Heldburg is a town and a municipality in the district of Hildburghausen, in Thuringia, in central Germany.

The municipality was created with effect from 1 January 2019 by the merger of the former municipalities of Bad Colberg-Heldburg, Gompertshausen and Hellingen.

[3] During World War II, on 11 May 1942, the present-day district of Poppenhausen was the site of a massacre of 20 Polish prisoners of the Buchenwald concentration camp, who were publicly hanged by the Gestapo.

[4] After the war, the town was part of East Germany.

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