Bad Berka

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Bad Berka
Map of Germany, position of the city of Bad Berka highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 54 '  N , 11 ° 17'  E

Basic data
State : Thuringia
County : Weimar Country
Height : 275 m above sea level NHN
Area : 55.32 km 2
Residents: 7500 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 136 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 99438
Area code : 036458
License plate : AP, APD
Community key : 16 0 71 003
LOCODE : DE BBX
City structure: 9 districts

City administration address : 		Am Markt 10
99438 Bad Berka
Website : www.bad-berka.de
Mayor : Michael Jahn ( CDU )
Location of the city of Bad Berka in the Weimarer Land district
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Bad Berka is a small town in the south of the Weimarer Land district in Thuringia . It is the second largest city in the district after the district town of Apolda and is located on the Ilm , which has dug its valley deep into the red sandstone in the area , about twelve kilometers south of Weimar .

The spa town bears the certificate of a place with a mineral spring spa . Bad Berka has made a name for itself as a center of medical competence (e.g. central clinic as an acute clinic and the three median clinics as spa facilities for follow-up treatment and rehabilitation) beyond the borders of Germany. The history of the spa and the Berka bathing establishment, which was founded in 1813, is closely linked to the work of Goethe . Bad Berka includes the districts of Tannroda , Bergern , Schoppendorf , Gutendorf , Meckfeld and Tiefengruben .

View from the Paulinenturm over the city
Ilm Bridge

Geography and urban structure

City structure

Bad Berka, surrounded by the 150 km² “Mittleres Ilmtal” nature reserve, is located in the hilly landscape of the Ilm-Saale-Platte , 12 km south of Weimar , 24 km southeast of Erfurt and 20 km west of Jena .

With the administrative reform in 1994, the city of Bad Berka was formed. The district of Munich (belonging to Bad Berka since 1836) and the until then independent communities of Tannroda with the districts of Böttelborn and Kottendorf , Bergern , Schoppendorf , Meckfeld and Tiefengruben belong to it . Gutendorf followed on December 1, 2008 .

The city and its associated districts had a total of 7,675 inhabitants as of January 1, 2012. The individual districts had the following population figures:

Residents 2012
Bad Berka (overall) 7675
Districts
• Bad Berka 5496
•   Bergern 356
•   Gutendorf 203
•   Kottendorf 43
•   Meckfeld 142
•   Munich 88
•   Schoppendorf 107
•   Tannroda 990
•   Deep pits 250

The core city has an area of ​​approx. 21.35 km². Other areas, such as the spa gardens, gardens and agricultural areas, are approximately 6.08 km².

history

Forestry office with plaque in memory of Goethe
Tower of the city church

The name Berka means something like `` city ​​of birches on the water '' and has been spelled in several ways over the centuries: Birka , Berkaw , Berkau , since 1911 Bad Berka.

Bad Berka was first mentioned in May 1119 as Bercha , the occasion was the handover of the church by Count Wichmann to the Marienstift zu Erfurt. It was first referred to as a city in 1414. From the 12th century, sparse information has been handed down about the Berka counts , who initially resided in a moated castle , the "Edelhof" directly on the Ilm (documented in 1248), around 1277 after the successful siege of the moated castle Edelhof by Landgrave Albrecht the new hilltop castle, now known as the Old Castle , was built on the Schlossberg. A few remains of the wall (including a covered toilet shaft ), a well and the huge moat around the main castle and the slightly lower outer bailey area have been preserved in the area of ​​the core castle . The size of the castle area and the moats still testify to the importance of this former castle as a lordly count castle.

Only the walls in the basement of today's parish and some hallway and place names tell of the Berka monastery, founded around 1240 . The monastery existed until 1525. The monastery church was badly damaged in a fire in 1608 and rebuilt from 1727 to 1741.

Since the 17th century the place belonged to the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar or Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach . The ducal arsenal was inaugurated in 1739.

