Schwarzhausen is a village 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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. In 1946, it was incorporated into the

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Emsetal Emsetal is a former municipality in the district of Gotha, in Thuringia, Germany. It took its name from the river Emse. It consisted of the villages Fischbach, Schmerbach, Schwarzhausen and Winterstein. On 31 December 2013, it was merged into th ...

in the district of Gotha.

Geography

Schwarzhausen is located on the northeast edge of the Thuringian Forest at an altitude of about 320 to 360 meters in the Emse valley.

References in literature

Schwarzhausen was a major place setting for the early plot in ''Moderne Deutsche Sprachlehre'', an English-German language book.

Sources

Horst H. Müller: ''Reisehandbuch Thüringer Wald und Randgebiete'' (1977) S. 635 f. Villages in Thuringia {{Gotha-geo-stub