Bad Frankenhausen

Bad Frankenhausen is a town in the German state of Thuringia. It is situated at the southern incline of the Kyffhauser mountain go, on a fake arm of the Wipper waterway, a tributary of the Unstrut. In light of the adjacent Kyffhauser landmark committed to Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, it is nicknamed Barbarossastadt. The region incorporates the towns of Seehausen, Udersleben, since 2007 Esperstedt and since 2019 Ichstedt and Ringleben.

Frankenhausen was first witness to as a Frankish settlement in the 9th century in deeds of the Abbey of Fulda. It got town benefits in 1282 and from 1340 on was a piece of the County of Schwarzburg. On 15 May 1525 it was the area of the Battle of Frankenhausen, one of the last extraordinary skirmishes of the German Peasants' War, when the radical workers under Thomas Muntzer were crushed by troops of the associated Duke George of Saxony, Landgrave Philip I of Hesse and Duke Henry V of Brunswick-Luneburg. Muntzer was caught, tormented lastly decapitated at Muhlhausen on 27 May.