Location Sontra lies between
Bad Hersfeld (some 30 km to the southwest),
Kassel (some 45 km to the northwest) and
Eisenach (some 35 km to the east), east of the Stölzinger Gebirge, north of the Richelsdorfer Gebirge and west of the Ringgau (ranges), and also 16 km southwest of
Eschwege. Flowing through town are the river Sontra, which near
Wehretal empties into the Wehre, and the river Ulfe, which empties into the Sontra near the outlying centre of Wichmannshausen.
Neighbouring communities Sontra borders in the north on the town of
Waldkappel and the community of
Wehretal, in the east on the communities of
Ringgau and
Herleshausen (all in the Werra-Meißner-Kreis), in the southeast on the community of
Gerstungen (in
Thuringia’s
Wartburgkreis), in the south on the communities of
Wildeck and
Nentershausen and in the southwest on the community of
Cornberg (all three in
Hersfeld-Rotenburg).
Constituent communities Sontra’s 15
Ortsteile, besides the main town, also called Sontra, are Berneburg, Blankenbach, Breitau, Diemerode, Heyerode, Hornel, Krauthausen, Lindenau, Mitterode, Stadthosbach, [Thurnhosbach]
:de:Thurnhosbach, Ulfen, Weißenborn, Wichmannshausen and Wölfterode. ==History==