Gersdorf (municipality of Mooskirchen)

Gersdorf ( scattered settlement )
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 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 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Walter Brunner (ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 60 .
2. ^ Walter Brunner (ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 317 .