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57 unusual facts about Thuringia


Altenbeuthen

Altenbeuthen is a municipality in the district Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, in Thuringia, Germany.

Asbach-Sickenberg

Asbach-Sickenberg is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld, in Thuringia, Germany.

Augustusburg Hunting Lodge

He was also given the Ämter of Weida, Ziegenrück and Arnshaugk, which belonged to what later became the district of Neustädter Kreis.

Berka/Werra

Berka/Werra (also Berka an der Werra) is a town in the Wartburgkreis district, in Thuringia, Germany.

Birkenfelde

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

Bockelnhagen

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

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.

Bösleben-Wüllersleben

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

Brehme, Germany

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

Büttstedt

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

Christian Ernest of Stolberg-Wernigerode

When his brother Heinrich August died in 1748, Christian Ernest inherited the territory of Schwarza, Thuringia.

County of Stolberg

The Stolberg lands, which were located mostly east of the Harz, included Stolberg, Hayn, the lower County of Hohnstein (1417), as well as Kelbra and Heringen (1413/17), the two latter territories being ruled alongside the House of Schwarzburg.

Dieterode

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

Ecklingerode

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

Eichsfeld-Südharz

The Verwaltungsgemeinschaft was disbanded on 1 December 2011, when its constituent municipalities (except Am Ohmberg) merged into the new municipality Sonnenstein.

Einhausen, Thuringia

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

Eisfeld

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

Gerbershausen

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

Gerterode

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

Großbartloff

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

Helmsdorf, Thuringia

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

Heuthen

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

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.

Jückelberg

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

Kreuzebra

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

Kriebitzsch

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

Küllstedt

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

Langenleuba-Niederhain

Langenleuba-Niederhain is a municipality in the district Altenburger Land, in Thuringia, Germany.

Langula

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

Laucha

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

Liebenstein

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

Lutter

Lutter, Thuringia, a municipality in the Eichsfeld district, Thuringia

Mine railway

Regular museum trains also run on the line from Meuselwitz via Haselbach to Regis-Breitingen.

Neundorf bei Lobenstein

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

Oepfershausen

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

Pennewitz

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

Rockhausen

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

Rohrberg

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

Röhrig

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

Rustenfelde

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

Sankt Bernhard, Thuringia

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

Schleusingen

Schleusingen is a town in the district of Hildburghausen, in Thuringia, Germany.

Schöndorf, Thuringia

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

Schwarza

Schwarza, Thuringia, a municipality near Meiningen, Thuringia, Germany

Schwobfeld

Schwobfeld 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.

Stalag IX-B

The camp was also the site of the segregation and removal of Jewish-American troops who, once identified, were transferred to the labor camp at Berga.

Tastungen

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

Volkerode

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

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.

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.

Witzleben

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

Ziegelheim

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


89.0 RTL

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.

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.

Blankenburg

Bad Blankenburg, a German town in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district of Thuringia

Bockelnhagen

Bockelnhagen is a village and a former municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany.

Bodenrode-Westhausen

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

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.

Effelder, Eichsfeld

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

Ehrenberg, Hesse

Ehrenberg touches the municipalities Hilders (rural district Fulda) in the north, Birx (Thuringia), the town Fladungen (Bavaria), the municipality Hausen (also Bavaria) and the town Oberelsbach (also Bavaria) the east, the town Gersfeld (district Fulda) in the south and the municipality Poppenhausen (district Fulda) in the west.

Eichenberg

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

Eichstruth

Eichstruth is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld 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

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.

Hans Beck

Born in Greiz, Thuringia, Beck grew up in the town of Zirndorf, beginning his toy making career as a creator of little vehicles and figures for his younger siblings.

Hohenstein

Hohenstein, Thuringia, a municipality in the district of Nordhausen in Thuringia

Johann Eccarius

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

Johann Valentin Meder

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

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.

Kuno Lorenz

Kuno Lorenz (born September 17, 1932 in Vachdorf, Thüringen) is a German philosopher.

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.

Neundorf bei Schleiz

Neundorf (bei Schleiz) is a municipality in the district of Saale-Orla, Thuringia, Germany.

Niederorschel

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

Orda Khan

When he heard that one Mongol group raided as far as the Saxonian town Meissen promptly marched there and seek reinforcements from Thuringia and Saxony.

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.

Prager house

In 1999 the association Geschichtswerkstatt Weimar-Apolda was founded, later merged into the Prager-Haus Association, and published further material regarding Jewish life, persecution in the first Thuringia concentration camps in Nohra and Bad Sulza and the daily regime of National Socialism.

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.

Reinsdorf

Reinsdorf, Thuringia, a municipality in the district Kyffhäuserkreis, Thuringia, Germany

Schmücke

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

Schönhagen, Thuringia

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

Sickerode

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

Uniontown, Missouri

Uniontown was originally known as Paitzdorf, and was named after the same village in Greiz county in Thuringia, Germany, where many of the settlers originated from.

Wakefieldite

Wakefieldite-(La) was first described in 2008 for an occurrence in the Glücksstern mine, Gottlob Hill, Friedrichroda, Thuringia, Germany.

Windischleuba

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

Witta of Büraburg

Witta of Büraburg (also known as Albuin or Vito Albinus, a close Latin translation of his Germanic name) (born in Wessex; died 747) was one of the early Anglo-Saxon missionaries in Hesse and Thuringia in central Germany, disciple and companion of Saints Boniface and Lullus.