Thuringia is home to Weimar: a city brimming with cultural heritage, including writers Goethe and Schiller, and the world-famous Bauhaus school. Weimar lent its name to the first German democracy — the Weimar Republic — because the founding National Assembly first met here in 1919.

However, just outside the city lies the memorial for the Nazi's terrible Buchenwald concentration camp. Buchenwald was the largest concentration camp within Germany's pre-war 1937 borders; hundreds of thousands of imprisoned people from all over Europe passed through it during the war.

Thuringia is also famous for its town of Eisenach, where reformer Martin Luther translated the Bible into German, for its St. Mary's Cathedral in the state capital Erfurt, as well as for its abundant nature, including the famous Rennsteig hiking trail and the Thuringia Forest.

Thuringia is located at the center of Germany: it has no external borders. Surrounding it are the states of Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt to the east and northeast, Lower Saxony to the northwest, and Hesse and Bavaria to the west and south.

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