Gilsbach

Gilsbach municipality Burbach Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 12 ″ N , 8 ° 5 ′ 6 ″ E
Height :	369 (360-410) m
Area :	8.25 km²
Residents :	680
Population density :	82 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1969
Postal code :	57299
Area code :	02736
	Location of the village of Gilsbach within the municipality of Burbach.

Gilsbach is a district of Burbach in Siegerland , in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

location

The Gilsbach valley towards Wahlbach

Gilsbach is the northernmost village in the municipality of Burbach. The village is part of the upper Freie Grund . The Gilsbach flows through the village . In the north, the Steimel and the Bautenberg beyond it form the separation to Wilden . Walkersdorfer Berg is to the northeast , Simberg to the south and its foothills Simrich to the southwest . The federal motorway 45 ( Sauerland line ) runs nearby .

Neighborhoods

Neighboring villages of Gilsbach are Wilden and Wilnsdorf in the north, Wilgersdorf in the northeast, Steinbach in the east, Würgendorf in the southeast, Burbach in the south, Wahlbach in the southwest, Wiederstein in the west and Zeppenfeld and Salchendorf in the northwest.

history

overview

The first documentary mention of it comes from June 24th 1350. There a "Johanne von Gyltzbach" is mentioned. In 1461 ten families lived in the small village. In 1939 there were 498 inhabitants. Today Gilsbach with 740 inhabitants is the second smallest town in the municipality of Burbach. In the 15th century there were different spellings for the place: Giltzbach, Gilsczbach, Giilßbach and Giltzpach.

Gilsbach - looking towards Wilnsdorf

The village community center in Gilsbach

Waterworks built in 1956

Traveling teacher Betz built a "schoolmaster's house" which was taken over in 1869 by his son-in-law Wilhelm Becker. He became mayor in 1885 , he was also registrar and school director . A village school was built in 1909, but it was closed again in the 1960s. Today children go to schools in Burbach or Wahlbach . The home office is now in the school. The construction of a water pipe began in 1911, and every house was supplied with water by the end of 1912. The first motorcycle came to town in 1922 .

In 1884 the association "MGV Concordia Gilsbach" (male choir) was founded. Between 1886 and 1888 a club house was built for the Evangelical Community founded in 1887 in-house. After various conversions between 1958 and 1983, the decision was made in 1988 to build a new one, again almost entirely in-house. It was completed in 1990

In 1925 the community of Gilsbach consisted of 525 inhabitants, 482 of whom were Protestants and the remaining 43 inhabitants of other denominations. The place was a mixed community as a spa and workers' residence, the total area was 832 hectares. There was a primary school, electricity and water supply.

From 1950 to 1952 a village community center was built in-house. In 1956 a water house was built in the upper village to supply the still independent community of Gilsbach with water.

Gilsbach, which belongs to the Burbach office , came to the municipality of Burbach on January 1, 1969 in the course of the municipality reforms with eight other villages.

Population and house numbers

Population numbers

year	Residents
1810	332
1850	369
1867	350
1885	428
1895	422
1900	472

year	Residents
1910	560
1913	519
1925	525
1933	527
1939	498

year	Residents
1950	622
1961	568
1967	605
1985	714
1994	727

House numbers

year	1589	1600	1683	1698	1700	1704	1706	1725	1730	1788	1810	1846	1850	1867	1913
Houses	24	25th	22nd	26th	28	28	27	39	39	57	57	62	64	65	84

Transport and infrastructure

Gilsbach is located on Landstrasse 723, the former federal road 54 , which leads from Wilnsdorf to Burbach. District road 12 branches off in the village , it leads through the Gilsbach valley to Wahlbach. The village is connected to the federal highway 45 via Wilnsdorf and Burbach . The buses of the bus line L 221 of the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Westfalen-Süd run from Burbach to Gilsbach. The Citizen Bus Burbach Line 3 (BBB3) also runs to Gilsbach.

There is a kindergarten in Gilsbach which is run by the Protestant community. The sports field is located about one kilometer north of the village on the connection road to Oberwilden, the former B 54 (Wilnsdorf-Burbach).

Others

The mayor is Jörg Steinecke ( CDU ).

literature

Kurt Becker: Our fathers - the miners of the Bautenberg mine between Gilsbach and Wilden, Dill and Westerwald , Dillbrecht 1994.

Web links

Gilsbach in the Westphalian Cultural Atlas
List of mines in Gilsbach

Individual evidence

^ Siegener Urkundenbuch Volume I, Siegen , 1887, pp. 201–204, No. 332.
↑ ^a ^b genealogy.net: Office Burbach
↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 69 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d 700 years of Neunkirchen , Otto Braun Verlag, Neunkirchen 1988
^ Otto Schaefer: The district of Siegen , Siegen 1968
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k E. Weidenbach: History of the county of Sayn and the components of the same , print E. Weidenbach, Dillenburg 1874, p. 287.
↑ Westfälisches Gemeindelexikon 1887, pp. 108/109
↑ Westfälisches Gemeindelexikon 1897, pp. 112/113
↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de: District of Siegen
↑ ^a ^b Heinrich Gamann: history of free reason , printing of the West German Publishing Company, Neunkirchen 1925, p. 6
↑ ^a ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Siegen. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 189 .
↑ Rolf Betz: Burbach ( Memento of the original from November 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2 archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 7.4 MB) , approx. 1995

↑ In Burbach's farewell and visitation protocol from September 1683, it is said of “Gilßbach” that it had 22 “Nassau-inhabited” houses and “3 built and uninhabited” houses. (Digital copy from the State Archive of North Rhine-Westphalia) .

[1] Siegener Urkundenbuch Volume I, Siegen , 1887, pp. 201–204, No. 332.

[genealogy.net-2] y.net: Office Burbach

[3] Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 69 .

[700_Jahre_Neunkirchen-4] 700 years of Neunkirchen , Otto Braun Verlag, Neunkirchen 1988

[5] Otto Schaefer: The district of Siegen , Siegen 1968

[E._Weidenbach-6] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k E. Weidenbach: History of the county of Sayn and the components of the same , print E. Weidenbach, Dillenburg 1874, p. 287.

[7] Westfälisches Gemeindelexikon 1887, pp. 108/109

[8] Westfälisches Gemeindelexikon 1897, pp. 112/113

[9] ververzeichnis.de: District of Siegen

[Gamann_1925-10] Heinrich Gamann: history of free reason , printing of the West German Publishing Company, Neunkirchen 1925, p. 6

[verwaltungsgeschichte-11] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Siegen. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[12] Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 189 .

[13] Rolf Betz: Burbach ( Memento of the original from November 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2 archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 7.4 MB) , approx. 1995

[14] In Burbach's farewell and visitation protocol from September 1683, it is said of “Gilßbach” that it had 22 “Nassau-inhabited” houses and “3 built and uninhabited” houses. (Digital copy from the State Archive of North Rhine-Westphalia) .