Geilsdorf (Weischlitz)

Geilsdorf community Weischlitz Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 41 ″  N , 12 ° 2 ′ 6 ″  E
Height :	470 m
Area :	5.96 km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1994
Incorporated into:	Burgstein
Postal code :	08538
Area code :	037436
Location of Geilsdorf in Saxony

Geilsdorf is a district of the municipality Weischlitz in the Saxon Vogtlandkreis . On January 1, 1994, it was merged with six other communities to form the Burgstein community. This in turn was incorporated into the large community of Weischlitz on January 1, 2011.

geography

Thermal well Neumühle near Geilsdorf

Location and traffic

Geilsdorf is located in the center of the municipality Weischlitz. The Fly Stream flows through the village and drains into the White Elster via the Kemnitz Stream . While the Kemnitzbach forms the southern corridor boundary, the White Elster delimits the Geilsdorf local corridor in the east. In the northeast of the Geilsdorfer Flur lies the hamlet of Laneckhaus , in the southeast of the corridor at the confluence of the flies brook into the Kemnitz brook the Neumühle with the artesian geyser (thermal spring).

The federal motorway 72 runs southeast of Geilsdorf over the Elstertal bridge . In the eastern corridor of Geilsdorf, the Plauen – Cheb railway runs without stopping. Train stations are in Weischlitz and Pirk. Geilsdorf is located in the west of the Vogtlandkreis and in the Saxon part of the historic Vogtland . Geographically, the place is in the center of the natural area Vogtland ( Central Vogtland Kuppenland ).

Neighboring places

	Unterweischlitz	Oberweischlitz
Disappearance		Pirk
Ruderitz	Großzöbern with Kleinzöbern

history

Geilsdorf, moated castle from the northeast

Geilsdorf Church

In the Middle Ages there were three castle complexes in the corridor of Geilsdorf , of which only remains are left today. The first, Laneckhaus Castle in the northeastern corridor on the west bank of the White Elster, was mentioned in 1267. It was owned by the von Straßberg bailiffs . Today only the remains of a section of trench have been preserved. At the address Laneckhaus you can find a house with a surrounding tree from 1639. The second castle in Geilsdorfer Flur was Schöneckere Castle . This hilltop castle was located on a spur between the valleys of the Kemnitzbach and the White Elster. From Castle Schöneckere there are tower and house remains in addition to the castle path. The third medieval castle in Geilsdorfer Flur was called Castle Schwedenschanze . The wall, the well and the moat have been preserved from her. The Raßla or Roßla desert in Geilsdorfer Flur is said to be connected to the Schwedenschanze weir system .

The place Geilsdorf was first mentioned in 1328 by the German House in Plauen . The place name has the meaning: "Village of a Geilo" (council). In the same year a knight's seat was named in Geilsdorf that was owned by the von Sack zu Geilsdorf family . Until the second half of the 16th century, the influence of this family increased in the Burgstein area and in the Vogtland through the acquisition of lands. The Geilsdorf manor came to Hans Wilhelm von Geilsdorf in 1574 , to the von Reitzenstein family in 1578 and to Count Siegmund von Tattenbach in 1668 . Around 1667/1668 Geilsdorf Castle was built by him in place of a moated castle in the center of Geilsdorf northeast of the manor, which already existed in the 12th century. Alterations were made to the building as early as 1719. From 1725 Geilsdorf Castle was owned by the von Nauendorff family . The manor house of the manor was built in 1850. After the castle, which was in need of renovation, was no longer used from 1866, it increasingly fell into disrepair. The moat was filled and the bridge demolished. Large parts of the castle collapsed in 1910. The west tower had collapsed earlier. Only the northern of the four corner towers and the northeastern part of the moat have been preserved. Walter Naumann took over the entire property in 1920 before moving to the city of Plauen in 1928. In 1933 the mansion housed workers who were busy building the motorway south of the village.

Mining was carried out in Geilsdorf in the 18th and 19th centuries. The mining areas were mainly on the Eichelberg in the southern corridor, a small deposit on the Deichselberg in the northeastern corridor. At Eichelberg, iron ore and copper ore were mined in the pits “Simon-Peter-Flacher”, “Engel-Gabriel-Flacher”, “Zwei-Brüder-Flacher”, “Hope Gottes”, “Wilhelm”, “Friedrich” and “Gang” Karlstein ”operated. The Deichselberg Fundgrube and the Jacob Fundgrube, in which iron and copper were also mined, were located on the Deichselberg.

