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Schönhagen, Thuringia

Part of the municipality of Uder in Germany

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ554930 ↗
Source-derived summary

Schönhagen (German pronunciation: [ʃøːnˈhaɡn̩]) is a village and a former municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany. On 1 January 2024 it became part of the municipality Uder.

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“Schönhagen, Thuringia” enters the record as part of the municipality of Uder in Germany. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Schönhagen, Thuringia and Part can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Schönhagen, Thuringia and Part.
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“Schönhagen, Thuringia” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Schönhagen, Thuringia and Part provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q554930. VIAF identifies the subject as 239229781. Authority coordinates are 51.340, 10.020. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from “Schönhagen, Thuringia” 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.