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Arnstadt is a town in Ilm-Kreis
Ilm-Kreis

Ilm-Kreis is a district in Thuringia, Germany. It is bounded by the city of Erfurt, the districts of Weimarer Land, Saalfeld-Rudolstadt and Hildburghausen , the city of Suhl, and the districts of Schmalkalden-Meiningen and Gotha ....
, Thuringia
Thuringia

The Free State of Thuringia is located in central Germany. It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen States of Germany ....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, situated on the Gera River. It is one of the oldest towns in Thuringia and is nicknamed Das Tor zum Thüringer Wald, The Gate to the Thuringian Forest
Thuringian Forest

The Thuringian Forest running northwest to southeast, forms a continuous stretch of ancient rounded mountains posing ample difficulties in transit routing save through a few navigable passes in the southern reaches of the Germany state of Thuringia....
.

Modern Arnstadt has a population of approximately 25,000. It is a manufacturing center, with glassworks and foundries, as well as glove-manufacturing and wood-finishing businesses. Manganese is one of the ores mined in the vicinity.

he 14th century Arnstadt was ruled by the counts of Schwarzburg
Schwarzburg

Schwarzburg is a municipality in the valley of the Schwarza in the district Saalfeld-Rudolstadt in Thuringia, Germany.First mentioned in 1071 as Swartzinburg....
 and later became a capital of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen

Schwarzburg-Sondershausen was a small principality in Germany, in the present day state of Thuringia, with capital at Sondershausen....
.

The composer Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
, whose family lived for generations in the vicinity of Arnstadt, began his musical career in the city.






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Arnstadt is a town in Ilm-Kreis
Ilm-Kreis

Ilm-Kreis is a district in Thuringia, Germany. It is bounded by the city of Erfurt, the districts of Weimarer Land, Saalfeld-Rudolstadt and Hildburghausen , the city of Suhl, and the districts of Schmalkalden-Meiningen and Gotha ....
, Thuringia
Thuringia

The Free State of Thuringia is located in central Germany. It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen States of Germany ....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, situated on the Gera River. It is one of the oldest towns in Thuringia and is nicknamed Das Tor zum Thüringer Wald, The Gate to the Thuringian Forest
Thuringian Forest

The Thuringian Forest running northwest to southeast, forms a continuous stretch of ancient rounded mountains posing ample difficulties in transit routing save through a few navigable passes in the southern reaches of the Germany state of Thuringia....
.

Modern Arnstadt has a population of approximately 25,000. It is a manufacturing center, with glassworks and foundries, as well as glove-manufacturing and wood-finishing businesses. Manganese is one of the ores mined in the vicinity.

History

In the 14th century Arnstadt was ruled by the counts of Schwarzburg
Schwarzburg

Schwarzburg is a municipality in the valley of the Schwarza in the district Saalfeld-Rudolstadt in Thuringia, Germany.First mentioned in 1071 as Swartzinburg....
 and later became a capital of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen

Schwarzburg-Sondershausen was a small principality in Germany, in the present day state of Thuringia, with capital at Sondershausen....
.

The composer Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
, whose family lived for generations in the vicinity of Arnstadt, began his musical career in the city. Most Bach scholars believe his well-known "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" was written here between 1703 and 1709.

Main sights

Arnstadt has a beautifully kept Old City, restricted to pedestrian traffic. Some of its noteworthy buildings include the 13th-century Church of Our Lady and an 18th-century palace.

People

  • Eugenie Marlitt
  • Willibald Alexis
    Willibald Alexis

    Willibald Alexis, the pseudonym of Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Haring , was a Germany historical novelist....
  • Ludwig Bechstein
    Ludwig Bechstein

    Ludwig Bechstein was a Germany writer and collector of folk fairy tales.He was born in Weimar, the illegitimate child of Johanna Carolina Dorothea Bechstein and Hubert Dupontreau, a France emigrant who disappeared even before the birth of the child, and Ludwig thus grew up his first nine years in very poor economic conditions....
  • Paul Keller


In the arts

  • In literature Arnstadt is (hypothetically) one of the closest towns to the fictional displaced town of West Virginia
    West Virginia

    West Virginia is a U.S. state in the Appalachian, Upland South, and Mid-Atlantic States regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia on the southeast, Kentucky on the southwest, Ohio on the northwest, and Pennsylvania and Maryland on the northeast....
     and is featured in various deep back ground stories published in The Grantville Gazettes
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    The Grantville Gazettes are a set of collaborative writing works, mostly written by fans, that started as an experimental officially sanctioned electronically published "fan magazine" set within the 1632 series created by Eric Flint in the trend setting book 1632 ....
     e-publications.


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