Gershausen (Kirchheim)
Gershausen
Kirchheim parish
Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 48 ″ N , 9 ° 33 ′ 15 ″ E
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Height : | 252 (249-264) m above sea level NHN |
Area : | 2.35 km² |
Residents : | 320 (December 31, 2016) |
Population density : | 136 inhabitants / km² |
Incorporation : | 1st February 1971 |
Postal code : | 36275 |
Area code : | 06625 |
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Gershausen is a district of the Kirchheim community in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in eastern Hesse .
Geographical location
Gershausen is about 1.5 km southwest of the Kirchheim core town in the southern foothills of the Knüll Mountains . It is traversed by the lower Ibra . To the north of the village, at the Ibra tributary Sauerbach (also called Silbergraben ), there is the Gershausen lake .
history
The nobles of Goßhusen already existed between 1267 and 1340 . The first documentary mention of the place is for 1350. At that time the place name was Goshusen , then it was called Gurshusen , then Gorshusen and from 1505 Gershusen .
On February 1, 1971, Gershausen was incorporated into the municipality of Kirchheim as part of the regional reform in Hesse .
On August 22, 1977 at around 3 p.m. the village was hit by a dam break in the dam on Lake Ibrasee . The flood content of 500,000 m³ of water poured through the valley in a tidal wave up to three meters high.
Population development
Gershausen: Population from 1834 to 2015 | ||||
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year | Residents | |||
1834 | 166 | |||
1840 | 164 | |||
1846 | 192 | |||
1852 | 192 | |||
1858 | 184 | |||
1864 | 190 | |||
1871 | 182 | |||
1875 | 177 | |||
1885 | 163 | |||
1895 | 169 | |||
1905 | 197 | |||
1910 | 187 | |||
1925 | 190 | |||
1939 | 184 | |||
1946 | 288 | |||
1950 | 287 | |||
1956 | 226 | |||
1961 | 199 | |||
1967 | 223 | |||
1970 | 237 | |||
2006 | 312 | |||
2010 | 329 | |||
2015 | 336 | |||
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968. Other sources: |
Religious affiliation
Source: Historical local dictionary
• 1885: | 163 Protestant (= 100.00%) residents |
• 1961: | 177 Protestant (= 88.94%), 20 Catholic (= 10.05%) residents |
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
District road 32 ( Reimboldshausen –Gershausen– Kirchheim ) leads through Gershausen , from which the K 33 branches off in the village in a westerly direction to Allendorf . On its way from Bad Hersfeld to Kirchheim, the citizens' bus runs through the town Monday to Friday. The AST also operates here .
Public facilities
There is a village community center in the village .
Personalities
- Wolfgang Nestler (* 1943), artist
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Gershausen, Hersfeld-Rotenburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ↑ a b Population figures for the Kirchheim community , accessed in December 2018. [PDF; 139 KB]
- ^ Municipal reform: mergers and integration of municipalities from January 20, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 6 , p. 248 , item 328, para. 39 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.2 MB ]).
- ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 396 .
Web links
- Gershausen district on the Kirchheim community website.
- Gershausen, Hersfeld-Rotenburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Literature about Gershausen in the Hessian Bibliography