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Anna-Amalia-Library

by globetrott

Anna-Amalia-Library / Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek burned down in September 2004 but 850.000 books could be saved and only 50.000 were lost forever.End of October 2007 the first 50.000 books were taken back to the restored library .I had been there in 2006, so my pics are just from the building during the restauration-time, but at least you get some sort of an impression what it will look like.In November 2007 they start to re-open the library :Every Tuesday till Sunday : 10.00am - 03.00pmTickets are 6,50 EurosOfficial Re-opening is at December 1st, 2007

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Castle Creuzburg

by elgin99

High above the small city of Creuzburg there lies the Romanesque castle arrangement of 1170. It was a residence of the Thuringian landgraves and place of residence of the holy St. Elisabeth. Here she bore 1222 her son Hermann. In the castle arrangement is the museum of the castle with the Elisabeth ladies' apartment, the interesting torture cellar, the Michael's Praetorius room, the Creuzburger home room and varying exhibitions. The view from the castle across the Werratal is miraculous. The small park is romantic.

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Museum of Nature, Gotha

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That´s the greatest Museum of Nature in Thuringia. More than 1,500 qms area of exhibitions, inside a beautiful historical building (1864 built). With and about sauria, insects, many species of wild fauna and flora.

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biggest early-baroque palace - Friedenstein Gotha

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The Palace Friedenstein in Gotha is the biggest palace construction in Thuringia after the 30-year-old war. The Magdeburger Andreas Rudolphi explained the construction 1643-54. Duke Ernst I. of Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg was a principal for the palace construction. It was the residence of duke Ernst I. (1601 - 1675), later administrative seat of the dukedom Saxony Gotha (1640 - 1894). There are in the museum significant art treasures and the unique Ekhoftheater. Here you find also the research library and State library Gotha and the Thuringian State archive Gotha. Very important also the collection of famous paintings inside museum. At time are the Italian weeks, with special art of Italy, very nice! Have also a look for the expositions about Napoleon´s traces in Gotha. The Ekhoftheater is a special jewel in the row of historical theaters of the baroque. This oldest baroque theater of the...

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Eisenach

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Eisenach has about 45,000 inhabitants and is situated in Thuringia’s west on the Nesse and Hörsel rivers. It was founded in the 12th century and in 1869 the German Social Democratic Party was founded here. Landmark is the 11th-century Wartburg castle where that Martin Luther began his translation of the New Testament from the Latin in 1521. In the city are the Lutherhaus, in which Luther stayed as a youth; the house in which composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born in 1685; and the Gymnasium, a school Luther and Bach attended.

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Erfurt

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Erfurt is the capital of Thuringia, the green state in Germany’s heart. Erfurt has always attracted famous people: Goethe, Schiller and Bach studied here, even Martin Luther spent some semesters at the university which was founded as early as the 14th century. In 1990 the beauty of the old half-timbered and renaissance style buildings around the Cathedral (photo) were restored.

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Gera

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Gera, chartered in 1224, has about 120,000 inhabitants and is Thuringia's second biggest town, situated on the Weisse Elster River. It is situated in the east of Thuringia, halfway from Erfurt to Dresden.Gera's town centre is completely restored and invites for window-shopping and walking.

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Jena

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Jena, also called the Silicon Valley of the East is the first address for optic- and high tech-technology and is seat of about 30 scientific facilities. Today Jena has around 100,000 inhabitants. The founding of the university in 1558 made Jena one of the most popular places to study in all Germany. Great German poets taught or supported the university, like Goethe and Schiller.

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Weimar

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Weimar, with a population of about 60.000 lies in central Thuringia on the Ilm River. It was founded in the 10th century and became capital of Saxe-Weimar in 1547. In 18th and the first decades of 19th century the city was Germany’s cultural center and the residence of such outstanding literary figures as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Gottfried von Herder, Friedrich von Schiller, and Christoph Martin Wieland. Following World War I, the German National Assembly was meeting in Weimar and established the German Republic, known also as the Weimar Republic. During World War II, the National Socialist government of Germany operated one of the largest and most notorious concentration camps in nearby Buchenwald. Today, Weimar projects a medieval quality, with its many narrow streets and old, gabled houses, and it is the site of numerous architectural landmarks.

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Paulinzella

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Paulinzella is with its about 100 inhabitants a very small and historic town in the Thuringia Forest. The town was founded by Paulina, a Saxon aristocrat in the valley of the Rottenbach creek between 1102 and 1105 and attracts with its huge Benedictian monastery church. Since the 16th century, Paulinzella served as a department for the Earls and the later Princes of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. It became a favourite hunting lodge for them.

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  1. Erfurt Things to Do
  2. Weimar Things to Do
  3. Eisenach Things to Do
  4. Jena Things to Do
  5. Wartburg Things to Do
  6. Arnstadt Things to Do
  7. Schwarzwald Things to Do
  8. Nordhausen Things to Do
  9. Apolda Things to Do
  10. Altenburg Things to Do
  11. Gera Things to Do
  12. Tabarz Things to Do
  13. Mühlhausen Things to Do
  14. Asbach Things to Do
  15. Ruine Hanstein Things to Do
  16. Bad Frankenhausen Things to Do
  17. Rudolstadt Things to Do
  18. Gotha Things to Do
  19. Bad Berka Things to Do
  20. Waltershausen Things to Do
  21. Vierzehnheiligen Things to Do
  22. Gefell Things to Do
  23. Finsterbergen Things to Do
  24. Wolfsburg Things to Do
  25. Suhl Things to Do
  26. Saalfeld Things to Do
  27. Elgersburg Things to Do
  28. Ronneburg Things to Do
  29. Oberhof Things to Do
  30. Geisa Things to Do
  31. Bad Sulza Things to Do
  32. Meiningen Things to Do
  33. Paska Things to Do
  34. Ifta Things to Do
  35. Creuzburg Things to Do
  36. Zella-Mehlis Things to Do
  37. Römhild Things to Do
  38. Kloster Veßra Things to Do
  39. Bad Langensalza Things to Do
  40. Seitenroda Things to Do
  41. Reitzengeschwenda Things to Do
  42. Paulinzella Things to Do
  43. Kyffhäuser Gebirge Things to Do
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Q:  Has anyone been to the Rosarium in Sangerhausen. I see I can catch a train from Erfurt and it appears tobe a 20 min walk to the... 

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A: The distance is walkable (and the old town of Sangerhausen has a bit to see on the way). I walked, so I cannot tell about taxis. However, in those small towns you can't... 

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