Country Germany District Gotha Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Area 25.27 km² Population 1,577 (31 Dec 2008) Dialling code 03624 | State Thuringia Elevation 469 m (1,539 ft) Postal codes 99330 Local time Wednesday 3:39 AM Postal code 99330 | |
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Crawinkel is a municipality in the eastern part of Germany in the district of Gotha, Thuringia. Crawinkel was first mentioned in 1088.
Map of Crawinkel, Germany
After the Armistice with France in 1940, during World War II, German forces took numerous memorials from the forest of Compiègne, where the Armistice with Germany that ended World War I was also signed, as prizes to Crawinkel. These included the actual railway carriage where both armistices were concluded. In 1945, the car was dynamited and its pieces buried. Since the German reunification in 1989, numerous artifacts have been recovered and returned to France.
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Crawinkel Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA