Gessertshausen

Gessertshausen is a municipality in the Swabian district of Augsburg and the seat of the administrative community Gessertshausen.

  • 2.1 Amalgamations
  • 4.1 monuments
  • 5.1 traffic 5.1.1 Public Transport
  • 5.1.2 private transport
  • 6.1 Sons and daughters of Gessertshausen

Geography

Gessertshausen located about fifteen kilometers west of Augsburg at the Schmutter and the Natural Park Augsburg Western Woods.

Districts

  • Main town, parish and village district Gessertshausen with the hamlet Dietkirch, the Hubertus chapel, the monastery Oberschönenfeld and the desert Bergmühle
  • Kirchdorf and district Deubach with the desert Deubacher mill
  • Parish village and subdistrict Döpshofen with the village and the hamlet Weiherhof Engelshof
  • Kirchdorf and district Margertshausen
  • Kirchdorf and district Wolli Hausen

Margertshausen

On the right bank of the Schmutter, 17 km south-west of Augsburg, is the former independent municipality Margertshausen. Already in the 10th century has found a settlement there, but the place itself was probably built as early as the 8th or 9th century. For the first time mentioned in a document in 1140 " Madelgershausen ". Margertshausen belonged to the established by the Bishop Ulrich of Augsburg hospital and went in the 12th century to the Augustinian Canons of the Holy Cross on which exercised the lordship until the secularization.

History

Gessertshausen one of the first settlements in Schmuttertal and is considered as the starting point for the colonization of the area. Documented the place " Gotsherhusen " is first recorded in the year 1150.

In the Middle Ages the episcopal possessions from Augsburg Gessertshausen to various citizens of Augsburg were awarded as fief. Through donations and purchase all these possessions were gradually to the monastery Oberschönenfeld, which exercised the lordship until the secularization in 1803. Since the secularization Gessertshausen is due to the Bavarian Reichsdeputationshauptschluss circuit.

Incorporations

On 1 July 1972, the previously independent municipalities Gessertshausen, Margertshausen and Wolli Hausen were merged to form the new municipality Gessertshausen. On May 1, 1978 Deubach and Döpshofen were added.

Policy

Allocation of seats in the 16 members of the municipal council ( state elections in 2008 ):

  • CSU: 9 seats
  • Free electoral association: 3 seats
  • SPD: 2 seats
  • Green: 2 seats

Since 2010, Claudia Schuster ( FW) first mayor of Gessertshausen.

Culture and sights

  • Monastery Oberschönenfeld
  • Swabian Folk Art Museum
  • Nature Park Augsburg Western Woods

Monuments

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Public transport

Gessertshausen is conveniently located on the railway line Ulm - Augsburg: On September 26, 1853 Part Augsburg- Dinkelscherben was opened in the Bavarian Maximilian Railway and built in Gessertshausen a station on this route. On May 1, 1854, finally, the total distance of Maximiliansbahn from Ulm to Munich was completed. Of 12 October 1910 to 8 February 1912, branching off from the Maximiliansbahn Staudenbahn of Gessertshausen on market forest and Ettringen to Türkheim was opened in several sections, which Gessertshausen became a railway junction. On September 24, 1982 by Forest Ettringen passenger and freight traffic on 28 May 1983, the set on the portion of the market because of the bad condition of the superstructure and shut down the section. On 31 May 1991, the passenger traffic between Gessertshausen and market forest and on 1 May 1996 was the transport of goods between Fischach and market adjusted forest. However, the route to Langenneufnach and on 1 May 2003 was to market reopened Forest on 28 July 2001. It is operated in freight and excursion traffic through the perennial traffic GmbH, which offers a four- hour trip with trains between Gessertshausen and market forest every second Sunday. The track is only accessible via the platform 1 of the newly built double-track railway Gessertshausen. On the main line Ulm- Munich today runs the Fugger Express, which runs every hour as each regional express from Ulm to Munich and as a regional train from Dinkelscherben to Munich, so there is a half hour between Dinkelscherben and Munich.

On Gessertshausen station there is a free park-and -ride space.

In the community Gessertshausen there are several bus stops that are served by the following lines of the Augsburg Transport Association:

  • Line 600: Augsburg Hbf - Gessertshausen Str. - Gessertshausen station - Wolli Hausen B 300 - Krumbach
  • Line 601: Augsburg Hbf - Gessertshausen Str. - Dietkirch - Wolli Hausen site - Fischach
  • Line 602: Gessertshausen station - Deubach firehouse - Deubach Church - Deubach Willi Str - Diedorf Station
  • Line 604: Gessertshausen station - Gessertshausen Oberschönenbuch Str - Margertshausen station - Margertshausen center - Mittelneufnach - Markt Wald
  • Line 605: Gessertshausen station - Gessertshausen Oberschönenbuch Str - Oberschönenfeld - Weiherhof - Döpshofen Weidenstr. - Döpshofen center - Mickhausen
  • Line 706: Gessertshausen station - Dietkirch - Wolli Hausen site - Mickhausen - Schwabmunchen Station
  • Line 707: Gessertshausen station - Dietkirch - Wolli Hausen site - Münster

Private transport

Gessertshausen is connected to the national road 300.

School

  • Primary school Gessertshausen

Personalities

Sons and daughters of Gessertshausen

  • Max Strehle ( born 1946 ), Member of the Bavarian Parliament (CSU )
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