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Sonneberg
Sign in to saveSonneberg () in Thuringia, Germany, is the seat of the Sonneberg district. It is in the Franconian south of Thuringia, neighboring its Upper Franconian twin town Neustadt bei Coburg.
Sonneberg is a town in Thuringia, Germany, that serves as the administrative center of the Sonneberg district in the region's southern Franconian area. It is located near its neighboring twin town, Neustadt bei Coburg, which is situated just across the border in Upper Franconia.
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Key facts
- German place.type
- Stadt
- German place.image_photo
- Rathaus_Sonneberg2.jpg
- German place.image_caption
- Town hall
- German place.image_coa
- Wappen Sonneberg.svg
- German place.image_plan
- Sonneberg in SON.svg
- German place.state
- Thüringen
- German place.district
- Sonneberg
- German place.elevation
- 400
- German place.area
- 84.69
- German place.postal_code
- 96515
- German place.area_code
- 03675, 036762, 036703
- German place.licence
- SON, NH
- German place.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 16 0 72 018
- German place.website
- www.sonneberg.de
- German place.mayor
- Dr. Heiko Voigt
- German place.leader_term
- 2022–28
- German place.party
- independent
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district capital
- Country
- Germany
- Population
- 23435
- Area
- 84.69
- Elevation
- 388
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Capital of
- Sonneberg
- Shares border with
- Neuhaus am Rennweg
- Official website
- sonneberg.de
- Image
- Sonneberg-Hbf1.jpg
- Dialing code
- 036762
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- topic's main category
- Category:Sonneberg
- twinned administrative body
- Neustadt bei Coburg
- Commons category
- Sonneberg
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Sonneberg
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Sonneberg
- postal code
- 96515
- short name
- Sob
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Sonneberg
- P8168
- Kati Wilhelm
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- hashtag
- Sonneberg
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Subdivisions
- Number of inhabitants
- Notable people
- References
- External links
Sonneberg () in Thuringia, Germany, is the seat of the Sonneberg district. It is in the Franconian south of Thuringia, neighboring its Upper Franconian twin town Neustadt bei Coburg.
Sonneberg became known as the "world toy city", and is home to the and the Sonneberg observatory, founded in 1925. The Thuringian Slate Mountains border the city, with the Franconian Forest to the east.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sonneberg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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