Regarding the manorial rule , the place Geilsdorf belonged to the manor Geilsdorf in the Electoral Saxon or royal Saxon office of Plauen until 1856 . Geilsdorf has had its own church since 1487. It was created at the request of the von Sack gentlemen in Geilsdorf. With the implementation of the Reformation in Vogtland and the associated rejection of the Catholic pilgrimage practice, the decline of the double church complex on the neighboring Burgstein began. In 1540, the Saxon Elector Johann Friedrich ordered the demolition of both Burgstein sacred buildings, which were not completely demolished but left to decay. The members of the Burgstein parish were referred to the church in the neighboring village of Geilsdorf. A bell cast in 1506 in Geilsdorf is said to come from these churches. Today's church in Geilsdorf dates from 1832/1834.

In 1856 Geilsdorf was affiliated to the Plauen court office and in 1875 to the Plauen administration . In the process of land reform in the Soviet Occupation Zone from 1945 the manor Geilsdorf was in a state owned property converted. The manor house was initially used as accommodation for resettlers until it served as a nursing home from 1950. Like the associated manor buildings, it has been empty since 2003.

As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , the municipality of Geilsdorf became part of the Plauen-Land district in the Chemnitz district in 1952 (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ). During exploratory drillings by SDAG Wismut near Neumühle in the southern Geilsdorf town hall in 1960/1961, artesian water was encountered in an open cleft at a depth of 771 m. The water shot out of the borehole with an overpressure of 50 m above the terrain. Due to its temperature of 25 ° C, the mineralized water is classified as thermal water . The only thermal spring in the Vogtland was placed under protection as a natural monument in 1962. After the spring dried up in the early 1990s, it has been bubbling up 1.5 m since 2003 after the blockage in the borehole was cleared.

From 1990 Geilsdorf belonged to the Saxon district of Plauen. On January 1, 1994, the community of Geilsdorf merged with six other communities to form Burgstein , which got its name from the Burgstein mountain with its two church ruins. This belonged to the Vogtlandkreis since 1996. Since the incorporation of the municipality of Burgstein into the larger municipality of Weischlitz, Geilsdorf has been part of Weischlitz since January 1, 2011.

Attractions

• Manor and castle ruins Geilsdorf
• Geilsdorf Church
• Barrows and ravines in the parish wood
• The only thermal fountain in the Vogtland near Neumühle
• Schafbrücke, natural stone bridge built in 1652 over the Kemnitzbach with two 350-year-old oaks nearby
• Stone cross on the Zöberner Weg
• "Lower Kemnitztal" nature reserve
• Pingen and ore mines from the old mine on Eichelberg
• Laneckhaus, 1639 built Umgebindehaus

Web links

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

Wikisource: Manors and castles in the kingdom of Saxony: Geilsdorf  - sources and full texts

• Geilsdorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Geilsdorf on the website of the community Weischlitz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Laneckhaus Castle at www.sachsens-schlösser.de
2. ↑ Schöneckere Castle at www.sachsens-schlösser.de
3. ↑ The Schwedenschanze castle on www.sachsens-schlösser.de
4. ↑ Raßla in historical digital gazetteer of Saxony
5. ↑ Geilsdorf Castle at www.sachsens-schlösser.de
6. ↑ Old mining around Geilsdorf at www.vogtlandmineralien.de
7. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 76 f.
8. ↑ Martina Bundszus, New documents on the old castle stone - A pilgrimage church complex in the field of tension between territorial interests . In: The Vogtland. Text on the culture and history of the Vogtland, issue 2006, Plauen 2006, pp. 9–57. ISBN 3-928828-37-1 . - Martina Bundszus, more about the Burgstein. An addendum to the article "New documents on the old castle stone - a pilgrimage church complex in the field of tension between territorial interests"; (Issue 3/2006) . In: das Vogtland, text on culture and history of the Vogtland, issue 2009, Plauen 2009, pp. 30–35. ISBN 978-3-928828-48-2 .
9. ^ The Plauen District Administration in the municipality register 1900
10. ↑ Geilsdorf on gov.genealogy.net
11. ^ Burgstein on gov.genealogy.net