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{{Infobox German place
|type              = Stadt
|image_photo       = Hildburghausen Historisches Rathaus.jpg
|image_caption     = Town hall on the main square
|image_coa         = Wappen Hildburghausen.png
|coordinates       = {{coord|50|25|N|10|45|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|image_plan        = Hildburghausen in HBN.png
|state             = Thuringia
|district          = Hildburghausen
|elevation         = 381
|area              = 72.9
|postal_code       = 98641–98646
|area_code         = 03685
|licence           = HBN
|Gemeindeschlüssel = 16 0 69 024
|divisions         = 10 
|website           = [https://www.hildburghausen.de/ www.hildburghausen.de]
|mayor             = Patrick Hammerschmidt<ref>[https://wahlen.thueringen.de/datenbank/wahl1/wahl.asp?wahlart=BM&wJahr=0000&zeigeErg=LAND&auswertung=2 Gewählte Bürgermeister - aktuelle Landesübersicht], Freistaat Thüringen. Retrieved 25 June 2024.</ref>
|leader_term       = 2023&ndash;29
|party             = 
}}

'''Hildburghausen''' ({{IPA|de|hɪltbʊʁkˈhaʊ̯zn̩|-|De-Hildburghausen.ogg}}<ref>[[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]] adapted from: {{cite book|last1=Krech|first1=Eva-Maria|last2=Stock|first2=Eberhard|last3=Hirschfeld|first3=Ursula|last4=Anders|first4=Lutz Christian|title=Deutsches Aussprachewörterbuch|trans-title=German Pronunciation Dictionary|language=de|year=2009|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|location=Berlin|isbn=978-3-11-018202-6|pages=584}}</ref>) is a town in [[Thuringia]] in central [[Germany]], capital of the [[Hildburghausen (district)|Hildburghausen district]].

==Geography==
It is situated in the [[Franconia]]n part of Thuringia south of the [[Thuringian Forest]], in the valley of the [[Werra]] River. The town centre is located about {{convert|20|km|mi|abbr=on}} south of [[Suhl]] and {{convert|20|km|mi|abbr=on}}  northwest of [[Coburg]].

==History==
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The settlement of ''Hilteburgehusin'' was first mentioned in a 1234 deed, when the [[House of Henneberg|Counts of Henneberg]] sold it to the [[Bishopric of Würzburg|Prince-Bishops of Würzburg]]. Repurchased in 1316, the Henneberg lords vested the citizens with [[German town law|town privileges]] in 1324 and had city walls erected. In 1353 the estates of Hildburghausen were inherited by the [[House of Wettin|Wettin]] landgrave [[Frederick III, Landgrave of Thuringia|Frederick III of Thuringia]] and upon the 1485 [[Treaty of Leipzig]] became part of the [[Ernestine duchies]].

In 1528 the Hildburghausen citizens turned [[Protestant Reformation|Protestant]]. The town fell to the newly established Duchy of [[Saxe-Coburg]] in 1572 and upon the extinction of the line in 1638 passed to the [[Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg]]. In 1680 it became the residence of the Ernestine dukes of [[Saxe-Hildburghausen]] until its dissolution in 1826, after which it passed to the [[Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen]]. The town became part of the new state of Thuringia in 1920.

==Sights==
* A ducal palace, erected between 1685 and 1695, with a park in which there is a monument to [[Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz|Queen Louise of Prussia]]
* The old town hall
* A monument erected to those citizens who died in the [[Franco-Prussian War]] of 1870–71<ref>{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Hildburghausen|volume=13|page=460}}</ref>

==Notable people==
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*[[Karoline von Feuchtersleben]] (1774–1842) born in Hildburghausen
*[[Hans-Dieter Fritschler]] (1941–2021) born in Hildburghausen, politician
*[[Friedrich Dotzauer]] (1783–1860), cellist and composer
*[[Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen]] (1787–1847)
*[[Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen]] (1794–1825)
*[[Joseph Meyer (publisher)|Joseph Meyer]] (1796–1856), publisher
*[[Marie of Saxe-Altenburg]] (1818–1907)
*[[Hans Meyer (geologist)|Hans Meyer]] (1858–1929), geologist
*[[Ronald Weigel]] (born 1959) in Hildburghausen, athlete
*[[Torsten Warmuth]] (born 1968), artist and photographer
*[[Nadine Hoffmann]] (born 1979), politician

==References==
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==External links==
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