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The Best Attractions In Thuringia

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Dokumentationszentrum Walpersberg - REIMAHG

Grenzmuseum Schifflersgrund

Rennsteiggarten Oberhof

Egapark Erfurt

Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek

Goethes Gartenhaus

Erfurt Cathedral

Merchant's Bridge

Museum 1806

Rennsteig

Bauhaus-Museum

Schloss und Park Belvedere

Bachhaus

Goethe National Museum

Thuringia , officially the Free State of Thuringia , is a state of Germany. Thuringia is located in central Germany covering an area of 16,171 square kilometres and a population of 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest German state by area and the fifth smallest by population. Erfurt is the state capital and largest city, while other major cities include Jena, Gera, and Weimar. Thuringia is surrounded by the states of Bavaria, Hesse. Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony. Most of Thuringia is within the watershed of the Saale, a left tributary of the Elbe, and has been known as the green heart of Germany from the late 19th century du...
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The Best Attractions In Thuringia

1. Wartburg Castle Eisenach
The Wartburg is a castle originally built in the Middle Ages. It is situated on a precipice of 410 meters to the southwest of and overlooking the town of Eisenach, in the state of Thuringia, Germany. In 1999, UNESCO added Wartburg Castle to the World Heritage List. It was the home of St. Elisabeth of Hungary, the place where Martin Luther translated the New Testament of the Bible into German, the site of the Wartburg festival of 1817 and the supposed setting for the possibly legendary Sängerkrieg. It was an important inspiration for Ludwig II when he decided to build Neuschwanstein Castle. Wartburg is the most-visited tourist attraction in Thuringia after Weimar. Although the castle today still contains substantial original structures from the 12th through 15th centuries, much of the inte...
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2. Merchant's Bridge Erfurt
3. Goethe National Museum Weimar
The Goethe House is the main house lived in by the writer, poet, and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe whilst in Weimar, Germany, though he did live in several others in the town. The home serves as the main location of the Goethe-Nationalmuseum.
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4. Erfurt Cathedral Erfurt
Erfurt is the capital and largest city in the state of Thuringia, central Germany. Erfurt lies in the southern part of the Thuringian Basin, within the wide valley of the Gera river. It is located 100 km south-west of Leipzig, 300 km south-west of Berlin, 400 km north of Munich and 250 km north-east of Frankfurt. Together with neighbouring cities Weimar and Jena it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants. Erfurt's old town is one of the best preserved medieval city centres in Germany. Tourist attractions include the Krämerbrücke , the ensemble of Erfurt Cathedral and Severikirche and Petersberg Citadel, one of the largest and best preserved town fortresses in Europe. The city's economy is based on agriculture, horticulture and microelectron...
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5. Zeiss-Planetarium Jena
The Zeiss-Planetarium in Jena, Germany is the oldest continuously operating planetarium in the world. It was opened on July 18, 1926. The Zeiss-Planetarium is a projection planetarium. The planets and fixed stars are projected onto the inner surface of a white cupola. The Zeiss-Planetarium is owned and operated by the Ernst-Abbe-Stiftung. It was engineered by German engineer Walther Bauersfeld.
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6. Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek Weimar
The Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar, Germany, houses a major collection of German literature and historical documents and is part of the UNO designated Classical Weimar . In 2004 a fire destroyed the main wing and a substantial part of the collection; restoration of salvaged volumes lasted until 2015. The library contains: 1,000,000 books 2,000 medieval and early modern manuscripts 600 ancestral registers 10,000 maps 4,000 musical scoresThe research library today has approximately 850,000 volumes with collection emphasis on the German literature. Among its special collections is an important Shakespeare collection of approximately 10,000 volumes, as well as a 16th-century Bible connected to Martin Luther.
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7. Buchenwald Memorial Weimar
Buchenwald concentration camp was a German Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937, one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps on German soil, following Dachau's opening just over four years earlier. Prisoners from all over Europe and the Soviet Union—Jews, Poles and other Slavs, the mentally ill and physically-disabled from birth defects, religious and political prisoners, Roma and Sinti, Freemasons, Jehovah's Witnesses , criminals, homosexuals, and prisoners of war—worked primarily as forced labor in local armaments factories. From 1945 to 1950, the camp was used by the Soviet occupation authorities as an internment camp, known as NKVD special camp number 2. Today the remains of Buchenwald serve as a memorial and perm...
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8. Bachhaus Eisenach
The Bach House in Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany, is a museum dedicated to the composer Johann Sebastian Bach who was born in the city. On its 600 m² it displays around 250 original exhibits, among them a Bach music autograph. The core of the building complex is a half-timbered house, ca. 550 years old, which was mistakenly identified as Bach's birth house in the middle of the 19th century. In 1905, the Leipzig-based Neue Bachgesellschaft acquired the building. In 1907, it was opened as the first Bach museum.
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9. Schloss und Park Belvedere Weimar
10. Barbarossahohle Rottleben
11. Egapark Erfurt Erfurt
12. Goethes Gartenhaus Weimar
13. Schiller-Museum Weimar
14. Rennsteiggarten Oberhof Oberhof
The Rennsteiggarten Oberhof is a botanical garden specializing in mountain flora, located in Rennsteig at Am Pfanntalskopf 3, Oberhof, Thuringia, Germany. It is open daily in the warmer months; an admission fee is charged. The garden was established in 1970 on the grounds of a former quarry at an elevation of 868 meters on the Pfanntalskopf. In 1972 the Cultural Federation and University of Jena agreed to scientific support, and plantings began with material from the Botanischer Garten Jena. In 1980 an indigenous plant bog was created, with a nature garden begun in 1985 for protected plants from the Thuringian mountains, and in 1993 a garden of Thuringian herbs.
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15. Bauhaus-Museum Weimar
The construction of the New Bauhaus Museum is a project by the Klassik Stiftung Weimar. The planned museum is being built near the Weimarhallenpark and will present the Weimar collections of the State Bauhaus, which was founded in Weimar in 1919. The museum is scheduled to open on 6 April 2019.
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Thuringia Tourist Attractions: 15 Top Places to Visit

