Wartburgkreis

Wartburgkreis is a Kreis (district) in the west of Thuringia, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from the north clockwise) the districts Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis, Gotha, Schmalkalden-Meiningen, and the districts Fulda, Hersfeld-Rotenburg and Werra-Meißner-Kreis in Hesse. The district has 30 municipalities, including Eisenach.

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Wartburgkreis
District
Flag Coat of arms

Country	Germany
State	Thuringia
Capital	Bad Salzungen
Government
• District admin.	Michael Brodführer (CDU)
Area
• Total	1,371.13 km² (529.40 sq mi)
Population (31 December 2022)^[1]
• Total	159,539
• Density	120/km² (300/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	WAK, EA, SLZ
Website	www.wartburgkreis.de

History

The district was created in 1994 by merging the previous districts Eisenach and Bad Salzungen, and a few municipalities from the district Bad Langensalza. The city Eisenach left the district in 1998 and became a district-free city and was incorporated into the district again on 1 July 2021. The municipality Kaltennordheim passed from the Wartburgkreis to Schmalkalden-Meiningen on 1 January 2019.

The district is named after the Wartburg, a castle near Eisenach most famous as the place of residence of Ludwig, Landgrave of Thuringia and his wife, Saint Elizabeth of Hungary; and, as Martin Luther's refuge in 1521.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms combines the symbols of the historic states which existed on the territory. In the top left and the bottom right is the lion of the dukes of Thuringia, the fowl in the top right refers to the county Henneberg, and the black cross in the bottom left is the symbol of the imperial abbey and state of Fulda.

Verwaltungsgemeinschaft-free towns	and municipalities
Bad Salzungen Bad Liebenstein Eisenach Geisa Ruhla Treffurt Vacha Werra-Suhl-Tal	Barchfeld-Immelborn Buttlar Dermbach Empfertshausen Gerstengrund Gerstungen Hörselberg-Hainich Krayenberggemeinde	Leimbach Oechsen Schleid Seebach Unterbreizbach Weilar Wiesenthal Wutha-Farnroda

Verwaltungsgemeinschaft-free towns

and municipalities

Verwaltungsgemeinschaften
1. Hainich-Werratal Amt Creuzburg^1,2 Berka vor dem Hainich Bischofroda Krauthausen Lauterbach Nazza
¹seat of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft; ²town

Verwaltungsgemeinschaften

1. Hainich-Werratal

¹seat of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft; ²town

History

Geography

Coat of arms

Towns and municipalities

References

External links

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