The New Year's Eve Run brings a record number of participants to the city of Meiningen and, of course, its tireless organizers, a mix of competitive runners and casual and recreational athletes. Thanks to freely selectable route lengths, it's an invitation for everyone to mingle with the diverse runners and try to avoid a few unnecessary f...
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Even though their active days are long gone, the ski jumper, the footballer, and the marathon runner are still well-known and fill entire auditoriums when they talk about their sporting careers and share their experiences with the world of sports today. The two-time Olympian in the marathon, the four-time Ski Jumping Tournament winner, and the 1974 East German Football World Cup hero chat in the festival…
In Bad Salzungen, too, the Christmas market invites visitors to visit once or several times throughout the Advent season. After the organizers, together with the town, decided to offer Christmas delicacies and other offerings on the market square again, everyone is excited to see how the people of Bad Salzungen will respond to their Christmas market this year.
Traditionally, the Advent season in Sonneberg begins with an extraordinary Christmas program in the ambiance of the German Toy Museum. Not to be confused with the Christmas markets that also begin at this time, the program, with its diverse hands-on activities, is especially dedicated to children and their anticipation of Christmas.
Once a year, selected companies in southern Thuringia open their doors in a joint event to show interested citizens what is produced here and how. Of course, this also aims to attract young talent or new skilled workers. 35 renowned companies are participating in 2024, and more than 1,300 participants are expected.
Financial constraints and the consequences of the Regiomed insolvency are forcing the district administrator to immediately close one of the two Medinos hospitals in the Sonneberg district. This is causing uproar in and around the town of Neuhaus am Rennweg. While the city administration is trying to salvage what appears to be salvageable, others are questioning the legality of the decision. The citizens themselves are…
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Horst Teltschik is the guest of honour of the districts of Coburg and Hildburghausen at a small memorial event at the former Eisfeld-Rottenbach border crossing. The former foreign policy advisor to Chancellor Helmut Kohl and later head of the Munich Security Conference was directly involved in the process of opening the border and German unity and is still a contemporary witness today...
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At the “Am Stollen” primary school, some of the children are involved themselves when it comes to broadcasting the most important things from their school via the school radio. Others are busy taking part in projects outside of class, are active in sports clubs, read a lot of books or play instruments.
It is more than 40 years ago that Cuban contract workers appeared in Ilmenau to learn and work in what was then the Graf-Henneberg porcelain factory. Despite all the subsequent confusion, some of the personal friendships that arose have survived to this day. And they are exemplary of the legacy now being planted by the association for the preservation of the Ilmenau porcelain tradition...
The Miteinander eV association is bringing Franz-Josef Wagner to Hildburghausen for a reading. The author describes from his own experience how important personal involvement can be in overcoming mental illness. An important contribution as a prelude to the nationwide “Action Week for Mental Health”.
