Gersdorf (Leinburg)

Gersdorf Community of Leinburg Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 20 ″ N , 11 ° 20 ′ 46 ″ E
Height :	407 (399-444) m above sea level NHN
Residents :	375 (1987)
Incorporation :	May 1, 1978
Postal code :	91227
Area code :	09120
	The Leinburg district of Gersdorf

Gersdorf is one of 17 officially named districts of the community of Leinburg in Middle Franconia .

geography

The village is not far from the Moritzberg on the southwest slope of the Nonnenberg . The place is located about three kilometers east-northeast of the center of Leinburg and is at an altitude of 407 m above sea level. NHN .

history

The first documentary mention dates from March 23, 1265. The document certifies that the Nuremberg burgrave Konrad sold his property in Gerhartsdorf (Gersdorf) to the Engelthal monastery .

There are several assumptions for the origin of the place name Gersdorf. One of them derives the name from the highest peak of the Nonnenberg, the Geierstein. Another relates to the earlier cultivation of barley in the area. And a third interpretation creates a connection with the first name Gerhard.

From 1504 Gersdorf belonged to the land of the imperial city of Nuremberg . In 1806 Bavaria became a kingdom and the imperial city of Nuremberg and its entire area were annexed by it.

Due to the administrative reforms carried out in the Kingdom of Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century , Gersdorf became an independent rural municipality with the second municipal edict, which also included the villages of Gersberg and Pötzling , as well as the hamlet of Reuth . In the course of the municipal territorial reform carried out in Bavaria in the 1970s , the municipality of Gersdorf was incorporated into the municipality of Leinburg on May 1, 1978. In 1987 Gersdorf had 375 inhabitants.

Population development in the (former) community of Gersdorf

year	1910	1933	1939	1961	1987	2016
population	363	338	362	434	487	454

traffic

The connection to the public road network is mainly made by the state road 2404 , which, coming from the south of Oberhaidelbach , runs directly through the town and continues in a northerly direction to Gersberg. Local roads branch off from this street, which connect Gersdorf with the neighboring village of Pötzling to the west and the Entenberg , which is about two kilometers east-southeast .

literature

Nuremberg country . Karl Pfeiffer's Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Hersbruck 1993. ISBN 3-9800386-5-3
Ronald Hotler: Around the Moritzberg . Natural History Society Nuremberg eV, Fürth 1989, ISSN 0077-6149