Clingen is a town in the

Kyffhäuserkreis The Kyffhäuserkreis is a district in the northern part of Thuringia, Germany. Neighboring districts are the districts Mansfeld-Südharz, Saalekreis und Burgenlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt, and the districts Sömmerda, Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis and Ei ...

district, in

Thuringia Thuringia (; german: Thüringen ), officially the Free State of Thuringia ( ), is a state of central Germany, covering , the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states. It has a population of about 2.1 million. Erfurt is the capital and lar ...

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

. It is situated 16 km southeast of Sondershausen, and 30 km north of

Erfurt Erfurt () is the capital and largest city in the Central German state of Thuringia. It is located in the wide valley of the Gera river (progression: ), in the southern part of the Thuringian Basin, north of the Thuringian Forest. It sits i ...

. ''as of 31 December''
Source: Thuringian State Department of Statistics

Sons and daughters of the town

* Rudolf Boese (1839-1912), Member of Landtag * Günter Grüner (1942-2016), Member of Thuringian State Parliament

References

Towns in Thuringia Kyffhäuserkreis Schwarzburg-Sondershausen {{Kyffhäuserkreis-geo-stub