Geismar (Fritzlar)

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Geismar
City of Fritzlar
Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 14 "  N , 9 ° 14 ′ 49"  E
Height : 186 m above sea level NHN
Area : 10.82 km²
Residents : 1000  (2007)
Population density : 92 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 34560
Area code : 05622

Geismar is a village of about 1000 inhabitants in the north Hessian Schwalm-Eder district , on the edge of the Edertal on the Hessian Elbe . The place is a district of the city of Fritzlar and is separated from the core city by the mountain Eckerich .

history

Reconstructed Chattic village "Alt-Geismar"

Geismar desert

In the 1970s, an extensive excavation funded by the DFG and carried out by the State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (Marburg branch) uncovered a village settlement of around nine hectares in size about 550 m south-southwest of today's village center near the eastern foot of the Biening , the deserted Geismar ( ⊙ ). The former settlement was probably already around 200  BC. Chr. Created and n. Chr was to around the first turn of the millennium. Inhabited in several phases. This provided archaeological evidence for the settledness of the Chattas during the migration period .

In 1998, in the village of Geismar near the west foot of the Eckerich, the replica of some of the houses in this Chattendorf as an open-air museum “Alt Geismar” or “Alt-Geismar” ( ⊙ ) was completed.

Donareiche

Wooden Boniface monument in the village

In 723 Boniface had the Donariche , the sanctuary of the Chatti , felled near Geismar . According to some interpretations, the oak stood on the Johanniskirchenkopf, but according to the prevailing opinion it was on today's cathedral square in Fritzlar, about 1.5 km from the old Geismar.

Middle Ages and Modern Times

In the Middle Ages, the village belonged to the County of Maden and then to the Landgraviate of Hesse and was located directly on the border with Fritzlar in Mainz on the one hand and the County of Waldeck on the other. In the early days of the Landgraviate of Hesse, a family of landgrave ministers residing in Geismar called themselves "von Geismar"; it had an upright stag in its coat of arms.

In the Middle Ages, desolate settlements in the area around Geismar were Helnhausen , Niederndorf and Oberndorf .

On August 13, 1525, the expelled pastor and reformer Johann Hefentreger , who from 1526 played the leading role in the introduction of the Reformation in the neighboring county of Waldeck , held his farewell sermon for his Fritzlar followers in the church of Geismar.

On December 31, 1971, the previously independent municipality of Geismar was incorporated into the city of Fritzlar as part of the regional reform in Hesse .

politics

The current mayor is Helmut Krug. (As of August 2017)

Culture and sights

Church with the outer walls of the former fortified church
  • Evangelical village church (built 1743–1744): simple baroque hall church , successor to a fortified church
  • Boniface Monument
  • "Alt-Geismar", replica of a Chatti village, based on excavations carried out nearby. The local wine festival and Christmas market take place here every year.
  • Mineral spring "Sauerbrunnen" (" Donar spring" ), northwest of Geismar on the road to Züschen
  • The foundation walls of the Johanneskirche are still visible on the nearby Johanneskirchenkopf

literature

  • A. Thiedmann: The Geismar settlement near Fritzlar. Excavations and research in the prehistoric and early historical settlement in the Schwalm-Eder district. (Archaeological Monuments in Hesse, No. 2.) State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse, Wiesbaden, 1978, 2. completely reworked. Edition 2000, ISBN 3-89822-002-8

Web links

Commons : Geismar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Geismar, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of June 11, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ^ Geismar (desert), Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  3. ↑ Altgeismar. History. In: www.alt-geismar.de. Friends of the Old Farm Geismar e. V., accessed on November 29, 2018 .
  4. ↑ August Heldmann, "On the history of the Viermünden court and its families. I. The bailiffs of Keseberg." In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies. New episode. Fifteenth volume. Kassel, 1890.
  5. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 392 .
  6. ^ Source altlas: Fritzlar-Geismar, Donarquelle