Gorsleben
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Gorsleben
City and rural community An der Schmücke
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| Height : | 130 m |
| Area : | 10.81 km² |
| Residents : | 498 (Dec. 31, 2017) |
| Population density : | 46 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 2019 |
| Postal code : | 06577 |
| Area code : | 034673 |
Gorsleben is a district of the city and rural community An der Schmücke in the Thuringian Kyffhäuserkreis . The Lossa flows into the Unstrut near Gorsleben.
history
Gorsleben was first mentioned in 772 as Genrichesleiba , which means something like "heir of Genrich", in a document from the Fulda monastery . The name changed several times to Goricheslebo , Gonneleve , Gaurisleybin , Gersteleben and Gorisleben . In Gorsleben there was a Cistercian nunnery in the Middle Ages , the church of which still stands as today's village church of St. Boniface . The place was almost completely burned down in the Thirty Years War , during an occupation by imperial troops in 1627. The inhabitants of Gorsleben lived mainly from agriculture and livestock farming, and earlier also from viticulture on the southern slope of the Schmücke. Farmers were responsible for the manors, the monastery and free farmers. Until 1815 the place belonged to the Saxon office of Sachsenburg . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna he came to Prussia and in 1816 the county Eckartsberga in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony assigned to which he belonged until 1944th
46 soldiers from Gorsleben did not return from the First World War and 79 from the Second World War . From January 1945, refugees from the eastern areas also poured into Gorsleben, including a trek from a Silesian village. In April 1945 Gorsleben lay for 3 days and nights between defensive positions of the Wehrmacht on the Schmücke and US troops , who, as a result of fires, also bombarded the place with artillery . Then it was handed over by a parliamentarian. Women from the village secretly brought scattered soldiers to the jewelry at the risk of their lives. In July 1945 the American occupation was replaced by the Red Army . The manor owners were expropriated without compensation and - with the exception of a widow with 3 children - expelled from the district within 24 hours.
In 1960 the forced collectivization of peasant agriculture followed. In connection with amelioration and flood protection, the Unstrut and the Lossa flowing here were diverted. After the reunification and reunification, a lot was restored and rebuilt in Gorsleben, and new businesses were established. The main problems are unemployment and the loss of population due to the drastic decline in the birth rate and the emigration of young people.
On January 1, 2019, the communities of Gorsleben, Bretleben , Hauteroda , Heldrungen , Hemleben and Oldisleben merged to form the new town and country community of An der Schmücke. The community Gorsleben belonged to the administrative community An der Schmücke .
Population development
Development of the population (December 31) :
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- Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics
coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved on September 21, 2009.
Blazon : "Shield with a curved, raised blue tip with a silver missal with a pierced black high cross, a red butte in silver with two shoulder straps, at the back divided three times from red to silver."
Gorsleben was first mentioned in 772 as Genrichesleiba = "heir of Genrich" in a document from the Fulda monastery . The red and white division on the top left reminds of the Counts of Beichlingen , who held territorial sovereignty over the village until the beginning of the 15th century. The butte, borrowed from the coat of arms of the von Germar family, stands for the property of this family in Gorsleben in the early modern period. Finally, the stylized missal as an attribute of Saint Boniface refers to the monastery church in the community that was consecrated to this saint.
The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Michael Zapfe .
Economy and Transport
The B 85 runs through Gorsleben and intersects with the B 86 1 km away . The Schmücke tunnel for the federal highway 71 was built nearby .
At the end of 2014, the last section of the A 71 between the B 85 and Sömmerda will be completed and the A 71 will then be passable from Schweinfurt to Sangerhausen (Südkreuz A 38 ).
The place is well connected to the bus traffic. The next train stations are in Etzleben and Heldrungen.
The Unstrut cycle path runs not far from Gorsleben . Worthwhile hiking and biking trails open up the attractive surroundings.
societies
- Hometown club
- Shooting club
- Fire brigade association and volunteer fire brigade
- Gorsleben Carnival Club (GKC) blue-gold
- Tractors and Oldtimers Association
- Table tennis club USV Gorsleben
Attractions
- Evangelical Bonifatius Church with surrounding, still used cemetery and old grave monuments. The former monastery church has a late Gothic choir, two pulpits (one used for sermons, the other only used for funerals), a carved altar, a baptismal font from 1568 and a tower from the 16th century.
- The entrance portal of the churchyard (directly on the B 85 ) is adorned with an interesting sculpture of the death of the scythe, provided with a small sundial: "The death of Gorsleben". It was created around 1696 at the suggestion of the local pastor Christian Webel, whose young wife had just died, by the Gorsleben stonemason Andreas Bornus.
- On the church square there is a war memorial from the 1920s, which with name plaques on both sides commemorates the soldiers from Gorsleben who were killed and missing in both world wars.
- The community cemetery is on the other side of the B 85. The hereditary funeral of the von Hoff family is worth seeing here .
- Next to the church is the "Schieferhof", a castle-like half-timbered building from 1620: mansion of a former manor . In 1819/20 the Schieferhof was used by the "Association for Research into Patriotic Antiquity in Art and History" - Thuringia's oldest history association founded on July 20, 1819 in Bilzingsleben - as a repository for its collection. At the same time the first separate "history museum" of Thuringia existed, which did not go back to a princely or municipal collection of rarities. At that time, the owner was Carl Wilhelm Kirchheim (later mayor of Kölleda ) who was also one of the founding fathers of the history association.
- The "Blaue Hof" (next to the former Unstrut ford, without the former water garden "Das Paradies" and without the removed manor park), the "Rote Hof" and the "Klosterhof" are mansions of former knights' estates.
- There are still an above-average number of half-timbered buildings in the village .
- Community gifts: restored half-timbered building with turrets on the roof
- The "Artra fountain" is a legendary spring not far from the town halfway up the Schmücke, which was exposed again from 1998 to 2001 and enriched with a rest area.
- To the south of the Sachsenburg gate lies a burial ground from the Augustan period just before the Schmücke. Animal skulls and skeletal parts as well as the remains of human burials were recovered.
Personalities
- Sethus Calvisius , actually: Seth Kalwitz (1556–1615), composer, music theorist and cantor in Schulpforta and Leipzig
- Heinrich Martin Eccard (1615–1669), Lutheran theologian
- Traugott Karl August Vogt (1762–1807), physician
Individual evidence
- ↑ Places of the Prussian district Eckartsberga in the municipality register 1900
- ^ Frank Boblenz : The "Association for Research into Patriotic Antiquity in Art and History". Thuringia's first history association was founded in Bilzingsleben in 1819. In: Heimat Thüringen 18 (2011) H. 1, pp. 23–31.
- ^ Giesela Costa: "The fall of the seat of the old Thuringian noble family von Hausen in Gorsleben an der Unstrut". In: "Castles, palaces, manor houses in Thuringia". Edited by BJ Sobotka. Theiss-Verlag Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1123-X .
- ↑ Michael Köhler: Pagan sanctuaries. Jenzig-Verlag 2007, p. 138, ISBN 978-3-910141-85-8 .
