Erfurt (deu)

Erfurt

Erfurt ranks 461st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Omsk, Chemnitz, and Wimbledon, London. The most famous people from Erfurt are Max Weber, Reinhard Gehlen, and Johann Ambrosius Bach. The most famous people who died in Erfurt are Arminius, Albert II, Margrave of Meissen, and Johann Jakob Bernhardi. Erfurt has been the birth place of many athletes, and cyclists and the death place of many military personnels, and politicians. Erfurt is located in Germany.

Erfurt (German pronunciation: [ˈɛʁfʊʁt] ) is the capital and largest city of the Central German state of Thuringia, with a population of around 216,000. It lies in the wide valley of the River Gera, in the southern part of the Thuringian Basin, north of the Thuringian Forest, and in the middle of a line of the six largest Thuringian cities, stretching from Eisenach in the west, via Gotha, Erfurt, Weimar and Jena, to Gera in the east. Together with Kassel and Göttingen, it is one of the cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants lying closest to the geographic centre of Germany. Erfurt is 100 km (62 mi) south-west of Leipzig, 250 km (155 mi) north-east of Frankfurt, 300 km (186 mi) south-west of Berlin and 400 km (249 mi) north of Munich. Read more on Wikipedia