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It was enlarged to 15,585 km 2 by the Prussian Erfurt administrative district and received a new constitution on 20 December 1946. With the July 1952 reorganization of the East German states into districts , Thuringia transferred its administrative functions to three new districts, and the state was formally dissolved in December 1958.
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 ...
Andrew Thomas House, in Carroll County First Christian Church, designed by Eliel Saarinen, in Bartholomew County Jeffries Ford Covered Bridge, destroyed by fire in 2002 but still NRHP-listed, in Parke County State Bank of Indiana, Branch of (Memorial Hall), in Vigo County USS LST 325 (tank landing ship), Vanderburgh County St. Augustine's Episcopal Church, designed by Edward D. Dart, in Lake ...
After being controlled briefly by the United States, from July 1945, the state of Thuringia came under the Soviet occupation zone, and was expanded to include parts of Prussian Saxony, including Erfurt, which became the new capital of Thuringia. In 1952, East Germany dissolved its states, and created districts instead, with Blankenhain sitting ...
Thuringia, [a] officially the Free State of Thuringia, [b] is one of Germany's 16 states. With 2.1 million people, it is 12th-largest by population, and with 16,171 square kilometers, it is 11th-largest in area. [4] Erfurt is the capital and largest city. Other cities include Jena, Gera and Weimar.
The Erfurt Stadtbahn is a light rail (German: Stadtbahn) network that is the basic public transit system of Erfurt, the capital of Thuringia in Germany. It represents the evolution of the city's original tramway which, outside of the city center, travels on track in its own right-of-way.
Erfurt: The cathedral & St. Severus' Jena: Jena is the second largest city in Thuringia. In addition it functions as a "major centre" alongside Erfurt and Gera. Jena's is an important economic centre and is thus the east German city with the lowest jobless figures (about 10%). The city's industry is dominated by technology-focussed firms.
The Erfurter Bahn (EB, lit."Erfurt railway") is a railway company and public transit system serving the city of Erfurt, the capital of Thuringia, Germany. Erfurter Bahn is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Erfurt city council, and Süd-Thüringen-Bahn, operating between Erfurt and Meiningen, is a subsidiary of the former.