Elevation 280 m (920 ft) Population 569 (31 Dec 2008) | Municipal assoc. Mittleres Schwarzatal Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Local time Friday 4:57 PM | |
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Weather 10°C, Wind NE at 18 km/h, 69% Humidity Points of interest Schloss Schwarzburg, Kaisersaal, Schwarzatal | ||
Schwarzburg is a municipality in the valley of the Schwarza (German: Schwarzatal) in the district Saalfeld-Rudolstadt in Thuringia, Germany.
Map of Schwarzburg, Germany
First mentioned in 1071 as Swartzinburg. The (now-ruined) castle was from the 12th century the seat of the Counts of Schwarzburg. Then Rudolstadt became seat of the new line of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.
On August 11, 1919, while on holiday in Schwarzburg, Friedrich Ebert — the first Reichspräsident of Germany — signed the Weimar constitution, the first democratic constitution of Germany.
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