Sommerda

Sommerda is the county seat of the equal district in Thuringia. The city is placed approximately 20 kilometers north of Erfurt, is middle and become the area of the electrical enterprise Fujitsu Technology Solutions, whose predecessors have been the mechanical factories of Johann Nikolaus von Dreyse. They had a considerable effect at the city for the reason that 1840 and ensured the boom of the previous insignificant agricultural metropolis into an business city. Sommerda was first cited in documents in 876.

In order to keep away from confusion with nearby locations such as mid pas, lesser pals or Gangloffsommern, the city changed into formerly regularly known as Gross Sommerda or Grosssommern. In 918 Conrad I handed the city over to Fulda Monastery. In 1342 the metropolis came into the ownership of the county of Schwarzburg, which bought it in 1418 to the town of Erfurt, to whose possession it belonged as an exclave till 1802 while it came to Prussia. Around 1350, the city became likely the town regulation, but this can't be definitely documented. Built in 1395, the Erfurt Gate and 6 city wall towers are the oldest preserved homes in the city.