Geislingen am Kocher
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Geislingen am Kocher
Municipality Braunsbach
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| Height : | 251 m |
| Residents : | 360 |
| Incorporation : | February 1, 1972 |
| Postal code : | 74542 |
| Area code : | 07906 |
Geislingen am Kocher is a district of the municipality Braunsbach in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in northern Baden-Württemberg .
Geographical location
The village of Geislingen is located in the deeply cut shell limestone valley of the Kocher to the right of the river at the mouth of its largest tributary, the Bühler . The district also includes the noticeably smaller hamlets of Bühlerzimmer on the left and Hergershof on the right on the Hohenlohe plain above the Bühlertal cut-off, both of which are around 150 meters above the main town.
Geislingen is traversed by the K 2557, which joins the L 1045 running through the Kochertal a little below the village and joins the L 2218 on this side on the left slope of the Bühlertal valley to the southeast , via which the Bühlerzimmer can be reached. In Geislingen, the K 2556 branches off the county road, which leads up to Hergershof and also joins the L 2218 at Wolpertshausen above the Bühlertalsteig on the right. In the not particularly narrow Bühlertal, there is only one farm road to Cröffelbach .
Less than 1 km north and downstream of the village straddles the high Kochertalbrücke the A6 the Kocher.
description
The village of Geislingen has a good 50 house numbers, a parish church of St. Veit and an inn. On the west side it is protected against the lowest Bühler and the Kocher along its entire length by a flood dam. The old town center with partly winding streets is in the south, in the 20th century the town expanded a little to the north along the two district streets. The entire district currently (2020) has around 360 inhabitants.
history
Geislingen am Kocher used to be an important place on the Nuremberg – Paris road, through which every trader had to travel at the time. Up on the mountain spur in the sharp confluence between Kochertal and Bühlertal, hidden in the forest behind limestone quarries that have been abandoned for a long time, lies the ruins of the Löwenburg , presumably from the Hohenstaufen era , of which, however, little more than the neck ditch and a mound of rubble can be seen.
On February 1, 1972 Geislingen formed the new community Braunsbach together with six other communities.
Others
The museum for bridge construction and archaeological finds in the village are worth seeing - when the Kochertal bridge was built , fossils of dinosaurs were found - and the church of St. Vitus.
The partner location is Ehringsdorf , a district of the city of Weimar in Germany.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population according to the Geislingen history page . In: www.braunsbach.de. Retrieved April 16, 2020 .
- ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 456 .
Web links
- Map of the village of Geislingen and its surroundings on: State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( information )
- Map of the village of Geislingen and its surroundings on: Geoportal Baden-Württemberg ( information )
- Measuring table sheet 6824 Hall from 1930 in the Deutsche Fotothek