Bürgel is a town in the

Saale-Holzland Saale-Holzland (official German name: Saale-Holzland-Kreis) is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the east of Thuringia, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from the north clockwise) the district Burgenlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt, the district-free city Ger ...

district, 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 lar ...

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. It is situated 12 km east of

Jena Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a po ...

. It contains the Benedictine monastery of Bürgel Abbey.

History

Within the German Empire (1871-1918), Bürgel was part of the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.

Sons and daughters of the city

* Zacharias Brendel der Ältere (1553-1626), philosopher, physicist, physician and botanist at the University of Jena

References

Towns in Thuringia Saale-Holzland-Kreis Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach {{SaaleHolzland-geo-stub