The traditional capital of this country region.
The place where the first German democracy was announced in 1918: Weimar Republic.
The famous Bauhaus school (style of fine arts) originated from here.
The place where the famous poet and statesman Johann Wolfgang Goethe took is residence (1775-1832).
Currently the capital of the German state of Thuringia.
Famous for the medieval Old Town and the historical Krämerbrücke, and recently UNESCO-annouced
Jewish medieval heritage (Mikveh and Old Synagogue)
not only a medieval castle but also the place where Martin Luther translated the Bible from Greek and Hebrew to spoken language of the ordinary people (German) in order to make people understand. In earlier times, also home to Saint Elisabeth of Hungary.
Near Goseck, archaeologists have discovered a circular enclosure from the Neolithic eopch of roughly 5000 BCE. It is certain that those days, a human-made wooden circle had been erected here.
It is unknown for what purpose these circular enclosured had been used in their epoch but one of the hyptheses is that it might have been a solar observatory (German website).
The Nebra Sky Disc is displayed in the Museum for Prehistory in Halle (Saale).
The finding spot in the forest is marked with a metal plate in the ground. At the edge of the forest and of the nearby village of Kleinwangen, there is small museum called The Nebra Ark.