In 1807, the Berka basket maker son Ludwig Geist (from 1795 to 1804 servant and secretary to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ) drew attention to special sources in Berka. In 1811, the girls' school teacher Heinrich Friedrich Schütz again suggested the use of the mineral springs in Berka. At the instigation of Duke Carl August von Sachsen-Weimar , a sulfur bath was built in Berka. It opened in June 1813. Goethe had supported and advised the construction of the spa facilities in Berka and stayed in Berka for a cure for six weeks in 1814. In 1825 , a bathing club house was built and inaugurated on the edge of the spa gardens under the direction of the grand ducal chief building director Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray . In 1876 a mud bathhouse followed, which was completely renovated in 1910 as a contemporary spa house. Today, the hotel "Am Goethebrunnen" is located in the building.

The district of Munich was incorporated into the Berka home association in 1836. In 1887 Berka was connected to the railway network and connected to the cities of Weimar and Blankenhain . A section branching off in Berka extended the network to Kranichfeld in 1888 . On the section Bad Berka – Blankenhain, rail traffic was stopped in 1967.

In 1898, four kilometers from Berka, on the Emskopf above Munich, the first pulmonary hospital - the Sophienheilstätte - was built . The place received the title Bad in 1911.

A “German home school” in Berka, founded by Theodor Scheffer , formed a “community of convenience” of the völkisch Deutschbund from 1922 until the Nazi era ; Through the teaching staff of this school there was a connection with the early Nohra concentration camp nearby, in whose rooms a similar school was housed. The "home school" also served the Artamans as their own training facility. Also August Georg Kenstler founded in 1932 within that network Nationalist organizations in an educational institution German folkhood ; a farmer's college type.

The Bad Berka Central Clinic was built from 1951 to 1957 and was initially intended as a sanatorium for tuberculosis sufferers. In 1966 the clinic made a name for itself. a. in the fields of cardiac surgery and heart disease. In 1990 the Central Clinic became the responsibility of the Thuringian Ministry of Social Affairs and Health . In the same year, the ministry signed a cooperation agreement with Rhön-Klinikum AG . In the 1990s, renovation and new construction work was carried out in the clinic.

Wars and natural disasters

Apart from the "usual" devastation in the Thirty Years' War , Bad Berka also suffered other types of destruction: in 1431 the town burned down almost completely, in 1608 44 houses and outbuildings (and their contents) went up in flames, including the church, the town hall, the School and the cloister fore. In 1674 50 houses burned down as a result of a lightning strike, in 1816 fire destroyed 90 houses along with barns and stables, the town hall and the school. In 1613 23 houses sank during the Thuringian Flood in the flood of the Ilm. In 1777, during another flood, five people drowned. In 1830, the Ilm tore away all three bridges over it during a flood. In the last week of September 1857, a number of houses in the city center fell victim to a major fire. In 1981 the place suffered again from a devastating Ilm flood.

coat of arms

The city coat of arms of Bad Berka shows a golden palm . Its fruits are also golden, the fronds are green. Right, left and behind the palm tree rise golden mountains, the left is crowned by a castle. Similar representations already exist on seal impressions from 1674. The coat of arms was given its current form in 1930, the color scheme was redefined in 1992. There are no files about the origin and meaning of the Berka city coat of arms, only the knowledge of the symbolic power of the palm tree. It was ascribed fertility, culture and prosperity in the 17th century. The palm was found on many coats of arms of noble families, house brands and other coat of arms images, also on the emblem of the Fruit Bringing Society in Weimar, founded in 1617 .

The small town of Berka was badly damaged by war and fire in the 17th century. It is assumed that the Duke of Saxe-Weimar has given it a “sprouting palm tree” as a new coat of arms as a symbol of fertility, combined with the desire for peace, harmony and growth for the city. The mountains document the typical landscape, the castle the seat of former Berka counts and lords.

politics

town hall

City council

The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following result, with a turnout of 63.4%:

Party / list Share of votes Seats
CDU 26.8% 5
Die Linke / SPD 11.8% 3
Alliance 90 / The Greens 05.1% 1
FWG 25.9% 5
BI to reduce local taxes 15.8% 3
BI Pro Bad Berka 11.7% 2
Munich Initiative eV 03.0% 1

mayor

In the mayor's runoff election on May 6, 2012, Volker Schaedel (Free Voters) prevailed against his predecessor Thomas Liebetrau. In April 2018, Michael Jahn was elected as the new mayor in the second ballot with 54.7% of the vote.

