Schalkau
Sign in to saveSchalkau () is a town in the district of Sonneberg, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated 13 km west of Sonneberg, and 15 km north of Coburg. The former municipality Bachfeld was merged into Schalkau in December 2019.
Key facts
- German place.type
- Stadt
- German place.image_coa
- DEU Schalkau COA.svg
- German place.image_plan
- Schalkau in SON.svg
- German place.state
- Thüringen
- German place.district
- Sonneberg
- German place.elevation
- 400
- German place.area
- 44.02
- German place.postal_code
- 96528
- German place.area_code
- 036766
- German place.licence
- SON, NH
- German place.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 16 0 72 015
- German place.website
- www.schalkau.de
- German place.mayor
- Mark Schwimmer
- German place.leader_term
- 2024–30
- German place.party
- parteilos
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Thuringia
- Population
- 3199
- Area
- 44.02
- Elevation
- 401
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Official website
- www.schalkau.de
- Image
- Schalkau-Rathaus.jpg
- Dialing code
- 036766
- Licence plate code
- SON
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- Schalkau
- postal code
- 96528
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- Șalcău
- P8168
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Schalkau () is a town in the district of Sonneberg, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated 13 km west of Sonneberg, and 15 km north of Coburg. The former municipality Bachfeld was merged into Schalkau in December 2019.
==History== From 1680 to 1920, Schalkau was part of Saxe-Meiningen, from 1920 to 1952 of the State of Thuringia, from 1952 to 1990 of the Bezirk Suhl of East Germany and since 1990 again of Thuringia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Schalkau” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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