Thonhausen is a municipality in the district of
Altenburger Land 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.
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, Germany. It belongs to 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 ...
of
Oberes Sprottental.
Geography
Neighboring municipalities
Communities near Thonhausen are
Jonaswalde,
Heyersdorf, the City of
Schmölln, and
Vollmershain in the Landkreis Altenburger Land; as well as the City of
Crimmitschau in the
Saxon
The Saxons, sometimes called the Old Saxons or Continental Saxons, were a Germanic people of early medieval "Old" Saxony () which became a Carolingian " stem duchy" in 804, in what is now northern Germany. Many of their neighbours were, like th ...
Landkreis of
Zwickauer Land.
Municipal arrangement
Thonhausen has three districts: Thonhausen, Schönhaide, and Wettelswalde.
Business and Infrastructure
Thonhausen is located at the Schmölln Interchange on
Bundesautobahn 4
is an autobahn in two discontinuous segments that crosses Germany in a west–east direction. The western segment has a length of , while the part in the east is long.
Route
The western A 4 starts north-west of Aachen, where the A ...
.
References
Altenburger Land
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