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Thuringian Forest
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Key facts
- Peak
- Großer Beerberg
- Elevation
- 983 m (3,225 ft)
- Coordinates
- 50°39′34″N 10°44′42″E / 50.65944°N 10.74500°E / 50.65944; 10.74500
- Country
- Germany
- Region
- Thuringia
- Orogenies
- Variscan, Saxonian
- Rock age
- Paleozoic
- Rock type s
- sedimentary, metamorphic, magmatic
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Encyclopedic overview
The Thuringian Forest (Thüringer Wald in German pronounced [ˈtyːʁɪŋɐ ˈvalt] ) is a mountain range in the southern parts of the German state of Thuringia, running northwest to southeast. Skirting from its southerly source in foothills to a gorge on its north-west side is the Werra valley. On the other side of the Forest is an upper outcrop of the North German Plain, the Thuringian Basin, which includes the city of Erfurt. The south and south-east continuation of the range is the highland often called the Thuringian-Vogtlandian Slate Mountains.
Among scattered foothills at its northern foot are the towns Eisenach, Gotha and Arnstadt. The towns of Ilmenau and Suhl sit in slight dips on the range itself to the north and south respectively.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thuringian Forest” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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