Gauersheim

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 40 '  N , 8 ° 4'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Donnersbergkreis
Association municipality :	Kirchheimbolanden
Height :	205 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.25 km 2
Residents:	660 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	126 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67294
Area code :	06355
License plate :	KIB, ROK
Community key :	07 3 33 022
Association administration address:	Neue Allee 2 67292 Kirchheimbolanden
Website :	kirchheimbolanden.de
Local Mayor :	Pure Schlesser
Location of the local community Gauersheim in the Donnersbergkreis

The townscape of Gauersheim with the Protestant church

Gauersheim is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Kirchheimbolanden community .

location

The local community is located in the Alzeyer hill country , which in turn is part of the Rheinhessen table and hill country , within the so-called Ilbesheimer plateau . The Hungerberg range of hills, up to 302 meters high, extends to the west of the municipality . The Leiselsbach runs right through the settlement area ; there he takes up the ditch from the right . Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Stetten , Albisheim , Marnheim , Bolanden , Kirchheimbolanden , Bischheim and Rittersheim .

history

Prehistory and early history

The prehistoric and early historical finds are limited to Neolithic tools and Roman fragments.

Early middle ages

Gauersheim is a Franconian foundation from the sixth or seventh century, as the place name indicates. This ends - as is typical with Franconian foundings - in -heim , preceded by the Franconian first name Gawirich , which can be translated as Gawirich's home . Gauersheim first belonged to Wormsgau , then to Nahegau (county) . The first written evidence can be found with the spelling Gouurichesheim in a deed of a gift from Emperor Ludwig the Pious to the Prüm monastery in the Eifel and dates to the year 835. Viticulture has been documented since 893 .

High and late Middle Ages

Around 1200 the Counts of Leiningen were the fiefs of the Prüm / Eifel monastery ; the Rhine Counts as fiefdoms of the Archbishop of Mainz and the Bolander with rights and property in Gauersheim. The local knights of Gauersheim are mentioned in documents between 1222 and 1447. In the 14th century and also in 1409 the Wildgraves had sovereignty. Then the village fell to the Knights of Oberstein , next to whom the Knights of Steben von Einselthum established themselves in the course of the 15th century .

Modern times

After the childless Friedrich Steben von Einselthum died on March 12, 1549 as a result of a riding accident, his cousin, Hans IX, inherited. from Wallbrunn to Partenheim, all rights of the Steben von Einselthum in Gauersheim. In 1614 the Lords of Wallbrunn bought the rights of the Obersteiners and thus acquired the local rule, which they held until the end of the 18th century.

After 1792 French revolutionary troops occupied the region and annexed it after the Peace of Campo Formio (1797) . From 1798 to 1814 the village belonged to the French department of Donnersberg and was assigned to the canton of Kirchheim . Until his death in 1805, the last Baron functioned from Wallbrunn from the Partenheimer line, who resided in Gauersheim, as its mayor (mayor). In 1815 the place had a total of 488 inhabitants.

Due to the agreements reached at the Congress of Vienna (1815) and an exchange contract with Austria , the region became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 . From 1818 the community of Gauersheim was assigned to the Kirchheim Land Commissioner in the Bavarian Rhine District, later to the Kirchheimbolanden District Office.

From 1939 the place was part of the Kirchheimbolanden district . After the Second World War , Gauersheim became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . In the course of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate , Gauersheim moved to the newly formed Donnersbergkreis in 1969 ; three years later, the community was incorporated into the also newly created community of Kirchheimbolanden .

religion

The Catholics belong to the Diocese of Speyer and are subordinate to the Donnersberg deanery , the Evangelicals to the Protestant Church of the Palatinate . The local Protestant pastor is also responsible for Ilbesheim .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Gauersheim consists of twelve council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote, and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

mayor

The local mayor is Reiner Schlesser. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office with 57.10 Gauersheim percent of the vote.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In silver, a gold-nimbed Mother of God with the likewise gold-nimbed child on her arm, in red undergarment and blue upper garment, holding two coats of arms, on the right in silver a red lion turned left, on the left in blue three silver diamonds." It was awarded in 1928 by the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior .
	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms goes back to a seal from 1779, which already showed Mary with the child. In addition, in 1928, at the request of the municipality, the coats of arms of the formerly entitled families von Oberstein (lion) and von Wallbrunn (lozenges) were included.

