Golmsdorf

Golmsdorf is a municipality in the north of the Thuringian Saale- wood - country circuit and part of the joint management Dornburg - Camburg. The municipality is divided into the districts Golmsdorf, Beutnitz and Naura.

Geography

Geographical Location

The community is located at the output of Golmsdorf Gleistals, 2 km east of the B 88 in the Saale valley between Jena and thorn castle. By Golmsdorf the road runs 2307th The city of Jena is about 7 km away and the nearest motorway is the A 4 15 km south. The nearest train station is in Porstendorf 2 km west of the hall track between Großheringen and Saale field. Until 1969 there was a railway line Crossen - Porstendorf, at which there was a stop in Golmsdorf.

Adjacent communities are (clockwise) Neuengönna in the west, Dorndorf - Steudnitz in the north, Tautenburg in the northeast, Löberschütz and Jenalöbnitz the east, and the district-free city of Jena in the southwest.

Landscape

The municipal area is dominated by the landscape of the central Saale valley. In Golmsdorf the Gleistal open wide towards the Saale valley and near the village flows the tracks in the Saale. In the Saaleaue there are fields or meadows and the river is lined with trees. West of Golmsdorf shares the Saale and forms the Rabeninsel.

The eastern part of the municipality is in the range of Gleistals and the adjoining heights. From Tautenburger forest in the north and the Great track mountain in the south drop the slopes, only in the region of the Muschelkalk steeper and flatter, and in the lower hilly area in red sandstone from. Formerly important vineyards, which were replaced by partially preserved orchards in the course of the modern era were at the south to west facing slopes. It has not yet received a number of old vineyard cottage. The remaining areas of the Gleistals are now used as a field or meadow. The forested uplands in the north and south reach heights of up to 337 and 345 m above sea level. NN. Eastwards leads the Gleistal further to Biirgel.

History

The exact time of origin of the place is unknown. Finds at excavations carried out in 2011 in the context of land development on the parcel "In the Hofäckern " point to an as yet unknown prehistoric settlement. Even then, the Gleisetal was a trade route from west to east across the Saale ford " Hummelstedt " and tracks ford " interfere " with Biirgel and also about the Tautenburger forest to the north. The Gleisetal at that time was already a popular settlement area. Golmsdorf first mentioned mentioned in 1249 in connection with the rule Gleissberg. At that document for the first time a priest is called in place, suggesting that even at that time the place was a church. The place name derives from the Slavic personal name Golem. The noble family of the Lords of free Gleissberg was granted tenure in the first half of the 12th century with Selbiger rule. A short time later died from this family and the vacant fief was of Reichsministerialen, the so-called Reeves Gleisbergs taken, which makes it up to the 14th century could claim. Followed by the overseers of Plauen, the dominion was about 1345 for a short time in the possession of the gift-giving of Dornburg about before they came into the possession of the House of Wettin, which eingliederten the rule as a care in the Wettin office system. Of these, the oldest surviving official statements of care testimony from the year 1389th

The Viticulture of Gleistals brought the villages lying here since the Middle Ages a certain prosperity. More accurate data on the history of the place are nachlesbar in the local chronicle.

→ See also the village church Golmsdorf

Culture and Attractions

Since time immemorial, the feast of Bornfege in Golmsdorf and Beutnitz has a solid tradition. On this occasion, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said to have come here in 1799. On the Great track mountain are the ruins Kunitzburg, also called track castle. On the former railway line Crossen - Porstendorf today is a bicycle track.