Geismar

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Geismar (disambiguation) .

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?	Coordinates: 51 ° 14 '  N , 10 ° 10'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
District :	Eichsfeld
Management community :	Ershausen / Geismar
Height :	210 m above sea level NHN
Area :	19.44 km 2
Resident:	1067 (Dec. 31, 2020)
Population density :	55 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	37308
Area code :	036082
License plate :	EIC, HIG, WBS
Community key :	16 0 61 035
Association administration address:	Kreisstrasse 4 37308 Schimberg
Website :	www.ershausen-geismar.de
Mayor :	Martin Kozber ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Geismar in the Eichsfeld district

Geismar is a municipality in the administrative community Ershausen / Geismar in the Thuringian district of Eichsfeld . It lies on the border with Hesse.

geography

The community is located in the south of Eichsfeld at the confluence of the Frieda , Rosoppe and Rode rivers . The southern boundary of the district forms the Thuringian- Hessian state border. The district town of Heilbad Heiligenstadt is about 15 kilometers to the north and the city of Eschwege is 9 kilometers to the south-west. Neighboring communities are Schimberg , Lengenfeld unterm Stein , Pfaffschwende and Sickerode as well as Wanfried in the Werratal in Hesse .

Church organization

View of Geismar

Church organization

The districts of Geismar belong to:

• Geismar
• Great potter
• Döringsdorf
• Bebendorf

mountains

The municipality is characterized by numerous mountains:

• Keudelskuppe (484.7 m) southeast of Döringsdorf
• Hülfensberg (448.2 m) in the central part of the municipality
• Schloßberg (442.5 m) west of Großtöpfer
• Rollsberg (406.6 m) east of Geismar

story

middle age

The earliest documentary mention, which the State Archives Magdeburg recognized as secure in October 1993, is dated October 22, 1357 and says that Archbishop Gerlach of Mainz gave the parish church of Geismar and the chapel of S. Salvatoris on the Staufenberg to the Anrode monastery (Hülfensberg) hands over. A previously dated mention in 1269 has not yet been adequately confirmed. The name Geismar developed from the Old High German words gisan and mari or meri , which means "swampy area with many springs in which air bubbles rise". The document shows that the parish church at that time was subordinate to the Anrode monastery . Over the centuries, the village has moved from the slope of the Hülfensberg to its current location.

The Greifenstein castle ruins from the 14th century are located on the Schlossberg, 2000 meters west of the Großtöpfer district .

Modern times

During the Thirty Years War Geismar was burned down by Swedish soldiers in 1641 as an act of revenge against the peasant population. Only four houses were spared. The plague that was introduced into the Eichsfeld district in 1682 also left devastating traces in Geismar. The first village school was built at the end of the 17th century. Until 1867 it was single class. The location of the school changed several times.

During the Seven Years' War , French soldiers billeted themselves in the houses where they lived at the expense of the population. In 1802 the Eichsfeld and with it Geismar fell to the crown of Prussia . Five years later it was incorporated into the Kingdom of Westphalia created by Napoleon . From 1814 until 1945 Geismar was again Prussian. Confessing Bishop Konrad Martin was born in Geismar in 1812. In 1825 the place was the victim of a major fire. Then began to rebuild the current parish church. In 1832 cholera broke out in the village and claimed many victims. From 1921 the place was connected to the power grid.

In 1920 the football club Traktor Geismar e. V. founded. Today it is called FSV 1920 Geismar e. V.

During the Second World War , from 1943 onwards, more than 30 men and women from Poland and Russia had to do forced labor for farmers in Geismar, Großtöpfer, Döringsdorf and Bebendorf . Five people from these locations were subjected to forced sterilization . The basis was the law for the prevention of genetically ill offspring from 1934.

On April 8, 1945 Geismar was occupied by the US Army , on the same day the district of Großtöpfer; both villages with building damage after artillery fire. Two civilians died in Geismar.

At the beginning of July 1945 the US Army was replaced by the Red Army . Real socialist rule began with expropriations of the population who owned the means of production. The village was now in the five-kilometer-wide security belt on the inner-German border . A third of the village residents left the village in the 1950s and fled to West Germany. An economic decline began in the entire region. In 1957/58 the village received a sewer system. Between 1983 and 1989, Dieter Althaus , former Prime Minister of the Free State of Thuringia, worked as a teacher at the Polytechnic High School in Geismar. 1993 became Großtöpfer, in 1994 Bebendorf and Döringsdorf were incorporated into Geismar.

