Amt Wachsenburg is a municipality in the district
Ilm-Kreis
Ilm-Kreis is a district in Thuringia, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the city of Erfurt
Erfurt () is the capital (political), capital and largest city of the Central Germany (cultural area), Central German state of Th ...
, in
Thuringia
Thuringia (; officially the Free State of Thuringia, ) is one of Germany, Germany's 16 States of Germany, states. With 2.1 million people, it is 12th-largest by population, and with 16,171 square kilometers, it is 11th-largest in area.
Er ...
,
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...
. The municipality is named after the
Wachsenburg Castle which is located in its center. It was formed on 31 December 2012 from the former municipalities
Wachsenburggemeinde and
Ichtershausen. The former municipality
Kirchheim was merged into Amt Wachsenburg in January 2019, and
Rockhausen in December 2019. It consists of the villages Bechstedt-Wagd, Bittstädt, Eischleben, Haarhausen, Holzhausen, Ichtershausen, Kirchheim, Rehestädt, Rockhausen, Röhrensee, Sülzenbrücken,
Thörey and Werningsleben.
References
Ilm-Kreis
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