Town twinning

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

The largest employers in the city are the clinics (see under health ).

traffic

Bad Berka station (2017)
Bad Berka Zeughausplatz stop (2017)

Bad Berka has two stops on the Ilm Valley Railway : Bad Berka station and Bad Berka / Zeughausplatz. The city lies at the intersection of federal highways 85 and 87 . The connection Weimar to the federal motorway 4 is about six kilometers to the north.

Bad Berka is located on the Ilmtal Cycle Path and on the Thuringian Three-Tower Path, which is certified as a quality path by the German Hiking Association .

education

health

Median Clinic in Bad Berka
Main entrance to the central clinic

The following clinical care structures exist in Bad Berka today:

On the one hand, there are the Median clinics , which specialize in the follow-up treatment of patients with cardiovascular diseases and diseases of the digestive tract. The two clinics have existed in their current form since 1994 and 1997, respectively. There were predecessors in the GDR era.

On the other hand, there is the Bad Berka Central Clinic on the Harth , which was created through the expansion and modernization of the Central Clinic in the 1950s. This specialist clinic specializes primarily in the treatment of orthopedic, cardiological and neurological-neurosurgical diseases. Furthermore, one of two cardiac surgery clinics in Thuringia is located in Bad Berka. The facility for spinal surgery belonging to the Central Clinic is the second largest clinic of its kind in Germany. The cardiology department is the largest in Thuringia.

The clinic was modernized through intensive renovation and new construction measures. According to the main owner, around 100 million euros have been invested in the Bad Berka location.

The clinic has been changing for several years. From the character of a specialist hospital, the clinic should also develop into a regional specialist provider. For this purpose, an emergency room, departments for trauma surgery, general and visceral surgery and interventional radiology were set up. The expansion of intensive care capacities is planned. A new functional wing is currently being built (status: 2010 or older).

