Gierswalde

Gierswalde City of Uslar
Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 40 ″  N , 9 ° 42 ′ 49 ″  E
Height :	190 m
Residents :	248  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	37170
Area code :	05573
Location of Gierswalde in Lower Saxony

Gierswalde is a village in the district of Northeim in southern Lower Saxony and a district of the city of Uslar with 248 inhabitants.

Geographical location

Gierswalde is located on the southern foothills of the Solling and Solling-Vogler Nature Park in the Rehbach valley at about 200  m above sea level. NN . The core city of Uslar is five kilometers to the west, the district town of Northeim 18 kilometers to the east, Göttingen 19 kilometers to the south-east and the Lower Saxony state capital Hanover a good 76 kilometers to the north (all information as the crow flies ).

history

Gierswalde was first mentioned in a document in 1293. In the course of the 19th century the place experienced a considerable increase in population, for example 191 inhabitants are recorded for the year 1820/1821, while on the eve of the March Revolution of 1844/1845 280 people are already occupied. This corresponds to a growth rate of 47 percent. Gierswalde was then a village in the Landdrostei Hildesheim and was part of the office of Uslar . Spiritually it was under the parish of Volpriehausen.

Since the territorial reform of March 1, 1974, the formerly independent municipality has been part of the city of Uslar.

Culture and sights

Gierswalde Chapel

Gierswalde Chapel

The Chapel of Gierswalde, probably built in the 14th century, is located near the floodplain of the Rehbach. It has a slightly rectangular floor plan measuring 9 m by 6.85 m, massive corner cuboids and a height of 8 m to the eaves . The red sandstone walled chapel has a maximum thickness of 1.45 m in the lower part of its walls, which taper towards the top through alternating wall heels on the narrow and long sides. In the interior there are stone consoles about 1.5 m above the floor, which were used to support roof beams. The choir window was designed in a round-arched, closed style, above which a niche arched in the manner of a concha is attached. However, the wooden barrel that closes the church interior at the top comes from later centuries. The outside of the chapel is divided by a few narrow wall slits with chamfered walls. Since the ground floor is only 0.5 m above the surface of the earth, it can be assumed that the meadow on which the chapel stands must have been filled up by around 1 m due to flooding. This also applies to the interior of the church, which can be read from the height of 1.5 m of the consoles. For this reason, the ogival chapel door had to be raised.

A building report to the consistory in Hanover from 1783 shows that the current state of construction is not the original of the Gierswalder Chapel. The rising masonry at that time had a height of 24 and a half feet , which equates to about 8 m with a half-timbered upper floor above this masonry . Assuming a height of 2 m for this upper floor and taking into account the increased ground level due to the flooding, the chapel in earlier times represented a tower approximately 11 m high, with a massive ground floor, two similar upper floors and a timber-framed tower, all separated by beam ceilings. Work on the structure must have been carried out as early as 1659, as the year on the weather vane shows. In the east wall of the chapel there is a walled-in semicircular arch, the apex of which extends roughly to the ceiling of the former upper floor. The strong masonry, the narrow wall notches, the tower construction and the location in the damp Rehbach lowland as additional protection characterize the chapel as an earlier defense structure.

traffic

• Road: The B241 federal road runs through Gierswalde and runs from Warburg via Beverungen , Uslar and Gierswalde to Hardegsen and Northeim . There are bus routes to Uslar and Hardegsen and beyond. The next motorway junctions are at Göttingen, Nörten-Hardenberg and Northeim on the A7 .
• Rail: The Sollingbahn runs from Ottbergen to Northeim directly on the outskirts . Gierswalde itself has no breakpoint; the next regional train stations or stops are in Uslar- Allershausen or Volpriehausen on the Sollingbahn. The nearest ICE / IC train station is also in Göttingen .
• Air traffic: The nearest international airports are Hannover-Langenhagen and Paderborn / Lippstadt . Uslar itself has a small sports airfield.

The license plate of greed Walde's NOM and the zip code is 37170th

Economy and tourism

There are no industrial companies in the village. Agriculture and forestry also only play a subordinate role. Most economically active residents have to commute, as tourism is not worth mentioning either (there is only one guest house and one holiday apartment / guest house for overnight stays).

literature

• Fritz Siebrecht: Gierswalde - A village in the Solling . Self-published, Gierswalde 1998. In the Uslar City Archives.

Web links

• City of Uslar
• Private page about Gierswalde

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Population data of Uslar including districts, published by the city of Uslar (status: December 31, 2019, accessed on April 6, 2020)
2. ↑ Rainer Müller: "... and everyone comes here, it's better here ...". From the pottery village Fredelsloh am Solling to America . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2006, ISBN 3-8334-4713-3 , pp. 38 .
3. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 214 .
4. ↑ Erhard Kühlhorn: Historical-regional excursion map. Leaf Moringen am Solling . Lax, Hildesheim 1976, ISBN 3-7848-3624-0 , p. 143 .