Planning to visit Thuringia? Check out our Thuringia Travel Guide video and see top most Tourist Attractions in Thuringia.

Top Places to visit in Thuringia:
Buchenwald Memorial, Merchant's Bridge, Park an der Ilm, Drachenschlucht, Erfurt Cathedral, Wartburg Castle, Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek, Domplatz, Goethe National Museum, Bachhaus, Erlebnis Bergwerk, JenTower, Schloss und Park Belvedere, Panorama Museum, Schiller-Museum

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Top 15. Best Tourist Attractions in Weimar - Travel Germany

Top 15. Best Tourist Attractions and Beautiful Places in Weimar - Travel Germany: Park an der Ilm, Goethe National Museum, Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek, Markt, Chateau of Belvedere, Schillerhaus on Schillerstrasse, Schlossmuseum, Goethes Gartenhaus, Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Bauhaus Museum, Liszt House, Jakobskirchhof, Theaterplatz, Bauhaus-Universitat, Russian Orthodox Chapel

Erfurt Tourist Attractions: 15 Top Places to Visit

Planning to visit Erfurt? Check out our Erfurt Travel Guide video and see top most Tourist Attractions in Erfurt.

Top Places to visit in Erfurt:
Merchant's Bridge, Erfurt Cathedral, Domplatz, Egapark Erfurt, Petersberg Citadel, Old Synagogue, Thuringian Zoo Park, Fischmarkt, Protestant Augustinian Monastery, Gedenk- Und Bildungsstatte Andreasstrasse, Erinnerungsort Topf & Soehne, Predigerkirche, Agidienkirche, Stadt Museum, Angermuseum

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Views Around Jena, Thuringia, Germany - June 2016

Views around the city of Jena, in The Free State of Thuringia, Germany, taken in June 2016.

Jena is a German university city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a population of nearly 110,000. To read more about Jena, click here: .

This film features views around Jena, and includes the following locations and features: Hausberg, Oberaue, Jena Paradies Bahnhof, Knebelstraße, Am Volksbad, Volkshochschule Jena, Grietgasse, Engelplatz, Holzmarkt, Löbderstrasse, Teichgraben, Schillerstraße, Goethe Gallerie, Jenoptik Tower, Carl-Zeiß-Straße, Ernst-Abbe-Platz, Leutragraben, Neuemitte Jena, Jentower, Ergo Bibamus, Johannisplatz, Mahnmal des Krieges, Pfarrkirche St. Johannes Baptist, Wagnergasse, Am Pulverturm, Philisterbrunnen, Johannisstraße, Tanzende Mädchen, Stadtkirche Sankt Michael, Kirchplatz, Saalstraße, Löwenbrunnen, Löbdergraben, Steinweg, Armenischer Kreuzstein (Chatschkar), Camsdorfer Brücke, Saale River, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße, Camsdorfer Ufer, Friedrich-Engels-Straße, Stadtrodaer Straße, Paradies Brucke, Paradies Tram Bridge, Jena Busbahnhof, Phyletisches Museum, Vor dem Neutor, Ernst-Haeckel-Straße, Sellierstraße, Hainstraße, Curt-Unckel-Straße, Westbahnhofstraße, Jena West Bahnhof, Ernst-Haeckel-Straße, Volkshaus Jena, Carl-Zeiß-Platz, and Steigenberger Esplanade Hotel.

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Top Tourist Attractions in Erfurt: Travel Guide Germany

Top Tourist Attractions in Erfurt: Travel Guide Germany
Domplatz, Egapark Erfurt, Erfurt Cathedral, Fischmarkt, Merchant's Bridge, Old Synagogue,Zitadelle Petersberg, Zoopark Erfurt, Agidienkirche

Eisenach Tourist Attractions: 13 Top Places to Visit

Planning to visit Eisenach? Check out our Eisenach Travel Guide video and see top most Tourist Attractions in Eisenach.

Top Places to visit in Eisenach:
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(Produced on assignment for the Cultural Heart of Germany)

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