Stadtroda (Roda until 1925) is a town of 6,653 people (2017), located in

Thuringia Thuringia (; officially the Free State of Thuringia, ) is one of Germany, Germany's 16 States of Germany, states. With 2.1 million people, it is 12th-largest by population, and with 16,171 square kilometers, it is 11th-largest in area. Er ...

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. Stadtroda lies on the river Roda, a tributary of the

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. The former municipalities Bollberg and Quirla were merged into Stadtroda in January 2019.

History

According to some sources,

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was born in Roda in 1480. The house where he is said to have been born was torn down and sold to

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in 1896, where it was going to be shown in the Germany-Hall of the World's Fair. The fate of the house is unknown. Within the

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(1871–1918), Roda was part of the

Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg Saxe-Altenburg () was one of the Saxon duchies held by the Ernestine duchies, Ernestine branch of the House of Wettin in present-day Thuringia. It was one of the smallest of the German states with an area of 1323 square kilometers and a populati ...

Mayors

Mayors since 1886Utz Möbius: ''Chronik der Stadt Stadtroda.'' Geiger, Horb am Neckar 2003, .

Notable people

* Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1756–1808), Princess of Sachsen-Gotha, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, wife of the regent in the same place * Paul Leopold Friedrich (1864–1916),

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* Joachim Erwin (1949–2008), jurist and CDU politician, mayor of

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1999–2008

References

Towns in Thuringia Saale-Holzland-Kreis {{SaaleHolzland-geo-stub