Geiselbach
Geiselbach is a municipality in the Lower Franconian district of Aschaffenburg.
- 2.1 Etymology
- 2.2 Earlier spellings
- 4.1 municipal
- 4.2 Town twinning
- 4.3 Coat of Arms
- 5.1 monuments
Geography
Geographical Location
Geiselbach located in Kahlgrund, right at the Bavarian / Hessian border, 20 km north of Aschaffenburg, 50 km east of Frankfurt am Main. Through the village leads the state road 2306.
Altitude: 272 m ( church) to 381 m ( Ziegelberg ) above sea level.
Community structure
The municipality Geiselbach has three officially named districts, 2 districts:
North of Geiselbach is an exclave of the municipality on Näßlichbach. The hostage Forst is a third, uninhabited district ( not the district ), which is not to be confused with the unincorporated area.
Neighboring communities
Name
Etymology
The name Geiselbach derives from the eponymous creek Geiselbach flowing to the Kahl at low Steinbach. In the vernacular of the place " Gaaselbich " is called.
Earlier spellings
Earlier spellings of the place from various historical maps and documents:
History
Geiselbach is documentary mentioned in 1269 in a sales contract between the town and the monastery Blessed Archbishopric of Mainz, between the abbot Conrad and the Archbishop Werner.
There is also an earlier document from 1250 in which it comes to a dispute between the brothers Friedrich and Heinrich von Rannenberg and Reinhard von Hanau to property and rights in Geiselbach.
After 1269 the monastery of Blessed city has its rights in Geiselbach to the noble families of Budingen, of Hanau, of Rannenberg and the knight Erpho of Orb assigned.
1278 took over the Gelnhäuser patrician Irmgard clumsy the Bailiwick Geiselbach with the villages Geiselbach, Omersbach and Hofstädten. In three documents dated May 25, 1278 was agreed between the abbey Blessed city and Mrs. Irmgard that the abbey could reacquire all rights to better times from her. Even before the turn of the century ( 1290 ) Knights of Erpho Orb is back as bailiff called in Geiselbach.
The Monastery of Blessed city retained control of Geiselbach until the secularization 1802. Most villages of the upper Kahlgrund came to the Principality of Aschaffenburg, Geiselbach, however, as part of the Abbey Blessed City, possession of the Landgrave of Hesse, who moved the Bailiwick of managing Geiselbach by Blessed City.
1811, the three villages were annexed to the großherzöglich - Hessian Office in Alzenau, which became Bavarian in 1816.
On January 1, 1972, until then independent municipality Omersbach was incorporated into Geiselbach, while also belonging to the bailiwick Geiselbach community Hofstädten 1978 came to Schöllkrippen.
Policy
Parish council
After the last municipal election held on 2 March 2008 the council has 14 members. The turnout was 69.4 %. The choice was as follows:
Another member and chairman of the municipal council is the mayor.
Twinning
- Bavent, Normandy
Coat of arms
Blazon: In red the golden capital letter A, accompanied above by two, down from a six-pointed silver star.
Coat of Arms History: The municipality Geiselbach was purchased for an undisclosed price from the Archbishopric of Mainz in 1296 by Blessed City monastery. It was thus with the neighboring towns and Hofstädten Omersbach the bailiwick of the "Three Villages", gained over which the monastery through the acquisition of the basic rule and low jurisdiction. The large A ( Abbatio ) in the coat of arms is the emblem of the Convention monastery Blessed city, and points to the close relationship to the Abbey manorial Blessed city until the secularization in 1802. The three six-pointed stars symbolize the "Three villages parish ". The silver and red are the colors of Kurmainz and remember its national rule until 1803.
Coat of leadership since August 1967.
Culture and sights
Monuments
→ List of monuments in Geiselbach
Famous sons of Geiselbach
- Peter Stenger (1792-1874), founder of the Stenger Brewery in Naperville, DuPage County, Illinois, United States
- Jakob Heilmann (1846-1927), Privy Councillor of Commerce and Contractors in Munich
- Maurice of Clumping (1851-1942), architect and Regierungsbaurat
- Carl Kaiser (1859-1945), Commerce and Draper, owner of Steigerwald & Kaiser in Leipzig
- Karl Ritter von Weber (1892-1941), Knight of the Military Order of Max Joseph Order and Major General in World War II
Curiosities
"High Eicher " are show- giving urinating a particularly high beam of themselves. The Geiselbacher always wanted to be something special in Kahlgrund, therefore gave the neighboring towns of the informers nicknamed - Ortsnecknamen " Gaselmischer high- Eicher "
From Geiselbach a Spottvers is handed down: Three villages fools stand on three Sparrn, this is also the title of a 2012 book published linguistics expert Almut King (University of Würzburg) on Ortsnecknamen in Lower Franconia.