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Eisenberg, Thuringia

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Country
  
Germany

District
  
Saale-Holzland-Kreis

Postal codes
  
07607

Area
  
24.85 km²

Postal code
  
07607

State
  
Thuringia

Time zone
  
CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

Dialling codes
  
036691

Population
  
11,072 (31 Dec 2008)

Dialling code
  
036691

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Weather
  
2°C, Wind SE at 10 km/h, 95% Humidity

Eisenberg is a town in Thuringia, Germany. It is the capital of the district Saale-Holzland.

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Neighboring municipalities are Jena (25 kilometres (16 miles) in west) and Gera (15 kilometres (9 miles) in south east). West of Eisenberg runs the motorway A 9 from Berlin to Munich. A tradition in Eisenberg on Christmas Eve is that the people of the city meet at the market place by 6 to listen to live Christmas music from the tower of the city hall - played by the brass choir of the Lutheran parish.

The main attraction of the town is the baroque Castle Church, built in 1692 by Christian, Duke of Saxe-Eisenberg.

Sons and daughters of the city

  • Johann Michael Heineccius (1674–1722), Lutheran clergyman and historian
  • Johann Gottlieb Heineccius (1681–1741), professor of law and philosophy
  • Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781–1832), philosopher
  • Bruno Bauer (1809–1882), philosopher
  • Prince Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg (1829–1907), Prussian General of the Cavalry
  • Gerhard Buchwald (1920–2009), physician
  • Gunther Emmerlich (born 1944), singer and entertainer

    • Other personalities

  • Christian of Saxony-Eisenberg (1653–1707), the only Duke of Saxony-Eisenberg
  • Immanuel Johann Gerhard Scheller (1735–1803), an old philologist and lexicographer, studied the Gymnasium in Eisenberg between 1747 and 1752
  • Charlotte Amalie von Sachsen-Meiningen (Duchess of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg) lived for several years in Eisenberg
  • Georg von Sachsen-Altenburg (1796–1853), Duke of Saxony-Altenburg, resided alternately in Altenburg and Eisenberg
  • Otto Hammann (1852–1928), jurist, attended high school in Eisenberg
  • Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1871–1955), Duke of Saxony-Altenburg, visited the Christian school in Eisenberg between 1886 and 1889
  • Peter Landau (born 1935), legal scientist, went to school in Eisenberg

    • References

    Eisenberg, Thuringia Wikipedia
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