List of towns in Thuringia
The list of cities in Thuringia includes all cities with municipal law in the German state of Thuringia.
Currently, 126 municipalities have in Thuringia the municipal law. To 1718 were 107 places the municipal law. Then a place was not until 1847 the city charter; a total of 28 new cities followed until 1999. Simultaneously since the 20th century cities were merged or amalgamated, so that the number was slightly reduced again.
Notes
- The first columns of the table show the coat of arms, the city's name and the associated county. Cities that no longer are self-employed today are shown in italics and marked with a reference to the current local membership.
- The following two columns contain data for the first documentary mention of the place proven and documented proven designation as a town or to the ( not always documented ) city status. Main sources for this were listed in the bibliography of works Dehio, Kahl and Patze.
- The sixth column contains the area of the city with territorial status from 1 January 2013 by the Thuringian State Office for Statistics.
- The seventh column contains the area of the old town in hectares according to an area calculation with Google Earth. This value is specified only for the cities that possessed civic rights before the Napoleonic era ( around 1800 ). At that time, the legal equality between municipalities and rural communities had not yet been made and the cities took advantage of physical boundaries to mark the scope of their right. Most often this was the city wall, in smaller towns, it could also be ditches, fences, hedges or gate while completely open cities hardly occurred. As a rule, this definition was constant over the centuries and remains to this day in the city plan to read. The size of the region enclosed space and its building density varied greatly, some cities were very large, but built in the Thuringian basin with respect to the surface is relatively thin. In some cases, the whole area was never built (as in Thamsbrück or Neumark ). To the south of the Thuringian Forest, the surfaces were smaller, but it built much denser.
- The eighth column contains the population of the city at 31 December 2012 in the area as of January 1, 2013, according to the Thuringian State Office for Statistics.
- The ninth column contains the population of the city in 1843, ie at the onset of industrialization and urbanization before the 19th/20th. Century in Thuringia. The data source for the small states is the work of Johann Friedrich Kratzsch: Lexicon of sämmtlichen towns in the German states. Naumburg, 1843. Available online at Google Books. For the Prussian territories: Manual of the Province of Saxony. Magdeburg, 1843. Available online at Google Books.
- The last two columns show a picture of the Town Hall as the seat and symbol of urban self-government as well as from the ( main) parish church as the seat and symbol of the spiritual life as the two constitutive elements of the Central European city.
- In order to ensure the sortability the table, the numbers of any comments on the table contents are noted after the respective city name.
- Not included in the table are places that had only partial or temporary city rights since for this group there is still no comprehensive scientific overall presentation of Thuringia. Decisive for the inclusion in the list is the characterization as a full-fledged city since the 19th century.
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