Gœrsdorf | |
Native Name: | Gerschdorf |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason ville fr Goersdorf (Bas-Rhin).svg |
Arrondissement: | Haguenau-Wissembourg |
Canton: | Reichshoffen |
Insee: | 67160 |
Postal Code: | 67360 |
Mayor: | Freddy Cuntz[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Coordinates: | 48.9525°N 7.7697°W |
Elevation Min M: | 164 |
Elevation Max M: | 463 |
Area Km2: | 13.14 |
Gœrsdorf (in French pronounced as /ɡœʁsdɔʁf/;) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.[2] The commune merged with Mitschdorf at the start of 1973.[3]
Gœrsdorf is part of the Northern Vosges Regional Nature Park.
Author and priest Joseph Kuntz was born at Gœrsdorf on 25 July 1850: he died on 7 January 1892. Between those dates he founded the journal "l'Elsässer" with his sponsor, Abbot Muller-Simonis. (The German language name of the journal recalls the fact that between 1871 and 1918 Alsace was part of Germany).