher Wellenkippern, Schweinheimer Häffen and the Aschaffenburg cobblers with the joke name "Gailbacher Roebucks" (also dialect: "Gaalmischer Räibeck").

In 1878 the former restaurant Zum green Baum on today's butcher's premises in Aschaffenburger Strasse near Klingertweg was the outermost outpost of the community of Gailbach in the direction of Aschaffenburg. A little above this restaurant was the so-called gold hole in the forest , a mouth hole that also appears in the legend The Shepherd from Findberge and after which a Gailbach restaurant that no longer exists, the Goldloch-Schenke, was named .

The silhouette of the originally conical Findberg and that of the Stengert, viewed from the Aschaffenburg Pompejanum , are said to have reminded King Ludwig I of Bavaria of Vesuvius.

literature

  • Aschaffenburg studies. II. Documentations, Volume 15 - GAILBACH - From the village to the urban district in the green , Ulrike Klotz M. A. and Renate Welsch, compiled by the Gailbacher Bildband working group, publisher: Stadt Aschaffenburg, 2000, ISBN 3-922355-22-6

Web links

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

Village portrait on the homepage of the Heimatverein

The shepherd from the Findberge (legend)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage St. Matthäus, Gailbach -Geschichte- ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.st-matthaeus-gailbach.de
  2. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 733 .