Gelmeroda

Gelmeroda City of Weimar Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 55 ″  N , 11 ° 18 ′ 5 ″  E
Height :	340 m above sea level NN
Area :	2.1 km²
Residents :	416  (December 31, 2008)
Population density :	198 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	April 1, 1994
Postal code :	99428
Area code :	03643
Location of Gelmeroda in Weimar

Gelmeroda is a district of Weimar .

location

Gelmeroda is located southwest of the city of Weimar and north of the federal motorway 4 and its junction Weimar . The district is crossed by the federal highway 85 , which has a connection to the federal highway 4. The area around Gelmeroda is the southern border of the Thuringian basin and merges here into the foothills to the wooded hills and slopes around Buchfart and Troistedt . Gelmeroda covers an area of ​​2.10 km².

history

The district Gelmeroda was first mentioned in a document on January 18, 1301.

The settlement structure of the initially purely agricultural place changed at the beginning of the 20th century with the influx of workers from the nearby quarries and construction companies. In 1984 the construction of homes began to increase; after 1990 extensive residential areas were developed. In 1994 Gelmeroda was incorporated into the nearby city of Weimar. The district mayor is Veronika Majewski.

Population development

• December 31, 1993: 381
• December 31, 2005: 422
• December 31, 2008: 416
• December 31, 2009: 406
• December 31, 2010: 401
• December 31, 2011: 415

Attractions

Village church

The Gelmeroda village church was built between 900 and 1100. From 1906, it served the painter Lyonel Feininger as a template for numerous sketches, paintings, watercolors and woodcuts in the style of Cubism . Since 1994 it has been one of 42 German Autobahn churches ; since 1999 it has been the core of the Gelmeroda light sculpture .

For the cultural monuments of the place see the list of cultural monuments in Gelmeroda .

Gelmeroda in art

The German-American painter Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956) also became famous for his pictures of churches and village centers in the Weimar region. From the time of his work and study stays in Thuringia between 1906 and 1937, pictures of motifs from villages around Weimar were also taken. Feininger usually named and numbered the pictures after the respective localities. For Gelmeroda these are:

• 1908: Carnival in Gelmeroda
• 1913: Gelmeroda I (private collection, New York)
• 1913: Gelmeroda II (private property, New York)
• 1913: Gelmeroda III (National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh)
• 1915: Gelmeroda IV ( Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , New York)
• 1917: Gelmeroda VII (loan from the Kunsthaus Zürich )
• 1921: Gelmeroda VIII ( Whitney Museum of American Art , New York)
• 1922: Village pond in Gelmeroda ( Städelsches Kunstinstitut , Frankfurt am Main)
• 1926: Gelmeroda IX ( Folkwang Museum , Essen)
• 1928: Gelmeroda XI ( Weimar Classic Foundation , Weimar)
• 1929: Gelmeroda XII ( Rhode Island School of Design Museum )
• 1936: Gelmeroda XIII ( Metropolitan Museum of Art , George A. Hearn)

In 1929, the architect Ernst Neufert built a two-story wooden residential and studio building in the village.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 5th, improved and considerably enlarged edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 87.
2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated February 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Autobahnkirche.info  

Web links

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

• Page about Gelmeroda on the homepage of the city of Weimar