Culture and sights

Market fountain

Buildings

In 1816 the old Berka town hall and many other houses fell victim to a city fire. On the recommendation of Goethe, who was in charge of the relief efforts, the new master builder Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray came to Berka immediately . He planned and supervised the reconstruction of the city. The new town hall opened on April 2, 1817. Coudray shaped his classical style on it as well as on the buildings around the market. Despite all the modesty, the Berkaers afforded themselves a special feature, namely a moon clock that shows the respective moon phases on a blue or gold hemisphere. At the end of the 19th century, the city council bought the neighboring building and thus enlarged the town hall. In 1932 the column portal was built. The last major renovation took place from 1993 to 1995. The town hall gallery offers changing exhibitions.
Armory
  • Armory
In 1739 Duke Ernst August had this building built to accommodate his many hunting utensils. On the ground floor of the 59 m long house, wagons, sleds, carriages and poles were stored. On the upper floor he left hunting towels, rags, nets, etc. a. store. After 1808, the Berka hunting gear was hardly ever used. The armory served various purposes: as a store for hay, wood and as a sheepfold. During the Second World War it was used to house the clothing of Jews who had been killed in the concentration camps in Germany. Between 1945 and 1991 there was a furniture factory in the armory. After extensive renovation, the building now serves as a community center and houses the library, the city archive, a multi-purpose hall, bowling alley and restaurant.
  • Coudray house
The Oberland master builder Coudray planned this building on behalf of Grand Duke Carl August as a bathing and social house for the Berka spa guests. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had repeatedly called for such an institution since the spa was founded in 1813. The inauguration took place in 1825. The master builder Coudray received a lot of praise for his “well-designed building” in classical forms. From then on, the house was the cultural and social center of Berka bathing life. In addition to catering, balls, concerts, theater performances and other events were held. After the Second World War, the house belonged to the Volksheilbad, and since 1994 it has belonged to the city of Bad Berka. Today a museum is housed in the Coudray House with an interactive permanent exhibition redesigned in 2014 on the development of the spa and health system in Bad Berka.
  • "Edelhof"
In the 18th century, the hunting guests of the Weimar dukes - the "nobles of Weimar", stayed in the baroque building erected in 1786, in which the Bad Berka Forestry Office is today. Goethe and his wife Christiane also spent a six-week spa stay in this house in 1814. The "old moated castle", the first seat of the Berka counts, is said to have been located in the area of ​​the Edelhof. It was probably destroyed between 1264 and 1275 or abandoned for security reasons. The Berka counts then moved into their newly built castle on the Schlossberg.
  • Evangelical Church of St. Mary
Protestant town church St. Marien
Catholic Church
The church of St. Marien stands on the foundation walls of the monastery church that burned down in 1608. For more than a century, the people of Berka could not afford to build a new church. A new church tower was not built until 1727. As a weather vane, Duke Ernst August wanted a deer to document his favorite hunting ground, Berka. In contrast, the Berkaer later put a cross on the town hall. The baroque nave was built from 1739 to 1741. The east wall with a Gothic pointed arch was preserved.
The entire area around the church once belonged to the Cistercian nunnery, which existed in Berka from around 1240 to 1525.
There is also a Catholic church on the outskirts in the direction of Tannroda, which was built in 1918.
  • "Goethe fountain" with house ensemble and Kneipp facility
Goethe fountain and Goethe bust in the background
The so-called “steel spring”, today's “Goethe fountain”, was discovered in 1807 by the Berkaer Ludwig Geist (from 1795 to 1804 servant and secretary to Goethe) and taken when the bath was founded in 1813. Only when the sulphurous water in the park dried up did the Berkaers offer this iron-rich healing water for baths and drinking cures. In 1835 they built the steel bathhouse, today the seat of the tourist information and spa administration.
After discovering healing moor earth , the mud bathhouse was built in 1876, today the hotel “Am Goethebrunnen”. A deep borehole in 1877 changed the composition of the spring water. Since that time it has been a medicinal water containing calcium sulfate, which is used in particular for drinking cures . The spring also feeds the Kneipp facility next to the fountain. The Goethe bust in a wall niche was made by the sculptor and Bad Berka honorary citizen Adolf Brütt . The sculpture of the bathers in the fountain was created in 1946 by the sculptor Bruno Eyermann .
Paulinenturm
  • "Goethe House"
A little set back between the town hall and the church is the former “organist school”, today's “Goethehaus”. For more than two hundred years, this building was the Berkas girls' school and the home of the respective teacher, who was also the organist in the church. From 1799 to 1829 Heinrich Friedrich Schütz lived and worked in it . He was not only a girls' school teacher and organist, but for many years kept the municipal accounts in the town hall and made a special contribution to the construction and management of the sulfur baths founded in 1813. In this context, he had a close and friendly collaboration with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
  • Paulinenturm
The 26 m high Paulinenturm towers like a landmark on the Adelsberg above Bad Berka. From the platform there is a view of the Thuringian countryside. The 26 m high tower was built in 1884 by the Berka spa and beautification association.
  • Thillm
The "Schloss Harth" opened in July 1905 on Alexanderstrasse (today Heinrich-Heine-Allee 2-4) met all the requirements of a modern sanatorium at the time . Starcke attached great importance to the designation of the house as a “health home in the best sense of the word”, hence the inscription above the main portal Mens sana in corpore sano - a healthy mind in a healthy body .
After that, the building served the Hitler Youth and the SED as a training facility.
After extensive renovation, the “ Thuringian Institute for Teacher Training, Curriculum Development and Media ” (Thillm for short) moved into the representative building in 1997 and offers training and further education for all teachers in the Free State of Thuringia.

Worth seeing in the districts:

  • Village church "Zum Kripplein Christi" in Bergern , designed by the Irish-American artist Matt Lamb
  • Thuringian basket-making museum in Tannroda

Memorials

Parks

  • Spa gardens

Sports

Kneipp facility at the Goethe fountain
Kneipp basin in the Dammbachsgrund
Kneipp pool at the Gottesbrünnlein
  • extensive hiking and cycling network

Regular events

The city holds the fountain festival annually with a parade every two years and the kite festival on the glider airfield. During the fountain festival, a large fireworks display takes place in the spa gardens. There is also the annual rifle festival, which also takes place in the spa gardens. There are also smaller festivals in the districts.

