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Ralf went for a bike ride
June 6, 2026
32. Regenbogentour
Dieses Mal von Erfurt hinauf nach Ilmenau zum Stadtfest.
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Ralf went for a bike ride
May 24, 2026
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May 24, 2026
Pleasingly, more gastronomy is open again, Freudenthal was very busy, but also everywhere else. Swimmers could be seen everywhere on the cycle path, understandable with 29 degrees on Pentecost.
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Ralf went for a hike
May 5, 2026
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May 5, 2026
The real highlight of the Kattenburger Hangweg, a beautiful narrow path at altitude with great views. According to the signage, the path was closed due to fallen trees, but we were still able to hike it well. In parts, it leads past species-rich, blooming dry meadows on slopes. Even blooming orchids
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Ralf went for a hike
May 4, 2026
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May 4, 2026
In 1951, the Central Pioneer Holiday Camp Thomas Müntzer was established here with up to 1200 places, partly used by the Society for Sport and Technology.
After 1990, it became known that the GDR authorities had planned to imprison opposition members in the holiday camp in case of "tension".
Today, everything has been renatured.
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Ralf went for a hike
May 4, 2026
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May 4, 2026
In the morning, first visited the Kyffhäuser, when it was still pleasantly uncrowded.
The legend of Frederick I. Barbarossa tells that the emperor did not really die, but is sleeping in a mountain in the Kyffhäuser range.
There he sits at a stone table, while his red beard grows longer and longer, winding
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Ralf went for a hike
May 3, 2026
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May 3, 2026
After dinner, a short trip to the Leaning Tower of Bad Frankenhausen, which is more crooked than the one in Pisa.
Because one tower is not enough, then on to the Hausmannsturm.
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Ralf went for a hike
May 3, 2026
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May 3, 2026
Three stamps and a lost place.
The former hunting lodge Rathsfeld in the Kyffhäuser district is a severely dilapidated "lost place". Built in 1697-1698 by Count Albert Anton von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. Later used as a military hospital (1813–1815) and convalescent home.
During the Nazi era, it served as
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Ralf went for a hike
April 6, 2026
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April 6, 2026
From Hopfgarten on a sunny Easter Monday to the Nohra Landscape Park.
This area was a helicopter base of the Soviet armed forces during GDR times. A total of over 5000 soldiers were stationed in Nohra. Until the withdrawal in 1992, helicopters of the types Mi-2, Mi-6, Mi-8 and Mi-24 flew in Nohra. Today
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Ralf went for a hike
March 22, 2026
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March 22, 2026
In the Blütengrund near Ballstädt, a natural monument: flowering spring snowflakes as far as the eye can see.
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Ralf and others went on an adventure
January 21, 2026
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Ralf went for a hike
December 28, 2025
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June 6, 2026
This time from Erfurt via Arnstadt up to Ilmenau. There, the 32nd Ilmenau Old Town Festival was taking place throughout the city center, so there was plenty of diverse catering.
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