Günserode

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Location of the district in Kyffhaeuser country

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Günserode is a municipality in the Thuringian Kyffhaeuser country Kyffhauserkreis.

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Geography

Günserode is a linear village and is located southeast of the Wipper breakthrough of the Wipper.

Overlooking the Wippertal

Orchids in Günserode

History

There is a hermit named Günther is mentioned in the year 1006 which gave the village the Benedictine Monastery Göllingen. The name of the hermit could be the etymological origin of the modern place- name: Günserode = " clearing of the Günther".

In 1265 the place came to the monastery chapel, which was located on the left bank between Wipper Günserode and Seega. In 1193 it became a Benedictine and 1537, presumably canceled as a result of the Reformation, again. Later it was a chapel mill with a picnic area, of which only a ruin is left today.

The place was since 1356 in the possession of the House of Schwarzburg and became part of the Principality of Schwarzburg- Rudolstadt. After the end of World War II in late November 1919, the Free State of Schwarzburg- Rudolstadt, who came up in 1920 in Thuringia.

On December 31, 2012, the congregation joined Günserode with other communities of the administrative community Kyffhaeuser to the community " Kyffhaeuser country " together.

Population Development

Development of the population of the municipality Günserode (31 December):

  • 2005: 174
  • 2010: 172

Policy

In the state elections in 2009 reached the left with 47.5% of the second votes their nationwide best result.

Culture and sights

  • On the Kohnstein (not to be confused with the Kohnstein in the southern Harz ) is a large-scale, three-piece wall system, which dates from the late Bronze Age and the Pre-Roman Iron Age. You should have been still used in the Middle Ages. From the Bronze Age, a rich bronze treasure was discovered and salvaged. It is believed that even a former place of worship was on this mountain. The Kohnstein is popularly called also Sweden hill.
  • The Protestant Church of St. Nicholas was originally a medieval building, of which the square choir tower remains. The nave was rebuilt in the 17th century. The tower carries a hipped roof with picturesque Uhrerker. Inside, the facility has a three-sided, two-story loft, a wooden barrel and a baroque pulpit altar. The choir contains a groin vault. About the Arc de Triomphe is a mural from the early 20th century, depicting the Sermon on the Mount. The funnel-like font is from 1567.
  • In Günserode are historic and well-preserved half-timbered farmsteads, including Dreiseithöfe. Chance of attention to the building Gaffköpfe.
  • Near the town the nature reserve Wipper breakdown of the flowering of thousands in a spring orchid is.

Clubs

  • Home club
  • Hunting association
  • Kleingartenverein
Order of Saint Benedict Protestant Reformation Georg Dehio Badra, Germany Bendeleben Hachelbich Rottleben Steinthaleben
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