Gersbach (Pirmasens)

Gersbach City of Pirmasens
Coordinates: 49 ° 12 ′ 3 ″  N , 7 ° 33 ′ 40 ″  E
Height :	380 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	1604  (Jun 30, 2007)
Incorporation :	April 22, 1972
Postal code :	66954
Area code :	06331
Location of Gersbach in Rhineland-Palatinate
Former school and Matzenbergstrasse 1

Gersbach (historically also: Gerspach) is a district of Pirmasens .

history

prehistory

Between Gersbach and Windsberg , Celtic buildings were discovered in 1830 that were dedicated to the god Vosegus (also Vosagus ).

middle Ages

The earliest surviving documentary mention of the place dates back to 1225. The village of Gersbach belonged to the Lemberg office of the County of Zweibrücken-Bitsch and there to the Gerspach official school . The Eichelsbacher Mühle also belonged to Gersbach.

Early modern age

Count Jakob von Zweibrücken-Bitsch (* 1510; † 1570) died in 1570 as the last male member of his family. The Lemberg office was inherited by his daughter, Ludovica Margaretha von Zweibrücken-Bitsch , who was married to the (heir) Count Philipp (V) von Hanau-Lichtenberg . Her father-in-law, Count Philipp IV. Von Hanau-Lichtenberg , gave the strict Roman Catholic Duke Karl III by immediately introducing the Lutheran creed . of Lorraine, the opportunity to intervene militarily, as the latter had suzerainty over the Bitsch rule, which was also part of the inheritance . In July 1572 Lorraine troops occupied the county. Since Philip IV was unable to cope with the overwhelming power of Lorraine, he chose the legal route. In the subsequent process before the Imperial Court of Justice, Lorraine was able to prevail with regard to the Bitsch rule, while the Lemberg office - and thus also Gersbach - was awarded to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg .

During the Thirty Years War the village was depopulated.

1736 died with Count Johann Reinhard III. the last male representative of the Hanau family. Due to the marriage of his only daughter, Charlotte (* 1700; † 1726), with the Hereditary Prince Ludwig (VIII.) (* 1691; † 1768) of Hesse-Darmstadt , the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg fell there. In the course of the French Revolution , the part of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg on the left bank of the Rhine - and with it the office of Lemberg and Gersbach - fell to France in 1794. After the end of Napoleonic rule, Gersbach came to the Bavarian Rhine District .

Gersbach was incorporated into the city of Pirmasens on April 22, 1972.

politics

Local advisory board

A local district was formed for the Gersbach district . The local advisory board consists of nine advisory board members, the chair of the local advisory board is chaired by the directly elected mayor .

For more information on the local council, see the results of the local elections in Pirmasens .

Mayor

The mayor of Gersbach is Dieter Clauer (CDU). In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected with a share of 79.16% of the vote, making him the successor to Denis Clauer (CDU).

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Gersbach (Pirmasens)

literature

• Official directory and statistics of the royal Bavarian administrative district of the Palatinate . Speyer 1870.
• Friedrich Knöpp: Territorial holdings of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Hesse-Darmstadt . [typewritten] Darmstadt 1962. [Available in the Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt , signature: N 282/6].
• Alfred Matt: Bailliages, prévôté et fiefs ayant fait partie de la Seigneurie de Lichtenberg, du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg, du Landgraviat de Hesse-Darmstadt . In: Société d'Histoire et d'Archaeologie de Saverne et Environs (eds.): Cinquième centenaire de la création du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg 1480–1980 = Pays d'Alsace 111/112 (2, 3/1980), p 7-9.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pirmasens.de: Pirmasens - Windsberg
2. ^ JE Fischer: The introduction of Christianity in what is now the Kingdom of Bavaria , 1863, A. Volkhart'sche Buchdruckerei
3. ↑ Knöpp, p. 9; Matt, p. 9.
4. ↑ Knöpp, p. 9.
5. ↑ Directory of officials .
6. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 175 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
7. ^ City of Pirmasens: main statute. (PDF) § 4 and appendix. February 22, 2016, accessed October 25, 2019 . 
8. ↑ City of Pirmasens: Result of the mayor of the Gersbach district 2019. Accessed on October 25, 2019 . 

Web links

• Literature about Gersbach in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography