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Leuchtenburg Kahla - The well

by elgin99

In the year 1552 four miners from Saalfeld pushed after hard work of some months on water, they had achieved a depth of 80 m. So they maked the second deepest well at that time for Thuringia . The windlass already became taken off 1690 by a big traversing wheel. It should remain almost 200 years into its function. Countless prisoners promoted the water in hard work from the depth of the internal width mountain. A film talks about the hisstory and technology of the fountain during the visit.

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Castle Leuchtenburg, Kahla

by elgin99

The little town Kahla has a long tradition of porcelain manufcture. The town lies at 340 kilometer long porcelain street and has only 7 thousand inhabitants. With its green and natural surounding and impressive castle, the Leuchtenburg, in the valley of river Saale the town is recommandably for tourists. Close to town Jena you can reach that place and the castle via Autobahn A4. There are always signs to Kahla and in the town up to Leuchtenburg. The castle itsself has many exhibitions, esp. one unique collection of porcelain, historical rooms, wine cellar, dungeon and museum about porcelain manufacture and the heavy life of porcellain maker families in last century. From the tower you get a fascinating view across the town and wonderful landscape.Double walls, embankment ditch and fortified towers present themselves in a rare originality. There is a Middle Ages spectacle every year at...

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Drei Gleichen - three castles

by elgin99

The name for the castle ensemble means " Three of same " should have originated after the tradition because in a May night of 1231 a ball lightning has lit all three castles all at once and they were to be seen like blazing torches far out in the land. Probably, however, one of three castles, Burg Gleichen, gave to the area his name. The castle Burg Gleichen in the old connecting road between Franc and Thuringia presumably originated at the beginning of the 11th century among the counts of Weimar Orlamünde. From the platform of the tower you will have an unique view over the Thuringian scenery. Benches in the castle court and in the entrance to the castle invite to have a rest. In the tower room there is a small exhibit which mediates of interesting piece of information about the Gleichen area. All three castles lie in visibility to each other. In the middle through them is the highway...

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Salzmannschule - oldest Philantropin in Germany

by elgin99

... and it was "my school".Christian Gotthilf Salzmann, priest's son from Sömmerda came in 1784 to Schnepfenthal to found an own reformatory. He brought the ideas of the Philantropismus. From many countries of Germany, partly also of the foreign country the pupils came to Schnepfenthal. The significant pedagogues whose names are known over the borders of Thuringia, were teachers in Schnepfenthal, thus among others C.F.GutsMuths (founded school sport), J.M.Bechstein (founder of the first forest school), Carl Ritter (founder of the modern geography), Franz Schober (author of many Schubert's songs). Almost all significant names of 18th and beginning 19th century are to be found in the visitors' book of the institution.The Salzmannschule is the oldest and only Philantropin which has outlasted the centuries!Who knows that Daimler (Daimler/Benz cars), Siemens (yes, that man) Meyer...

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Georgeous and Surprise- Stadtkirche Waltershausen

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The city church " for the God's help " in Waltershausen is a Protestant church in Waltershausen. It is a baroque central construction and counts as that official precursor of the Dresdener Frauenkirche. She accommodates the biggest baroque organ of Thuringia (see next tip here). In the Middle Ages stood on the today's place the "dear Church of Our Lady". This was a Late-Gothic hall church which was mentioned 1326 for the first time in a document. In 1719 the foundation-stone of the current construction was laid and initiated on the 24th November, 1723. In the nave there is a baroque cover painting of the Gothaer court painter Ritter. Between 1992 and 1996 were carried out restoration work in the church. In December, 2004 a new middle bell was poured in Passau and was consecrated on the 26th December, 2004. Now the old bell which has a downpour mistake stands before the church. The church...

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Biggest Baroque Organ in Thuringia

by elgin99

In the church of Waltershausen you see the biggest baroque organ in Thuringia. It was built by Tobias Heinrich Gottfried Trost till 1730, but was finished by an unknown organ builder. She is about 8 m high and broadly and has more than 2800 whistles which are still the originals to 70%. She is unique also in her sound.From 1995 till May, 1998 the organ was restored by the organ building company of Waltershausen. That concerts therein the church are unique!They mean that on no other organ it is to play and sound Bach better.

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Palace Altenstein in Liebenstein-part2, in park

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The whole park offers many places of interest. The Torresfelsen: here a predatory knight castle stood since the 7-th century, destroyed in 1733 by fire. Rests of the old castle are still recognizable. Indolino figure: In 1890 this bronze figure was established together with a water basin near the carpet patch in the castle. It is the copy of a boy's statue according to antique model. "God's small picture" (Indolino) Knight's chapel: about 1800, never for Christian service thought, supposed that was used as a meeting place of the Masonic lodge. From there a marvellous panorama.

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Palace Altenstein in Liebenstein-part 1, castle

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Altenstein (Old stone) is a part of town of Bad (spa) Liebenstein in Thuringia since the 1970s. It concerns a castle with wide and wonderful park which counts with a surface of about 160 hectares to the biggest parks of Germany. Centre of the extensive scenery park is a castle building according to English model which was reshaped several times. 724 the establishment of a chapel with priest's house occurred through the Saint Bonifatius. The first documentary mention of a castle on the stone dates from 774.About 1150 "Neuenburg" is established on the Bonifatiusfelsen (Bonifatuis Rock) by the monastery of Fulda. This castle is given to Messrs. von Frankenstein as a fief. Since then the former stone carries the name " old stone ". In 1733 the castle is destroyed by fire, begun in 1799 with the reconstruction and begun with the marvellous park. Famous landscape gardeners formed the park....

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Cold War victim, the village of Mödlareuth

by weed6886

During the Cold War, Mödlareuth was known as "little Berlin." Before World War II the border between the German states of Thüringen and Bavaria. When East Germany built the fence along the entire border, the fence cut the town in half. Families and friends were separated, living only a few yards apart, but unable to have any contact to one another. When the wall came down in 1989, parts of it were left in place as a memorial to the people who suffered during the Cold War, and now most of the village is a museum. See my Mödlareuth page for more details.

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Most Narrow House of World

by elgin99

The most narrow half-timbered house of the world is in Eisenach. Only 2,05 ms wide with 20 qms to live, and really an occupied building. In former time the owner took a ladder to go up to the next floor. Now therein shall be a little art museum.

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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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