Rockstedt is a municipality in the district

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 Eich ...

, 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 larg ...

, Germany. The classical oboist

Alfred Gleißberg Friedrich Julius Alfred Gleißberg (26 November 1864 – 21 August 1963) was a German classical oboist. Life Born in Rockstedt, Gleißberg first attended the conservatory in Sondershausen and served as a military musician in the 107 Infantry R ...

was born in the city in 1864.

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Municipalities in Thuringia Kyffhäuserkreis {{Kyffhäuserkreis-geo-stub