Schwarzburg (municipality)

Municipality in Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district, Thuringia, Germany

Municipality in Thuringia, Germany

Coat of arms

Location of Schwarzburg (municipality) within Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district

(2021–27) Heike Printz^[1]Area

• Total14.63 km² (5.65 sq mi)Elevation

280 m (920 ft)Population

(2022-12-31)^[2]

• Total492 • Density34/km² (87/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codes

07427

Dialling codes036730Vehicle registrationSLFWebsitewww.mittleres-schwarzatal.de

Schwarzburg is a municipality in the valley of the Schwarza (German: Schwarzatal) in the district Saalfeld-Rudolstadt in Thuringia, in central Germany.

It was first mentioned in 1071 as Swartzinburg. The (now-ruined) castle was from the 12th century the seat of the Counts of Schwarzburg. Then Rudolstadt became seat of the new line of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.

On 11 August 1919, while on holiday in Schwarzburg, Friedrich Ebert, the first Reichspräsident of Germany, signed the Weimar constitution, the first democratic constitution of Germany.

References

^ Gewählte Bürgermeister - aktuelle Landesübersicht, Freistaat Thüringen, accessed 14 July 2021.
^ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden, erfüllenden Gemeinden und Verwaltungsgemeinschaften in Thüringen Gebietsstand: 31.12.2022" (in German). Thüringer Landesamt für Statistik. June 2023.