Erfurt () is the capital city of Thuringia and the main city nearest to the geographical centre of Germany, located 100 km SW of Leipzig, 150 km N of Nuremberg and 180 km SE of Hannover.

In 2010, Erfurt had a population of over 200, 000 and is part of the Erfurt-Weimar-Jena metropolitan area with a population of about 500, 000.

Erfurt is an old Germanic settlement.

The city is known for its two churches, Erfurt Cathedral ( Mariendom ) and Severikirche, which stand side by side and together form the emblem of the city.

The eleventh century Erfurt Synagogue is thought to be the oldest synagogue building still standing in Europe.

It is now a museum displaying the Erfurt Treasure.

Since 2003, the modern opera house is home to Theater Erfurt and its Philharmonic Orchestra.

The University of Erfurt was founded in 1994 and is the youngest public university in Germany.

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" He is assumed to have studied at the University of Erfurt, where there is a record of the enrolment of a student called Johannes de Altavilla in 1418 — Altavilla is the Latin form of Eltville am Rhein.

* January 28 – A U. S. Air Force jet training plane that strays into East Germany is shot down by Soviet fighters near Erfurt ; all 3 crew men are killed.

* The Jewish community is expelled from Erfurt ( Germany ), their houses are sold and the synagogue turned into an arsenal.

* March 21 – The bulk of the 900 strong Jewish community of Erfurt ( Germany ) is murdered by the rest of the population which accuses the minority to be the underlying cause of the Black Death.

* Erfurt University is founded in Erfurt, central Germany.

It is located in the federal state of Thuringia (), north of the Thüringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle and Leipzig.

File: Alte Synagoge Erfurt. JPG | The Erfurt Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in Europe

There are claims that he was the Canon of the Benedictine Priory of Saint Peter in Erfurt, Germany but according to John Maxson Stillman, who wrote on the history of chemistry, there is no evidence of such a name on the rolls in Germany or Rome and no mention of this name before 1600.

103, 000 and is the second largest city in the federal state of Thuringia, after Erfurt.

Chemnitz is crossed by the two motorways ( Autobahn ) A4 Erfurt – Dresden and A72 Hof – Leipzig.

Born at the German city Lübeck, Francke was educated at the gymnasium in Gotha before he studied at the universities of Erfurt and Kiel-where he came under the influence of the pietist Christian Kortholt-and finally Leipzig.

Born in Erfurt near Eisenach ( probably in the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, and Domenico Scarlatti ), Pachelbel studied with his father.

Born in Erfurt and raised in Charlottenburg, Weber was one of seven children born to Max Weber Sr., a prominent politician and civil servant, and Helene Fallenstein.

Mostly used is " Born mustard " from a local food company in Erfurt.

Born in Prussia ( later a part of Germany ), John Augustus Roebling obtained his first conditional engineering degree ( Feldmesserprüfung ) at Erfurt in 1824.

He started giving public speeches in March 1919, including one at a congress of munitions workers in Erfurt, where he urged them to stop producing war material.

Johann Pachelbel served as organist at the Prediger church in Erfurt.

He occupied Venice and the Republic of Ragusa in 1806, was made governor-general of Venice in 1807, took part in the Erfurt negotiations of 1808, was ennobled as a count, and served with the emperor during the Peninsular War in Spain ( 1808 – 1809 ), where he commanded the division that besieged and won Pamplona.

It is believed that Wilhelm Hieronymus served as organist at Fürth and in Erfurt, then in Nuremberg in 1706, at Saint Egidien the same year, and was finally appointed to his father's old post at Saint Sebald from 1719 until his death.

It served as its location until 1994, when the organization moved to the new Erfurt Runkel Building.

From 1934 through 1936, he served as a correspondent for Welt-Dienst / World-Service, an anti-Jewish publication founded by Ulrich Fleischhauer in Erfurt, Germany.

In 1349, during the wave of pogroms which followed the Black Death across Europe, the Jews of Erfurt were rounded up, with more than 100 killed and the rest driven from the city.

Wheat, rapeseed, sugarbeets, and barley grow well, along with a variety of vegetables, which grow near Erfurt, the state's capital.

Willy Brandt ( left ) and Willi Stoph in Erfurt 1970, the first encounter of a Federal Chancellor with his East German counterpart.

In the 1020s, Aribo, Archbishop of Mainz, began the minting of money at Erfurt, the oldest market town in Thuringia with a history going back to the Merovingian period.

He studied at Leipzig, Erfurt and Wittenberg, where he became intimate with Philipp Melanchthon.

The most important phase of his career opened in 1808, when the emperor Alexander I took him with him to the Congress of Erfurt and put him into direct communication with Napoleon, who described him as the only clear head in Russia and at the insistence of Alexander had many conversations with him on the question of Russian administrative reform.

The word stork is derived from the Old English word storc, and appeared in the tenth-century works the Erfurt Glossary, where the word is equated with Ciconia, and Aelfric's Homilies.

After the German reunification in 1990, Gera became part of the restored state of Thuringia — one of three metropolitan centres ( Oberzentren ) along with Jena and Erfurt.

Maj. James P. Hamill co-ordinated the rail transport of said equipment with the 144th Motor Vehicle Assembly Company, from Nordhausen to Erfurt.

The Erfurt Cathedral | Erfurt bell ( 1497 ) or any well-tuned bell: strike note on E with hum note, minor third, fifth, octave or nominal, and major third and perfect fifth in the second octave.

In the Capitulation of Erfurt on 16 October, a large body of Prussian troops became prisoners with hardly a shot being fired.

* Eastern Central Germany was culturally very important, with the universities of Erfurt and Leipzig and especially with the Luther Bible translation, which was considered exemplary.

In September 1808 Savary accompanied the emperor to the famous interview at Erfurt with the emperor Alexander.

In 1930, Gottstein ’ s influence is first seen at the Leipzig International Exhibition, along with the dioramas of Hahnemann of Kiel, Biebel of Berlin and Muller of Erfurt, all displaying their own figures, and those commissioned from such as Ludwig Frank in large diorama form.

The college engages in the Erasmus student exchange programmes with Liverpool Hope University as well as Universities of Trier and Erfurt in Germany.

In Erfurt, there is a cultural programme with theatre and music and even a Father Christmas for the children.