Roßleben is a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

and a former municipality 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 Eich ...

district, with a population of 4,885 (2017). It is located 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 ...

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. Since 1 January 2019, it is part of the town

Roßleben-Wiehe Roßleben-Wiehe is a town and a municipality in the district Kyffhäuserkreis, in Thuringia, Germany. It was created with effect from 1 January 2019 by the merger of the former municipalities of Roßleben Roßleben is a town and a former municipa ...

. It is situated on the river

Unstrut The Unstrut () is a river in Germany and a left tributary of the Saale. The Unstrut originates in northern Thuringia near Dingelstädt (west of Kefferhausen in the Eichsfeld area) and its catchment area is the whole of the Thuringian Basin. It ...

, 22 km southeast of Sangerhausen.

Population development

''From 1999 with districts'' Data source: Statistical office Thuringia

Sons and daughters of the town

Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1997-041-03, Johannes Steinhoff

* Fritz Hofmann, (1871-1927), athlete, sprinter, winner of the first medal for Germany at the Olympic Games 1896 in Athens *

Hugo Launicke Hugo Launicke (2 February 1909 – 6 June 1975) was a German resistance fighter against the Nazi régime and later a Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) politician in East Germany. Life Launicke was born in Roßleben in the Province of ...

, (1909-1975), antifascist and SED politician. *

Werner Heine Werner Heine (14 August 1935 - 18 June 2022) was a German former footballer who played as a defender. He played 223 East German top-flight matches. He won the 1959 FDGB-Pokal with SC Dynamo Berlin The Sports Club Dynamo Berlin was an East ...

(born 1935), footballer *

Richard Hüttig Richard Hüttig (Pronunciation, Pronounced OO-teg; 18 March 1908 in Roßleben, Roßleben-Bottendorf – 14 June 1934 in Berlin, executed) was a prewar Germany, German Communist who was put to death, apparently more for his political convictions th ...

(1908-1934), communist, hanged on June 14, 1934 in Berlin-Plötzensee * Johannes Steinhoff (1913-1994), fighter pilot in the

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, general and inspector of the

Luftwaffe The ''Luftwaffe'' () was the aerial-warfare branch of the German ''Wehrmacht'' before and during World War II. Germany's military air arms during World War I, the ''Luftstreitkräfte'' of the Imperial Army and the '' Marine-Fliegerabtei ...

in the

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References

Towns in Thuringia Former municipalities in Thuringia Kyffhäuserkreis {{Kyffhäuserkreis-geo-stub