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61 unusual facts about Thuringia


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.

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.

Bösleben-Wüllersleben

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

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 Ernest of Stolberg-Wernigerode

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

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.

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.

Eichstruth

Eichstruth is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld 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.

Gerbershausen

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

Göhren

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

Helmsdorf, Thuringia

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

Henry Ernest, Count of Stolberg

Henry Ernest, Count of Stolberg (20 July 1593 in Schwarza – 4 April 1672 in Ilsenburg) was a German nobleman.

Heuthen

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

Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber

Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (Weißensee, Thuringia, 1739 – Erlangen, 1810), often styled I.C.D. von Schreber, was a German naturalist.

Jückelberg

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

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.

Kallmerode

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

Kefferhausen

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

Kirchgandern

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

Kreuzebra

Kreuzebra is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld 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.

Liebenstein

Liebenstein is a municipality in the district Ilm-Kreis, 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

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

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.

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.

Pfaffschwende

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

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)

Rockhausen

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

Schachtebich

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

Schleusingen

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

Schmücke

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

Schwarza

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

Silberhausen

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

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.

Teistungen

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

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.

Wehnde

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

Wiesenfeld, Eichsfeld

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

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

Wüstheuterode

Wüstheuterode is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in 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.

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.

Billmuthausen

It lay in the extreme south of Thuringia in the Heldburger Land in the district of Hildburghausen, only five hundred meters away from the Thuringian-Bavarian border.

Blankenburg

Blankenburg, Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis, a German municipality in the Unstrut Hainich district of Thuringia

Bockelnhagen

Bockelnhagen is a village and a former 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.

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.

Easter egg tree

A notable example is the Saalfelder Ostereierbaum (Saalfeld Easter egg tree) in Saalfeld, Thuringia.

Eichenberg

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

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.

Fritz Wächtler

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

Geismar

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

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.

Hohenstein

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

Jakob Fugger

The expansion continued with the construction of smelting plants in Neusohl, Arnoldstein in Carinthia, Hohenkirchen in Thuringia and Moschnitz.

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.

Karl Ludwig d'Elsa

D'Elsa died on 20 July 1922 at Tannenfeld bei Nöbdenitz, in the Löbichau district of Thuringia.

Kuno Lorenz

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

Langenleuba-Niederhain

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

Leinefelde-Worbis

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

Lutter, Thuringia

Lutter 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.

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.

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.

Sankt Bernhard, Thuringia

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

Sickerode

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

Silke Kraushaar-Pielach

Silke Kraushaar-Pielach (born Silke Kraushaar on 10 October 1970 in Sonneberg, Thuringia) is a German luger who competed from 1995 to 2008.

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.

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.

Witzleben

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

Wolfram Grandezka

Wolfram Grandezka (born on 17 December 1969 in Saalfeld, Thuringia) is a German actor.

ZFC Meuselwitz

Zipsendorfer Fußballclub Meuselwitz is a German association football club from Meuselwitz, Thuringia.