Eisenach
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Eisenach
A city in Thuringia, Germany
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A great event was our team retreat in Eisenach, Thuringia (Germany).
Between the 1860s and 1938, Eisenach hosted one of the largest Jewish communities in Thuringia with nearly 500 members at the beginning of the 20th century.
Eisenach kept a leading position among the Wettin's Thuringian cities by becoming their Oberhof (leading court), so that their law had to be derived from Eisenach's municipal law and disputes had to be resolved here.
In 1847, Eisenach was connected by the Thuringian Railway to Erfurt and Halle Leipzig in the east and in 1849 to Kassel and Frankfurt in the west.
A second Autobahn between Eisenach and Kassel is in construction ( Bundesautobahn 44 ).
During the second half of the 12th century, the town walls were erected (the Nikolaitor is an important relict of this wall) and Eisenach got a planned grid of streets and alleys.