title: Stadtroda
text: # Stadtroda
  
  Stadtroda (Roda until 1925) is a town of 6,653 people (2017), located in Thuringia, Germany. Stadtroda lies on the river Roda, a tributary of the Saale. The former municipalities Bollberg and Quirla were merged into Stadtroda in January 2019.
  
  ## History
  
  According to some sources, Faust was born in Roda in 1480. The house where he was born was torn down and sold to Chicago in 1896, where it was going to be shown in the Germany-Hall of the World's Fair. The fate of the house is unknown.
  
  Within the German Empire (1871–1918), Roda was part of the Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg.
  
  ## Mayors
  
  Mayors since 1886
  
  | 1886–1892: Gottfried Knoch 1892–1898: Friedrich Goedel 1898–1906: Hermann Loeser 1906–1908: Wilhelm Dieterici 1908–1928: Rudolf Goedecke 1928–1934: Ernst Paul Schönherr 1935–1938: Franz Degen 1938–1941: Gerhard Wunderling 1941–1942: Max Oswald (acting) 1942–1945: ? Horn 1945: Max Oswald (acting) 1945–1946: Wilhelm Meier 1946–1950: Otto Seifarth 1950–1953: Ernst Klinger 1953–1954: Theo Wurlitzer | 1954–1955: Rudolf Pabst (acting) 1955: Georg Vater 1955–1958: Walter Hilbert 1959–1961: Kurt Krüger 1961–1965: Günter Hoppe 1965–1972: Kurt Neugebauer 1972: Volkmar Ernst 1972–1984: Heinz Rosenkranz 1984–1986: Kurt Halbauer 1986–1990: Rainer Haufe 1990–1992: Karl-Heinz Herrmann 1992: Harald Reuter (acting) 1992–2012: Harald Kramer (CDU) since 2012: Klaus Hempel (Free voters) |
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  ## Notable people
  
  * Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1756–1808), Princess of Sachsen-Gotha, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, wife of the regent in the same place
  * Paul Leopold Friedrich (1864–1916), surgeon
  * Joachim Erwin (1949–2008), jurist and CDU politician, mayor of Düsseldorf 1999–2008
  