Area Sections
Thuringia
Areas
Jena
Weimar
Gera
Erfurt
Eisenach
Sonneberg
Ilmenau
Greiz
Thuringian Forest
Oberhof
Naumburg
Other Definitions
thuringia (enc)
thuringia (dict)
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Thuringia Thuringia is a main tourist attraction because of its beautiful Thuringian forest, which stretches from the Werra River in the west to the Saale River in the southeast. You can and should discover this charming region by bike, by foot or even on horseback. Several tourist routes and excursions are offered. Thuringia has a very varied history: during the 17th century it was splitted into more than 20 states and until 1919 it consisted of seven earldoms and one prussian municipality. This explains the variety of small cities and villages and the amount of 193 castles within a relativelty small area of litte more than 16.000 sqkm. Most (77 per cent) of the less than 2.5 million inhabitants live in villages with less than 2000 inhabitants. The most famous castle is of course the "Wartburg" near Eisenach, where Walther von der Vogelweide, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Saint Elisabeth of Thuringia and Martin Luther once lived. The city of Goethe and Schiller, Weimar, is a must for everyone just a little interested in German literature and culture. Other tourist destinations are Naumburg and its beautiful cathedral or Erfurt, which is not only the capital city of the Freistaat Thüringen (State of Thuringia) but with nearly 200,000 citizens and an area of approx. 269 km2 its biggest city.
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