Another occasion is the park whisper "Liszt in the green". In the Bad Berkaer Kurpark, trees and groups of bushes are immersed in an interplay of light and color during the evening hours, accompanied by music from the Belvedere Weimar High School. This spectacle is shown from May to September.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • Heinrich Conrad Ludwig Goullon (1801–1883), secret medical advisor
  • Franz Hugershoff (1809–1886), mechanic
  • Adolf Werner von Strauch, court hunter master
  • Ferdinand Arnold Reinhard, judicial officer
  • Heinrich Göcking, physician
  • Fritz Schubert
  • Hugo Friedrich Fries (1818–1889), lawyer and member of the Reichstag
  • Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), first Chancellor of the German Empire
  • Adolf Brütt (1855–1939), sculptor
  • Max Linke (1877–1969), master carpenter and builder
  • Franz Ferdinand Voigt, Rector
  • Adolf Tegtmeier (1894–1975), physician

sons and daughters of the town

  • Thomas Plaß (* 16th century; † 1608/1609 in Lübeck), lawyer and council secretary of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
  • Johann Friedrich Faselius (born June 24, 1721 - † February 16, 1767 in Jena), German physician
  • Johann Jakob Ludwig Geist (born April 14, 1776; † April 1, 1854 in Weimar), German auditor and Goethe's servant
  • Johann Heinrich Christian Remde (* 1777-1779-1786? - 1850), German music teacher, choir director and composer
  • Adolf Wuttig (born January 16, 1844, † April 20, 1929 in Magdeburg), Protestant pastor and founder of the cooperative
  • Otto Fries (born March 22, 1849; † August 24, 1905 on board a mail steamer near Lomé ), member of the Reichstag
  • Wilhelm Flitner (born August 20, 1889; † January 21, 1990 in Tübingen), educator
  • Hugo Günther (born November 24, 1891 - December 4, 1954), party functionary (SPD / KPD / KPO / SED) and insurance director
  • Hans Carl Nipperdey (born January 21, 1895 - † November 21, 1968 in Cologne), law professor, first president of the Federal Labor Court
  • Hartmut Griesmayr (born April 18, 1945), screenwriter and director
  • Konrad Elmer-Herzig (born February 9, 1949), Protestant pastor and founding member of the Social Democratic Party of the GDR

