Stadtroda

Coat of arms

Stadtroda

Location of Stadtroda within Saale-Holzland-Kreis district

Coordinates: 50°51′0″N 11°44′0″E / 50.85000°N 11.73333°ECoordinates: 50°51′0″N 11°44′0″E / 50.85000°N 11.73333°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Klaus Hempel

Area

• Total

16.81 km² (6.49 sq mi)

Elevation

200 m (700 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)^[1]

• Total

5,892

• Density

350/km² (910/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

07646

036428

SHK, EIS, SRO

Website

www.stadtroda.de

Stadtroda (Roda until 1925) is a town of 5,838 people (2013), located in Thuringia, Germany. Stadtroda lies on the Roda river, a tributary of the Saale.

History

According to some sources, Faust was born in Roda in 1480. The house where he was born was torn down and sold to Chicago in 1896, where it was going to be shown in the Germany-Hall of the World's Fair. The fate of the house is unknown.

Within the German Empire (1871-1918), Roda was part of the Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg.

Sandstone near Stadtroda, Germany.

Town hall Stadtroda

Mayors

Mayors since 1886^[2]

1886–1892: Gottfried Knoch
1892–1898: Friedrich Goedel
1898–1906: Hermann Loeser
1906–1908: Wilhelm Dieterici
1908–1928: Rudolf Goedecke
1928–1934: Ernst Paul Schönherr
1935–1938: Franz Degen
1938–1941: Gerhard Wunderling
1941–1942: Max Oswald (acting)
1942–1945: ? Horn
1945: Max Oswald (acting)
1945–1946: Wilhelm Meier
1946–1950: Otto Seifarth
1950–1953: Ernst Klinger
1953–1954: Theo Wurlitzer

1954–1955: Rudolf Pabst (acting)
1955: Georg Vater
1955–1958: Walter Hilbert
1959–1961: Kurt Krüger
1961–1965: Günter Hoppe
1965–1972: Kurt Neugebauer
1972: Volkmar Ernst
1972–1984: Heinz Rosenkranz
1984–1986: Kurt Halbauer
1986–1990: Rainer Haufe
1990–1992: Karl-Heinz Herrmann
1992: Harald Reuter (acting)
1992–2012: Harald Kramer (CDU)
since 2012: Klaus Hempel (Free voters)

Sons and daughters of the town

Princess Luise around 1800

Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1756–1808), Princess of Sachsen-Gotha, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, wife of the regent in the same place
Paul Leopold Friedrich (1864-1916), surgeon
Joachim Erwin (1949-2008), jurist and CDU politician, mayor of Düsseldorf 1999-2008

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Towns and municipalities in Saale-Holzland
Albersdorf Altenberga Bad Klosterlausnitz Bibra Bobeck Bollberg Bremsnitz Bucha Bürgel Crossen an der Elster Dornburg-Camburg Eichenberg Eineborn Eisenberg Frauenprießnitz Freienorla Geisenhain Gneus Golmsdorf Gösen Graitschen bei Bürgel Großbockedra Großeutersdorf Großlöbichau Großpürschütz Gumperda Hainichen Hainspitz Hartmannsdorf Heideland Hermsdorf Hummelshain Jenalöbnitz Kahla Karlsdorf Kleinbockedra Kleinebersdorf Kleineutersdorf Laasdorf Lehesten Lindig Lippersdorf-Erdmannsdorf Löberschütz Mertendorf Meusebach Milda Möckern Mörsdorf Nausnitz Neuengönna Oberbodnitz Orlamünde Ottendorf Petersberg Poxdorf Quirla Rattelsdorf Rauda Rauschwitz Rausdorf Reichenbach Reinstädt Renthendorf Rothenstein Ruttersdorf-Lotschen Scheiditz Schkölen Schleifreisen Schlöben Schöngleina Schöps Seitenroda Serba Silbitz Stadtroda St. Gangloff Sulza Tautenburg Tautendorf Tautenhain Thierschneck Tissa Tröbnitz Trockenborn-Wolfersdorf Unterbodnitz Waldeck Walpernhain Waltersdorf Weißbach Weißenborn Wichmar Zimmern Zöllnitz

References

↑ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden, Gemeinschaftsfreie Gemeinde, erfüllende/beauftragende Gemeinden, Verwaltungsgemeinschaft/Mitgliedsgemeinden in Thüringen". Thüringer Landesamt für Statistik (in German). July 2016.
↑ Utz Möbius: Chronik der Stadt Stadtroda. Geiger, Horb am Neckar 2003, ISBN 3-89570-896-8.

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