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50 interesting facts that everyone should know.
Thuringia – a pleasant surprise.
Publisher
Thuringian Ministry for Economy, Labour and TechnologyDepartment of Public RelationsMax-Reger-Strasse 4 – 899096 ErfurtGermany
www.thueringer-wirtschaftsministerium.dewww.das-ist-thueringen.de
Editorial: Kerstin Koch, Vera Büttner, Hendrik WernerDesign: KNSK Werbeagentur GmbH, An der Alster 1, 20099 Hamburg, GermanyPress date: 04/04/2012
Contents
Where ideas and innovations have a tradition. 6 – 27
28 – 51
52 – 73
5
Matthias Machnig, Thuringian Minister for Economy, Labour and Technology
Where ideas and innovations have a tradition.
7
Where ideas and innovations have a tradition.
Mühlhausen
Where ideas and innovations have a tradition.
Eisenach
®
Jena
11
Jenatheir own languages. Bad Blankenburg
Where ideas and innovations have a tradition.
12
Where ideas and innovations have a tradition.
Arnstadt
15
Where ideas and innovations have a tradition.
other things.Stützerbach
UnterrenthendorfJena
17
Where ideas and innovations have a tradition.
Weimar Erfurt
Where ideas and innovations have a tradition.
Gotha
21
government.
Where ideas and innovations have a tradition.
GothaErfurt
23
Where ideas and innovations have a tradition.
Jena
25
Where ideas and innovations have a tradition.
HildburghausenKölleda Greiz
26 27
WeimarEisenach
33
15 May 1525.
Bad FrankenhausenGera
35
had entered the stage.
Meiningen
A Thuringian in New York.
Gera Apolda
Christmas.
Heiligenstadt Gotha
Bad Frankenhausen
55
Sondershausen
Kahla
57
Weißensee
Holzhausen
58
model trains.
Sonneberg Jena
62
glass versions instead.
Lauscha
every time.
over the region.
Pößneck
OberhofGotha
68
Therese’s wedding.
Saalfeld Hildburghausen
71
Where ideas and innovations have a tradition.
Images
Where art and culture have a tradition.
Where life and passion have a tradition.
75
Wipper
Helme
Unstrut
Gera
Nesse
Werra
Hörsel
Werra
Werra
Schwarza
Saale
Hohenwarte- Stausee
Bleiloch- Stausee
PlothenerTeiche
Saale
Saal
e
Ilm
Weiße Elster
Ilm
Mühlhausen
Hainich
Kyffhäuser
Gotha
Arnstadt
Suhl
Pößneck
Sonneberg
Hildburghausen
GreizSaSaalfeld
EisenachErfurt
WippHSondershausen
Heilbad Heiligenstadt
Etzelsbach
Apolda
Weimar
Meiningen
Gera
Altenburg
Saa
Jena
Bad Frankenhausen
Bad Blankenburg
Holzhausen
Oberhof
Gräfenroda
Lauscha
Stützerbach
Weißensee
Kahla Unterrenthendorf
Kölleda