Gersdorf (municipality of Mooskirchen)
Gersdorf ( scattered settlement ) | ||
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Basic data | ||
Pole. District , state | Voitsberg (VO), Styria | |
Judicial district | Voitsberg | |
Pole. local community | Mooskirchen ( KG Stögersdorf ) | |
Coordinates | 46 ° 58 '9 " N , 15 ° 15' 12" E | |
height | 412 m above sea level A. | |
Post Code | 8562 Mooskirchen | |
Primaries | + 43 / (0) 3463 | |
Statistical identification | ||
Counting district / district | Stögersdorf (61615) | |
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk |
Gersdorf is a scattered settlement in western Styria in the market town of Mooskirchen in the Voitsberg district , Styria .
Place name and geography
The name part Gers- is derived from the personal name Gerolt, who was the founder of the place or the first owner of the property. The place name means something like Gerolt's village .
Gersdorf is located in the southwest of the market town of Mooskirchen, southwest of the main town of Mooskirchen, in the southeastern part of the cadastral municipality of Stögersdorf , on a hill on both sides of the southern A2 motorway, on the border with the cadastral municipality of Zirknitz with the Zirknitzberg Rotte of the municipality of Sankt Stefan ob Stainz . In the northwest the Knopperbach flows past the settlement. To the west of Gersdorf is the Rotte Rauchegg and to the northeast the Rotten Rosenberg and Edenberg .
history
Gersdorf emerged in the 10th century as a founding settlement by a landlord or settlement manager named Gerolt. The first written mention of the place took place in 1268/69 in the Rationarium Styriae as Geroltsdorf . Further mentions followed in 1414 as Gerstorf and finally in 1822 as Gersdorf . Until 1842, the residents belonged to the manorial lordship of the Gilgenbühel lordships , from which Gersdorf had its own office in 1630, Winterhof , whose subjects in Gersdorf were mentioned as early as 1542, and Greißenegg . The grain tithing went to the Lankowitz rule while the rights to the millet and hair tithes lay with the Ligist rule . The March feed went to the March feed office in Graz before it was sent to the Eggenbergers around 1650 . The regional court and judge services for the village took place from the rule of Oberwildon . Gersdorf belonged to the advertising district of the Großsöding rule .
In 1850, when the free municipalities were constituted, Gersdorf became the independent municipality of Stögersdorf and together with it became part of the market municipality of Mooskirchen on January 1st, 1968.
literature
- Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 39 .
Web links
- 61615 - Mooskirchen. Community data, Statistics Austria .