Gilserberg

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Gilserberg
Coat of arms Location
Coat of arms of Gilserberg
Gilserberg (Germany)
Gilserberg
Administration
Country Flag of Germany Germany
State Hesse
Admin. region Kassel
District Schwalm-Eder-Kreis
Local subdivisions 10 Ortsteile
Mayor Lothar Vestweber
Basic statistics
Area 61.58 km² (23.8 sq mi)
Elevation 341 m  (1119 ft)
Population 3,354  (31/12/2006)
 - Density 54 /km² (141 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate HR
Postal code 34630
Area code 06696
Website www.gilserberg.de

Coordinates: 50°57′00″N 09°04′00″E / 50.95, 9.066667

Gilserberg is a community in the Schwalm-Eder district in Hesse, Germany.

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[edit] Geography

[edit] Location

Gilserberg lies at the foot of the Kellerwald, a low mountain range, nestled in the Kurhessen Highland on Federal Highway (Bundesstraße) B 3, 60 km from Kassel and 30 km from Marburg.

[edit] Constituent communities

Together with the main centre, which also bears the same name as the whole municipality, the ten centres of Appenhain, Heimbach, Itzenhain, Lischeid, Moischeid, Sachsenhausen, Schönau, Schönstein, Sebbeterode and Winterscheid also belong to the community of Gilserberg.

[edit] History

Gilserberg had its first documentary mention in 1262.

[edit] Religion

[edit] Jewish community

There was a Jewish community in Gilserberg from the 18th century through to sometime after 1933. The Jewish population peaked about 1900 at 70 or more persons. The first synagogue was supposedly built about the beginning of the 19th century. A newer one was festively consecrated on 12 January 1898. However, it was destroyed on Kristallnacht (9 November 1938). At least four of the community's Jewish residents were murdered in Nazi death camps. All that is left nowadays in Gilserberg of the former Jewish community is a small Jewish graveyard.

[edit] Amalgamations

As part of Hesse's municipal reforms, the formerly independent communities of Gilserberg, Heimbach, Lischeid, Moischeid, Sachsenhausen, Schönau, Schönstein, Sebbeterode and Winterscheid voluntarily combined to form the community of Gilserberg on 1 January 1972. On 1 April of the same year, the communities of Appenhain and Itzenhain also joined, making the community complete.

[edit] Town partnership

[edit] References

This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.

[edit] External links