Uhlstädt-Kirchhasel () is a municipality in the district

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, in

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. On 1 December 2007, the former municipalities

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and Heilingen were incorporated by Uhlstädt-Kirchhasel. The valley of the river Saale is the centre of Uhlstädt-Kirchhasel. Both Uhlstädt and Kirchhasel are villages inside this valley, which divides the municipality into a northern and a southern part. The nearest bigger towns are

Rudolstadt Rudolstadt is a town in the German federal state Thuringia, within the Thuringian Forest, to the southwest, and to Jena and Weimar to the north. The former capital of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, the town is built along the River Saale inside a wide ...

(about 7 km away),

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(about 11 km away) and

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(about 25 km away). The 32 local subdivisions of this municipality are:(inhabitants)

History

The municipality Uhlstädt-Kirchhasel was founded on 1 July 2002 by a voluntary fusion of the municipalities Beutelsdorf, Dorndorf, Engerda, Kirchhasel, Niederkrossen, Rödelwitz, Schloßkulm, Schmieden, Teichweiden, Uhlstädt and Zeutsch, which were independent before this fusion. On 1 December 2007 the municipalities

and Heilingen, which were independent until this point too, become also part of the municipality Uhlstädt-Kirchhasel.

References

External links

Homepage of the municipality (http://uhlstaedt-kirchhasel.de/) Municipalities in Thuringia Saalfeld-Rudolstadt {{SaalfeldRudolstadt-geo-stub