Gehren
Sign in to saveGehren () is a town and a former independent municipality in the Ilm-Kreis district, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated 7 km southeast of Ilmenau. It officially became a town in its own right ('Stadt') in 1855. However, since July 2018, it has been part of the town of Ilmenau. Between 1881 and 1998, Gehren was linked to Ilmenau by a railway.
Key facts
- German place.type
- Stadtteil
- German place.Town
- Ilmenau
- German place.image_photo
- Kirche Gehren.JPG
- German place.image_caption
- Church
- German place.image_coa
- Wappen_Gehren.png
- German place.state
- Thüringen
- German place.district
- Ilm-Kreis
- German place.elevation
- 475
- German place.area
- 43.79
- German place.population
- 3782
- German place.Stand
- 2016-12-31
- German place.postal_code
- 98708
- German place.area_code
- 036783
- German place.licence
- IK
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Ortsteil
- Official name
- Gehren
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Ilmenau
- Population
- 3782
- Area
- 43.79
- Elevation
- 475
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Neustadt am Rennsteig
- Official website
- www.gehren.eu
- Image
- Bahnhof Gehren.JPG
- Dialing code
- 036783
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- Commons category
- Gehren (Ilmenau)
- postal code
- 98693
- Commons gallery
- Gehren
- twinned administrative body
- Nidderau
- member of
- Mayors for Peace
- P8168
- Leopold Zunz
- native label
- Gehren
- hashtag
- Gehren
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Gehren () is a town and a former independent municipality in the Ilm-Kreis district, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated 7 km southeast of Ilmenau. It officially became a town in its own right ('Stadt') in 1855. However, since July 2018, it has been part of the town of Ilmenau. Between 1881 and 1998, Gehren was linked to Ilmenau by a railway.
The castle of Gehren burned down in 1936. Until 1920, Gehren was the capital of the Amt Gehren in the state of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gehren” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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