Bad Salzungen
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Bad Salzungen | |
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Location of Bad Salzungen within Wartburgkreis district | |
Coordinates: 50°48′42″N 10°14′0″E / 50.81167°N 10.23333°E | |
Country | Germany |
State | Thuringia |
District | Wartburgkreis |
Subdivisions | 14 |
Government | |
• Mayor | Klaus Bohl |
Area | |
• Total | 98.5 km2 (38.0 sq mi) |
Elevation | 241 m (791 ft) |
Population (2022-12-31)[1] | |
• Total | 23,013 |
• Density | 230/km2 (610/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
Postal codes | 36433 |
Dialling codes | 03695 |
Vehicle registration | WAK, SLZ |
Website | www.badsalzungen.de |
Bad Salzungen (German: [baːt ˈzalt͡sʊŋən] ) is a town in Thuringia, Germany. It is the capital of the Wartburgkreis district. In July 2018 the former municipalities of Ettenhausen an der Suhl, Frauensee and Tiefenort were merged into Bad Salzungen.
Geography
Location
Bad Salzungen is situated on the river Werra, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) east of Tiefenort and 20 kilometres (12.4 mi) south of Eisenach.
Neighbouring communities
Bad Salzungen borders on Barchfeld-Immelborn, Leimbach, Moorgrund, Stadtlengsfeld, Tiefenort, Weilar and Urnshausen in Wartburgkreis and Breitungen/Werra in Schmalkalden-Meiningen district.
Twin towns - sister cities
Bad Salzungen is twinned with:[2]
- Mezőkövesd, Hungary (1969)
- Strakonice, Czech Republic (1977)
- Bad Hersfeld, Germany (1990)
- Ishøj, Denmark (1994)
Infrastructure
Near the town, there is a Bundeswehr barrack, the Werratal-Kaserne, which was built in 1972 for the GDR Army.
Bad Salzungen station is located on the Eisenach–Lichtenfels railway.
Notable people
- Johann Theodor Roemhildt (1684-1756), Baroque composer
- Heinrich Beck (1878-1937), engineer and inventor of the Beck arc lamp and headlamp Beck
- Fritz Wagner (1895-1966), a machinist, Reichsbanner-official, party official (SPD/SED) and chairman of the council of Meiningen district
- Gerhard Unger (1916-2011), tenor
- Hans-Ulrich Jörges (born 1951), journalist, Stern magazine
- Steffen Skel (born 1972), luger
- Alexander Zickler (born 1974), soccer player and German international
- Mark Zimmermann (born 1974), football player and coach at FC Carl Zeiss Jena
- Ronny Ackermann (born 1977), Nordic Combined
- Christian Hirte (born 1976), German politician (CDU)
- Philipp Marschall (born 1988), biathlete and former cross-country skier
- Thomas Bing (born 1990), cross-country skier
References
- ^ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden, erfüllenden Gemeinden und Verwaltungsgemeinschaften in Thüringen Gebietsstand: 31.12.2022" (in German). Thüringer Landesamt für Statistik. June 2023.
- ^ "Partnerstädte der Stadt Bad Salzungen". badsalzungen.de (in German). Bad Salzungen. Retrieved 2019-11-27.