Bad Salzungen
Bad Salzungen is a town in Thuringia, Germany. It is the capital of the Wartburgkreis district. In July 2018 the former municipalities of Ettenhausen an der Suhl, Frauensee and Tiefenort were merged into Bad Salzungen.Geography
Location
Bad Salzungen is situated on the river Werra, east of Tiefenort and south of Eisenach.Neighbouring communities
Bad Salzungen borders on Barchfeld-Immelborn, Leimbach, Moorgrund, Stadtlengsfeld, Tiefenort, Weilar and Urnshausen in Wartburgkreis and Breitungen/Werra in Schmalkalden-Meiningen district.Bad Salzungen is twinned with:
Near the town, there is a Bundeswehr barrack, the Werratal-Kaserne, which was built in 1972 for the GDR Army.
Bad Salzungen station is located on the Eisenach–Lichtenfels railway.Notable people
- Johann Theodor Roemhildt, Baroque composer
- , engineer and inventor of the Beck arc lamp and headlamp Beck
- , a machinist, Reichsbanner-official, party official and chairman of the council of Meiningen district
- Gerhard Unger, tenor
- , journalist, Stern magazine
- Steffen Skel, luger
- Alexander Zickler, soccer player and German international
- Mark Zimmermann, football player and coach at FC Carl Zeiss Jena
- Ronny Ackermann, Nordic Combined
- Christian Hirte, German politician
- Philipp Marschall, biathlete and former cross-country skier
- Thomas Bing, cross-country skier
