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Bauerbach

neighborhood in Grabfeld, Germany

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ649061 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bauerbach (German pronunciation: [ˈbaʊɐbax]) is a village and a former municipality in the district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen, in Thuringia, Germany. Since 1 January 2012, it is part of the municipality Grabfeld.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Bauerbach” as neighborhood in Grabfeld, Germany. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bauerbach, neighborhood and Grabfeld.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Bauerbach, neighborhood and Grabfeld providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q649061. VIAF identifies the subject as 144919017. Authority coordinates are 50.498, 10.392. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bauerbach” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.