Gerstungen
Sign in to saveGerstungen () is a municipality in the Wartburgkreis district of Thuringia, Germany. It is 42 kilometers southwest of the geographic center of Germany, located in Niederdorla. In July 2018 the former municipalities of Marksuhl and Wolfsburg-Unkeroda were merged into Gerstungen.
Key facts
- German location.image_plan
- Gerstungen in WAK.png
- German location.state
- Thüringen
- German location.district
- Wartburgkreis
- German location.elevation
- 205
- German location.area
- 149.98
- German location.postal_code
- 99834
- German location.area_code
- 036922
- German location.licence
- WAK, EA, SLZ
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 16 0 63 097
- German location.website
- www.gerstungen.de
- German location.mayor
- Daniel Steffan
- German location.leader_term
- 2024–30
- German location.party
- CDU
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Gerstungen () is a municipality in the Wartburgkreis district of Thuringia, Germany. It is 42 kilometers southwest of the geographic center of Germany, located in Niederdorla. In July 2018 the former municipalities of Marksuhl and Wolfsburg-Unkeroda were merged into Gerstungen.
==History== left|thumb|A new border crossing for pedestrians across the Inner German border linking Lauchröden in Gerstungen municipality, and [[Herleshausen. This temporary bridge was built immediately after the reopening of the border at the site of an old bridge across the Werra which was destroyed in the Second World War. Here, visitors are queueing to enter East Germany on 23 December 1989.]]