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Erfurt (German pronunciation: [ˈɛʁfʊʁt] ⓘ) [3] is the capital and largest city of the Central German state of Thuringia, with a population of around 216,000.It lies in the wide valley of the River Gera, in the southern part of the Thuringian Basin, north of the Thuringian Forest, and in the middle of a line of the six largest Thuringian cities (Thüringer Städtekette), stretching from ...
Erfurt became the new capital of Thuringia. Ostheim, an exclave of Landkreis Eisenach, was ceded to Bavaria. In 1952, the German Democratic Republic dissolved its states, and created districts instead. The three districts that shared the former territory of Thuringia were Erfurt, Gera and Suhl. Altenburg Kreis was part of Leipzig Bezirk.
Miesitz is located in the southeastern region of Thuringia, approximately 70 kilometers south of Erfurt and 40 kilometers east of Jena. The municipality sits at an elevation of about 330 meters above sea level and covers an area of 4.42 square kilometers. [3] The surrounding area is characterized by rolling hills, forests, and agricultural land.
On the other side of the Forest is an upper outcrop of the North German Plain, the Thuringian Basin, which includes the city Erfurt. The south and south-east continuation of the range is the highland often called the Thuringian-Vogtlandian Slate Mountains. [a] Among scattered foothills at its northern foot are the towns Eisenach, Gotha and Arnstadt
The Roman Catholic Erfurt Cathedral, also known as St Mary's Cathedral, is a 1200-year-old church in the city of Erfurt, in Thuringia. It is of an International Gothic style and is situated on a hillside overlooking the main city square, known as Domplatz (Cathedral Square). It is the episcopal seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Erfurt.
Ilm-Kreis is a district in Thuringia, Germany.It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the city of Erfurt, the districts of Weimarer Land, Saalfeld-Rudolstadt and Hildburghausen, the city of Suhl, and the districts of Schmalkalden-Meiningen and Gotha.
2 Geography. Toggle Geography subsection. 2.1 Position. 2.2 Subdivision. 3 References. 4 External links. ... The Bezirk Erfurt was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany.
The Flutgraben is a canal in Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany. It is a flood control channel , created between 1890 and 1898 in order to prevent flooding of the river Gera in the city centre of Erfurt. Authority control databases : National