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63 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.

Asbach-Sickenberg

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

Bockelnhagen

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

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.

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.

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.

Dietzenrode-Vatterode

Dietzenrode-Vatterode is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany.

Ecklingerode

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

Effelder, Eichsfeld

Effelder 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.

Eichstruth

Eichstruth 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.

Freienhagen, Thuringia

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

Fretterode

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

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.

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.

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.

Kirchgandern

Kirchgandern 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.

Kriebitzsch

Kriebitzsch is a municipality in the district Altenburger Land, 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

Lutter

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

Neundorf bei Lobenstein

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

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.

Oberoppurg

Oberoppurg 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.

Peter Albach

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

Pfaffschwende

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

Reinsdorf

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

Schimberg

Schimberg is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld 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.

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.

SV 08 Steinach

SV Steinach is a German association football club that plays in Steinach, a town 75 km south of Erfurt in Thuringia.

Teistungen

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

Thalwenden

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

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


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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.

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

In March 1942, two British privates of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Macfarlane and Goldie, escaped from Stalag IX-C at Bad Sulza in Thuringia.

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.

Brünn, Thuringia

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

Easter egg tree

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

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.

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.

Gerterode

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

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.

Jückelberg

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

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.

Leinefelde-Worbis

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

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.

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.

Schönhagen, Thuringia

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

The Tomb of Frederick the Great

In March 1943 they were taken into an underground bunker in Potsdam-Eiche and then in March 1945 to the salt mine at Bernterode in Eichsfeld (Thüringen).

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.

Wilhelmsdorf, Thuringia

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

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.

Ziegelheim

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