Gable City

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 39 '  N , 9 ° 57'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Franconia
County :	Wurzburg
Management Community :	Gable City
Height :	300 m above sea level NHN
Area :	48.05 km 2
Residents:	5538 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	115 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	97232
Area code :	09334
License plate :	WÜ , OCH
Community key :	09 6 79 138
Market structure:	10 districts
Market administration address :	Marktplatz 3 97232 Giebelstadt
Website :	www.giebelstadt.de
Mayor :	Helmut Krämer (Citizens' Alliance Giebelstadt)
Location of the Giebelstadt market in the Würzburg district

Giebelstadt and the airfield from above

Giebelstadt is a market in the Lower Franconian district of Würzburg and the administrative seat of the same administrative community .

geography

The community is about 15 kilometers south of Würzburg. The area is very little forested. The Franconian Marienweg leads through Giebelstadt .

Community structure

There are ten parts of the parish:

Allersheim Eßfeld Euerhausen Gable City Herchsheim

Ingolstadt in Lower Franconia Owl mill Klingholz Sulzdorf Willow mill

There are the districts Allersheim, Euerhausen, Eßfeld, Giebelstadt, Herchsheim, Ingolstadt i.UFr. and Sulzdorf.

history

Until the church is planted

Giebelstadt is named after the Alemannic noble clan of the Gibule and was first mentioned in a document in 820. In the 13th and 14th centuries, the ministerial families Geyer and Zobel owned land and fiefdoms there and exercised joint rulership rights in the village ( condominium village ). The ruins of the Geyerschloss and the Zobelschloss still bear witness to this time . The Friesenhausen Castle was started in 1687 by Hans Heinrich Zobel von Giebelstadt zu Friesenhausen and completed by his son Johann Gottlob Zobel and his wife Maria Sophia von Berlichingen around 1700. The Freiherrlich Zobel'sche beer brewery was housed there from 1814 to 1916; today it serves as the town hall.

Later, the Prussian principality of Ansbach (as successor to the Counts of Geyer ) and the Barons von Zobel shared power. Both rights came in 1806 to the Grand Duchy of Würzburg of Archduke Ferdinand of Tuscany , with which Giebelstadt fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814 . In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

19th to 21st century

Aerial photo, July 2019

After 1848 Giebelstadt became part of the district and tax office and the district court of Ochsenfurt . On July 1, 1972, the market came to the Würzburg district .

Jewish families had lived in the village since at least the 18th century . A Jewish cemetery was established in the Allersheim district as early as the 17th century . In 1799 a synagogue was built , which was devastated by SA men during the November pogrom in 1938 and demolished in 1944. A memorial plaque in the courtyard of the town hall reminds of this.

In 1935 the Giebelstadt Air Base was built by the Luftwaffe and opened on September 17, 1936 during a troop parade by Adolf Hitler . The first aircraft to be stationed were Heinkel He 111 bombers belonging to Kampfgeschwader 53 , which was stationed in Giebelstadt at the beginning of World War II . Several missions were flown to the front in France from the Giebelstadt airfield during World War II. In addition, the first tests with the jet-powered Messerschmitt Me 262 and the rocket- powered Messerschmitt Me 163 were made there under strict secrecy . The Giebelstadt airfield was therefore the target of heavy bombing attacks towards the end of the war. The damage to the air base was repaired in 1944 by prisoners from the Flossenbürg concentration camp , who were also used to expand the air base. Before the German troops surrendered , the airfield was taken by the American 12th Armored Division .

After the Second World War, the airfield was taken over by the United States Army Air Forces and was called "Giebelstadt Airfield" from then on. In 1947 the runway was expanded to its current length. U2 spy planes were stationed there . From January 15, 1948 to 1950, the airport was closed and only manned by a guard. The airfield was later used by missile units of the US Army and the German Armed Forces . From 1981 to July 1, 2000, the 12th Army Aviation Brigade and the 69th Air Defense Artillery ( Patriot ) of the United States Army were stationed in Giebelstadt.

After the withdrawal of the US troops, the use of the military airfield was discontinued. The site reverted to the Federal Republic of Germany on December 31, 2006.

The Bundeswehr was also represented with the Air Force medical school in the Klingholz district.

Incorporations

Before the municipal reform , Giebelstadt belonged to the district of Ochsenfurt . This was dissolved on July 1, 1972 and at the same time the previously independent municipality of Euerhausen was incorporated. On January 1, 1978, the Allersheim and Herchsheim markets were added. Eßfeld, Ingolstadt in Lower Franconia and Sulzdorf followed on May 1, 1978.

