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Exploring Thuringia 0 km 15
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A visit to Thuringia is most enjoyable in late summer, when
the magnificent forests of the Thuringian Mountains are set
ablaze with all the hues of red and yellow as the leaves turn
colour, or in spring when verdant green cloaks the trees.
Allow at least one day to explore Erfurt, the state’s capital city,
with a further two days in Weimar. Eisenach, with its
c h s f e l
magnificent Wartburg castle, is also a must. c h s f e l d d NordhausenNordhausen HalleHalle
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KYFFHÄUSER
LeinefeldeLeinefelde MOUNTAINS
MOUNTAINS
SONDERSHAUSENSONDERSHAUSEN
HEILIGENSTADTHEILIGENSTADT Bad Bad
FrankenhausenFrankenhausen
H a i n l e i t
The fields near Meiningen, in the Thuringian Forest
H a i n l e i t e e
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LangensalzaLangensalza Unstrut
THÜRINGIATHÜRINGIA DessauDessau
Apolda
Buchenwald
EISENACHEISENACH Buchenwald Apolda
ERFURTERFURT WEIMARWEIMAR DornburgDornburg ALTENBURGALTENBURG
GOTHAGOTHA
Wutha-FarnrodaWutha-Farnroda Gera Gera JENAJENA
Bad HersfeldBad Hersfeld
MolsdorfMolsdorf RonneburgRonneburg
Drei GleichenDrei Gleichen GERAGERA
Werra
Werra
FriedrichrodaFriedrichroda ArnstadtArnstadt Saale Saale
Bad LiebensteinBad Liebenstein KahlaKahla
Ilm
Ilm ChemnitzChemnitz
NeustadtNeustadt WeidaWeida
Street vendor selling hand-painted RUDOLSTADT TriptisTriptis Weisse Elster
RUDOLSTADT
T H Ü R I N G E R W A L D
T H Ü R I N G E R W A L D
Easter eggs in Erfurt SchmalkaldenSchmalkalden OberhofOberhof
KrolpaKrolpa
Weisse Elster
IlmenauIlmenau Key
Zella-MehlisZella-Mehlis UnterwellenbornUnterwellenborn GreizGreiz
SAALFELDSAALFELD Motorway
Sights at a Glance SuhlSuhl Hohenwarte- Major road
Hohenwarte-
1 Eisenach-Wartburg pp190–91 0 Jena MeiningenMeiningen stausee Minor road
stausee
2 Heiligenstadt q Rudolstadt Main railway
Bleiloch-
3 Mühlhausen w Saalfeld Bleiloch- Minor railway
stausee
stausee
4 Sondershausen e Gera
5 Kyffhäuser Mountains r Altenburg HildburghausenHildburghausen Regional border
6 Gotha Walks Werra
Werra
8 Erfurt pp196–7 SchweinfurtSchweinfurt SonnebergSonneberg BayreuthBayreuth
9 Weimar pp198–9 7 Thüringer Wald
(Thuringian Forest)
Getting Around
Erfurt has an airport. The A4 motorway
running through Thuringia links Gera with
Jena, Weimar, Erfurt, Gotha and Eisenach.
Other towns can be reached by local
roads, which are clearly sign posted.
When touring the Thuringian Forest it is
well worth following one of the marked
tourist routes, such as Klassikerstraße (the
route of the classics) or Porzellanstraße
Petersburg fortress in Erfurt (porcelain street). The Renaissance town hall in Gotha
For additional map symbols see back flap
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