Schlotheim 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 o ...

and a former municipality in the Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis district, 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 ...

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. It is situated east 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 b ...

. Since December 2019, it is part of the town Nottertal-Heilinger Höhen.

Notable residents

* Werner Braune (1909–1951), German Nazi SS officer, executed for war crimes *

Carlos Hartling Carlos Hartling (2 September 1869 – 13 August 1920) was a German-born composer from Honduras, who composed the music for the national anthem of Honduras, adopted as the country's national anthem in 1915. Born in Schlotheim, Schwarzburg-Rud ...

(born in 1869) German musician author of the music of the National Anthem of Honduras.

References

Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Former municipalities in Thuringia {{UnstrutHainich-geo-stub