Gœrsdorf
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Haguenau-Wissembourg | |
| Canton | Reichshoffen | |
| Community association | Sauer-Pechelbronn | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 57 ' N , 7 ° 46' E | |
| height | 164-463 m | |
| surface | 13.14 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,072 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 82 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 67360 | |
| INSEE code | 67160 | |
Gœrsdorf ( German : Görsdorf ) is a French commune with 1072 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). The community is a member of the municipal association Communauté de communes Sauer-Pechelbronn .
geography
Neighboring communities are Preuschdorf and Wœrth . The forest that flanks the municipality to the north is called Forêt de Gœrsdorf . Otherwise the landscape is dominated by arable land. Part of the municipality belongs to the Pfälzerwald-Vosges du Nord biosphere reserve , a nature park in the Palatinate Forest and the North Vosges .
history
middle Ages
The Lords of Lichtenberg bought Görsdorf in 1314 from Lambrecht von Brune at ¾. It was a fiefdom of the Bishop of Strasbourg . In the rule of Lichtenberg it was assigned to the Wörth office, which was created in the 13th century. Around 1330 there was a first, in 1335 a second division of the country between the three lines of the House of Lichtenberg . Gœrsdorf fell to Johann II von Lichtenberg , half from the older line of the house and Ludwig III. von Lichtenberg , who founded the younger line of the house.
In 1348 the Lichtenbergers acquired the town charter for the place, namely that of Hagenau, at high costs . Görsdorf also formed its own bailiff. A "Büttelei" was the subdivision of an office . The city was also the capital of a court district of the same name, which also included the villages of Mitschdorf , Lampertsloch , Lobsann , Oberkutzenhausen , Merkweiler , Preuschdorf and the Weylenbach and Diefenbach farms .
When Jakob von Lichtenberg, the last male member of the house, died in 1480 , the inheritance was shared between his two nieces, Anna and Elisabeth. Anna had married Count Philipp IV of Hanau (1514–1590), Elisabeth von Lichtenberg (* 1444; † 1495) Simon IV. Wecker von Zweibrücken-Bitsch . The Wörth office - and thus also Görsdorf - came to Zweibrücken-Bitsch when it was divided.
Modern times
In 1570 there was another inheritance that brought the Wörth office to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg : Count Jakob von Zweibrücken-Bitsch (* 1510; † 1570) and his brother Simon V. Wecker , who died in 1540, each left only one daughter as heir. Count Jakob's daughter, Margarethe (* 1540; † 1569), was married to Philipp V von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1541; † 1599). The legacy resulting from this constellation also included the second half of the former Lichtenberg rule, which was not already governed by Hanau-Lichtenberg. Philipp V von Hanau-Lichtenberg immediately carried out the Reformation in the inherited areas , which, like the rest of his dominion, now became Lutheran .
With the reunion policy of France under King Louis XIV , the Wörth and Görsdorf offices came under French suzerainty. After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , the inheritance - and with it Görsdorf - fell in 1736 to the son of his only daughter, Charlotte , the hereditary prince and later Landgrave Ludwig (IX.) of Hessen-Darmstadt . With the upheaval begun by the French Revolution , the Amt Wörth became part of France and dissolved in the subsequent administrative reforms.
Today's community was created on January 1, 1973 through the merger with the neighboring community of Mitschdorf.
Population development
| year | 1798 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2017 |
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| Residents | 553 | 914 | 833 | 937 | 969 | 942 | 984 | 1098 | 1072 |
Attractions
Personalities
- Hans von Gersdorff (around 1455–1529), surgeon who presumably comes from the town.
literature
- Fritz Eyer: The territory of the Lords of Lichtenberg 1202-1480. Investigations into the property, the rule and the politics of domestic power of a noble family from the Upper Rhine . In: Writings of the Erwin von Steinbach Foundation . 2nd edition, unchanged in the text, by an introduction extended reprint of the Strasbourg edition, Rhenus-Verlag, 1938. Volume 10 . Pfaehler, Bad Neustadt an der Saale 1985, ISBN 3-922923-31-3 (268 pages).
- Friedrich Knöpp: Territorial holdings of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Hesse-Darmstadt . [typewritten] Darmstadt 1962. [Available in the Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt , signature: N 282/6].
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 1634-1636.
