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Landkreis Schmalkalden-Meiningen

Birx Village

Landkreis Schmalkalden-Meiningen

Birx

Birx Village

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Birx Village

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Location: Birx, Landkreis Schmalkalden-Meiningen, Thuringia, Germany

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Sandy🍀

May 14, 2021

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Until the turn of 1989, the town of Birx was surrounded on three sides at an acute angle by the GDR border installations and only had access to the GDR to the northeast.

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Tevion1505 (Andreas)

August 6, 2021

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Birx was mentioned in a document as early as 783. According to local tradition, St. Boniface from Fulda is said to have established the place. The 750 m high place …

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Frank Rmr

October 5, 2021

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The place was already in earlier centuries the most remote place of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach. Even within what is now Thuringia, Birx and its district form a sharp point along the borders with Hesse and Bavaria.

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Elevation 780 m

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Location: Birx, Landkreis Schmalkalden-Meiningen, Thuringia, Germany

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