St. Gangloff

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 51 '  N , 11 ° 54'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Saale-Holzland district
Management Community :	Hermsdorf
Height :	330 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.41 km 2
Residents:	1177 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	125 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	07629
Area code :	036606
License plate :	SHK, EIS, SRO
Community key :	16 0 74 093
Association administration address:	Am Alten Versuchsfeld 1 07629 Hermsdorf
Website :	www.vg-hermsdorf.de
Mayor :	Frank Wiedenhöft
Location of the community of St. Gangloff in the Saale-Holzland district

St. Gangloff is a municipality in the Saale-Holzland district in Thuringia and part of the Hermsdorf administrative community .

geography

View of St. Gangloff (2003)

St. Gangloff is located in the Thuringian woodland on the road from the Hermsdorfer Kreuz to Gera . The place is traversed by the Fischbach. The area west of the village is forested, while the area in the east is used for agriculture.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are Eineborn , Lippersdorf-Erdmannsdorf , Mörsdorf , Ottendorf , Reichenbach , Schleifreisen and Tautendorf in the Saale-Holzland district and Kraftsdorf and Lindenkreuz in the district of Greiz .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1266. A pilgrimage chapel dedicated to St. Gangloff (or Gangolf ) gave the place its name. The place used to have three mills on the Fischbach, two of which still have buildings. From the valley of the Fischbach, in which the oldest houses in St. Gangloff are located, the place has expanded in the course of time to the north and west.

The Schlossberg property is located about 1.5 kilometers west of the village at the upper exit of the Fischbach . It is said to have been the location of a castle complex.

St. Gangloff belonged on the one hand to the Wettin district office of Eisenberg and on the other hand to the Wettin office of Roda , which were under the sovereignty of various Ernestine duchies due to several divisions in the course of their existence . In 1826 both parts came from the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg to the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg . Since then they have belonged to the western district and from 1876 to the administrative district of Roda . In 1904/10 the Altroda and Neuroda shares were combined into one place. From 1920 the place belonged to the Free State of Thuringia.

Population development

Development of the population (as of December 31st) :

1994: 1355 1995: 1354 1996: 1358 1997: 1350 1998: 1377 1999: 1379

2000: 1351 2001: 1362 2002: 1356 2003: 1339 2004: 1332 2005: 1323

2006: 1300 2007: 1292 2008: 1298 2009: 1287 2010: 1303 2011: 1247

2012: 1254 2013: 1229 2014: 1206 2015: 1189 2016: 1197 2017: 1187

2018: 1179 2019: 1177

Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

politics

In the municipal council election on June 7th, 2009 the result was:

• Voting community “Neues St. Gangloff”: 66.9% - 8 seats
• Free voter community: 33.1% - 4 seats

The honorary mayor Frank Wiedenhöft from the “Neues St. Gangloff” community of voters was elected in June 2004 and re-elected in 2010 and 2016. The predecessor was Dirk Hänse.

Economy and Infrastructure

St. Gangloff has a well-developed industrial area in which several companies have settled over the years. The best-known company is probably the Goldmännchen Tea company .

education

After the fire in the old school, a new school was opened in St. Gangloff in 1980 as POS Werner Lamberz . After 1990 this was converted into a state school . The school was closed on July 31, 2007 due to declining student numbers.

Culture and sights

Village church (2005)

Some old half-timbered houses in the "Old Village" are worth seeing, one of them with an original clay oven, the village church of St. Gangloff with the old cemetery and the forest cemetery.

About two kilometers southwest of the village, just a few meters from the federal highway 9 , there is a stone cross . It was originally hidden in the forest and was set up in its current location in 1964 after it was found.

Web links

Commons : St. Gangloff  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Pages about St. Gangloff on the website of the administrative association Hermsdorf

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Sven Ostritz (Ed.): Saale-Holzland-Kreis, Ost (= Archaeological Hiking Guide Thuringia. H. 9). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-937517-51-3 , p. 126.
3. ↑ St. Gangloff in the municipality register 1900
4. ↑ 2009 municipal council elections in Thuringia - final result. The Thuringian State Returning Officer, accessed on December 12, 2010
5. ↑ Sven Ostritz (Ed.): Saale-Holzland-Kreis, Ost (= Archaeological Hiking Guide Thuringia. H. 9). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-937517-51-3 , p. 125.