Eisfeld is a town and a municipality in the
district of Hildburghausen, in
Thuringia
Thuringia (; german: Thüringen ), officially the Free State of Thuringia ( ), is a state of central Germany, covering , the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states. It has a population of about 2.1 million.
Erfurt is the capital and larg ...
,
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
. It is situated on the river
Werra
The Werra (), a river in central Germany, is the right-bank headwater of the Weser. "Weser" is a synonym in an old dialect of German. The Werra has its source near Eisfeld in southern Thuringia. After the Werra joins the river Fulda in the t ...
, 12 km east of
Hildburghausen
Hildburghausen (IPA adapted from: ) is a town in Thuringia in central Germany, capital of the district Hildburghausen.
Geography
It is situated in the Franconian part of Thuringia south of the Thuringian Forest, in the valley of the Werra river ...
, and 19 km north of
Coburg
Coburg () is a town located on the Itz river in the Upper Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany. Long part of one of the Thuringian states of the Wettin line, it joined Bavaria by popular vote only in 1920. Until the revolution of 1918, it was ...
. The former municipality
Sachsenbrunn
Sachsenbrunn is a village and a former municipality in the Hildburghausen (district), district of Hildburghausen, in Thuringia, Germany. It includes the community of Stelzen. Since 1 January 2019, it is part of the town Eisfeld.
Culture
A notable ...
was merged into Eisfeld in January 2019.
Sons and daughters of the city
*
Georg Rhau
Georg Rhau (Rhaw) (1488 – 6 August 1548) was a German publisher and composer. He was one of the most significant music printers in Germany in the first half of the 16th century, during the early period of the Protestant Reformation. He was prin ...
(1488–1548), book printer and Thomaskantor
* (1787–1853), draftsman and
chalcographer
*
Otto Ludwig (1813–1865), writer
* (2006 - present), Bodybuilder and
Malibu enjoyer
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**Malibu High School
** Malibu Lake
**Malibu Creek
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References
Hildburghausen (district)
Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen
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