Saalfeld, Mühlhausen

Ortsteil of Mühlhausen in Thuringia, Germany

Location of Saalfeld

51°15′49″N 10°31′42″E / 51.263689°N 10.528314°E / 51.263689; 10.528314CountryGermanyStateThuringiaDistrictUnstrut-Hainich-KreisTownMühlhausen First mentioned1273Government

• OrtsteilbürgermeisterSilvio Fischer^[1]Elevation

352 m (1,155 ft)Population

(March 2021)^[2]

• Total162Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codes

99974

Dialling codes036029Vehicle registrationUH, LSZ, MHLWebsitemuehlhausen.de

Saalfeld (pronounced [ˈzaːlfɛld]) is a village and a quarter of the town of Mühlhausen in Thuringia, central Germany.

Geography

Saalfeld lies on the edge of the Thuringian Basin, several kilometres (miles) north of the core town of Mühlhausen. The village is connected to the town and the surrounding area via the Landesstraße (state's road) 1016.

History

The village was first mentioned in a document on 29 October 1273.^[3] For centuries, it belonged to the sphere of influence of the Reichsstadt (imperial city) of Mühlhausen. In 1565, the (male) population of Saalfeld was 46.^[4] In 1802, Saalfeld, together with Mühlhausen, fell to the Kingdom of Prussia, from 1807 to 1813 to the Kingdom of Westphalia (canton Dachrieden) created by Napoleon, and after the Congress of Vienna in 1816, it was assigned to the Landkreis Mühlhausen i. Th. in the Prussian Province of Saxony. On 8 March 1994, Saalfeld was incorporated into the town of Mühlhausen.^[1]

Sights

St Nicholas's Church [de]^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Der Ortsteil Saalfeld" [The village of Saalfeld] (in German). Stadt Mühlhausen. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
^ "Einwohnerstatistik" [Population figures] (in German). Stadt Mühlhausen. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
^ Kahl, Wolfgang (2010). Ersterwähnung Thüringer Städte und Dörfer. Ein Handbuch [First mentions of Thuringia's towns and villages. A handbook] (in German) (5th ed.). Bad Langensalza: Rockstuhl. p. 243. ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0.
^ Jordan, Reinhard, ed. (1900). Chronik der Stadt Mühlhausen in Thüringen [Chronicle of the town of Mühlhausen in Thuringia] (in German). Vol. 1: (–1525). Mühlhausen: Danner. p. 41.