People connected to the city

  • Martin Gottlieb Klauer (1742–1801), sculptor in his local workshop
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (born August 28, 1749 in Frankfurt; † March 22, 1832 in Weimar), writer, stayed here several times as a visitor and bather
  • Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751–1792), poet of Sturm und Drang, wrote several works here
  • Peter im Baumgarten (baptized August 30, 1761 in Meiringen, canton Bern, died 1799 in Hamburg?), Goethe's foster son, since February 20, 1786 through his marriage to Johann Friederike Luise, b. Hoffmann, son-in-law of pastor Wilhelm Conrad Hoffmann (1737–1801) from Berka
  • Dietrich Georg von Kieser (born August 24, 1779 in Harburg; † October 11, 1862 in Jena), doctor, worked as a spa doctor in Berka
  • Heinrich Friedrich Schütz (1779–1829), adjunct, teacher, cantor, organist, pool inspector
  • Adolf Brütt (born May 10, 1855 in Husum; † November 6, 1939 in Bad Berka), sculptor, worked in Weimar and Bad Berka, since 1928 an honorary citizen of the city
  • Erich Wolf Degner (born April 8, 1858 in Hohenstein-Ernstthal; † November 18, 1908 in Berka), music teacher, lived and died in Bad Berka
  • Hans Gerhard Gräf (born May 5, 1864 in Weimar; † 1942 in Jena), Goethe researcher , examined the relationship between Goethe and Bad Berka
  • Theodor Scheffer (born October 1, 1872 in Düsseldorf; † April 28, 1945 in Weimar), educator, 1922 founder of the "German Home School" in Bad Berka and lecturer at the University of Jena at the time of National Socialism.
  • Adolf Tegtmeier (1894–1975), doctor, planner and medical director of the central clinic
  • Walther Victor (born April 21, 1895 in Bad Oeynhausen; † August 19, 1971 in Bad Berka), writer and publicist, worked in Bad Berka
  • Marie EP König (born September 10, 1899 in Forst; † October 5, 1988 in Güdingen), prehistoric, lived and worked for a short time in Bad Berka
  • Martin Hellberg (born January 31, 1905 in Dresden; † October 31, 1999 in Bad Berka), author, actor and director, worked and lived in Bad Berka
  • Johannes Petzold (born October 24, 1912 in Plauen; † May 19, 1985 in Eisenach), church musician and composer, from 1952 to 1961 cantor in Bad Berka (1954 church music director)
  • Helmut Holtzhauer (born December 2, 1912 in Leipzig, † December 16, 1973 in Bad Berka), politician (KPD, SED), died in Bad Berka
  • Eberhard Hasche (1920–1973) built the Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery Clinic at the Bad Berka Central Clinic
  • Wolfgang Blochwitz (born February 8, 1941 in Geringswalde; † May 8, 2005 in Bad Berka), soccer player, active among others at Carl Zeiss Jena, died in Bad Berka
  • Frank-Michael Pietzsch (born August 24, 1942 in Wittenberg), politician (CDU), former Thuringian Minister of Social Affairs, senior physician at the Central Clinic in the 1980s
  • Albrecht Schröter (born April 7, 1955 in Halle / S.), Educator and social scientist, Lord Mayor of Jena since 2006, worked from 1996 to 2000 as a speaker at ThILLM in Bad Berka
  • Bruno Eyermann (born February 26, 1888 in Leipzig; † December 30, 1961 in Hanau), sculptor, die cutter, medalist, graphic artist and painter, worked in Bad Berka from 1943 to 1955

literature

  • Hella dancers: Bad Berka. The Goethe bath in the country. Photos by Günther Praetor. Stadt-Bild-Verlag, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-934572-31-6 .
  • Ludwig Häfner, Hella dancer: Bad Berka then and now. City administration Bad Berka, Bad Berka 1994, DNB 958399042 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
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  3. ^ Thuringian ordinance on the dissolution of the city of Tannroda and the communities of Bergern, Meckfeld bei Bad Berka and Tiefengruben and their incorporation into the city of Bad Berka of March 23, 1994 (GVBl p. 383).
  4. ↑ StBA Area: changes from 01.01. until December 31, 2008 .
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  6. ↑ Manfred Stimming : The documents up to the death of Archbishop Adalbert I (1137) (= Mainzer Urkundenbuch. Volume 1). Self-published by the Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 1932, (482).
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  13. ↑ History of the Central Clinic ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rhoen-klinikum-ag.com
  14. ^ Report on the fire in the Bad Berka official gazette of September 1, 2007 (PDF; 774 kB).
  15. ↑ Homepage Bad Berka .
  16. ↑ wahlen.thueringen.de - municipal council election 2019 in Thuringia: Bad Berka
  17. ↑ https://weimar.thueringer-allgemeine.de/web/weimar/startseite/detail/-/specific/Michael-Jahn-gewinnt-die-Wahl-in-der-Kurstadt-Bad-Berka-1270022880
  18. ↑ bad-duerkheim.de - Sealing of the town twinning with Bad Berka, highlight of the partnership meeting .
  19. ^ Forest education and youth forest homes (Thuringia). (No longer available online.) In: Schutzgemeinschaft Deutscher Wald, online magazine. Archived from the original on April 14, 2010 ; Retrieved June 16, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sdw-thueringen.de
  20. ↑ opens exhibition in Bad Berka: Cough preserve from the hospital . In: Thüringische Landeszeitung , September 26, 2014, accessed on April 20, 2018.
  21. ↑ Filialkirche St. Marien, Bad Berka. herzjesu-weimar.de, accessed on December 14, 2018.

Web links

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