Gerbershausen

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′  N , 9 ° 59 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Eichsfeld
Management Community :	Hanstein-Rusteberg
Height :	290 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.55 km 2
Residents:	592 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	78 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	37318
Area code :	036081
License plate :	EIC, HIG, WBS
Community key :	16 0 61 036
Association administration address:	Steingraben 49 37318 Hohengandern
Website :	www.gerbershausen.de
Mayor :	Johannes Döring ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Gerbershausen in the Eichsfeld district

View over Gerbershausen

View of the village of Gerbershausen in Eichsfeld

Gerbershausen is a municipality in the Eichsfeld district in Thuringia . It belongs to the Hanstein-Rusteberg administrative community . The district of Rothenbach belongs to the community .

location

Gerbershausen is located in the west of the Eichsfeld district in a valley between the heights of the Höifteges (with the Teufelskanzel : 452 m) in the southwest and the Upper Eichsfeld (with the Hennefeste: 446 m and the Hamelsberg: 421 m) in the northeast. The valley around Gerbershausen itself belongs to the Fretteröder Keupersenke . The Geibbach rises in the locality , together with the Kälberbach , which flows into the Steinsbach, a branch of the Leine, near Oberstein. Neighboring towns are Bornhagen in the west, Arenshausen in the north and Fretterode in the southeast. The place is connected via the state road 1002 to the federal road 80 south of Hohengandern .

history

The name "Gerwardeshusen" was mentioned in Aloys Schmidt's document book as early as 997. But this is demonstrably not the local Gerbershausen. For a long time it was assumed that it was first mentioned in documents in 1120, because Wenck's document book from 1789 contains the following tradition: "In 1120 the noble Mrs. Lucia gave 2 Hufen land in Gerwardeshuson to the Helmarshausen monastery." This year was adopted in their works not only by G. Reischel, but also by Walter Rassow and Johann Wolf.

As far as we know from March 2017, the two above-mentioned localities are not the current Eichsfeld village of Gerbershausen. Hartmut Hoffmann deals in his book "Helmarshausen und Corvey" with the monastery Helmarshausen and its surroundings. He found out that the Gerwardeshuson, which appears in the donation of Lady Lucia, is a desert near Friedland. Niels Petersen from the University of Göttingen also confirms this in his work, which appeared in 2018. As early as 1956, Walter Prochaska spoke in his "Eichsfelder Heimatbuch" of a secure documentary mention of the village of Gerbershausen in 1221 . Archbishop Siegfried II of Mainz confirms in document no. 213 on November 11, 1221 the possessions of the Beuren monastery. Gerwardishuen is mentioned in 1221 when a certain Heinrich Hessone von Rosdorf received goods from Beuren in exchange for possessions located elsewhere.

The year 1221 is therefore considered to be the guaranteed date of the first documentary mention .

As an Electoral Mainz fiefdom, Gerbershausen gradually came to the Lords of Hanstein between 1348 and 1443 . Rothenbach , located in the immediate vicinity, belonged to the Hanstein family as early as 1362 as a Hessian fief. After the village of Rothenbach was given up, they built an estate there in the 16th century. From 1578 to 1771 the place was also the seat of the general court of Hanstein. In 1771 the seat of the court was moved to Wahlhausen. After the Reformation, the Protestant pastors Johann Kramer (1585) and Georg Holzmann (1594) are mentioned in Gerbershausen, and in the 17th century a Catholic pastor is appointed by the Eichsfeld Episcopal Commissariat .

The place was part of Kurmainz until the secularization and from 1802 to 1945 part of the Prussian province of Saxony and in the meantime belonged to the Kingdom of Westphalia from 1806 to 1813. From 1945 Gerbershausen was part of the Soviet occupation zone and from 1949 the GDR . From 1961 until the turnaround and reunification in 1989/1990, the place was near the inner German border in the restricted area . Since 1990 the place belongs to the re-established state of Thuringia.

Noble family von Gerbershausen

In the 14th and 15th centuries, a noble family can be traced in Gerbershausen. In 1362 the von Gerbershausen family gave their castle (house) and all their possessions to Archbishop Gerlach of Mainz and received them back as a man fief. It is not documented when the noble family died out. Representatives of the noble family are:

• Konrad von Gerbershausen (Gerwordeshausen) (1362) with his sons Konrad, Hermann, Syman, Hans and Dyle
• Kurt von Gerbershausen (1363)
• Tile von Gerbershausen (1443) sells his Vorwerk in Gerbershausen to Heinrich von Hanstein
• Engelhard and Tile von Gerbershausen (1486) are enfeoffed with goods in Martinfeld by Landgrave Wilhelm von Hessen (whether Thilo von Gewershausen, who was mentioned in 1452, can be assigned to the local noble family is not certain)

Population development

Development of the population (December 31) :

