Geyern

Geyern Bergen municipality Coordinates: 49 ° 4 ′ 18 ″ N , 11 ° 5 ′ 14 ″ E
Height :	536 m above sea level NN
Area :	3.78 km²
Residents :	130
Population density :	34 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	May 1, 1978
Postal code :	91790
Area code :	09148
	Castle of the Geyern taverns

Geyern is a district of the municipality of Bergen in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen .

Geographical location

The church village is located on the north-west slope of the Franconian Jura approx. 10 kilometers northeast of Weißenburg . Geyern is located directly on the European main watershed and is therefore "split in two" from a hydrological point of view. In eastern Zeiselweiher springing Anlauter , a tributary of the Schwarzach . A frequently mentioned curiosity is the building at Bergener Strasse 4, which stands exactly on the watershed. Until the renovation of the gutters in 1996, the rainwater flowed on the south side to the Ringelbach and thus to the North Sea and on the north side to the Anlauter and thus towards the Black Sea.

history

The village goes back to a powerful noble family who lived there after 900, the Geyern taverns . A castle stable with the remains of their first castle is 350 m north. Later they moved to a second castle in the local area. A castle, the Geyern castle complex , was later built on its remains . The renovated building is still owned by the descendants.

In the geographical statistical-topographical lexicon of Franconia (1800) the place is described as follows:

“Geyern, (Gyern,) Filialkirchdorf with 10 Ansbach subjects and one foreigner. Here is a castle which is again divided into 3 special castles or kemnaten. One part is Ansbach, two belong to the baronial von Schenk family. The Ansbach part was demolished in 1757 and a officials' house was built in its place. From one tavern only the remainder of a wall and a tower can be seen, but the other, which is fiefdom of the Hochstifte Eichstätt, is still in its old condition. "

With the community edict at the beginning of the 19th century, Geyern became a politically independent community. On May 1, 1978 it was incorporated into Bergen.

Population development

year	1910	1933	1939	1987
population	109	119	101	125

Architectural monuments

Geyern Castle
Geyern Castle
St. Bartholomäus (Geyern) : Evangelical Lutheran church, choir tower church , late Gothic complex from the 14th / 15th centuries. Century, expanded in the 17th / 18th century. Century, tower with corner blocks and tent roof; with equipment; Cemetery fortifications, 18./19. Century.

traffic

The district road WUG 5 runs through Geyern from Ettenstatt to Bergen. Local roads lead to Kaltenbuch and Pfraunfeld .

literature

Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Geyern . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 2 : El-H . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1800, DNB 790364298 , OCLC 833753081 , Sp. 317 ( digitized version ).
Gottfried Stieber: Geyern . In: Historical and topographical news from the Principality of Brandenburg-Onolzbach . Johann Jacob Enderes, Schwabach 1761, p. 397-399 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Geyern - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Bundschuh, Col. 317.
↑ Gemeindeververzeichnis.de , District Office Weißenburg i.Bay.
^ ^A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to reunification in 1990. City and district of Weißenburg in Bavaria. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
^ Association for Computer Genealogy e. V. , Geyern

[1] Bundschuh, Col. 317.

[2] Gemeindeververzeichnis.de , District Office Weißenburg i.Bay.

[demand-3] A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to reunification in 1990. City and district of Weißenburg in Bavaria. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[4] Association for Computer Genealogy e. V. , Geyern