Tambach-Dietharz is a town in the district of Gotha, in

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. It is situated in the Thuringian Forest, 19 km south of

Gotha Gotha () is the fifth-largest city in Thuringia, Germany, west of Erfurt and east of Eisenach with a population of 44,000. The city is the capital of the Gotha (district), district of Gotha and was also a residence of the Ernestine House of Wet ...

Mayor

Since 2012, Marco Schütz (independent) is the mayor. His predecessor was the former lieutenant from the German Army (Bundeswehr) Harald Wrona (FDP).

Places of interest

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Schmalkalden Schmalkalden () is a town in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district, in the southwest of the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is on the southern slope of the Thuringian Forest at the Schmalkalde river, a tributary to the Werra. , the town had a p ...

to Tambach-Dietharz is signposted as Martin-Luther-Weg and is a walking route. * In the autumn of 1989, a monument to the

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, and protagonist of the Bekennenden Kirche,

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was raised in front of the ''Haus Tannenberg''. Barth gave his "Tambacher Rede" speech, that introduced a new positioning of

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in the 20th century, in this house in 1919.

Notable people

Meister Eckhart Eckhart von Hochheim ( – ), commonly known as Meister Eckhart, Master Eckhart

(born 1960), biathlete * Erich Recknagel (1904-1973), ski jumper, participant in the Olympic Winter Games in 1928 * Eisregen (formed 1995),

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band, all original members came from Tambach-Dietharz

References

Gotha (district) Saxe-Coburg and Gotha {{Gotha-geo-stub