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Eisenach

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Eisenach , city (1994 pop. 42,580), Thuringia, central Germany. It is an industrial center and rail junction. Industries include tourism, the manufacture of machinery, metal and wood products, chemicals, and electrical goods. The well-known Wartburg automobile factory was forced to close in 1991 due to economic hardship following German reunification, but a new Opel automobile plant opened the following year. There are salt mines and saline springs in the region. Eisenach was founded c.1150 and was chartered in 1283. The city passed to the house of Wettin in 1440, to the Ernestine branch of the... Read more
Eisenach
Eisenach, Thuringia/Germany ‘Iron Place’ from Eisen ‘iron’, a reference to the iron deposits in the area. Read more
Saxe-Eisenach
see Saxe-Weimar . Read more

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