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Gotha
Country	Germany
State	Thuringia
District	Gotha
Population	47,045 (2005)
Area	69.52 km²
Population density	677 /km²
Elevation	330 m
Coordinates	50°57′ N 10°43′ E
Postal code	99867
Area code	03621
Licence plate code	GTH
Mayor	Knut Kreuch (SPD)
Website	gotha.de

Gotha is a town in Thuringia, in Germany. It is the capital of the District of Gotha. Population: 46.205 (2004). Image File history File links Size of this preview: 512 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1214 × 1422 pixel, file size: 189 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Coat of arms of the city of Gotha in Germany. ... Image File history File links Description: Map of Germany showing Gotha Credit: Arne Klempert & Thomas Mack License: LGPL Source: http://www. ... This is an alphabetical list of countries of the world, including independent states (both those that are internationally recognised and generally unrecognised), inhabited dependent territories and areas of special sovereignty. ... Germany is a Federal Republic made up of 16 States, known in German as Länder (singular Land). ... The Free State of Thuringia (German: Freistaat Thüringen) is located in central Germany and is considered one of the smaller of Germanys sixteen Bundesländer (federal states), with an area of 16,200 km² and 2. ... There are 439 German districts (Kreise), administrative units in Germany. ... Gotha is a Kreis (district) in the middle of Thuringia, Germany. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Basic Definition In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or some other fixed point). ... The metre or meter is a measure of length. ... See Cartesian coordinate system or Coordinates (elementary mathematics) for a more elementary introduction to this topic. ... German Postleitzahl map of the first two digits Postal codes in Germany, Postleitzahl (plural Postleitzahlen, abbreviated to PLZ), consist of five digits, which indicate the wider area (first two digits), and the postal district (last three digits). ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles. ... German car number plates (Kfz-Kennzeichen) show the place where the car carrying them is registered. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger, greater) is the modern title of the highest ranking municipal officer. ... Social Democratic Party of Germany Spectral Power Density ... A website (alternatively, Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible via HTTP, a... The Free State of Thuringia (German: Freistaat Thüringen) is located in central Germany and is considered one of the smaller of Germanys sixteen Bundesländer (federal states), with an area of 16,200 km² and 2. ... Gotha is a Kreis (district) in the middle of Thuringia, Germany. ...

History

The town has existed at least since the 8th century, when its name was mentioned in a document signed by Charlemagne, in which it appears as Villa Gotaha ("Good Waters"). Its importance derives from having been chosen in 1640 as the capital of the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha. In the 18th century, an extended stay by the French philosopher Voltaire turned the court into one of the centres of the Enlightenment in Germany. From 1826 to 1918, Gotha was one of the two capitals of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. A portrait of Charlemagne by Albrecht Dürer that was painted several centuries after Charlemagnes death. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... For the sport horse, see Voltaire (horse). ... The Age of Enlightenment (French: ; German: ) was an eighteenth-century movement in European and American philosophy, or the longer period including the Age of Reason. ... The oldest surviving photograph, Nicéphore Niépce, circa 1826 1826 (MDCCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... Saxe-Coburg-Gotha or Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (German: Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha) was once the name given to the two German duchies of Saxe-Coburg and Saxe-Gotha in Germany, in the present states of Bavaria and Thuringia, which were in personal union between 1826 and 1918. ...

Gotha has played an important role in the Germany's workers' movement: the German socialist party (SPD) was founded here in 1875, by the merging of two organizations: the Social Democratic Workers' Party, led by August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht, and the General German Workers' Association, founded by Ferdinand Lassalle. The compromise was known the Gotha Program and was strongly criticized by Karl Marx in its time for its reformist bias (see Critique of the Gotha Program). Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements that envisage a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to control by the community. ... Social Democratic Party of Germany Spectral Power Density ... August Ferdinand Bebel (February 22, 1840 – March 18, 1913) was a German social democrat and one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. ... Wilhelm Liebknecht Wilhelm Liebknecht (March 29, 1826 - August 7, 1900) was a German social democrat, one of the founders of the SPD and father of Karl Liebknecht and Theodor Liebknecht. ... The General German Workers Association, in German Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein, ADAV) was founded on 23 May 1863 by Ferdinand Lassalle and existed under this name until 1875, when it combined with August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknechts SDAP to form the Socialist Workers Party of Germany, what is now the... Ferdinand Lassalle Ferdinand Lassalle (born April 11, 1825 in Wrocław, died August 31, 1864), was a German socialist politician. ... Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818, Trier, Germany – March 14, 1883, London) was a German philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary. ... The Critique of the Gotha Program is a document based on a letter by Karl Marx written in early May 1875 to the Eisenach faction of the German social democratic movement, with whom Marx and Fredrick Engels were in close association. ...

Gotha has also been traditionally a centre of publishing. The firm of Justus Perthes (now called Hermann Haack) began in 1763 the publication of the Almanach de Gotha, an authoritative directory of the world's major ruling dynasties and Europe's high nobility. Johan Georg Justus Perthes (September 11, 1749 - May 2, 1816), wa a German publisher and founder of the firm that bears his name (Justus Perthes). ... The Almanach de Gotha was a directory of Europes nobility first published in 1763 at the ducal court of Friedrich III of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (which included the city of Gotha). ...

From 1949 to 1990 the city of Gotha belonged to the German Democratic Republic. “East Germany” redirects here. ...

Sights

• The main attraction in the town is the Schloss Friedenstein, the former ducal palace, built in 1643-1655. This imposing rectangular structure, with low square towers on the corners, is Germany’s oldest early Baroque palace. The Palace Museum is home to valuable historic collections of art and cultural artefacts. The palace also houses the Museum of Regional History including the historic Ekhof Theatre, the oldest preserved baroque theatre in the world.
• Town Hall, built between 1567 and 1577 in Renaissance style, noteworthy for a richly decorated façade in its north side.
• A Market place (Hauptmarkt) surrounded by restored patrician houses with Baroque doorways.
• Augustinian Church (Gothic, 13th century), with former abbey.
• St Margaret’s Church (Margarethenkirche), from the end of the 15th century.
• Gotha is host to the annual Freakstock Christian music festival.

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Sister cities

• Martin, Slovakia
• Gastonia, North Carolina USA

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