Gaugsham

Gaugsham ( Rotte ) locality
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Braunau am Inn  (BR), Upper Austria
Judicial district	Braunau am Inn
Pole. local community	Altheim   ( KG  Stern )
Coordinates	48 ° 13 '29 "  N , 13 ° 12' 15"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '29 "  N , 13 ° 12' 15"  E
height	379  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	50 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	20 (2001)
Post Code	4950 Altheim
Statistical identification
Locality code	07116
Counting district / district	Altheim area (40401 002)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; DORIS

Gaugsham is a place in Innviertel Upper Austria as well as the village of the municipality Altheim in District Braunau am Inn .

geography

The place is located 12 kilometers southeast of Braunau am Inn and 21 kilometers west of Ried im Innkreis , 3 kilometers southwest of Altheim. The Rotte Gaugsham is located on the southern edge of the Inn Valley and on the western edge of the Innviertel hill country at around 380  m above sea level. A. Höhe, on the north-western edge of the Gaugsham Forest . The Altbach flows through the village from Treubach to the Mühlheimer Ache (Ach) near Altheim.

The village of Gaugsham has around 20 buildings with around 60 residents.

The L1095  Treubacher Straße from Altheim to Treubach leads through the village.

Neighboring towns and cities

Bergham  (O) Weng im Innkreis  (O) (both according to  Weng iI )		Diepolding  (O) Star  (O)
Hainschwang  (O, Gem.  Moosbach )		Lüfteneck  (O)
Chess forest	Am Schachawald (Gem.  Moosbach )	Gaugsham Forest Schalchen ∗  (O, Gem.  Treubach )

^∗ behind the Gaugsham forest

history

The place appears as early as the 12th century when “ Durinc et frater eius Gerrich de Gaugoldesheim, de Gulshemen ” ('Durink and his brother Gerrich von Gaugoldsheim') are mentioned. In 1220 a “ Ulricus de Gouchsheim miles strictuus ” ('Ulrich von Gauchsheim, a capable soldier') is documented. So there was a noble seat here , but it could not be located.

Web links

• 40401 - Altheim. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ According to the spatial division of Nala, the town center is still the Inntal spatial unit , the houses on the Inn and Hausruckviertler Hügelland forest .
2. ^ Elisabeth Bertol-Raffin, Peter Wiesinger, Austrian Academy of Sciences. Commission for Dialectology and Name Research: Place Name Book of the Province of Upper Austria. Volume 1 The place names of the political district Braunau am Inn (southern Innviertel) , Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1989, ISBN 978-3-7001-1672-1 , entry 1.4.11.5 Gaugsham , p. 161.
3. ↑ Codex Traditionum Monasterii Ranshofensis . In:  Upper Austrian document book . Volume 1, No. CXXIX, p. 246 ("Ulricus de Gouchsheim miles strictuus").
4. ^ Norbert Grabherr: Historical-topographical manual of the fortifications and mansions of Upper Austria. Austrian Working Group for Prehistory and Early History: Publications , Volumes 7–8, 1975, p. 3, column 1.
   Information from Gauchsheim . ( Memento of the original from December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. doris.ooe.gv.at, Digital Upper Austrian Culture Atlas (DOKA)