Gelsdorf (county)

Gelsdorf Union Free Parish County Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 59 ″ N , 7 ° 1 ′ 59 ″ E
Height :	214 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.39 km²
Residents :	1404 (Oct. 30, 2013)
Population density :	150 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	March 16, 1974
Postal code :	53501
Area code :	02225
Location of Gelsdorf in Rhineland-Palatinate
	View of Gelsdorf from the Grafschaft industrial park

Gelsdorf is a district in the municipality of Grafschaft in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Ahrweiler . The place has 1404 inhabitants. This makes Gelsdorf the second largest single town in the Grafschaft municipality after Lantershofen .

geography

The village is located on the south-eastern edge of the Voreifel on the extreme southern edge of the Lower Rhine Bay and on the northern edge of the county of Grafschaft. In the northwest, Gelsdorf borders on Meckenheim (North Rhine-Westphalia).

Gelsdorf (Grafschaft), aerial photo (2015)

Catholic parish church of St. Walburgis

history

The place Gelsdorf was first mentioned in the year 846, when Emperor Lothar I. the Prüm monastery donated farmland to "Gelichesdorp" in Eifelgau. In a document from the year 877, Emperor Karl der Kahle confirmed the ownership of the "church, wineries and land in Gefwaldasthorp " to the St. Omer monastery and the St. Bertin monastery . In 1014, Queen Richeza donated lands in Gelsdorf to the Brauweiler monastery, among other goods .

Around 1200, a local nobility had formed with the "Lords of Gelsdorf", to which St. Omer and St. Bertin transferred the office of mayor and tithe rights. At the same time (around 1220) the Gelsdorf moated castle was built as the center of the goods, which comprised 360 acres .

In 1359, Emperor Charles IV granted Gelsdorf town charter , which was not carried out with regard to the urban administrative structures (mayor, town council, aldermen) and building measures (town walls) that were already common at the time.

Until 1382 the village and castle Gelsdorf were part of the county of Neuenahr .

On March 16, 1974 Gelsdorf was incorporated into the new municipality of Grafschaft.

politics

District

Gelsdorf is one of eleven local districts in the county of Grafschaft. It is represented by a local council and a local mayor .

Local advisory board

The local council consists of seven members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the local advisory board:

choice	SPD	CDU	Green	FWG ¹	total
2019	1	3	1	2	7 seats
2014	1	4th	-	2	7 seats
2009	1	5	-	1	7 seats

¹ Free group of voters

Mayor

Andreas Ackermann ( CDU ) became the mayor of Gelsdorf in 2010. In the runoff election on June 16, 2019, he was confirmed in office for a further five years with a share of the vote of 52.68%, after none of the original three applicants had achieved a sufficient majority in the direct election on May 26, 2019.

Ackermann's predecessor as mayor was Hermann-Josef Linden (CDU) from 1978 until his death († October 10, 2009). On March 7, 2010, Andreas Ackermann (CDU) was elected as the new mayor.

Culture and sights

Gelsdorf Castle

Gelsdorf Castle, mansion

Gelsdorf Castle is a small manor, built in 1766 by Konstantin von Gruben on the site of a 13th century castle. Vaults and a Romanesque column have been preserved from this on the garden level. The address "Burghof" is reminiscent of the old castle. After an eventful history, the facility from the 18th century was restored or rebuilt in the 1980s to 1990s and divided into different residential units. The property is privately owned.

Regular events

Every year on the penultimate weekend in October, the days of open farms and businesses take place in Gelsdorf . Guests from all over Germany and from neighboring European countries come to the small village. Farmers, farmers, craftsmen and the companies in the industrial park introduce themselves and their professions from then until now. One of the annual classics is a large old tractor meeting. World-famous specialty and delicacy is Grafschafter Goldsaft , which is produced in Meckenheim from local sugar beet. Gelsdorf is also known for the cultivation of plantation fruit.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The federal motorway 61 runs northeast of the village . The federal highway 565 begins south of Gelsdorf, as a continuation of the federal highway 257 . The next train station is Meckenheim (Bz Köln) ( Voreifelbahn Bonn - Euskirchen - Bad Münstereifel , course book route 475). Bus routes of the Rhein-Mosel transport association connect Gelsdorf with Bad Neuenahr, Remagen, Meckenheim and Rheinbach.

