Weinbergen is a former

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the

Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the north of Thuringia, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from the north clockwise) the districts Eichsfeld, Kyffhäuserkreis, Sömmerda, Gotha, Wartburgkreis and the district Werra-Meißner i ...

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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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. It was created on 30 June 1994 in the course of a territorial reform by the merger of the municipalities of

Bollstedt Bollstedt () is a village and a quarter of the town of Mühlhausen in Thuringia, central Germany, situated on the left bank of the Unstrut (river kilometre 28). Geography Location The village lies in the up to two-kilometre-wide Unstrut ...

, Grabe,

Höngeda Höngeda () is a village and quarter of the town of Mühlhausen in Thuringia, central Germany. Geography Höngeda is located southeast of Mühlhausen along the ''Landesstraße'' (state's road) 247 from Mühlhausen to Gotha in the Thuringi ...

and Seebach. On 1 January 2019, Weinbergen was dissolved, and the four villages which it consisted of were incorporated into the territory of the town of

Mühlhausen Mühlhausen () is a city in the north-west of Thuringia, Germany, north of Niederdorla, the country's geographical centre, north-west of Erfurt, east of Kassel and south-east of Göttingen. Mühlhausen was first mentioned in 967 and bec ...

. The Seebach State Bird Protection Station, located in the former municipality, is known beyond the region. Grossgrabe Dorfstraße 1909

Geography

Location

The municipality of Weinbergen adjoined the urban area of

to the northwest. To the north-east it bordered on

Körner Körner, also rendered Koerner, or Korner is a German surname which may refer to People * Alexis Korner (1928–1984), born Koerner, musician * Alfred Körner (1926–2020), Austrian footballer * August T. Koerner (1843–1912), American politic ...

, to the south-east on the administrative community of

Unstrut-Hainich Unstrut-Hainich is a municipality in the district Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany. It was created with effect from 1 January 2019 by the merger of the former municipalities of Altengottern, Flarchheim, Großengottern, Heroldishausen, ...

and to the west on the rural municipality of Vogtei. The municipality's altitude ranged from above NN on the

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 ...

near Seebach to above NN on the ''Forstberg'' hill in the north.

Municipal structure

Weinbergen consisted of the four villages of

, Grabe,

and Seebach. The municipal administration had its seat in Bollstedt.

Water bodies

The

and its tributaries Notter and Seebach flowed through the municipality of Weinbergen.

Transport

The ''

Bundesstraße ''Bundesstraße'' (German for "federal highway"), abbreviated ''B'', is the denotation for German and Austrian national highways. Germany Germany's ''Bundesstraßen'' network has a total length of about 40,000 km. German ''Bundesstraßen'' ...

'' (federal highway) 247 in the section Mühlhausen–Bad Langensalza as well as the federal highway 249 connecting Mühlhausen with

Sondershausen Sondershausen is a town in Thuringia, central Germany, capital of the Kyffhäuserkreis district, situated about 50 km north of Erfurt. On 1 December 2007, the former municipality Schernberg was incorporated by Sondershausen. Until 1918 it ...

ran through the municipal area. Bollstedt is connected to the city bus service of Mühlhausen. The route of the disused Ebeleben–Mühlhausen railway line with the former stops at Bollstedt and Grabe ran in the northwest of the municipal area. The tracks and bridges were dismantled in 2007. The nearest connections to the railway network are in Seebach, with a ''DB Regio'' railway stop to the north-east of the village, and in Mühlhausen on the Gotha–Leinefelde railway line.

Climate

A weather station with a longer series of measurements is located in the village of Grabe. With an annual mean temperature of and an average annual precipitation of , the climate of Grabe is relatively warm, but already dry.

History

The municipality of Weinbergen was created through the voluntary merger of the formerly independent municipalities of Bollstedt, Grabe, Höngeda and Seebach in the course of the first Thuringian territorial reform on 1 July 1994. On 8 March 2018, the municipal council decided by a narrow majority to incorporate Weinbergen into Mühlhausen as of 1 January 2019. The mayor during its entire existence was Hans-Martin Menge.

Miscellaneous

With 99998, Weinbergen, together with

, had the highest postcode in the Federal Republic of Germany; the number 99999 was not assigned to any municipality, but was used by ''Deutsche Post AG'' in a special postmark in the village of Körner on 9 September 1999.

References

External links

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Archived copy of the former official website
{{Authority control Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis Former municipalities in Thuringia