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ID: 7005969
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005969
Record Type:
administrative
Eisenach (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 50 59 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 50.9833
decimal degrees
Long: 010 19 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 10.3167
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Thüringer Wald at confluence of Hörsel & Nesse rivers; founded by margraves of Thuringia in 12th cen.; ruled by Saxony from 13th cen., by Saxe-Weimar from 1741; noted as site of Luther's translation of Bible & birthplace of JS Bach.
Names:
Eisenach
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Isenache
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Germany
(nation) (
P
)
............
Thuringia
(state) (
P
)
................
Eisenach
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Thuringia
(historical region) (
P,
H
)
............
Eisenach
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded ca. 1150
city (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
cultural center (
C
)
............
site of important museums of composers Bach & Wagner, & of novelist Fritz Reuter
political center (
C
)
............
site of important 19th-cen. National & Social Democratic congresses
tourist center (
C
)
capital (
H
)
............
seat of Saxon duchy, 1596-1741
noble seat (
H
)
............
of Saxon house of Wettin, from 1264
Sources and Contributors:
Eisenach..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Balkow, Ortslexikon der DDR (1986)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 404
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
61
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
362
Isenache..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 269
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Balkow, Ortslexikon der DDR (1986)
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 269
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 404
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1765079
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
61
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
362
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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