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The village of Ballhausen was first mentioned in a document in 780. The municipality of Ballhausen lies on the easternmost edge of our administrative community and was created in 1952 by merging the villages of Großballhausen and Kleinballhausen. Both districts can be...

Fröbitz is a district of Bad Blankenburg(incorporated in 1994)The place name of the former noble village is of Slavic origin (vrobica = felling) and can therefore be traced back to clearings. Although the 380 m above sea level...

The village was first mentioned in documents around 1184 under the name "Diethenroth". In the most recent publications, the year 1251 is mentioned as the first documentary mention, and the place name Dieterode means: "The village on the clearing of the...

The village of Neusitz (367 m above sea level, 108 inhabitants) is situated on a ridge extending south from the upper Hexengrund on the Haselbach, which flows through the Hirschgrund. The agricultural village was first mentioned in 1194.

The village of Steinbach was first mentioned in 1406 and, like Langenbach, is known for the largest natural stage in Thuringia, which was built from 1955-1957 and makes the region popular with 3,000 seats....

Schwegerstede = Swaiga Old High German for pasture, thus perhaps a dwelling place by the pasture.The cultivation of the ripe golden-yellow fruit by its industrious inhabitants and the fertile soils around the community contributed to the...

Together with Floh, Seligenthal, Hohleborn, Kleinschmalkalden and Struth-Helmershof, Schnellbach forms the municipality of Floh-Seligenthal, and the district of Schnellbach probably got its name from the fast-flowing stream (Flohbach). Here on this fast-flowing...

Gerstungen as a former official village was first mentioned in 744 and later known as a border town. Today, the up-and-coming unified municipality has almost 7000 inhabitants (districts Gerstungen, Lauchröden, Oberellen, Unterellen, Neustädt and...

Hockeroda, Eichicht, Kaulsdorf, Tauschwitz, Fischersdorf, Breternitz and Weischwitz, these districts form the single municipality of Kaulsdorf. They are only a few kilometers away from the district town of Saalfeld and the Hohenwarte reservoir. The unique landscape...

Triptis lies not far from the watershed between the Saale and Weißer Elster rivers and at the source of the Orla in a flat basin open to the west and was first mentioned as a town in 1328.