Willi Görich

Willi Görich (born July 7, 1907 in Frankfurt am Main ; † February 9, 1991 ) was a Hessian state historian .

He grew up in Herford and studied history , prehistory and early history , folklore , art history and geology in Frankfurt am Main , Königsberg , Tübingen and, above all, in Marburg . He received his doctorate in 1948 at the University of Marburg under Friedrich Küch and Edmund E. Stengel with a dissertation on early medieval streets and castles in Upper Hesse . Afterwards it worked as a historian and until 1972 as curator at the Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies in Marburg . He was honorary chairman of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies , Marburg Department. His work focused in particular castles - and Altwegeforschung , settlement and urban history and the Middle Ages .

Works

Street, castle and town in Upper Hesse from the early days to the end of the Middle Ages. Historical Commission for Hesse and Waldeck, Marburg 1938.
Early medieval streets and castles in Upper Hesse. Dissertation, University of Marburg, 1948.
Taunus crossings and Wetterau streets in the foreland of Frankfurt. Staudt, Bad Homburg before d. Height 1954.
City map with hiking trails University town of Marburg an der Lahn. 19th, improved edition. Becker, Marburg 1978.
Medieval city plans: Biedenkopf, Melsungen, Zwingenberg, Münzenberg, Schwarzenborn, Zierenberg, Hachenburg, Kirchhain. Marburg / Lahn 1978.