Wingerode is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany.

In 1174 Henry the Lion, Duke of Bavaria and Saxony, bought the village from Volkenroda Abbey.

Wingerode belonged to the Electorate of Mainz until the secularization of 1802 and was subject to the jurisdiction of the von Hanstein family.

At the end of World War II, it was in the Soviet occupation zone and in 1949 became part of East Germany.

From 1961 until reunification in 1990, Wingerode was affected by the closure of the nearby inner German border.