Siemerode
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Siemerode
Hohes Kreuz parish
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 24 ″ N , 10 ° 7 ′ 10 ″ E
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| Height : | approx. 297 m above sea level NN |
| Residents : | 754 |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1991 |
| Postal code : | 37308 |
| Area code : | 03606 |
 Location of Siemerode in Hohes Kreuz
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 View from the west from the Hohen Kreuz to Siemerode
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Siemerode is a district of the Thuringian community Hohes Kreuz in the district of Eichsfeld .
Geography and traffic
The place is on the Thuringian state road 1005 and the German fairy tale route near the Lower Saxony- Thuringia border. Surrounding places are Bischhagen , Streitholz , Günterode and Weißenborn in Lower Saxony.
Siemerode can be reached via the “ Heilbad Heiligenstadt ” junction on federal motorway 38 . The next train station is also in Heiligenstadt.
history
Siemerode is first mentioned in 1055 as Selmanroth in a deed of donation from the Archbishop of Mainz . Until the secularization , Siemerode and the surrounding places belonged to Kurmainz . Later they were part of the province of Saxony .
A US fighter-bomber attack on April 9, 1945 killed 6 residents, 3 of them children. The church was destroyed by a direct hit. The place was occupied on the same day.
From the beginning of July 1945, Siemerode was part of the Soviet occupation zone . From 1949 until reunification , Siemerode belonged to the GDR . In 1990 the independent municipality became part of the new federal state of Thuringia.
On January 1, 1991, the communities of Siemerode, Mengelrode , Bischhagen and Streitholz merged to form the new community of Hohes Kreuz, which has been part of the Leinetal administrative community since January 2, 1992 .
The St. Nicholas Church , built in 1732 and 1733, was destroyed by aerial bombs on April 9, 1945 and rebuilt. There is also a primary school in town. 754 inhabitants currently live in Siemerode.
Marian column
Magdalenenkapelle
St. Nicholas Church
Individual evidence
- ^ Eduard Fritze: The last days of the war in Eichsfeld . Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza 2002. ISBN 3-936030-06-5 . Pp. 196-197
