Kehmstedt

coat of arms	Germany map
Help on coat of arms	Coordinates: 51 ° 28 '  N , 10 ° 37'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Nordhausen
Fulfilling municipality :	Bleicherode
Height :	240 m above sea level NHN
Area :	11.41 km 2
Residents:	454 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	40 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	99752
Area code :	036338
License plate :	NDH
Community key :	16 0 62 024
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 37 99752 Bleicherode
Mayor :	Uwe Merx
Location of the municipality of Kehmstedt in the Nordhausen district

Kehmstedt is a municipality in the Thuringian district of Nordhausen . The fulfilling municipality is the city of Bleicherode .

geography

Kehmstedt is located on the eastern slope of the valley of the Bölinger Graben , a stream that has its source streams in the partly wooded hills ( Fuchsberg , Bölinger Mittelberg , Michaelsgrund ) west of the village.

The highest peaks in the vicinity are the Kirchberg (278.3 m above sea level) in the north, the first mountain (289.5 m above sea level) in the northeast and the Kronberg (266.7 m above sea level) in the east. In the south, between Kehmstedt and Bleicherode, a ridge extends from 230 m above sea level. NN at Renneberg via Leimberg and Windberg (273.5 m above sea level) to Stäcksberg (303.3 m above sea level). The Alterode desert lies 2460 m west of the center of the village, on the border with the Kleinbodungen subdivision , and another desert area called Bölingen is located 2480 m to the northwest, albeit in the area of Bliedungen .

history

The Bronze Age depot find from Kehmstedt (left) with the depot from Bothenheilingen (right), the bronze shields from Herzsprung and two sword molds from Wennungen ; State Museum for Prehistory , Halle (Saale)

One kilometer south of the village, seven parallel bronze swords and a lance tip from the younger Bronze Age were found during road construction in 1906 . The find is assigned to a cultic laying down.

The first written mention of the place was in 1093. The historian Johann Georg Leuckfeld (1668–1726) wrote that the Counts of Northeim had ceded part of the place to the Bursfelde Monastery in the 11th century and that a Count Heinrich von Kercberch in 1295 ceded three hooves in Kemstede to the Walkenried monastery . Interest from Kehmstedt received the Kreuzstift and the nunnery on the Frauenberg in Nordhausen as well as the Ilfeld monastery . In 1334 the Crucis monastery , one of the former Nordhausen monasteries, owned in deserta Bulingen , the aforementioned desert.

politics

The municipal council in Kehmstedt consists of six council members:

• Friends of the CDU 4 seats
• Sport club Glückauf 2 seats

(As of: local elections on June 7, 2009)

Uwe Merx became mayor in 2010 and was the only candidate to be elected.

St. Martin Church

Village church of St. Martin from the south

Village church of St. Martin from the northwest

A striking sight of the place is the St. Martin's Church, built in the 17th century. The entrance to the nave was once on its south side, near the tower, it is now walled up. The tower, which is mighty in relation to the nave, is the oldest part of the building. It has a tapering, slate roof, in which small dormer windows are embedded in all four directions . The top is crowned by a golden tower ball with an attached golden weather vane . The sound of the bell leaves the bell cage through sound arcades , which are located directly under the eaves on the north and west sides of the tower. A tower clock with a white dial can be found on the south side. There are several large wall anchors in the upper part of the tower that were later attached to secure the building. In the south side of the tower three loops-like narrow windows lying one above the other can be seen.

On the east side of the tower is the slightly wider nave, which is covered with red tiles. The eastern end of the nave is formed by a choir, the two side walls of which are somewhat retracted in relation to the width of the nave. The interior of the church is illuminated by three high arched windows on the two long sides of the nave and two somewhat smaller arched windows in the choir.

The south wall of the nave and the choir received a new white plaster made of Hundisburg high- fire plaster under the direction of the Halberstadt architect Gerd Srocke, a native of Kehmstedt . As soon as the necessary financial means are available, the north wall and the tower will also be plastered.

The St. Martin's Church belongs to the southern Harz parish .

traffic

The L 1034 , which connects the B 243 (Hohenstein municipality) and the B 80 (Wipperdorf municipality) , runs through the town of Kehmstedt . In Wipperdorf and in Bleicherode there are motorway connections ( A 38 Kassel-Leipzig) and train stations on the Halle-Kassel route.

Personalities

• Margot Kessler (born September 8, 1948 in Kehmstedt), politician (SPD), member of the European Parliament
• Gottlieb Christoph Schmaling (born April 11, 1729 in Kehmstedt, † 1800), historian, poet, theologian

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Michael Köhler: Pagan Shrines Jenzig-Verlag 2007 ISBN 978-3-910141-85-8 p. 188
3. ↑ ^{a b} Kehmstedt at Rambow.de