Bockelnhagen is a village and a former municipality in the district of Eichsfeld 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 lar ...

, Germany. Since 1 December 2011, it is part of the municipality Sonnenstein,Gebietsänderungen vom 01. Januar bis 31. Dezember 2011
Statistisches Bundesamt of which it is an ''

Ortschaft Ortschaft is a term in German speaking countries for a human settlement. In several states of Germany, it is also used for administrative subdivisions of municipalities. These have been defined in the '' Gemeindeordnung'' or ''Kommunalverfassung'' ...

''.Hauptsatzung der Gemeinde Sonnenstein
6 April 2022. The community has two constituent parts, Bockelnhagen and Weilrode. Bockelnhagen is one of the few villages in the Eichsfeld district which were not part of the historical Eichsfeld.

History

The first written mention of Bockelnhagen dates to 1143. From 1816 on, after the

Congress of Vienna The Congress of Vienna (, ) of 1814–1815 was a series of international diplomatic meetings to discuss and agree upon a possible new layout of the European political and constitutional order after the downfall of the French Emperor Napoleon B ...

, it belonged to the Erfurt district of the

Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an ...

n Province of Saxony.

References

{{Authority control Former municipalities in Thuringia Sonnenstein, Thuringia