diff --git a/dev-tools/maven/solr/contrib/pom.xml.template b/dev-tools/maven/solr/contrib/pom.xml.template
index 7085c969c4d..83c47d8c089 100644
--- a/dev-tools/maven/solr/contrib/pom.xml.template
+++ b/dev-tools/maven/solr/contrib/pom.xml.template
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
     <module>extraction</module>
     <module>langid</module>
     <module>uima</module>
+    <module>velocity</module>
   </modules>
   <build>
     <directory>../build/solr-contrib-aggregator</directory>
diff --git a/dev-tools/maven/solr/contrib/velocity/pom.xml.template b/dev-tools/maven/solr/contrib/velocity/pom.xml.template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7e4dc90e680
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-tools/maven/solr/contrib/velocity/pom.xml.template
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+  <!--
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+    or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+    distributed with this work for additional information
+    regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+    to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+    "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+    with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+    software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+    "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+    KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+    specific language governing permissions and limitations
+    under the License.
+  -->
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>org.apache.solr</groupId>
+    <artifactId>solr-parent</artifactId>
+    <version>@version@</version>
+    <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
+  </parent>
+  <groupId>org.apache.solr</groupId>
+  <artifactId>solr-velocity</artifactId>
+  <packaging>jar</packaging>
+  <name>Apache Solr Velocity</name>
+  <description>Apache Solr Velocity</description>
+  <properties>
+    <module-directory>solr/contrib/velocity</module-directory>
+    <build-directory>../../build/contrib/solr-velocity</build-directory>
+  </properties>
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+      <artifactId>solr-core</artifactId>
+      <version>${project.version}</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+      <artifactId>solr-test-framework</artifactId>
+      <version>${project.version}</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.lucene</groupId>
+      <artifactId>lucene-test-framework</artifactId>
+      <version>${project.version}</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
+      <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.velocity</groupId>
+      <artifactId>velocity</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.velocity</groupId>
+      <artifactId>velocity-tools</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>junit</groupId>
+      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+  <build>
+    <directory>${build-directory}</directory>
+    <outputDirectory>${build-directory}/classes/java</outputDirectory>
+    <testOutputDirectory>${build-directory}/classes/test</testOutputDirectory>
+    <sourceDirectory>src/java</sourceDirectory>
+    <testSourceDirectory>src/test</testSourceDirectory>
+    <testResources>
+      <testResource>
+        <directory>src/test-files</directory>
+      </testResource>
+      <testResource>
+        <directory>../../core/src/test-files</directory>
+      </testResource>
+    </testResources>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+        <configuration>
+          <systemPropertyVariables>
+            <java.util.logging.config.file>../../../../testlogging.properties</java.util.logging.config.file>
+          </systemPropertyVariables>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+</project>
diff --git a/dev-tools/maven/solr/core/pom.xml.template b/dev-tools/maven/solr/core/pom.xml.template
index fc3821c54ea..a070d774f01 100644
--- a/dev-tools/maven/solr/core/pom.xml.template
+++ b/dev-tools/maven/solr/core/pom.xml.template
@@ -125,14 +125,6 @@
       <groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
       <artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.velocity</groupId>
-      <artifactId>velocity</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.velocity</groupId>
-      <artifactId>velocity-tools</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
       <artifactId>jetty</artifactId>