Population development

year	1961	1970	1987	1991	1995	2000	2005	2010	2015
Residents	3702	3886	3642	3924	4425	4454	4360	5032	5380

politics

mayor

From May 1990 to April 2002 the Giebelstadt market was headed by the CSU mayor Volker Kleinfeld. After there had been no serious competitors for the mayor's office for years, the UWG (Independent Voting Association) succeeded in presenting a new face in Paul Merklein, who also just won the local elections in 2002.

After community politics had been the scene of violent agitations and disputes for many years, Helmut Krämer, a former UWG council member, became the mayoral candidate of the newly founded civic alliances. He was able to replace the previous mayor in the 2008 election . In the 2014 local elections , he was confirmed in office with 84.2% of the valid votes. With a turnout of 58.3%, Krämer was re-elected for a further six years on March 15, 2020 with 89.5% of the vote (excluding competitors).

Market council

The municipal council has 20 members; an additional member qua office is the mayor. In the municipal council election on March 15, 2020 , the three groups of voters received the following votes and seats:

Independent Free Voting Association eV	38.33%	8 seats
Citizen Alliance Gable City	36.86%	7 seats
Citizens' alliance districts	24.81%	5 seats

Compared to the 2014–2020 term of office, the Bürger-Bündnis-Giebelstadt had to give up a seat to the Independent Free Voting Association. The turnout was 58.31%

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In blue, a silver ram's head with golden horns." The coat of arms corresponds to the family coat of arms of the Geyer von Giebelstadt, who were of some importance in the local history.

Community partnerships

The partner municipality is Pianiga in the Italian region of Veneto .

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Giebelstadt

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  Geyerschloss

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  Sable lock

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  Friesenhausen Castle

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Giebelstadt is connected to Würzburg (16 km) to the north by federal highway 19 and to Bad Mergentheim (25 km) to the south .

The Giebelstadt airfield , a former military airfield, is approved for machines up to a take-off weight of 14 t and is the largest airfield in the district. It is often used by companies based in the district. During the soccer world championship in 2006 the team was transferred to various game venues. The national team of Ghana , which was based in Würzburg during the World Cup , flew from Giebelstadt to their games. The Ecuadorian national team, based in Bad Kissingen , also used this facility.

Agriculture

In 2016 there were 76 farms. 3588 hectares of the municipality were used for agriculture.

Jobs

In 2017, according to official statistics, there were 2,852 jobs subject to social insurance in the municipality. Of the resident population, 2,360 people were in employment that was subject to compulsory insurance. This means that the number of in-commuters was 492 more than that of out-commuters. 82 residents were unemployed.

Established businesses

• Bavaria yacht construction
• Opitec Hobbyfix
• HandyGames
• SSI Schaefer Automation GmbH
• SSI Schaefer IT Solutions GmbH

education

There was 2018 in the church

• two child day care centers with 273 approved places and 237 children
• an elementary school with thirteen teachers, eleven classes and 219 students.

Sons and daughters

(Selection)

• Florian Geyer (1490–1525), (also: Florian Geier von Giebelstadt), knight and diplomat
• Melchior Zobel von Giebelstadt (1505–1558), Prince-Bishop of Würzburg
• Kilian Keller (1839–1908), Mayor from 1870 to 1893, member of the Reichstag and Landtag
• Paul Beusch (1883–1925), politician (center), member of the Reichstag

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Gibelstadt . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 2 : El-H . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1800, DNB  790364298 , OCLC 833753081 , Sp. 318-319 ( digitized version ).
• Karl-Heinz Decker: History of the Giebelstadt Air Base 1933-1945 , Verlag JH Röll, Dettelbach 2010, ISBN 978-3-89754-357-7 .
• Alfred Dick: Giebelstadt in the time mirror. Festschrift and local chronicle. Published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the foundation festival of the Liederkranz men's choir in 1863 . Ochsenfurt 1963, OCLC 643603195 .
• Market Giebelstadt (Ed.): Giebelstadt and districts. A cultural and historical foray , Markt Giebelstadt 2005.
• Gottfried Stieber: Gable instead . In: Historical and topographical news from the Principality of Brandenburg-Onolzbach . Johann Jacob Enderes, Schwabach 1761, p. 400-402 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Giebelstadt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the Giebelstadt market
• Giebelstadt: Official statistics of the LfStat (PDF; 1.05 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ↑ Marktgemeinde Giebelstadt in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on July 8, 2020.
3. ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation, volume 1. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , p. 143.
4. ↑ See also Karl-Heinz Decker: Geschichte des Fliegerhorst Giebelstadt, pp. 7–11.
5. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 545 .
6. ↑ ^{a b c} 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 / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 756 .
7. ↑ Volker Kleinfeld , accessed on July 8, 2020
8. ↑ Mayoral election 2020 , accessed on July 8, 2020
9. ↑ Election of the market council 2020 , accessed on July 8, 2020
10. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of Giebelstadt  in the database of the House of Bavarian History , accessed on September 8, 2017 .