Steinbach is a municipality in the Leinetal administrative community in the Eichsfeld district of Thuringia.

The people of Steinbach are often called the Uhln or Uhlnkeppe. Steinbach is an elongated Catholic street village situated on the stream of the same name. In 1997, the village was able to look back on its first documentary mention 700 years ago. The original document of the first mention of Steinbach is kept in the town archives of Mühlhausen. Steinbach belongs to the "Leinetal" administrative community - based in Bodenrode. Today it has 574 inhabitants and covers an area of 8.48 km².