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10 unusual facts about Eichsfeld


Am Ohmberg

It was formed by the merger of the previously independent municipalities Bischofferode, Großbodungen and Neustadt, on 1 December 2010.

Bockelnhagen

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

Bockelnhagen is one of the few villages in the Eichsfeld district which were not part of the historical Eichsfeld.

Christianity in East Germany

With exception of the Eichsfeld, a small Catholic area in the northwestern part of Thuringia, which was a former property of the archdiocese of Mainz, Catholics were a small minority right from the start of Communist rule.

Effelder

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

Eichsfeld-Südharz

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

Henry the Mild, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Henry ravaged the Eichsfeld, a possession of the archbishop of Mainz, who was suspected to be involved in the murder.

Pöhlde Abbey

In 1525 both church and monastery were destroyed by peasants from Eichsfeld in the Peasants' War.

Rudi Arnstadt

The incident took place at Wiesenfeld on the East-West border in the East German province of Thuringia.

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).


Adalbert of Saxony

In order to protect the Thuringian areas of the Archdiocese of Mainz around Erfurt and in the Eichsfeld area, archbishop Diether von Isenburg and the cathedral chapter of Mainz appointed Aldalbert, who was still a minor, in 1477 as Provisor of the city of Erfurt and High Bailiff of Rusteberg Castle in Rustenfelde in the Eichsfeld.

Birkenfelde

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

Bodenrode-Westhausen

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

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.

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.

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.

Eichstruth

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

Fretterode

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

Geismar

Geismar is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld 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.

Helmsdorf, Thuringia

Helmsdorf 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.

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.

Kleinbartloff

Kleinbartloff 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.

Leinefelde-Worbis

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

Lutter

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

Lutter, Thuringia

Lutter 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.

Niederorschel

Niederorschel is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld 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.

Rüdigershagen

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

Schachtebich

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

Schönhagen, Thuringia

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

Schwobfeld

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

Seeburger See

Also known as Auge des Eichsfelds (Eye of the Eichsfeld), the shallow 86.5-hectare (0.865 km2) lake is fed in the west by the Aue creek at Seeburg and drained to the east in Bernshausen by the same creek and lies at an elevation of 157 m AMSL.

Sickerode

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

Stuffo

The source for the latter designation comes from the 1602 Historia S. Bonifacii by Johannes Letzner, who claims that after Boniface destroyed the Donar Oak near Geismar (now in Fritzlar, Hesse) he traveled to the Stuffenberg in Eichsfeld, where the god Stuffo was worshiped by the local population.

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.

Wachstedt

Wachstedt 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.