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16 unusual facts about Bad Frankenhausen


Anna Ritter

Her husband died in 1893, and the widow moved to the spa town of Bad Frankenhausen in Thuringia.

Captain Capa

Captain Capa is a German electronic band from Bad Frankenhausen.

Christopher Handke

Christopher Handke (born 14 February 1989 in Bad Frankenhausen) is a German footballer who plays for VfB Germania Halberstadt in the Regionalliga Nord.

Coelodonta tologoijensis

It was first known as an Asian species, but one skull found in the Kyffhauser hills near the town of Bad Frankenhausen, Germany, was assigned to the species by researchers.

Georg Eberhardt

Georg Eberhardt was born on the 27 February 1914, in Bad Frankenhausen.

Günther XLI, Count of Schwarzburg-Arnstadt

William I (1534-1597) received Frankenhausen.

Heinz-Helmut Wehling

Heinz-Helmut Wehling (born 8 September 1950 in Bad Frankenhausen) is a German former wrestler who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976 Summer Olympics.

House of Schwarzburg

The Schwarzburg lands were again divided among his successors until in 1538 Count Günther XL the Rich was able to unite the territories including Frankenhausen and Rudolstadt under his rule.

Kim Nelson

In 2004 Nelson embarked on an artistic pilgrimage to visit the home of German Renaissance artist, Albrecht Dürer and to attend a major retrospective of the late Italian artist Massimo Rao staged at the Panorama Museum in Bad Frankenhausen, Germany.

Louis Günther I, Count of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Louis Günther received a part including the town of Frankenhausen.

Paul Sturm

From 1919 he lived with his second wife Hedwig Weckwerth, the widow of the medallist Hermann Weckwerth, at Bad Frankenhausen, Thuringia.

Reimund Neugebauer

Reimund Neugebauer (born 27 June 1953 in Esperstedt am Kyffhäuser) is a German mechanical engineer and professor who has been working in the field of machine tools and forming processes.

Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

After their brother Count William of Schwarzburg-Frankenhausen had died in 1597, the surviving brothers Albert VII and John Günther I established the two counties of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and Schwarzburg-Sondershausen by the 1599 Treaty of Stadtilm.

Selmar Schonland

Professor Selmar Schonland (15 August 1860 Frankenhausen, Germany as Selmar Schönland – 22 April 1940 Grahamstown, Cape Province), the founder of the Botany Department at Rhodes University, was a German immigrant, who came to the Eastern Cape in 1889 to take up an appointment as curator of the Albany Museum.

Thomas Müntzer

Müntzer is immortalized in the Peasant's War Panorama in Bad Frankenhausen, whose 1,722 square meters of painted surface make it the largest oil painting in the world.

Werner Tübke

Werner Tübke (b. 30 July 1929 in Schönebeck, Germany, d. 27 May 2004 in Leipzig, Germany) was a German painter, best known for his monumental Peasants' War Panorama located in Bad Frankenhausen.