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Wasungen () is a town in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated on the river Werra, 11 km north of Meiningen. The former municipalities Hümpfershausen, Metzels, Oepfershausen, Unterkatz and Wahns were merged into Wasungen in January 2019.

Key facts

German place.type
Stadt
German place.image_photo
Wasungen-Pfaffenburg-A.D.1378.jpg
German place.image_caption
Pfaffenburg
German place.image_coa
Wappen Wasungen.png
German place.image_plan
Wasungen in SM.png
German place.state
Thuringia
German place.district
Schmalkalden-Meiningen
German place.Verwaltungsgemeinschaft
Wasungen-Amt Sand
German place.elevation
270
German place.area
89.08
German place.Gemeindeschlüssel
16066086
German place.postal_code
98634
German place.area_code
036941
German place.licence
SM
German place.website
www.wasungen.de
German place.mayor
Thomas Kästner
German place.leader_term
2022–28

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Wasungen () is a town in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated on the river Werra, 11 km north of Meiningen. The former municipalities Hümpfershausen, Metzels, Oepfershausen, Unterkatz and Wahns were merged into Wasungen in January 2019.

The Pfaffenburg was built in 1378 and reconstructed in 1974.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wasungen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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