Gersdorf, Saxony

Gersdorf is a municipality of the district of Zwickau in Saxony.

  • 3.1 election results for the local elections on 7 June 2009
  • 3.2 community partnership
  • 4.1 Museums
  • 4.2 Regular events
  • 4.3 Attractions
  • 4.4 memorials
  • 4.5 Sports
  • 5.1 Sons and daughters of the town
  • 5.2 personalities who have worked on site

Geography and transport

Gersdorf located in a valley along the course of Hege creek. Gersdorf is bordered by the cities Oberlungwitz in the north, and Oelsnitz Lugau the south and east and scorn village in the West. On the southern border of the town begins the Erzgebirge, the community itself is located in the Erzgebirge Basin.

Parallel to the local situation, the B 180, which the B173 crosses on the border with Oberlungwitz, through the municipal area runs. The community is also accessible via the connection points Hohenstein- Ernstthal and Desert Brand (A 4) and Stollberg East and Stollberg -West ( A 72 ). The nearest railway stations are located at the distances Dresden Werdau and Stollberg -St. Egidien.

History

Gersdorf was founded around the year 1169 as a typical Waldhufendorf. However, this date is a fictional and can not be confirmed in a document, it was to host a 800 - year celebration in 1969 elected. Gersdorfer the church is first mentioned in records in 1320. Around this time Frankish settlers came demonstrably into the country. Was named the place after the locator Gerhard or Gearfried.

With the transition from the 14th to the 15th century came slowly to the sway of the Schönburger belonging to residents in serfdom.

In the 19th century coal mining had a significant industrial expansion in Lugau - Oelsnitzer coal mining area and textile industries. While mining was stopped in 1944, the textile industry remained until the communist era into exist. Gersdorf - - Between 1913 and 1960, the interurban tram Hohenstein- Ernstthal Oelsnitz led through the village.

Population Development

The population figures for 1998 refer to December 31 of the preceding year:

To 1900

To 1998

From 1998

Policy

Mayoral election in 2013

Mayoral election in 2013 - community Gersdorf district Zwickau

Final result of the election on July 7 feature absolute% of eligible voters 3619 x 2272 voters 62.8 Invalid votes 19 0.8 Valid Votes 2253 99.2 which was attributable to: Streubel, Wolfgang ( KWG) 1 353 60.1 Niesslein, Oliver (GW ) 900 39.9

Selected full-time mayor: Streubel, Wolfgang ( KWG) 1 353 60.1

Predecessor: name, first name: Streubel, Wolfgang nomination carrier: WV (KWG) selected by ...%: 62.2

Election results of the local elections on 7 June 2009

The turnout was 46.5 % of the electorate.

Community partnership

With the Baden-Württemberg community Altlußheim a partnership is maintained since 1990.

Culture and sights

Museums

  • Heinz- Tetzner Museum ( in the Hessenmühle )

Regular events

  • Three Carnival events with the " Carnival - athletes " of the CSF on the Saturday after Ash Wednesday as the final
  • Brewer's Fest on the first Saturday in June
  • Settlers hard
  • International Senior Swimming Championships on the second or third weekend in July
  • Steeple hard each end of August or early September
  • Fair on the second weekend of October
  • Model railway exhibition on the 3rd weekend in Advent, and the 2nd and 3rd weekend in January
  • Pyramid Festival on the third Sunday of Advent

Attractions

  • St. Mary's Church with Jehmlich organ
  • Mining trail
  • Arts and cultural Hessenmühle
  • Good luck Brewery

Memorials

  • Burial and memorial stone in the local cemetery for Gersdorfer resistance fighters and victims of fascism: Anton Decker, George Martin, Louis Selbmann and Walter Lange.

Sports

In Gersdorf there is a large sports club with the name SSV Blue-White Gersdorf. In this approximately 1,000 members are organized.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Paul Werner (1904-1985), painter and curator
  • Heinz Tetzner (1920-2007), painter and graphic artist, recipient of the Order of Merit, First Class for his life's work
  • Günter Löffler ( born 1931 ), former Mayor ( 1991-1999 ), winner of the Saxon Order of Merit for his involvement in sport and society
  • Christian Friedrich Schultze ( born 1944 ), former People's Chamber and member of the Bundestag, author
  • Franz W. Leberl (* 1945 ), Austrian photogrammetrists and Professor of Computer Graphics and Vision

Personalities who have worked on site

  • Karl Drescher (1867-1938), member of the SPD in the Saxon parliament
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