Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Thuringia
Detourmap lists 42 places in Thuringia, Germany, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Hainich National Park. 37 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 42
- Oldest
- Paulinzella Abbey 1102
- Little known
- 37 of 42
- Share of Germany
- 3%
Thuringia 42
All 42, best known first.
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10.1964 T-39 shootdown incident
Archaeological · 20th century · Hidden gem
A Cold War incident involving an unarmed American T-39 being shot down by a Soviet MiG
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29.St Leonard's Church
Archaeological · 12th century · Hidden gem
Church building in Erfurt, Germany
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38.Thüringer Wald Biosphere Reserve
Nature · 20th century · Hidden gem
Biosphere reserve in Thuringia, Germany
Elsewhere in Germany
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Thuringia?
Hainich National Park, 20th century. National park in Thuringia, Germany. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Thuringia?
42: 21 nature & landscapes and 21 archaeological & historic sites. 37 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Thuringia?
Paulinzella Abbey, dated to 1102. 7 of the 42 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Thuringia here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Thuringia if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Thuringia is a first-level division of Germany, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.