Straufhain

South of the Werra, surrounded by the Frankenschwelle mountain range, the Gleichberge mountains and the Straufhain hill that characterizes the area, lies the municipality of Straufhain, which consists of 9 districts. The administrative center is the 800-year-old...

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Oberkrossen

The districts of Oberkrossen (located on the right bank of the Saale, 180 m above sea level, 140 inhabitants) and Kleinkrossen (located on the left bank of the Saale, 178 m above sea level, 49 inhabitants) formed the...

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Eichfeld

The village of Eichfeld, which mainly consists of two lanes, lies to the left of the Schaalbach stream in the valley of the same name. First mentioned in 1074 as Eichenfeld, the village was agriculturally characterized for a long time....

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Bauhaus Museum Weimar

With its contemporary architecture and multimedia exhibition design, the Bauhaus Museum Weimar not only presents the treasures of the world's oldest Bauhaus collection in a new light. The new museum building was opened in 2019 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus. It combines...

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Plate hammer

Tellerhammer was first mentioned in a document in 1594. The settlement is traced back to a hammer mill built in 1594 by Jörg Bischof, also called Tellerjörg.According to an official description from...

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Werra-Suhl Valley

Werra-Suhl-Tal is a town in the Wartburgkreis district in Thuringia, Germany, with 6464 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2017). It was created on January 1, 2019 by the merger of the rural town of Berka/Werra with the neighboring...

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Catharine Hill

The small village of Katharinenberg is located on the B 249 federal highway on the Hesse-Thuringia border. The village is dominated by the ruins of a monastery church from the early 16th century. The expanded choir of the...

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Heldburg

Heldburg is a town in the district of Hildburghausen in the far south of Thuringia. It is located in the center of the Heldburger Land, is the administrative seat of the Heldburger Unterland administrative community and has just under 3,500 inhabitants, of...

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