FRIEDRICHRODA, a summer resort in the duchy of SaxeCoburg-Gotha, Germany, at the north foot of the Thuringian Forest, 13 m. by rail SW. from Gotha. Pop. 4500. It is surrounded by fir-clad hills and possesses numerous handsome villa residences, a Kurhausand and sanatorium. In the immediate neighborhood is the beautiful ducal hunting seat of Reinhardsbrunn, built out of the ruins of the famous Benedictine monastery founded in 1085. Events May 25 - Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain back from the Moors. ...
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Friedrichroda, in the former East Germany, is connected with Knaresborough through its partnership with Bebra, Knaresborough's twin town.
Friedrichroda is easily accessible to visitors, being on the railway and near to Autobahn 4 which connects Eisenach, Gotha, Erfurt and Weimar.
Friedrichroda is not far from the cities of Eisenach (the Wartburg Castle and also Johann Sebastian Bach's house), Gotha (Scloss Friedenstein), Erfurt (the Krämerbrücke) and Weimar (Goethe and Schiller).
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