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51 unusual facts about Thuringia


Adolph Douai

Karl Daniel Adolph Douai was born February 22, 1819 in Altenburg, Thuringia in the Duchy of Saxon-Altenburg, the son of a school teacher.

Berlingerode

Berlingerode is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany.

Blankenberg

Blankenberg, Thuringia, part of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Saale-Rennsteig, Saale-Orla-Kreis, Thuringia, Germany

Blankenberg, Thuringia

Blankenberg is a municipality in the district Saale-Orla-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany.

Bodenrode-Westhausen

Bodenrode-Westhausen is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany.

Bogislaw II, Duke of Pomerania

This occupation was even recognized by the Empire, in the sense that, when the Guelph emperor Otto IV allied himself at Weißensee with Margrave Albert II, Waldemar allied himself with the Hohenstaufen emperor Frederick II.

Bornhagen

Bornhagen is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany, located at the foot of the ruins of Hanstein Castle.

Breitenworbis

Breitenworbis is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany.

Brünn, Thuringia

Brünn is a municipality in the district of Hildburghausen, in Thuringia, Germany.

Burgwalde

Burgwalde is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany, part of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Hanstein-Rusteberg.

Büttstedt

Büttstedt is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany.

Christian Karl Reisig

Christian Karl Reisig (name sometimes given as Karl Christian Reisig; 17 November 1792 – 17 January 1829) was a German philologist and linguist who was a native of Weißensee.

Effelder, Eichsfeld

Effelder is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany.

Eisfeld

Eisfeld is a town and a municipality in the district of Hildburghausen, in Thuringia, Germany.

Ellingshausen

Ellingshausen is a municipality in the district Schmalkalden-Meiningen, in Thuringia, Germany.

Frederick IV, Landgrave of Thuringia

the peaceful one, and the Fool (before 30 November 1384 – 7 May 1440 at Runneburg Castle in Weißensee) was a member of the House of Wettin and was Margrave of Meissen and Landgrave of Thuringia.

Geisleden

Geisleden is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany.

Göhren

Göhren, Thuringia, a municipality in the district Altenburger Land, Thuringia

High Prussian dialect

High Prussian developed in the 13th–15th centuries, brought in by German settlers mainly from Silesia and Thuringia, and was influenced by the Baltic Old Prussian language.

Hohengandern

Hohengandern is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany.

Hundeshagen

Hundeshagen is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany.

Jützenbach

Since 1 December 2011, it is part of the municipality Sonnenstein.

Kaethe Hoern

In the summer of 1944, Hoern was given the title of Oberaufseherin in Ravensbrück, and assigned as head wardress to the Buchenwald subcamp near Allendorf, Germany.

Kleinbartloff

Kleinbartloff is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany.

Kloster Veßra

Kloster Veßra is a municipality in the district of Hildburghausen in Thuringia, Germany.

Krombach, Thuringia

Krombach is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany.

Küllstedt

Küllstedt is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany.

Laucha

Laucha, Thuringia, a municipality in the district of Gotha, Thuringia

Leinefelde-Worbis

Leinefelde-Worbis is a town in the district of Eichsfeld, in northwestern Thuringia, Germany.

Lenterode

Lenterode is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany.

Mackenrode, Thuringia

Mackenrode is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany.

Motorenbau Werk Kassel

Originally the factory at Lilienthalstrasse 150 in Kassel was a site of the Gerätebau GmbH, a subsidiary of the Brother Thiel Seebach, Thuringia.

Neundorf bei Lobenstein

Neundorf bei Lobenstein is a municipality in the district Saale-Orla-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany.

Niederdorla

Since 31 December 2012, it is part of the municipality Vogtei.

Niederorschel

Niederorschel is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany.

Peter Albach

Since 1990, he has uninterruptedly served as the mayor of Weißensee, Thuringia.

Radwan coat of arms

(First) marriage with Johanne Amalie Herold, born November 10, 1717 in Reinsdorf, died September 17, 1770 in Bibra, married July 19, 1740)

Reinholterode

Reinholterode is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld, Thuringia, Germany.

Sankt Bernhard, Thuringia

Sankt Bernhard is a municipality in the district of Hildburghausen, in Thuringia, Germany.

Schachtebich

Schachtebich is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany.

Schimberg

Schimberg is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany.

Schmücke

The Schmücke is a ridge of hills in Thuringia, Germany.

Schwobfeld

Schwobfeld is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany.

Sickerode

Sickerode is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany.

Soldiers and Slaves

Cohen details how the prisoners, many of whom were accused by their Nazi captors of being Jewish, were mixed in with victims of the Holocaust and sent to a concentration camp in Berga.

Uwe Weidemann

Uwe Weidemann (born June 14, 1963 in Weißensee, Thuringia) is a German football coach and a former player who was last managing VfR Fischeln.

Wahlhausen

Wahlhausen is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany.

Walter Damrosch

During his visit to Europe in the summer of 1886, he was invited by the Deutsche Tonkünstler-Verein, of which Franz Liszt was president, to conduct some of his father's compositions at Sondershausen, Thuringia.

Windischleuba

Windischleuba is a municipality in the district Altenburger Land, in Thuringia, Germany.

Wolfsberg

Wolfsberg, Thuringia, a municipality in the district Ilm-Kreis, Thuringia, Germany

Ziegelheim

Ziegelheim is a municipality in the district Altenburger Land, in Thuringia, Germany.


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While it is licensed to Saxony-Anhalt, the exposed position of the Brocken at 3,743 ft allows the channel to cover large parts of central Germany, including Lower Saxony, Thuringia, Brandenburg and Saxony.

Botanischer Garten in Bad Langensalza

The Botanischer Garten in Bad Langensalza is a botanical garden located at Kurpromenade 5b, Bad Langensalza, Thuringia, Germany.

