Gershausen (Kirchheim)

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Gershausen
Kirchheim parish
Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 48 ″  N , 9 ° 33 ′ 15 ″  E
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
View from the air
View from the air
View of the village from the north

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
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.
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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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Gershausen, Hersfeld-Rotenburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b Population figures for the Kirchheim community , accessed in December 2018. [PDF; 139 KB]
  3. ^ 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 ]).
  4. ^ 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 .

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