Niedergrunstedt

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Niedergrunstedt
City of Weimar
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 27 ″  N , 11 ° 17 ′ 1 ″  E
Height : 304 m above sea level NN
Area : 3.89 km²
Residents : 569  (Dec. 31, 2007)
Population density : 146 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : April 1, 1994
Postal code : 99428
Area code : 03643
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Location of Niedergrunstedt in Weimar
St. Mauritius Church
St. Mauritius Church

As a former village municipality, Niedergrunstedt is a district of the city of Weimar in the state of Thuringia . It is located southwest of the city center.

history

Niedergrunstedt is a street village with upper and lower villages (south and north of the Kirschbach). The place was mentioned for the first time in two documents from 1289 as Grunstete , in 1301 Nydern Grunstete was mentioned for the first time to distinguish it from the neighboring Obergrunstedt (today the district of Weimarer Land ) . To the east of the locality, the desert of Neuses has been proven until the 16th century.

A Niedergrunstedter church is documented in writing since 1322, when Pope Johannes XXII. made the Mauritius church a destination for pilgrimages through a letter of indulgence . The first evidence of a pastor comes from 1363.

The church was destroyed with parts of the village in the Saxon fratricidal war in 1447 and rebuilt by 1450. In 1726–29 the church was built in the form that it largely still has today. A long house with a mansard roof was added to the late Gothic tower, the galleries and the wooden barrel vault were painted with biblical scenes by the Weimar court painter Johann Ernst Rentzsch.

In 1556 the first school was set up in Niedergrunstedt. In 1836 a new building was built, which, together with the classroom added in 1890, served as a school building until 1975.

In 1919 Lyonel Feininger painted the church. The picture Church in Niedergrunstedt hangs today in Berlin's New National Gallery as a permanent loan of the State of Berlin.

The first book burning , which took place in Thuringia in 1933, was organized by the Weimar local group of the ethnic-anti-Semitic German National Sales Aid Association near Niedergrunstedt.

The place was occupied by soldiers of the 3rd US Army in April 1945 . Before that, an aerial mine caused damage to the tower, roof and windows of the Church of St. Mauritius. A reconstruction of the church roof took place in 1992–94. In 1999, the organ from the Witzmann workshop from the middle of the 19th century could be used again for the first time in decades through maintenance and care work.

The basis of life was small and medium-sized agriculture. The American occupation forces had already been replaced by the Red Army in July 1945 . Accordingly, Niedergrunstedt now went along with all the upheavals in the Soviet Zone and GDR. In 1952 the LPG "Glückauf" was founded, and under considerable pressure the last farmers joined the LPG in 1960, which achieved "full cooperative character". After 1990 a significant development began, which was reflected in the development of two new building areas in which numerous single-family houses were built. In 1994 Niedergrunstedt was incorporated into Weimar.

Population and economy

The district has 569 inhabitants. Many children and young people live in the two new development areas in particular. There are some businesses and companies based in the village. By resolution of the municipal council, Niedergrunstedt was incorporated into the city of Weimar in 1994.

Culture

The Hofatelier Niedergrunstedt is known beyond Weimar's borders for its art exhibitions, art circles and youth work. Two local associations - the local association Lebendiges Niedergrunstedt and the Heimatverein - are committed to monument, nature and landscape protection in the district and to the preservation of old village traditions and to the coexistence in the village. In addition to their actual work, the volunteer fire brigade actively contributes to the locality and is a point of contact for young people with its promotion of young talent. The annual village festival, the setting of the maypole and the fair are traditional highlights in Niedergrunstedt. Numerous other events of the music kindergarten, the parish, the senior citizens and the sports club shape the village community life. The idyllic village center has repeatedly been the location for television productions by KiKA ( An Angel for All , The Ten Commandments ) in recent years .

Personalities

  • Rudolf Vent (1880–1948), landscape painter
  • Horst Arloth (1925–2018), printer and university professor

literature

  • Sabine Neubert: Churches in and around Weimar. Volume 1: The parishes and their places of worship in the Weimar parish north of the Autobahn. 2nd, modified edition. Wartburg-Verlag, Jena 1991, ISBN 3-86160-030-7 , 125 f.
  • Hans-Gottfried Schmidt: Niedergrunstedt. Brief outline of Niedergrunstedt's history and description of the listed town center. Heimatverein Niedergrunstedt, Weimar 1999.
  • Hartmut Ellrich : The most beautiful churches in Thuringia. Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-374-02504-6 .
  • Niedergrunstedt on stadt.weimar.de

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christina Tillmann: The church in the village. In: www.tagesspiegel.de. Der Tagesspiegel, February 28, 2008, accessed April 26, 2009 .
  2. ↑ Weimar newspaper, June 22, 1933; https://verbrannte-orte.de/ , April 23, 2020; http://www.verbrannte-buecher.de , April 23, 2020

Web links

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