Bollstedt (pronounced [ˈbɔlʃtɛt]) is a village and a quarter of the town of Mühlhausen in Thuringia, central Germany, situated on the left bank of the Unstrut (river kilometre 28).
The village lies in the up to two-kilometre-wide Unstrut floodplain between Mühlhausen and Bad Langensalza and is embedded in the flat Inner Thuringian farmland.
[1] On 4 June 1300, Landgrave Frederick I sold the village together with Grabe and Höngeda to the Reichsstadt (imperial city) of Mühlhausen.
The green background stands for the grass-green Unstrut floodplain, the blue for the sky, and the circles for the bales of straw that characterise the wide arable hill landscape after the grain harvest.
To the south of the village, the Keuper and loess loams mined on the Roter Berg are processed in the Wienerberger brick industry plant.
The route of the disused Ebeleben–Mühlhausen railway line with the former Bollstedt stop runs along the north-western edge of the village.
The medieval predecessor church, originally dedicated to St Nicholas, was destroyed and demolished during the Thirty Years' War.
On the eastern edge of the village, next to a bridge on the old road to Bothenheilingen, there is a historical signpost, the "Vogteier Hut", and on the adjacent ditch there is a late-medieval stone cross.