Sontra

Old town of Sontra

Coat of arms

Sontra

Location of Sontra within Werra-Meißner-Kreis district

Coordinates: 51°4′N 09°56′E / 51.067°N 9.933°ECoordinates: 51°4′N 09°56′E / 51.067°N 9.933°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Karl-Heinz Schäfer (SPD)

Area

• Total

111.29 km² (42.97 sq mi)

Elevation

265 m (869 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

7,629

• Density

69/km² (180/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

36205

05653

ESW

Website

www.sontra.de

Sontra is a small town in the Werra-Meißner-Kreis in northeastern Hesse, Germany.

The air spa of Sontra is known as Berg- und Hänselstadt, with Bergstadt referring to the time when there was bituminous shale mining (“mining” is Bergbau in German) in town, and Hänselstadt to the town’s former membership in the Hanse. In the town, whose area covers 111.29 km², live 8,568 inhabitants.

Sontra lies between Bad Hersfeld (some 30 km to the southwest), Kassel (some 45 km to the northwest) and Eisenach (some 35 km to the east), east of the Stölzinger Gebirge, north of the Richelsdorfer Gebirge and west of the Ringgau (ranges), and also 16 km southwest of Eschwege. Flowing through town are the river Sontra, which near Wehretal empties into the Wehre, and the river Ulfe, which empties into the Sontra near the outlying centre of Wichmannshausen.

Sontra borders in the north on the town of Waldkappel and the community of Wehretal, in the east on the communities of Ringgau and Herleshausen (all in the Werra-Meißner-Kreis), in the southeast on the community of Gerstungen (in Thuringia’s Wartburgkreis), in the south on the communities of Wildeck and Nentershausen and in the southwest on the community of Cornberg (all three in Hersfeld-Rotenburg).

Sontra’s 15 Ortsteile, besides the main town, also called Sontra, are Berneburg, Blankenbach, Breitau, Diemerode, Heyerode, Hornel, Krauthausen, Lindenau, Mitterode, Stadthosbach, [Thurnhosbach] , Ulfen, Weißenborn, Wichmannshausen and Wölfterode.

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