Gerhardshofen

Gerhardshofen
Gerhardshofen
Location of Gerhardshofen within Neustadt a.d.Aisch-Bad Windsheim district
Coordinates	49°37′N 10°41′E
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Middle Franconia
District	Neustadt a.d.Aisch-Bad Windsheim
Municipal assoc.	Uehlfeld
Local subdivisions	14 Ortsteile
Mayor	Johann Müller
Basic statistics
Area	27.20 km2 (10.50 sq mi)
Elevation	288 m  (945 ft)
Population	2,546 (31 December 2011)
- Density	94 /km2 (242 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	NEA
Postal code	91466
Area code	09163
Website	www.gerhardshofen.de

Gerhardshofen is a municipality in the district of Neustadt (Aisch)-Bad Windsheim in the administrative region of Middle Franconia in northern Bavaria in Germany.

Geography

Gerhardshofen is located in the valley of the Aisch. The neighbouring municipalities are (from the north in clockwise direction): Dachsbach, Weisendorf, Oberreichenbach, Emskirchen, Diespeck and Gutenstetten. The municipality has 13 boroughs: Altenbuch, Birnbaum, Eckenhof, Emelsdorf, Forst, Göttelhöf, Kästel, Kleehof, Linden, Rappoldshofen, Sintmannsbuch, Vahlenmühle and Willmersbach.

History

The village owes its foundation to the franconian colonisation of the 9th century and thus is a foundation of the Carolingian dynasty.

The first documented notice of Gerhardshofen is from 1235. There was mentioned a Heinrich Neze von Gerhardshofen in two documents of the Burgraves of Nuremberg. The first non aristocratic inhabitant ever mentioned was Conrad Stahel in 1304.

In the First Margrave War (1449–1450) Nuremberg troops looted 118 cows and 17 horses from Gerhardshofen and Dachsbach.

In 1553 there existed 53 properties which belonged to the manorialism Brunn, the Markgraves' bailifs offices of Dachsbach and Neustadt an der Aisch and to the reeves offices of Birkenfeld and Münchsteinach. In the Thirty Years' War nearly all houses where destroyed, also the church was bourned out. But in 1697 there were already 44 farmsteads resettled. Their number increased to 57 in the year 1792.

The village belonged to the blood court of Dachsbach, but the manoralism Brunn did justice on their properties by their own rights.

Probably there was a church destroyed by 1450. By 1471 there was laid a foundation stone for a new church. The inauguration of it was in 1481. The great structural damages of the Thirty Years' War were not repaired until the end of the 17th century. The renovation of 1795 matched a new construction. It was done in the baroque style of the Markgraves. After a recent renovation the Lord's house is a gem in the Aischgrund.

Culture

Music

• Man choral society "Eintracht" Gerhardshofen

Periodic Events

• Kirchweih, each next to last Sunday in August.
• Annual alternating village fête and trade show.

Economics and Infrastructure

Federal highway B 470 is directed from north to south through the community area.

From 12 July 1904 until 30 May 1976 there was a railway, the Neustadt (Aisch)–Demantsfürth-Uehlfeld railway called Aischtalbahn, which lead to the Nuremberg–Würzburg railway. It was broken down and since then only buses connect Dachsbach with the surrounding area. The lines belong to the pay scale area of the Verkehrsverbund Großraum Nürnberg.