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

War memorial

→ Main article : List of cultural monuments in Gauersheim

The main street and the Jewish cemetery are both designated as monument zones.

In the center the old roads of cross Worms to Kirchheimbolanden and Alzey to Kaiserslautern . Only with the construction of the Napoleonic Heerstraße , the so-called Kaiserstraße , which led across the nearby Kirchheimbolanden, did Gauersheim lose its importance. Up to the present day, the town center is characterized by a monument zone made up of three four-sided courtyards from the 18th and 19th centuries. Century , the castle , the former office building , the church , the rectory and the former Wallbrunn'sche ban economy with the prayer chamber .

The Jewish cemetery with 108 tombstones from 1770 to 1934 is an important testimony with high documentary value for the Jewish population, as a large number of easily legible inscriptions have been preserved. The older tombstones in the northern part show traditional curly and semicircular ends, the newer stones in the southern part show the adaptation to the Christian burial culture. From 1860 on, historicizing, especially Gothicizing, gravestones with additional German inscriptions predominate. As in Christian cemeteries, a change in material from sandstone to granite can be seen from 1900 onwards.

The listed individual objects include a war memorial, the former fortified church , which is located in the old cemetery, which was abandoned around 1800, the new Christian cemetery with the gravestones of the Lords of Gagern and the Steuerwald family with the electroplating of an angel created around 1900 was founded around 1800 . Then comes the castle of the Lords of Wallbrunn ; the latter is a voluminous, late baroque three-wing complex that was built from 1715 to 1760 over the remains of the moated castle of the Lords of Gauersheim. In 1805, after the death of the last Baron von Wallbrunn, the Barons von Gagern acquired the palace from his Partenheim heirs. The Wallbrunn'sche Bannwirtschaft , whose cellar once served as a bedside room , now functions as a village community center.

nature

There is a plane tree in the castle courtyard , which is classified as a natural monument .

societies

SV Gauersheim , which offers football, exists locally .

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

The Gauersheimer Goldloch location , which is part of the Schnepfenflug area of ​​the Zellertal , is one of the northernmost locations in the Palatinate wine-growing region and is part of its Zellertal sub-unit . Wine is grown on the southern slope of the Leiselsbach on 20 hectares of vines. The Hungerberg wind farm, which was built between 2013 and 2015, is partially located on the municipal marker.

traffic

State road 386 in the north of the district

State road 447 runs through the village . In the center of the village, the district road 61 branches off , which leads to the state road 386 ; the latter touches the extreme east of the municipality marker. A short distance to the west there is a direct connection to the A 63 , which leads from Kaiserslautern to Mainz .

Personalities

• Gustav Magnus von Wallbrunn (1702–1772), was the governor of Baden-Durlach, local lord of Gauersheim
• Karl Christoph Gottlieb von Gagern (1743–1825), baron, French officer and high court official in the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken , last lord of the castle in Gauersheim; lived and died here, tombstone placed in front of the cemetery
• Sascha Kotysch (* 1988), soccer player, played in his youth for the local soccer club

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 15: Donnersbergkreis , Werner'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Worms 1998, p. 292 ff.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Gerald FW Müller, Meeting of the von Wallbrunn families - visit to the residence Gauersheim on June 13, 2009 , Pfaffen-Schwabenheim 2009, p. 1 ff.
4. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: Municipal council election 2019 Gauersheim. Accessed August 31, 2019 . 
5. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Kirchheimbolanden, Verbandsgemeinde, fifth row of results. Accessed August 31, 2019 . 
6. ^ Georg Dehio , Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler , Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1984, ISBN 3-422-00382-7 .

literature

• Literature about Gauersheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Web links

Commons : Gauersheim  - Collection of Images

• Local community Gauersheim on the website of the association community Kirchheimbolanden