Schwarzburg (municipality)
Municipality in Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district, Thuringia, Germany
Municipality in Thuringia, Germany
Coat of arms
Location of Schwarzburg (municipality) within Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district
(2021–27) Heike Printz[1]
(2022-12-31)[2]
07427
Schwarzburg is a municipality in the valley of the Schwarza (German: Schwarzatal) in the district Saalfeld-Rudolstadt in Thuringia, in central Germany.
It was first mentioned in 1071 as Swartzinburg. The (now-ruined) castle was from the 12th century the seat of the Counts of Schwarzburg. Then Rudolstadt became seat of the new line of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.
On 11 August 1919, while on holiday in Schwarzburg, Friedrich Ebert, the first Reichspräsident of Germany, signed the Weimar constitution, the first democratic constitution of Germany.
References
- ^ Gewählte Bürgermeister - aktuelle Landesübersicht, Freistaat Thüringen, accessed 14 July 2021.
- ^ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden, erfüllenden Gemeinden und Verwaltungsgemeinschaften in Thüringen Gebietsstand: 31.12.2022" (in German). Thüringer Landesamt für Statistik. June 2023.
This Saalfeld-Rudolstadt location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e