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Whether it's Santa's workshop or a festival of lights, there are actions and events that bring life into the city centers, as the examples of Sonneberg and Ilmenau show. But how to perpetuate it? Who has a plan for this?

In Schmalkalden, the Thuringian THW youth are helping out in the city forest.

For the fishing festival, the Ilmenau angling and fishing enthusiasts collect a whole year's worth of harvest from the large pond. And lo and behold, in 2022 this will be particularly rich.

The Werratal model building club organized a particularly extensive show to mark the club's 10th anniversary, with over 250 exhibitors from all over Germany coming to the Werner-Seelenbinder Hall.

The self-driving minibus, which emerged from a research project at the Technical University, should already be suitable for practical use. Now all that remains is to overcome bureaucratic hurdles and Ilmenau could be the first city in which autonomous driving will be possible without an operator.

The opening of the new workshop building is a welcome opportunity for the Süd-Thüringen-Bahn to invite passengers and those who may want to join attractive local public transport offerings in the future to the Meiningen train station site.

The biggest festival of the year will continue to attract thousands to Toy City in 2022. From Kirchstrasse to Bahnhofsplatz there is a lot of hustle and bustle, music in every corner and as usual: attractions, attractions…

The motto: The main thing is to be there doesn't apply to everyone. Some people also want to be at the front when the time is stopped after a demanding round through the Oberhofer Biathlon Arena, which has been prepared to a world championship standard. But the vast majority of them just enjoy the shared experience and are happy to meet lots of people from all over the region and work colleagues

The Summer Toboggan Cup in Ilmenau, in which top athletes and young athletes compete, proves that you can also toboggan in the summer and even at the highest professional level. In 2022 it will be international again with Italian and Austrian competition.

A traveling theater train tells the story of German emigrants to America. In each carriage, actors tell a different story. One is that of the glassblower Willi Geyer, who left his homeland as a young boy and sought and found happiness in booming America. It started at Stützerbach train station, exactly where the train arrives