Business park

The 45 hectare Gelsdorf business park currently has 1,400 jobs and is an international location thanks to its good connection to the 565 federal motorway and Cologne / Bonn Airport .

armed forces

Since August 2007, the Strategic Reconnaissance Command (KdoStrat Aufkl or KSA) has been stationed in the Gelsdorf industrial park , which emerged from the Bundeswehr Intelligence Center (ZNBw). On October 8, 2009, the then Federal Minister of Defense , Franz Josef Jung ( CDU ), named the property “ Philipp-Freiherr-von-Boeselager- Barracks” after the Nazi resistance fighter who died in 2008 . Since their respective establishment, the Central Imaging Enlightenment (ZAbbAufkl), the "Center Counter-Improvised Explosive Devices Operations Command of the Bundeswehr" (Center C-IED EinsFüKdoBw) and the Bundeswehr Fire Brigade Grafschaft (BwFeuerw Grafschaft) have been stationed on the property as independent agencies .

education

The St. Walburga Catholic kindergarten and the Gelsdorf elementary school are located on Grünstraße .

Sons and daughters of Gelsdorf

Anton Raaff (1714–1797), opera singer (tenor)
Mathias Joseph Prior (1870–1946), Catholic theologian, secret secretary of the Trier bishop Michael Felix Korum , builder of the Saardome in Dillingen / Saar

Web links

Commons : Gelsdorf - Collection of Images

official homepage
Parish county
When Cheops greeted the county , accessed March 18, 2014.
Literature about Gelsdorf in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

↑ Population statistics for the municipality of Grafschaft, as of October 30, 2013.
^ ^A ^b ^c Johann Friedrich Schannat: Eiflia illustrata or geographical and historical description of the Eifel . tape 3 , 1852, p. 494 ( google books [accessed February 25, 2015]).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Willy Gebhard: The Lords of Gelsdorf . In: District Ahrweiler (Ed.): Heimatjahrbucharchiv . Heimatjahrbuch 1970, p. 75 ( online [accessed February 25, 2015]).
↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 164 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
^ Main statute of the county county. (PDF) § 2 and 3. Gemeinde Grafschaft, June 18, 2019, accessed on August 2, 2020 .
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2019 Gelsdorf. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council Election 2014 Gelsdorf. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2009 Gelsdorf. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Grafschaft, non-association municipality, seventh row of results. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
↑ Axel Bend: local council election in Gelsdorf. SPD Grafschaft, accessed August 2, 2020 .
↑ Mayor Hermann-Josef Linden died. Grafschaft-Gelsdorf district, October 10, 2009, accessed on August 2, 2020 .
↑ Volker Jost: Model for striving for freedom. In: Bonner Rundschau. October 8, 2009, accessed on April 24, 2017 (newspaper report on the naming of the barracks).
↑ Location database of the Bundeswehr

[1] Population statistics for the municipality of Grafschaft, as of October 30, 2013.

[eiflia-2] A ^b ^c Johann Friedrich Schannat: Eiflia illustrata or geographical and historical description of the Eifel . tape 3 , 1852, p. 494 ( google books [accessed February 25, 2015]).

[gebhard-3] Willy Gebhard: The Lords of Gelsdorf . In: District Ahrweiler (Ed.): Heimatjahrbucharchiv . Heimatjahrbuch 1970, p. 75 ( online [accessed February 25, 2015]).

[4] Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 164 (PDF; 2.8 MB).

[Hauptsatzung-5] Main statute of the county county. (PDF) § 2 and 3. Gemeinde Grafschaft, June 18, 2019, accessed on August 2, 2020 .

[6] The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2019 Gelsdorf. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .

[7] The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council Election 2014 Gelsdorf. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .

[8] The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2009 Gelsdorf. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .

[9] The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Grafschaft, non-association municipality, seventh row of results. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .

[10] Axel Bend: local council election in Gelsdorf. SPD Grafschaft, accessed August 2, 2020 .

[11] Mayor Hermann-Josef Linden died. Grafschaft-Gelsdorf district, October 10, 2009, accessed on August 2, 2020 .

[12] Volker Jost: Model for striving for freedom. In: Bonner Rundschau. October 8, 2009, accessed on April 24, 2017 (newspaper report on the naming of the barracks).

[13] Location database of the Bundeswehr