Anrode, Former municipality in Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis, Thuringia, Germany
Anrode was a municipality in Thuringia comprising five villages: Lengefeld, Bickenriede, Dörna, Hollenbach, and Zella. The settlements occupied an area in the Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis region at an elevation of about 372 meters.
The municipality formed in 1997 by combining five separate communities into one administrative unit. In 2023, it was dissolved and its territories were redistributed to three neighboring municipalities.
Anrode took its name from Kloster Anrode, a monastery founded around 1267 after Heinrich Kämmerer von Mühlhausen gave the nuns his estates and the church at Anninrod. The monastery grounds host the Bauernmarkt Anrode, a farmers' market held several times a year.
The villages are accessible by car or local public transportation serving the Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis region. Visitors should note that the individual locations now belong to different administrative areas, which may affect planning.
George Atzerodt, born in Dörna in 1835, was a conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln; he was assigned to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson but abandoned the plan. The same village produced Johann Friedrich Wender (1655–1729), an organ builder whose workshop operated in Mühlhausen.
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