Görmar
Ortsteil of Mühlhausen
A street in Görmar
A street in Görmar
Location of Görmar
Görmar is located in Germany
Görmar
Görmar
Görmar is located in Thuringia
Görmar
Görmar
Coordinates: 51°12′41″N 10°29′28″E / 51.21139°N 10.49111°E / 51.21139; 10.49111
CountryGermany
StateThuringia
DistrictUnstrut-Hainich-Kreis
TownMühlhausen
First mentioned897[1]
Government
 • OrtsteilbürgermeisterJörg Schreiber[2]
Elevation
196 m (643 ft)
Population
 (March 2021)[3]
 • Total943
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
99974
Dialling codes03601
Vehicle registrationUH, LSZ, MHL
Websitemuehlhausen.de

Görmar (pronounced [ˈɡœʁmaːʁ]) is a village and a quarter of the town of Mühlhausen in Thuringia, central Germany.

Geography

Görmar is located to the east of the core town of Mühlhausen on the Bundesstraße (federal highway) 249 to Sondershausen. The village is located in the Thuringian Basin not far from the Unstrut river in an agricultural farming area. There is hardly any forest in the intensively used flat-wavy terrain. The climate is mild and low in precipitation with mostly groundwater-influenced soils.

History

The Eichsfeld region and the territory of the Reichsstadt (imperial city) of Mühlhausen with Görmar around 1759 (the map contains some errors)
St Martin's Church in Görmar

The village of Görmar was first mentioned in a document on 28 January 897.[1] For the early medieval history of the region, Görmar was important as the central place of the Germar-Mark named after it. Researchers dispute why this larger complex of royal estates in northwestern Thuringia was named after Görmar at the time and not after neighbouring Mühlhausen (for which there is evidence of royal estates itself). This suggests that Görmar may have been an important place in older times, especially as the place name is linguistic-historically much older than the name Mühlhausen, which dates from the Frankish period.[4]

For centuries, Görmar belonged to the sphere of influence of the Reichsstadt (imperial city) of Mühlhausen. In the Peasants' War, on 29 April 1525, the Stadtarmut ("urban poor") of Mühlhausen and the rebellious peasants founded the Vereinigter Mühlhäuser und Thüringer Haufen ("United Mühlhausen and Thuringian Troops") near Görmar, which marched from here into the Frankenhausen rebellion area.[5] In 1565, the population of Goermar (Görmar) was 53.[6]

In 1802, Görmar, together with Mühlhausen, fell to the Kingdom of Prussia, from 1807 to 1813 to the Kingdom of Westphalia (Dachrieden canton) created by Napoleon, and after the Congress of Vienna in 1816, it was assigned to the district of Mühlhausen i. Th. in the Prussian province of Saxony.

On 9 April 1994, Görmar was incorporated into Mühlhausen.

Sights

  • St Martin's Church, Görmar

Notable people

  • Johann Lorenz Albrecht (born 8 January 1732 in Görmar; died 29 November 1768 in Mühlhausen), composer[7]

References

  1. 1 2 Kahl, Wolfgang (2010). Ersterwähnung Thüringer Städte und Dörfer. Ein Handbuch [First mentions of Thuringia's towns and villages. A handbook] (in German) (5th ed.). Bad Langensalza: Rockstuhl. p. 94. ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0.
  2. ↑ "Der Ortsteil Görmar" [The quarter of Görmar] (in German). Stadt Mühlhausen. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
  3. ↑ "Einwohnerstatistik" [Population figures] (in German). Stadt Mühlhausen. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  4. ↑ Patze, Hans; Aufgebauer, Peter, eds. (1989). Handbuch der historischen Stätten Deutschlands [Handbook of Historic Sites in Germany]. Kröners Taschenausgabe (in German). Vol. 9: Thüringen (2nd ed.). Stuttgart: Kröner. p. 148. ISBN 3-520-31302-2.
  5. ↑ Heydick, Lutz, ed. (1978). Historischer Führer. Stätten und Denkmale der Geschichte in den Bezirken Erfurt, Gera, Suhl [Historical Guide. Sites and monuments of history in the districts of Erfurt, Gera, Suhl] (in German). Leipzig: Urania-Verlag. pp. 80f.
  6. ↑ Jordan, Reinhard, ed. (1900). Chronik der Stadt Mühlhausen in Thüringen [Chronicle of the town of Mühlhausen in Thuringia] (in German). Vol. 1: (–1525). Mühlhausen: Danner. p. 41.
  7. ↑ Arrey von Dommer (1875), "Albrecht, Johann Lorenz", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 1, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, p. 321

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