Ummerstadt () is a town in the region

Heldburger Land The Heldburger Land was the historical, Saxon, administrative district (''Amtsbezirk'') of Heldburg (borough of Heldburg) and is today the southernmost part of the Free State of Thuringia and the district of Hildburghausen, between the towns of Co ...

in district of Hildburghausen, 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 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 19 km south of

Hildburghausen Hildburghausen (IPA adapted from: ) is a town in Thuringia in central Germany, capital of the district Hildburghausen. Geography It is situated in the Franconian part of Thuringia south of the Thuringian Forest, in the valley of the Werra river ...

, and 11 km west of

Coburg Coburg () is a town located on the Itz river in the Upper Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany. Long part of one of the Thuringian states of the Wettin line, it joined Bavaria by popular vote only in 1920. Until the revolution of 1918, it was ...

Sons and daughters of the town

Johann Georg Rosenmüller Johann Georg Rosenmüller (18 December 1736 – 14 March 1815), a German Protestant theologian, was born at Ummerstadt in Hildburghausen, on 18 December 1736. He was appointed Professor of Theology at Erlangen in 1773, Primarius Professor of Th ...

(1736-1815), Superintendent of the Leipzig

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Friedrich Konrad Müller Friedrich Konrad Müller (born November 14, 1823 Ummerstadt; † 26 April 1881 in Leipzig) was a German poet, journalist and physician. He called himself ''Müller von der Werra''. Life Müller was the son of a farmer. He became an apprentice phar ...

(1823-1881), poet * Erich Scharf (1908-1943), Communist worker, Thuringian Communist Party representative, protector and military service soldier.

References

Towns in Thuringia Hildburghausen (district) Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen {{Hildburghausen-geo-stub