Thüringen

The medieval Posterstein Castle is located in the border triangle of Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt.

With an area of around 30 hectares, the Hofwiesenpark is Gera's largest green space.

In the Eichsfeld district, you can visit castles and palaces that range from romantic, overgrown ruins to magnificent half-timbered buildings.

The Buchenwald Memorial is located on the Ettersberg near Weimar, on the site of the former concentration camp of the same name.

The famous poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lived and worked in Weimar for almost 50 years.

Thanks to its secluded location in the Thuringian Forest, Masserberg has long been known as a holiday region.

The Chinese Garden in Weißensee is also known as the "Garden of Eternal Happiness" and symbolises the harmony between man and nature.

Characterised by picturesque half-timbered houses, the historic old town in Heilbad Heiligenstadt welcomes its guests.

A wide variety of landscapes await hikers in the Thuringian Forest Nature Park, which encompasses the mountain range of the same name, parts of the Thuringian Slate Mountains and the foothills.

As the oldest church in the city, Erfurt's St. Mary's Cathedral also impresses with its height of around 81 metres.

Famous Thuringian buildings on a scale of 1:25 await visitors to the mini-a-thür leisure park in Ruhla, which covers an area of 18,000 square metres.

Founded in the 12th century as a house monastery of the Premonstratensians, Veßra Monastery is the landmark of the southern Thuringian community of the same name.

Bells have been cast in Apolda since 1722. One of them, St Peter's bell in Cologne Cathedral, was in use until the end of the 20th century.

On the site of the former inner-German border crossing Duderstadt-Worbis, the Eichsfeld Borderland Museum offers an exploration of recent German history.