Bad Salzungen
Bad Salzungen is a town in Thuringia, Germany. It is the capital of the Wartburgkreis district.
Geography
Location
Bad Salzungen is situated on the river Werra, east of Tiefenort and south of Eisenach.Divisions
In July 2018 the former municipalities of Ettenhausen an der Suhl, Frauensee and Tiefenort were merged into Bad Salzungen. In December 2020 the former municipality Moorgrund was absorbed. In total the municipality consists of the central town and 21 sections.Neighbouring communities
Bad Salzungen borders on the following municipalities, from the south and clockwise: Dermbach, Weilar, Leimbach, Krayenberggemeinde, Vacha, Werra-Suhl-Tal, Gerstungen, Ruhla, Bad Liebenstein, Barchfeld-Immelborn, and Breitungen in Schmalkalden-Meiningen district.Twin towns – sister cities
Bad Salzungen is twinned with:- Mezőkövesd, Hungary
- Strakonice, Czech Republic
- Bad Hersfeld, Germany
- Ishøj, Denmark
Infrastructure
Near the town, there is a Bundeswehr barrack, the Werratal-Kaserne, which was built in 1972 for the GDR Army.Bad Salzungen station is located on the Eisenach–Lichtenfels railway.
Notable people
- Johann Theodor Roemhildt, Baroque composer
- Richard Mühlfeld, clarinettist
- , engineer and inventor of the Beck arc lamp and headlamp Beck
- , a machinist, Reichsbanner-official, party official and chairman of the council of Meiningen district
- Gerhard Unger, tenor
- Thomas Hertel, composer
- , journalist, Stern magazine
- Christian Schaft, German politician
- Steffen Skel, luger
- Alexander Zickler, soccer player and German international
- Mark Zimmermann, football player and coach at FC Carl Zeiss Jena
- Ronny Ackermann, Nordic Combined
- Christian Hirte, politician
- Marcus Malsch, politician
- Philipp Marschall, biathlete and former cross-country skier
- Thomas Bing, cross-country skier