Georgensgmund

Georgensgmund is a municipality in the principal Franconia district of Roth. The area is first documented in 1304 as Gmundt, on account that 1410 within the shape of Jorgengemund, from 1531 in its present form Georgesgemundt. The location name derives from the equal field name that is primarily based on the Old High German phrase gimundi. To distinguish comparable places in the instantaneous vicinity of the call of St. George became delivered as a determinative word. Since Georgensgmund become located on primary exchange routes, investors and vacationers moved through the metropolis. At the stop of the 16^th century, a considerable number of Jews arrived within the village.

The synagogue and the Jewish cemetery are memories from this era. The lords of Hausen, a lower noble own family from Weiboldshausen, have been due to the fact that 1292 lords of the Nuremberg burgrave. They belonged until 1548 numerous goods in and round Georgensgmund. In addition, they had the patronage rights of the Church of St. George. Her coat of palms is a pink ibex with black horns on a gold history. From 1548 to 1792 Georgensgmund belonged to the Principality of Ansbach.