Trockenborn-Wolfersdorf

Trockenborn-Wolfersdorf

Trockenborn-Wolfersdorf

Municipality in Thuringia, Germany

Trockenborn-Wolfersdorf is a municipality in the district Saale-Holzland, in Thuringia, Germany.

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Wolfersdorf Castle, a hunting lodge of the Dukes of Saxe-Altenburg, received its name Schloss Fröhliche Wiederkunft ("Palace of Happy Returning") when its first owner, John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, returned there in 1552 to meet his family after a five years absence as a war prisoner. The last Sovereign, Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, died there in 1955 as a citizen of East Germany.

Wolfersdorf Castle ("Palace of Happy Returning")

References

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    Gewählte Bürgermeister - aktuelle Landesübersicht, Freistaat Thüringen, accessed 10 November 2022.
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    "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden, erfüllenden Gemeinden und Verwaltungsgemeinschaften in Thüringen Gebietsstand: 31.12.2022" (in German). Thüringer Landesamt für Statistik. June 2023.


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