Eisenberg, Thuringia

Eisenberg is a town in Thuringia, Germany. It is the capital of the district Saale-Holzland.

Neighboring municipalities are Jena (25 km in west) and Gera (15 km in south east). West of Eisenberg runs the motorway A 9 from Berlin to Munich. A tradition in Eisenberg on Christmas Eve is that the people of the city meet at the market place by 6 to listen to live Christmas music from the tower of the city hall - played by the brass choir of the Lutheran parish.

The main attraction of the town is the baroque Castle Church, built in 1692 by Christian, Duke of Saxe-Eisenberg.



Sons and daughters of the city

 * Johann Michael Heineccius (1674–1722), Lutheran clergyman and historian
 * Johann Gottlieb Heineccius (1681–1741), professor of law and philosophy
 * Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781–1832), philosopher
 * Bruno Bauer (1809–1882), philosopher
 * Prince Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg (1829–1907), Prussian General of the Cavalry
 * Gerhard Buchwald (1920–2009), physician
 * Gunther Emmerlich (1944–2023), singer and entertainer

Other personalities

 * Christian of Saxony-Eisenberg (1653–1707), the only Duke of Saxony-Eisenberg
 * Immanuel Johann Gerhard Scheller (1735–1803), an old philologist and lexicographer, studied at the Gymnasium in Eisenberg between 1747 and 1752
 * Charlotte Amalie von Sachsen-Meiningen (Duchess of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg) lived for several years in Eisenberg
 * Georg von Sachsen-Altenburg (1796–1853), Duke of Saxony-Altenburg, resided alternately in Altenburg and Eisenberg
 * Otto Hammann (1852–1928), jurist, studied at the Gymnasium in Eisenberg
 * Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1871–1955), Duke of Saxony-Altenburg, attended the Christian-School in Eisenberg between 1886 and 1889
 * Peter Landau (born 1935), legal scientist, went to school in Eisenberg