page_title: Sontra
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Sontra / History
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Dies ist ein Scan des historischen Dokuments: Titel: Sontra - Auszug aus der Topographia Hassiae Sprache: Deutsch English: This is a scan of the historical document: Title: Sontra - Topographia Hassiae language: german
context_page_description: Sontra is a small town in the Werra-Meißner-Kreis in northeastern Hesse, Germany.
  The air spa of Sontra is known as Berg- und Hänselstadt, with Bergstadt referring to the time when there was bituminous shale mining in town, and Hänselstadt to the town's former membership in the Hanse. In the town, whose area covers 111.29 km², live 8,568 inhabitants.
context_section_description: In 775, Sontra’s outlying centre of Ulfen had its first documentary mention. In the 8th century, Sontra itself was also mentioned for the first time. In 1232, a Kunigunde de Suntraha was named, who on a visit to Saint Elizabeth’s grave in Marburg experienced healing. Town rights were granted Sontra in 1368.
  There was bituminous shale mining in Sontra beginning no later than 1499, and it continued right through to the 1950s.
  In the centre of Donnershag, which is part of Sontra, the settlement society known as Freiland-Freigeld was resident in the 1920s.
caption: Sontra – extract from Topographia Hassiae by Matthäus Merian 1655
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