Gesau

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Gesau
Large district town of Glauchau
Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 54 ″  N , 12 ° 30 ′ 52 ″  E
Area : 2.47 km²
Residents : 1489  (May 9, 2011)
Population density : 603 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : April 1, 1925
Postal code : 08371
Area code : 03763
Gesau (Saxony)
Gesau

Location of Gesau in Saxony

Gesau is a district of the large district town of Glauchau in the district of Zwickau in Saxony . The place was incorporated on April 1, 1925. Today it belongs to the Glauchau district of Gesau / Höckendorf / Schönbörnchen , which has a total of 2325 inhabitants. Gesau has the community key 030.

geography

Glauchau water tower in Gesau

Geographical location and traffic

Gesau is located in the northwest of the city of Glauchau between the federal highway 4 in the north and the federal highway 175 in the south. The “Glauchau-West” motorway junction is in the immediate vicinity. The Dresden – Werdau railway runs through the district without stopping. In the southeast, Gesau borders the flood canal of the Zwickauer Mulde .

Neighboring places

Höckendorf Lipprandis
Schönbörnchen Neighboring communities Jerisau
Glauchau

history

Gesau Church

Gesau was mentioned in 1361 as "Jesaw". In addition to the village itself, the neighboring villages of Höckendorf and Schönbörnchen are parish into the Gesau church . With regard to the basic rule was among the place to 1750 as office Village to rule Glauchau . Since then, part of it has been under the rule of Glauchau, Amt Hinterglauchau , as an official village , the other part of the manor Elzenberg in the rule of Glauchau, Amt Fordglauchau . After an administrative reform was carried out in the area of ​​the Schönburg recession in 1878, Gesau came to the newly founded Saxon governorate of Glauchau in 1880 .

Gesau was incorporated into Glauchau on April 1, 1925. As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , Gesau came as part of the city of Glauchau in 1952 to the district of Glauchau in the Chemnitz district (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ), which was continued as the Saxon district of Glauchau in 1990 and in the district of Chemnitzer in 1994 Land and 2008 in the district of Zwickau. Today Gesau belongs to the district Gesau / Höckendorf / Schönbörnchen of the large district town of Glauchau.

Attractions

Gym Gesau
  • Gesau Church
  • Gesau water tower
  • Gym Gesau

education

The Wilhelm Stolle School was located in Gesau. In 2018, the Sachsenalle primary school temporarily moved into the building, which had been vacant for around 15 years, until its buildings were renovated.

Web links

Commons : Gesau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Gesau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Structure of the large district town of Glauchau
  2. ↑ Handbook of Geography, p. 489
  3. ^ Gesau in the book "Geography for all Stands", p. 897
  4. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 92 f.
  5. ↑ The Glauchau administrative authority in the municipal register 1900
  6. ↑ Gesau on gov.genealogy.net
  7. ↑ Article in the "Freie Presse", issue of April 7, 2018, accessed on October 6, 2019