Gräfenroda is a municipality in
ThuringiaThe 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
Bundesländer...
in the northeast of the Thüringer Wald forest,
Ilm-KreisIlm-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...
district. Gräfenroda is the seat of the
Verwaltungsgemeinschaft"Amt" is a type of administrative division of some northern European countries. It is generally larger than a municipality, and the term is thus roughly equivalent to a U.S. "township".-The Amt in Germany:...
Oberes GeratalOberes Geratal is a Verwaltungsgemeinschaft in the district Ilm-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany. The seat of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft is in Gräfenroda....
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Gräfenroda was founded in 1290. At the end of the 19th century Gräfenroda was the birthplace of the Garden gnome . The municipality has a museum of the history of garden gnomes.
In the year 1705 the composer
Johann Peter KellnerJohann Peter Kellner was a German organist and composer. He was the father of Johann Christoph Kellner.-Biography:...
was born in Gräfenroda.
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Gräfenroda is a municipality in
ThuringiaThe 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
Bundesländer...
in the northeast of the Thüringer Wald forest,
Ilm-KreisIlm-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...
district. Gräfenroda is the seat of the
Verwaltungsgemeinschaft"Amt" is a type of administrative division of some northern European countries. It is generally larger than a municipality, and the term is thus roughly equivalent to a U.S. "township".-The Amt in Germany:...
Oberes GeratalOberes Geratal is a Verwaltungsgemeinschaft in the district Ilm-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany. The seat of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft is in Gräfenroda....
.
Gräfenroda was founded in 1290. At the end of the 19th century Gräfenroda was the birthplace of the Garden gnome . The municipality has a museum of the history of garden gnomes.
In the year 1705 the composer
Johann Peter KellnerJohann Peter Kellner was a German organist and composer. He was the father of Johann Christoph Kellner.-Biography:...
was born in Gräfenroda. He was a student of
Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organist whose ecclesiastical and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
.
During the
NaziNazism, known officially in German as National Socialism , is the totalitarian ideology and practices of the Nazi Party or National Socialist German Workers’ Party under Adolf Hitler, and the policies adopted by the dictatorial government of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.Nazism is often considered...
era anti-Semite
Artur DinterArtur Dinter was a German writer and Nazi politician.- Biography :Dinter was born in Mülhausen, Alsace to Joseph Dinter, a customs adviser, and his wife Berta, née Hoffmann, and he was baptized in the Catholic Church.After doing his school-leaving examination, Dinter began studying natural...
lived in Gräfenroda.
Gräfenroda is also known to be the birthplace of gnomes.
External links
- http://www.graefenroda.de
- http://www.zwergen-griebel.de/