Gersdorf (Nennslingen)

Gersdorf Nennslingen market Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 56 " N , 11 ° 9 ′ 54" E
Height :	503-532 m above sea level NN
Area :	5.47 km²
Residents :	185 (Jan 3, 2013)
Population density :	34 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	May 1, 1978
Postal code :	91790
Area code :	09147
Location of Gersdorf in Bavaria

Catholic branch church St. Nikolaus

Former Waldmühle district

Gersdorf is a municipality part of the market Nennslingen in the Middle Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen .

location

The church village is located in the upper Anlautertal southeast of Nennslingen and northwest of Bechthal at an altitude of 503 m above sea level. NN in the valley floor to 532 m above sea level. NN up the right valley slope to the southwestern Alb plateau. The Anlautertal is characterized by dry grass slopes . The district road WUG 16 runs through Gersdorf .

history

It is assumed that the first settlement was in the 6th century. Around 800 Gerhoh , about 787 to 806 Bishop of Eichstätt , probably founded the "Gerhohestorf", which was named after him. It was a border town between the Alemannic-Franconian Sualafeldgau and the Bavarian Nordgau (later between the Graisbach and Hirschberg counties ), although a reliable assignment to one of the two tribal areas has not been handed down. In the 12th century, a local nobility is mentioned as the ministerial of the bishop of Eichstätt (the first was Liutprant de Gerhohestorf from 1130 to 1140); The seat of this Gersdorfer was possibly that "Burckstal", a hilltop castle in a spur, which is entered on a map around 1600 north of Gersdorf and was excavated in 1961; According to another opinion, the local nobility had their castle on the Kirchbuck, where castle remains were also found. From this the property in the village passed to the Rebdorf monastery , which in 1239 owned the farms in “Gerhochstorf” from Pope Gregory IX. has been confirmed. In 1315 Rüdiger von Erlingshofen sold a farmstead in the village to Rebdorf Abbey. In 1329/30 the Rebdorf monastery expanded its property in Gersdorf through acquisitions, such as the fulling mill and the Maierhof, which were probably built in the 11th century, from the property of the Lords of Heideck's own knights, and acquired village jurisdiction .

In the 14th and 15th centuries, the place served the county of Hirschberg as Landschranne (place of court) from 1376. In 1360 the Eichstätt Benedictine Monastery of St. Walburg in Gersdorf owned a farm, a farmstead and two fields (around 1800 the Maierhof was still owned by the St. Walburg Monastery). The construction of a church can be traced back to 1440. In 1452 Rebdorf Abbey owned a mill and 19 farms in the village, including five large ones.

In 1486 the bishop of Eichstätt received a whole series of goods from the Rebdorf monastery by way of barter, and in the same year Emperor Friedrich awarded the bishop of Eichstätt neck court , stick and gallows to Gersdorf. In 1551 Eichstätt had 22 subjects in the village who were subordinate to the episcopal Vogt and Rentamt Raitenbuch (later Titting- Raitenbuch); one subject, the Widenbauer , belonged to Nuremberg and paid interest to the local hospital until 1803. After the local church showed more and more damage since the early 17th century and the dispute about its repair between the Nuremberg hospital and the Eichstätter bishop had not led to a solution for a long time, it finally became completely ruinous and had to be removed in 1736; it was rebuilt the following year according to plans by the Eichstätter court building director Gabriel de Gabrieli .

Gersdorf remained the prince-bishop's village until the end of the Holy Roman Empire in 1803. The Hochstift Eichstätt received Grand Duke Ferdinand of Toscana as a result of the Imperial Deputation . On January 1, 1806, the former Hochstift and with it Gersdorf came to the Kingdom of Bavaria and there in 1809 to the Raitenbuch district court . In 1812 Gersdorf was attached to the district court of Greding and in 1857 to the district court of Weißenburg (from 1862 district office ).

In 1808 the village was combined with Bechthal and Stadelhofen to form the Gersdorf tax district . By the community edict of 1818, Gersdorf became an independent community again, separating from Bechthal and Stadelhofen. In the 1861 census, Waldmühle was designated as the second district of the community, later only the church village of Gersdorf was documented as the only district of the community. This was incorporated into the market in Nennslingen on May 1, 1978 as part of the regional reform in Bavaria .

In the early 1960s, the Congregation of the Dillinger Franciscan Sisters established a branch of the order with a children's home and elementary school, today the St. Antonius House as an institution for child and youth welfare with inpatient and outpatient services.

Population numbers

1818: 186 inhabitants, 36 houses
1823: 210 inhabitants, 31 properties
1861: 212 inhabitants (including 75 Protestants), 69 buildings, 1 church; Waldmühle: 9 inhabitants, 3 buildings
1871: 224 inhabitants
1900: 225 inhabitants
1925: 218 inhabitants
1933: 223 inhabitants
1939: 210 inhabitants (99 Catholics, 110 Protestants)
1950: 270 inhabitants, 42 residential buildings
1961: 267 inhabitants, 43 residential buildings
1970: 301 inhabitants

Attractions

The Catholic Filialkirche St. Nikolaus , built in 1737, with baroque furnishings according to plans by Eichstätter Hofbaumeister Gabriel de Gabrieli is registered in Bavaria's list of monuments, also house no.76, the residential building of a former farm from the 19th century, a single-storey flat saddle roof building with a knee stick , was built in Jura construction and still provided with a slate roof, plus the discharge house also in Jura construction with temporal equality. Also on the list of monuments are a boundary stone from the 18th century, a medieval stone cross and a wayside cross with cast figures from 1856.

Clubs and leisure

The volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1884. There is also the “Mühlengrund” shooting club. The market in Nennslingen is the youth home "Heisla". At the forest mill in the direction of Bechthal there is a 50 m² water treading basin. The Anlautertal cycle path leads through Gersdorf.

literature

Felix Mader and Karl Gröber (editor): The art monuments of Bavaria. Middle Franconia administrative region. V. City and District Office Weißenburg i. B . Munich: R. Oldenbourg 1932
Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Part Franconia, series I, booklet 6. Eichstätt. Beilngries-Eichstätt-Greding . Munich: Commission for bayer. National history 1959
Benedict Kössler: Gersdorf on the Anlauter. About the culture and past of a village . Regensburg 1962
Erich Strassner: rural and urban district of Weißenburg i. Bay. Series of Historical Place Name Book of Bavaria. Middle Franconia, Vol. 2 . Munich: Commission for bayer. Landesgeschichte 1966, especially No. 54, p. 18f