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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

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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.

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Map of Bad Salzungen, Germany

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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.

Town twinning

Bad Salzungen is twinned with:

  • 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.

    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

    Bad Salzungen Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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