Oßmannstedt

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Location of Oßmannstedt in the Ilm Valley Wine Route

Manor House with dolphin fountain

Oßmannstedt (956 first mentioned as Azmenstat, 1344 Atzmanstete, 1482 Asmestete, 1797 at Goethe Oßmannstädt ) is a district of the rural community Ilm Valley Wine Route in the north -east of the county of Weimar.

Geography

The village is located northeast of Weimar and west of Apolda. Between the villages Oßmannstedt and Ulrich Half of the river Ilm flows.

History

The first documentary mention in a document found Oßmannstedt Otto I in the year 956, which said: King Otto I. gives the Servatius monastery of Quedlinburg for his daughter Matilda his property to Liebstedt and Oßmannstedt in Thuringia in the county Willi helmet with hearing and other accessories.

Long before the ersturkundlichen mention was in the location of the seat of a noble family that lived here about in the second half of the 5th century. This is suggested by the discovery of bones of a Ostgotin high nobility. The excavation finding points to an alliance of Thuringia with Ostrogothic tribes. During excavations in the vicinity of the place a golden cloak pin was found in her grave. This stylized eagle, a so-called eagle fibula, the church was greatly enlarged on a memorial stone in a gated community near the swimming pool map.

Mid-13th century to 1440 resided a branch of the lords of Liebstedt, the Knights of Oßmannstedt in place. In 1290 they received transferred from the king of the castle. This castle was on the left bank of the river Ilm on the lower reaches at the site of the present Wieland good. The Ilm valley here makes for a ford place. Here crossed the Kupferstraße the Ilm, and was of the castle from the road and the traffic will be closely monitored and controlled.

Later, the Knights of Oßmannstedt had to give the suzerainty of the Lobdeburger and from 1344 to the Landgrave of Thuringia.

From 1440 on, the Counts of Harras acquired the possession. The property and the castle was destroyed in 1450 in the Saxon Brother War. The Counts taught a one manor.

Then the lords of Bünau took over the estate. Henry of Bünau had built the present manor house and create the park.

1783-1795 has been on Burgholzhausen owner of Schatullguts in Oßmannstedt the Illuminati August Dietrich Count von Marschall.

This property with park bought 1797 Christoph Martin Wieland and managed it until 1808. Now it's Wieland Memorial.

Until 31 December Oßmannstedt was associated with his district Ulrich Half of the administrative community Ilm Valley Wine Route. This was dissolved as of that date and both places were separate districts of the new rural community Ilm Valley Wine Route.

Personalities

• The Oßmannstedter manor and the park was by the then Prime Minister of the duchy of Saxe -Weimar- Eisenach, the kingdom of Count Heinrich von Bünau, built from 1756 to 1762.
• Later, the estate was owned by the princely weimar between Court Marshal Friedrich Gotthilf Marshal. At that time, Johann Matthias Gesner lived ( born April 9, 1691 at the Roth Rednitz; † August 3, 1761 in Göttingen ) is also in Weimar. He was a teacher, classical scholar and librarian in Weimar. Since Gesner used a close friendly relationship to the Lord Chamberlain, he spent his holidays on his estate in Oßmannstedt.
• Since 1794, Justus Franz Frenzel ( 1740-1823 ) was a minister in Oßmannstedt, which was awarded in 1800 as a botanist with the Cothenius medal.

• From 1797 to 1803 the Oßmannstedter manor and the park property of the first German translator of Shakespeare, the Enlightenment philosopher and pioneer of German classicism in Weimar, Christoph Martin Wieland ( 1733-1813 ).

Based on the estate Sabinum his favorite poet Horace Wieland called his Oßmannstedter refuge OSMANTINUM.

Among other things, the novels " Agathodaemon " (1799 ) and " Aristippus and some of his contemporaries " ( 1800/ 01) emerged.

In addition to the Weimar poets and scholars of Goethe, Schiller and Herder was among other things, Heinrich von Kleist in the house of Wieland in Oßmannstedt.

The manor park harbors grave of the poet, with his wife and Sophie Brentano, a sister of the Romantic poet Clemens Brentano.

• Ferdinand Gerstung came in 1886 as pastor after Oßmannstedt. Here met his long-standing personal interest in beekeeping on a bevy gifted beekeeper. Gerstung grabbed their experience, thought and developed further and made the scientific beekeeping until his death on 5 March 1925 his second profession. He discovered the countershaft gear of the queen bee ( brood order ) as well as the division of labor of the bees and developed the theory of the feed juice flow. The term "Bien", which stands for the coexistence of the bees in the nation, was first defined scientifically by him. Together with the Taubacher Pastor August Ludwig he founded in 1910 the Bee Museum in Weimar. Finally, both in 1902 a " General German Imkertag " convened and formed the " Reich Association for Beekeeping". 1907 joined this club was founded in 1880 with the " German bee Economics National Association " with the "German lmkerbund " together. In the same year was founded in Weimar in the " Empire Beekeeping Museum ". Was succeeded by today's " German Bee Museum " in Oberweimar. One of the most famous works Gerstungs is his textbook " The Bien and his breed ." But even his newspaper published since 1892 " The German Beekeeping" was instrumental in the dissemination of his teachings. Over the years, the pilgrimage of thousands of beekeepers in the Whitsun week after Oßmannstedt where Gerstung held its famous beekeeper meetings and training courses. No less than the naturalist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel, who had certainly fought a fierce scientific controversy with Gerstung, it was who suggested the University of Jena, the bees Oßmannstedter father the degree of Dr. hc lend. This high honor Ferdinand Gerstung was finally granted in 1920 60th on his birthday. Besides the scientific performance Ferdinand Gerstungs equal is the economic one. Conceived as a livelihood for his sons Beekeeping Equipment Plant brought far beyond the self-interest also many Oßmannstedtern decades payroll. In 1953, Oßmannstedt the bee into the local coat of arms and seals on and repeated this after the GDR had all municipalities imposed upon a unit seal, after the political changes.

• Johann Christian Stark the Elder ( * 1753 in Oßmannstedt, † 1811 in Jena): Professor in Jena, " a pioneer of the OB / GYN ', body physician of great personalities ( Weimar ducal family, Goethe and Schiller family). Buried at St. John's Cemetery at Jena Peace Church.

• Monika Ehrhardt ( born September 18, 1947 in Oßmannstedt; actually Monika Lakomy ), writer and lyricist

Attractions

• → Main article: Wieland ( Oßmannstedt )

Estate ( or manor ) in Oßmannstedt was from 1797 to 1803 home of the Wieland family ( in May 1803 was at the Hamburg businessman Johann Christian Martin Kühne ( 1758-1827 ) sold). The house of the famous poet Wieland is now a memorial, which combines a museum and a research center and was opened on 25 June 2005. The Wielandgut as well as the house belong to the Klassik Stiftung Weimar. Before the house is a fountain of dolphin fountain on a landscaped pond. Even the grave stone of the poet is here as well as that of Sophie Brentano. A trail of Oßmannstedt along the Ilm over Denstedt, Kromsdorf and its castle and castle Tiefurt to Weimar is a classic route. In addition to the Weimar poets and scholars of Goethe, Schiller and Herder was among other things, Heinrich von Kleist in the house of Wieland in Oßmannstedt. As a landlord not only Wieland was by the poets of Weimar Classicism not too successful. Even Goethe had owned an estate in Upper Roßla and have to give up almost simultaneously.

• St. Peter ( Oßmannstedt )

Traffic

The breakpoint Oßmannstedt is located on the railway line opened in 1846 Halle- Bebra ( Thüringer Bahn ).