Gersdorf (Crimmitschau)

Gersdorf City of Crimmitschau Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 46 ″  N , 12 ° 25 ′ 25 ″  E
Incorporation :	1875
Incorporated into:	Lauenhain
Postal code :	08451
Area code :	03762
Location of Gersdorf in Saxony

Gersdorf is a district of the village of Lauenhain in the large district town of Crimmitschau in the Saxon district of Zwickau . The place was already regarded as a district of Lauenhain in the 19th century.

geography

Geographical location and traffic

Gersdorf is located in the southeastern urban area of ​​Crimmitschau on the west bank of the Paradiesbach, a tributary of the Pleiße . In the west is the federal highway 93 , via which the Autobahn 4 in the north can be reached.

Gersdorf has grown together with its neighboring villages Harthau and Lauenhain in terms of settlement. The western part of the village is formed by Lauenhain in the north and Gersdorf in the south, which are separated from Harthau in the east by the Paradiesbach. To the south of the fire station of the Lauenhain fire brigade, the district of Gersdorf connects seamlessly with Lauenhain.

Neighboring places

Lauenhain
		Harthau
Lauterbach	Dänkritz	Oberrothenbach

history

View of Gersdorf

Gersdorf was mentioned in 1275 as "Gerharsdorff". It belonged as the neighboring Lauenhain until the time of the Reformation to the possessions of the monastery Grünhain in the beautiful burg care Crimmitschau, the 1413 wettinisch was in the 16th century in the Saxon Office Zwickau opened. After the dissolution of the Grünhainer monastery in 1533, the place belonged to the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office of Zwickau until 1856 with regard to the manorial rule as an official village . In 1856 Gersdorf was affiliated as part of the municipality of Lauenhain to the Crimmitschau court office and in 1875 to the Zwickau administration .

As a result of the second district reform in the GDR in 1952, Gersdorf became part of the municipality of Lauenhain in the district of Werdau in the Chemnitz district (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ), which was continued as the Saxon district of Werdau from 1990 and in 1994 in the Zwickauer Land district or 2008 in the district of Zwickau. Since the incorporation of Lauenhain with its two districts to Crimmitschau on January 1, 1999, these three places form the Crimmitschau locality of Lauenhain.

Web links

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

• Gersdorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• The village of Lauenhain on the website of the city of Crimmitschau

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , p. 64 f.
2. ↑ The Zwickau administrative authority in the municipal register 1900
3. ↑ Lauenhain on gov.genealogy.net