Gommern

Gommern is a unitary municipality and city in the district of Jerichower Land in Saxony Anhalt. On a settlement of the place of Gommern inside the 3rd century, the prince grave of Gommern found in 1990 at the Gerstenberg points out. In the foundation constitution for the diocese of Brandenburg from the year 948 Gommern is first officially stated with its then neighborhood name Guntmiri. It had at that point the location of a Burgwarts and was given as such in 965 by Otto I the Moritzkloster in Magdeburg.

In the 12th century Gommern came underneath the rule of thumb of Albrecht the Bear and accordingly the Duchy of Saxony. Thus it formed an enclave within the Magdeburg Brandenburg impact vicinity. From 1283 to 1308 Gommern needed to be pledged to the Archdiocese of Magdeburg and from 1418 to 1539 to the metropolis of Magdeburg. From the Burgward evolved within the 12th century, a village settlement alongside a road on the foot of the fort. In 1192, a town church is mentioned. In 1275, the Ascanians started to construct a fortified castle.