28 Facts About Erfurt

Erfurt is the capital and largest city in the Central German state of Thuringia.

Erfurt was first mentioned in 742, as Saint Boniface founded the diocese.

University of Erfurt was founded in 1379, making it the first university to be established within the geographic area which constitutes modern-day Germany.

The earliest evidence of human settlement dates from the prehistoric era; archaeological finds from the north of Erfurt revealed human traces from the paleolithic period, ca.

Erfurt became an important regional power between the Landgraviate of Thuringia around, the Electorate of Mainz to the west and the Electorate of Saxony to the east.

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Between 1306 and 1481, Erfurt was allied with the two other major Thuringian cities in the Thuringian City Alliance and the three cities joined the Hanseatic League together in 1430.

Jewish community of Erfurt was founded in the 11th century and became, together with Mainz, Worms and Speyer, one of the most influential in Germany.

In 1349, during the wave of Black Death Jewish persecutions across Europe, the Jews of Erfurt were rounded up, with more than 100 killed and the rest driven from the city.

Only a few years after 1349, the Jews moved back to Erfurt and founded a second community, which was disbanded by the city council in 1458.

Erfurt was an early adopter of the Protestant Reformation, in 1521.

Erfurt became part of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1802, to compensate for territories Prussia lost to France on the Left Bank of the Rhine.

Erfurt was administered by a civilian and military Senate under a French governor, based in the, previously the seat of city's governor under the Electorate.

In 1808, the Congress of Erfurt was held with Napoleon and Alexander I of Russia visiting the city.

Bombed as a target of the Oil Campaign of World War II, Erfurt suffered only limited damage and was captured on 12 April 1945, by the US 80th Infantry Division.

Erfurt has a humid continental climate or an oceanic climate according to the Koppen climate classification system.

The most important regions of origin of Erfurt migrants are rural areas of Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony as well as foreign countries like Poland, Russia, Syria, Afghanistan and Hungary.

Erfurt later moved to Zurich where he served as leader of the General Music Society's subscription concerts series.

Erfurt was a sociologist, philosopher, lawyer, and political economist whose ideas have profoundly influenced modern social theory and social research.

Erfurt's studied at the Bauhaus from 1926 to 1930, and while there worked with Marcel Breuer on his innovative chair designs.

Messe Erfurt serves as home court for the Oettinger Rockets, a professional basketball team in Germany's first division, the Basketball Bundesliga.

Notable types of sport in Erfurt are athletics, ice skating, cycling, swimming, handball, volleyball, tennis and football.

Besides the religious buildings there is a lot of historic secular architecture in Erfurt, mostly concentrated in the city centre, but some 19th- and 20th-century buildings are located on the outskirts.

Former malt factory "Wolff" at in the east of Erfurt is a large industrial complex built between 1880 and 1939, and in use until 2000.

Additionally, Erfurt is the capital of the federal state of Thuringia, so that there are many institutions of administration like all the Thuringian state ministries and some nationwide authorities.

Typical for Erfurt are the logistic business with many distribution centres of big companies, the Erfurt Trade Fair and the media sector with KiKa and MDR as public broadcast stations.

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Additionally, Erfurt operates a bus system, which connects the sparsely populated outer districts of the region to the city center.

The University of Erfurt, founded in 1379 and closed in 1816, was refounded in 1994 with a focus on social sciences, modern languages, humanities and teacher training.

Fachhochschule Erfurt, is a university of applied sciences, founded in 1991, which offers a combination of academic training and practical experience in subjects such as social work and social pedagogy, business studies, and engineering.