Gumpelstadt

Gumpelstadt is a village of the Moorgrund municipality in the Wartburgkreis district in Thuringia, Germany (since 1994).

Gumpelstadt is located at an altitude of about 280 meters on the southwest edge of the Thuringian Forest and about five kilometers northeast of Bad Salzungen.

[1] In 1680, with the fracturing of the Ernestine duchies, Gumpelstadt became part of the Principality of Saxe-Meiningen.

On 25 March 1994, the municipalities Gumpelstadt, Waldfisch and Witzelroda were dissolved and merged to form the new community Moorgrund.

[3] Gumpelstadt is home to 2 nature reserves, Jachzenthal and the mountain Alte Warth, both designated on 6 April 1995.