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Gera is a city in the German state of Thuringia. With around 93,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city in Thuringia after Erfurt and Jena as well as the easternmost city of the Thüringer Städtekette, an almost straight string of cities consisting of the six largest Thuringian cities from Eisenach in the west, via Gotha, Erfurt, Weimar ...
- 194 m (636 ft)
- Urban district
- Kunstsammlung Gera – Orangerie. Gera’s strong art collection is in the resplendent Baroque orangery ordered by Count Heinrich XXV of Reuß-Gera in the late 1720s.
- Kunstsammlung Gera – Otto Dix Haus. Otto Dix, the much Objectivity painter who was famous for depicting characters in Weimar society in the 1920s, was born at this building in Gera’s Untermhaus area in 1891.
- Haus Schulenburg. From 1913 the textile manufacturer and art collector Paul Schulenburg hired Art Nouveau virtuoso Henry van de Velde to build him a villa.
- Historische Geraer Höhler (Beer Cellars) In 1487 all property owners in Gera were granted the privilege to brew their own beer. For the next 300 years this gave rise to mass excavation under the streets of the town, as the citizens needed ever more space and the right climatic conditions to store their brews.
- Pat931. Hamburg, Germany 111 contributions. Wonderful Jugendstil Villa. On a recent visit to Greiz to see the Art Nouveau buildings on the European Art Nouveau route, I stumbled on Haus Schulenberg in Gera and was very excited to visit it.
- Karla S. Ojai, CA8 contributions. Location? From the Autobahn (#:4) getting there by car, including finding a nearby parking lot took us about 30 minutes. Parking was a little a problem, we had to walk about 15 minutes from the parking lot to the entrance.
- vladimir70. Odesa, Ukraine 234 contributions. Nice. The theater was in this place for a long time. What we see today is not that old. About a century or so. It is nice outside and inside.
- Florian254. Norddeutschland 1,426 contributions. Very nice and relaxing Park. This is the old area of the Bundesgartenschau (German national plant Exhibition) and even though the plants right now are not as they were then it still makes for an inertesting alndscape in beautiful surrounding, beautiful plants, lush Meadows and some interesting sculptures.
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Gera, city, Thuringia Land (state), east-central Germany. It lies along the Weisse Elster River, southwest of Leipzig. First mentioned in 995 and by 1237 referred to as a town, it became part of the principality of Meissen in 1547.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Gera — Neat Little Town With Unique Character. With a very pragmatic history as an industrial city, Gera bore the brunt of World War bombings to rise like a phoenix with its indomitable character intact. A whole new city center had to be constructed to enable the little town to rise from its own ashes.
What to do in Gera Germany. While not the most visited city in its state, Gera in Thuringia, Germany has a few impressive offerings for curious tourists. From fabulous art collections to historic houses and scenic hikes, the list of Gera things to do is not too shabby. Here’s my take on what to do in Gera, a city I lived in for a while.
Gera is a city in the east of Germany, in the state of Thuringia . It has about 100,000 inhabitants . History. In the beginning, "Gera" was not the name of a village or city, but of a region or district. This district was mentioned in a document for the first time in the year 995.