1994: 686 1995: 687 1996: 685 1997: 713 1998: 729 1999: 720

2000: 726 2001: 718 2002: 698 2003: 693 2004: 695 2005: 680

2006: 679 2007: 668 2008: 658 2009: 651 2010: 646 2011: 635

2012: 628 2013: 620 2014: 614 2015: 599 2016: 590 2017: 594

2018: 584 2019: 592

Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

Catholic Parish Church of St. John the Baptist

On the eastern edge and above the village, built in the years 1777-1779 is baroque Catholic church, St. John the Baptist ordained hall building . The church was consecrated in 1779 by Auxiliary Bishop Eckardt. In 1934 it was extended to the east by a transept and a choir to form a cross. The building is mostly made of stone-faced ashlar masonry. The rectangular nave ends in the east with a triangle in the choir. In the west there is a slate roof turret with a lantern . The nave, transept and choir are vaulted with a barrel vault with stitch caps . The seven yokes are separated by belt arches . The high altar was made in the 19th century using parts from the 18th century. The stalls are baroque with beautifully carved cheeks. The organ was built around 1905 by Louis Krell from Duderstadt and renovated in 1996 by Karl Brode from Heiligenstadt . In the churchyard wall there is the lintel stone of a previous building with a round-arched vestibule, the date 1577 and the Hanstein coat of arms.

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  Interior view of the Church of St. John the Baptist in Gerbershausen

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  cath. Kindergarten and church “St. John the Baptist"

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  Gerbershausen

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  catholic rectory Gerbershausen

Natural monuments

• Thick oak with a chest height of 6.33 m (2014).

politics

Municipal council

The local council of Gerbershausen consists of eight council members.

• CDU : 8 seats

(Status: 2014 local elections)

mayor

Werner Schmoranzer was the mayor from 1999 to 2010. In 2010 Johannes Döring (CDU) was elected the new honorary mayor, he was confirmed in office in 2016 with 63.8% of the votes.

literature

• Ramona Apel: From the church history of Gerbershausen. In: Eichsfelder Heimatzeitschrift. Vol. 63 (2019), issue 5/6, Mecke Druck und Verlag, Duderstadt 2019, pp. 144–144
• Ramona Apel: On the history of the Gerbershausen School, the oldest village school in Eichsfeld. In: Eichsfelder Heimatzeitschrift. Vol. 63 (2019), issue 11/12, Mecke Druck und Verlag, Duderstadt 2019, pp. 320-325
• David Bernhardt: The beginnings of elementary schooling in Eichsfeld. Gerbershausen has the oldest village school. In: Eichsfelder Heimatzeitschrift. Vol. 62 (2018), Issue 9/10, Mecke Druck und Verlag, Duderstadt 2018, pp. 257–261

Web links

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

• Gerbershausen municipality on the website of the Hanstein-Rusteberg administrative association

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ^ Aloys Schmidt: Document book of the calibration field, part 1 . Ed .: Self-published by the Historical Commission for the Province of Saxony and for Anhalt. Magdeburg 1933.
3. ^ Helfrich Bernhard Wenck: Hessian national history . In: Document book . tape 2 , 1789.
4. ^ Walter Rassow: Architectural and art monuments of the district of Heiligenstadt . Ed .: Historical Commission for the Province of Saxony and the Duchy of Anhalt. Otto Hendel, Halle adS 1909, p. 63 .
5. ^ Johann Wolf: Political History of the Eichsfeldes . Ed .: Klemens Löffler. Aloys Mecke, Duderstadt 1921, p. 38 .
6. ↑ Gerwardshausen, Werra-Meißner district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of July 20, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
7. ^ Aloys Schmidt: Document book of the calibration field, part 1 . Magdeburg 1933, p. 126 .
8. ^ Hans-Dieter von Hanstein: Hanstein Castle. On the 700-year history of a border fortress in Eichsfeld. Mecke, Duderstadt 2008, pages 159, 161
9. ↑ Carl Philipp Emil von Hanstein: Documented history of the family of Hanstein . Reprint Duderstadt 2007, pages 300–304
10. ↑ RIplus Regg. EB Mainz 2,1 n. 1498, in: Regesta Imperii Online [1] (accessed on September 15, 2017)
11. ^ Johann Wolf: Eichsfeldisches Urkundenbuch together with the treatise of the Eichsfeldischen nobility. Göttingen, 1819, p. 13
12. ^ Ed. Martinfeld community: Festschrift 1071–1996 925 years Martinfeld. Eschwege 1996, page 6
13. ↑ The original contract for the construction of the church from February 1777 can be viewed in the archives of the bishop. Commissioner's office in Heilbad Heiligenstadt
14. ^ Entry in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 10, 2017
15. ↑ 2014 municipal council elections in Thuringia - final result. Thuringian State Office for Statistics, accessed on May 25, 2014 . 
16. ↑ Mayoral elections in Thuringia