Hammerstedt

Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Weimar Country
Management Community :	Mellingen
Height :	278 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.95 km 2
Residents:	179 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	45 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	99441
Area code :	036453
License plate :	AP, APD
Community key :	16 0 71 027
Association administration address:	Karl-Alexander-Str. 134a ; 99441 Mellingen
Website :	www.hammerstedt.de
Mayor :	Holger Hartwig
Location of the municipality Hammerstedt in the Weimarer Land district

Hammerstedt is a municipality in the south of the Weimarer Land district . It belongs to the Mellingen administrative community .

location

Hammerstedt connects with its boundary at the beginning of the high plateau of the Ilm-Saale-Platte at the boundary of Großschwabhausen . The district is therefore located in the arable farming area between Apolda and Weimar . Federal highway 7 to the north and federal highway 87 to the west past the corridor. To the south, the Gera- Weimar railway line touches the agricultural area.

history

The place was first mentioned around 900 as Hamarestete . In 1287 it appeared as Hamerstete . During the Thirty Years' War the village was largely destroyed, and in 1784 a major fire destroyed the church and 33 houses. Hammerstedt has been a member of the Mellingen administrative community since 1991, a voluntary association of municipalities to deal with administrative work, whereby the municipality continues to be run independently by an honorary mayor.

Population development

Development of the population (December 31) :

1995: 194
2000: 191

2005: 171
2010: 168

2015: 170

Data source: Thuringian State Office for Statistics

Town view from the west

Culture and sights

The Protestant branch church is a massive, stone-faced choir tower church . It burned down in 1784 and was rebuilt with a mansard roof in 1787 . The pulpit altar in the round-arched triumphal arch is from the same period. Outside the building, on the north side of the choir, there are remains of gravestones from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Individual evidence

^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).
↑ Stephanie Eißing and others: Thuringia (= Handbook of German Art Monuments . ). Revision. 2nd, revised and supplemented edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 , p. 560.

Web links

Commons : Hammerstedt - Collection of images, videos and audio files

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-TH-1] Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).

[2] Stephanie Eißing and others: Thuringia (= Handbook of German Art Monuments . ). Revision. 2nd, revised and supplemented edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 , p. 560.