Bad Salzungen

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Country Germany District Wartburgkreis Postal codes 36433 Area 39.06 km² Local time Tuesday 1:03 AM Dialling code 03695		State Thuringia Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Dialling codes 03695 Population 16,008 (31 Dec 2008) Postal code 36433

Weather 7°C, Wind SW at 26 km/h, 91% Humidity

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Bad Salzungen is a town in Thuringia, Germany. It is the capital of the Wartburgkreis district.

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.

Bad Salzungen borders on Barchfeld-Immelborn, Leimbach, Moorgrund, Stadtlengsfeld, Tiefenort, Weilar and Urnshausen in Wartburgkreis and Breitungen/Werra in Schmalkalden-Meiningen district.

Bad Salzungen is twinned with:

Mezőkövesd, Hungary (1969)

Strakonice, Czech Republic (1977)

Bad Hersfeld, Germany (1990)

Ishøj, Denmark (1994)

Near the town, there is a Bundeswehr barrack, the Werratal-Kaserne, which was built in 1972 for the GDR Army.

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

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