Auma-Weidatal () is a town in the
district of Greiz, 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 ...
. It was named after the town
Auma and the river
Weida, that flows through the municipality. It was formed on 1 December 2011 by the merger of the former municipalities Auma,
Braunsdorf,
Göhren-Döhlen,
Staitz and
Wiebelsdorf. Since January 1996, these and three other municipalities had cooperated in the ''
Verwaltungsgemeinschaft
Municipal associations (, , ) are statutory corporations or public bodies created by statute in the German federal states of Bavaria, Saxony, Thuringia, and Schleswig-Holstein. In Baden-Württemberg the term ''stipulated municipal association ...
'' ("collective municipality")
Auma-Weidatal. This ''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'' was disbanded on 1 December 2011. The seat of the municipality and of the former ''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'' is in Auma.
References
Greiz (district)
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