Sangerhausen

Sangerhausen lies southeast of the Harz and appears in records of Fulda Abbey between 780 and 802. The settlement passed through several hands, including the landgraves of Thuringia and the margraves of Brandenburg. In 1372 it was sold to the Wettin rulers of Saxony, who gradually restricted the town's self-government. Its old town hall was rebuilt in stone between 1431 and 1437 after an earlier building burned. Sangerhausen remained part of Saxony until 1815, when the settlement after the Napoleonic wars placed it under Prussian rule.