Population development

Development of the population (December 31) :

1813: 0879 1994: 1,334 1995: 1,346 1996: 1.313 1997: 1.305 1998: 1,311

1999: 1,322 2000: 1,325 2001: 1,318 2002: 1,317 2003: 1.301 2004: 1,301

2005: 1,279 2006: 1,246 2007: 1,238 2008: 1,238 2009: 1,207 2010: 1,174

2011: 1,173 2012: 1,154 2013: 1,136 2014: 1,136 2015: 1,153 2016: 1,133

2017: 1,127 2018: 1,100 2019: 1.084 2020: 1,067

Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics / 1813: 700 years Geismar (Festschrift)

politics

Municipal council

The local council of Geismar consists of twelve council members.

• CDU : 7 seats
• Free voters : 5 seats

(Status: 2014 local elections)

Mayor

The honorary mayor Martin Kozber (CDU) was elected on June 6, 2010 and re-elected on June 5, 2016.

Geismar village church

Church of Döringsdorf

Eichsfelder Kreuz near the former border on Hülfensberg

Culture and sights

• The tradition of a pilgrimage to the chapel on the Hülfensberg with the Romanesque Hülfenskreuz located there - it is considered to be the most revered sacred work of art in the Eichsfeld region. A somewhat younger Way of the Cross leads up to the chapel . The pilgrimage to the Hülfensberg has been upheld since the late Middle Ages (first mentioned in 1351). Several coin finds in the vicinity of the chapel prove that even pilgrims from the Bremen area made this long journey.
• Another symbol of the region is the Eichsfeld Cross , it stands on the Hessian side near the state border, was erected as a memorial in 1980 and is today a symbol of the regained German unity .
• The village church of St. Ursula has a decorative altar
• To the east of Döringsdorf, the Keudelskuppe marks the location of a medieval estate belonging to the Lords of Keudell . This desert lies directly on the national border.
• On the Schloßberg near Großtöpfer is the medieval castle ruin Greifenstein , of which only small remains of the wall have survived.
• The districts are located on the Grünes Band border hiking trail .

The historic town center of Geismar was registered as a monument ensemble in the monuments book of the Free State of Thuringia in June 2018 . In the districts of the community there are still numerous interesting half-timbered houses and farmsteads. A memorial stone marks the location of the birthplace of Bishop Konrad Martin . Another house with a stone entrance (Mainzer Tor, with Kurmainzer coat of arms) belonging to the old Kotten belonged to H. Goldmann , grandfather of the Franciscan father and China missionary Eusebius Lange . The new Kanonenbahn cycle path was set up along the former Leinefelde – Treysa railway line between Geismar and Dingelstädt .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the congregation

• Josepha von Siebold (1771–1849), first German gynecologist
• Konrad Martin (1812–1879), Bishop of Paderborn
• Hermann Siegfried Rosenberg (1831–1901), numismatist and founder of the HS Rosenberg auction house of the same name in Hanover
• Heinrich Waldmann (1927–2008), archivist, head of the Merseburg office of the German Central Archives
• Arno Wand (* 1943), Roman Catholic priest, church historian and author

Persons connected to Geismar

• Dieter Althaus (* 1958), former Prime Minister of Thuringia, worked there as a teacher at the polytechnic high school.
• Werner Henning , District Administrator of the Eichsfeld District since 1994, is at home in Geismar.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of the communities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (ed.): Heimatgeschichtlicher Wegweiser to places of resistance and persecution 1933–1945, series: Heimatgeschichtliche Wegweiser Volume 8 Thüringen, Erfurt 2003, ISBN 3- 88864-343-0
3. ↑ Eduard Fritze: The last days of the war in Eichsfeld . Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2002. ISBN 3-936030-06-5 . Pp. 189 and 190
4. ↑ 2014 municipal council elections in Thuringia - final result. Thuringian State Office for Statistics, accessed on May 25, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Mayoral elections in Thuringia
6. ↑ Thuringian State Gazette No. 25/2018, page 720

Web links

Commons : Geismar (Eichsfeld)  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• www.geismar-eichsfeld.de Website from Geismar