It was created on 30 June 1994 in the course of a territorial reform by the merger of the municipalities of Bollstedt, Grabe, Höngeda and Seebach.

[1] On 1 January 2019, Weinbergen was dissolved, and the four villages which it consisted of were incorporated into the territory of the town of Mühlhausen.

To the north-east it bordered on Körner, to the south-east on the administrative community of Unstrut-Hainich and to the west on the rural municipality of Vogtei.

The route of the disused Ebeleben–Mühlhausen railway line with the former stops at Bollstedt and Grabe ran in the northwest of the municipal area.

On 8 March 2018, the municipal council decided by a narrow majority to incorporate Weinbergen into Mühlhausen as of 1 January 2019.