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Wartburg Castle
A medieval castle in Thuringia where Martin Luther translated the New Testament into German, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
2 km · about 5 min drive
Thuringia, Germany · Europe
Eisenach is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Krauthausen, 2km from Wartburg Castle.
Eisenach is a town located in Thuringia, Germany. With a population of 40,747, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Eisenach sits in Germany, where you drive on the right. It's in the Europe/Berlin time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Eisenach to your route.
Eisenach (German pronunciation: [ˈaɪzənax] ) is a town in Thuringia, Germany with 42,000 inhabitants, 50 kilometres (31 miles) west of Erfurt, 70 km (43 miles) southeast of Kassel and 150 km (93 miles) northeast of Frankfurt. It is the main urban centre of western Thuringia, and bordering northeastern Hessian regions,Read more
is near the former Inner German border. A major attraction is Wartburg castle, which has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999.
Eisenach was an early capital of Thuringia in the 12th and 13th centuries. St. Elizabeth lived at the court of the Ludowingians here between 1211 and 1228. Later Martin Luther came to Eisenach and translated the Bible into German. In 1685 Johann Sebastian Bach was born here. During the early modern period Eisenach was a residence of the Ernestine Wettins and was visited by numerous representatives of Weimar classicism like Johann Wolfgang Goethe. In 1869 the SDAP, one of the two precursors of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), was founded in Eisenach.
Car production is an important industry in Eisenach. The Automobilwerk Eisenach was founded in 1896. In the German Democratic Republic the Wartburg was produced here, before the factory was acquired by Opel in 1990.
Eisenach is on the Hörsel river, a tributary of the Werra between the Thuringian Forest in the south, the Hainich mountains in the north-east, and the East Hesse Highlands in the north-west. Since January 2021 it has been part of the Wartburgkreis.
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Eisenach is located in Thuringia, Germany, Europe. The coordinates are 50.9807 latitude, 10.3152 longitude.
Eisenach has a population of approximately 40,747 people, making it a town in Germany.
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A medieval castle in Thuringia where Martin Luther translated the New Testament into German, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
2 km · about 5 min drive
April to October
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