Gaurettersheim

Gaurettersheim Bütthard market Coordinates: 49 ° 35 ′ 42 " N , 9 ° 55 ′ 10" E
Height :	292 m
Incorporation :	January 1, 1972
Incorporated into:	Butthard
Postal code :	97244
Area code :	09336

Gaurettersheim is a district of the Markt Bütthard in the Lower Franconian district of Würzburg .

Geographical location

Gaurettersheim is located in the far east of the Bütthard municipality on the Insinger Bach. To the north is Höttingen , further to the northeast the area of the municipality of Giebelstadt begins with the district of Euerhausen . In the east, separated by federal highway 19 , is Sächsenheim as part of the community of Sonderhofen . In the south is Tiefenthal . The area of the municipality of Igersheim in the Main-Tauber district of Baden-Württemberg begins with Simmringen in the southwest . To the west lies Bütthard.

history

Gaurettersheim was already an important ecclesiastical base for the communities in the area in the Romanesque period. In the place of today's parish church there was a central building , which was first mentioned in 1294. According to a legend , Gaurettersheim, Grünsfeldhausen and Oberwittighausen were created by a giant whose supposed rib is still kept in today's church. In 1972 the place became part of the municipality of Bütthard.

Attractions

The center of the village is the Catholic parish church of St. Michael. The current building dates back to the second half of the 19th century and was built as a hall with a retracted tower. The tower attached to the west ends with a pyramid roof . Originally the church was surrounded by fortifications. The cemetery is located near the church. The former rectory is a baroque building from the 18th century in the middle of the village.

Other buildings in the village have been preserved from the 18th and 19th centuries. Already in the 18th century the place lived from agriculture, the partly two-story buildings testify to a certain wealth of the inhabitants. Several wayside shrines and small memorials in the village and its surroundings can mostly be traced back to private donors.

Personalities

Adalbert Ludwig Balling (* 1933 in Gaurettersheim), missionary and author

literature

Christian Will: Greetings from the communities around Würzburg . Würzburg 1983.

Individual evidence

^ Will, Christian: Greetings from the communities around Würzburg . P. 16.

[1] Will, Christian: Greetings from the communities around Würzburg . P. 16.