Vogtei () is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
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 ...
district
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of
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 ...
,
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...
.
It was formed on 31 December 2012 by the merger of the former municipalities of
Langula,
Niederdorla, and
Oberdorla. The closest town and the only one that it borders is
Mühlhausen
Mühlhausen () is a town in the north-west of Thuringia, Germany, north of Niederdorla, the country's Central Germany (geography)#Geographical centre, geographical centre, north-west of Erfurt, east of Kassel and south-east of Göttingen ...
northerly. The
Hainich National Park is situated westerly.
Geographical centre of Germany
One of the possible
geographical centre In geography, the centroid of the two-dimensional shape of a region of the Earth's surface (projected radially to sea level or onto a geoid surface) is known as its geographic centre or geographical centre or (less commonly) gravitational centre. In ...
s of Germany lies in Vogtei; there is a plaque at , c. to the north of the centre of Niederdorla.
See also
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Central Germany (geography)
Central Germany () or Middle Germany ( ), in geography, describes the areas surrounding the geographical centre of Germany.
Hesse, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia are the only landlocked German states without an international border except for ...
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References
Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis
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