Central German football championship

The number of small states in the Thuringia region formed the new state of that name, with the exception of Coburg, which joined Bavaria.

Deutsches Burgenmuseum

The Deutsches Burgenmuseum (German Castle Museum) is a in preparation historical museum at the fortress Veste Heldburg (Castle Heldburg) in the Heldburger Land and in district Hildburghausen in Thuringia.

Duden

In 1872, Konrad Duden, headmaster of a Gymnasium (secondary school) in Schleiz, Thuringia, published a German dictionary called the Schleizer Duden, the first Duden.

Eichenberg

Eichenberg, Saale-Holzland, a municipality in the district of Saale-Holzland in the state of Thuringia, Germany

Einhausen, Thuringia

Einhausen is a municipality in the district Schmalkalden-Meiningen, in Thuringia, Germany.

Encrinus

In Lower Saxony, they were called Sonnenräder ("sun wheels"), while in Thuringia and Hesse they were called Bonifatiuspfennige ("Saint Boniface's pennies").

Ezzo, Count Palatine of Lotharingia

Matilda received as dowry out of Ottonian possessions lands in Thuringia and Franconia (the East Frankish territories of Coburg, Salz and Orlamünde), while her husband gave her as dowry the family estate of Brauweiler.

Franconian

anything related to Franconia (German Franken), a historic region in Germany, now part of Bavaria, Thuringia and Baden-Württemberg

Fritz Wächtler

From August 1932 Wächtler served as Education Minister in the cabinet of the Minister President of Thuringia, Fritz Sauckel.

Georg Neumann

Georg Neumann relocated his company to the much smaller town of Gefell in Thuringia and resumed production at the beginning of the following year.

Gerterode

Gerterode is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany.

Grit Hammer

Grit Hammer, née Haupt (born 4 June 1966 in Saalfeld, Thuringia) is a retired German shot putter.

Gustav Wyneken

The young Walter Benjamin's political aesthetics were greatly influenced by a stay (1905-1907) at a Wyneken boarding school (Haubinda in Thüringen) where he became close to Wyneken.

Heldburger Land

Heldburger Land means the historic Saxon administrative district Amtsbezirk Heldburg (borough Heldburg) and is today the southernmost part of the Free State of Thuringia and the district of Hildburghausen, between the towns Coburg, Hildburghausen and Bad Königshofen.

Johann Eccarius

Johann Georg Eccarius (23 August 1818, Friedrichroda - 4 March 1889) was a Thuringian tailor and labour activist.

Johann Martin Steindorff

Johann Martin Steindorff (b. 18 March 1663 in Teutleben, Thuringia; d. 3 May 1744 in Zwickau, Saxony) was a Baroque musician who served as Kantor at Zwickau.

Johann Valentin Meder

Meder was born in Wasungen, Thuringia to a musical family with his father and four brothers all being organists or Kantors.

Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller

Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller (February 6, 1862 – December 19, 1948) was a German botanist born in Hildburghausen, Thuringia.

Jürgen Rohwer

Jürgen Rohwer (born 24 May 1924 in Friedrichroda, Thuringia in Germany) is a German naval military historian and Professor of history at the University of Stuttgart.

Justus Menius

John, Elector of Saxony, had placed him on the commission for church visitation in Thuringia, and in 1529 appointed him pastor and superintendent at Eisenach, where for eighteen years he administered church affairs with tact, and fostered the spread of education.

Kevin Möhwald

He made his debut for the club in December 2011, as a substitute for Nils Pfingsten-Reddig in a Thuringia derby against Carl Zeiss Jena which Erfurt lost 1–0.

Kriebitzsch

Kriebitzsch is a municipality in the district Altenburger Land, in Thuringia, Germany.

Low Lusatian German

After the foundation of the German Democratic Republic and an economical development because of a stronger extraction of lignite people from Mecklenburg, Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt moved to the Lusatia region to benefit from the development.

Lutter, Thuringia

Lutter is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany.

Oberoppurg

Oberoppurg is a municipality in the district Saale-Orla-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany.

Pennewitz

Pennewitz is a municipality in the district Ilm-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany.

Porcelain money

They were issued for the province Saxony, Meissen, and a number of other cities such as Eisenach, Thuringia; Freiberg, Saxony; Münsterberg, Silesia; Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt; and other cities.

Reinhardsbrunn

Reinhardsbrunn in Friedrichroda near Gotha, in Thuringia in Germany, is the site of a formerly prominent Benedictine abbey extant between 1085 and 1525, and, from 1827, of a royal castle and park of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family.

Ritschenhausen station

Ritschenhausen is a railway station situated in the Thuringian village of Ritschenhausen on the Neudietendorf–Ritschenhausen and the Schweinfurt–Meiningen lines.

Rockhausen

Rockhausen is a municipality in the district Ilm-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany.

Rohrberg

Rohrberg, Thuringia, a municipality in the Eichsfeld district, Thuringia, Germany

Rudolf Kühnhold

A native of Schwallungen in the Meiningen district of Thuringia, Kühnhold received his higher education in physics at the University of Göttingen.

Sender Inselsberg

The Sender Inselsberg (transmitter Inselsberg) is a FM and television-transmission facility on the Big Inselsberg in Thuringia, Germany.

Thalwenden

Thalwenden is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany.

Volkenroda Abbey

Volkenroda Abbey (Kloster Volkenroda) is a former Cistercian monastery in the municipality of Körner in the Unstrut-Hainich district of Thuringia, Germany.

Wiesenfeld, Eichsfeld

Wiesenfeld is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany.

Wilhelmsdorf, Thuringia

Wilhelmsdorf is a municipality in the district Saale-Orla-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany.