Hornsömmern

Hornsömmern is a municipality in Unstrut Hainich in Thuringia. It belongs to the administrative community Bad Tennstedt.

Geography

The village is situated in the immediate vicinity of the south-west to Mittelsömmern on the southeast slope of a 334 m high elevation. In the local situation arises from a small stream, which, united after about 500 m with a trickle that comes from Mittelsömmern to Rechbach. This flows Kutzleben and belongs to the catchment area of ​​the Unstrut. A few 100 meters north of the local situation, the boundary runs to Kyffhauserkreis. The nearest neighbor " across the border " is Rohnstedt. Area of the town is hilly and is used for agriculture. Trees there are on the roadsides and in the company of the two streams. The Waidmühlstein on the green and the street name Waidmühlengasse lead to the assumption that the creek once powered a mill.

History

A stone circle of six meters in diameter, was found in front of a Neolithic megalithic grave. In addition, a stone slab and ceramic fragments were detected. This forecourt of the collective tomb is interpreted as a cult and place of sacrifice. The findings come from the Bernburg culture.

Policy

Parish council

The Council of the Municipality Council Hornsömmern consists of 6 women and councilors who belong to a Free Voters group. (As at municipal election on June 27, 2004)

Mayor

The honorary mayor Heinz Schröter was re-elected on June 6, 2010.

Culture and sights

  • The village green with the community tavern and the Waidmühlstein
  • The Protestant Church of St. Mary is a Romanesque hall church in the core. It contains a closed choir with three lancet windows from the mid-13th century. In the south, a sacristy is growing with half-timbered attachment for the belfry, in the north of the cultivation of a wide arch to the nave opened Patronatsloge. The hall was renewed romanisierend in the 19th century. In the years 1992 and 1993 was an exterior restoration. The barrel-vaulted hall has a three-sided gallery and the choir a sacrament niche. In the pulpit altar from the 18th century, the figures of Moses, John the Baptist and Christ are outsourced. The groined vault vestry has remnants of colored ornament painting from the 16th century.

Pictures

Village church of St. Mary from Northeast

Gate of the Church in the West

Am Anger

Community tavern

Waidmühl Memorial

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