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| State | Thuringia |
| District | Ilm-Kreis |
| Municipal assoc. | Oberes Geratal |
| Mayor | Frank Fiebig |
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| Area | 23. Wikipedia talkFeatured lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below -->This list of countries, arranged alphabetically Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Germany (Deutschland is a Federal Republic consisting of sixteen States, known in German as Länder (singular The Free State of Thuringia (Freistaat Thüringen is located in central Germany. German districts (de ''Kreise'' or de ''Landkreise'' in the states of Nordrhein-Westfalen and Schleswig-Holstein, singular de ''Kreis'' and de ''Landreis'' Ilm-Kreis is a district in Thuringia, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise the city of Erfurt, the districts of Weimarer Land " Amt " is a type of Administrative division of some Northern European countries Oberes Geratal is a Verwaltungsgemeinschaft ("collective municipality" in the district Ilm-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany Burgomaster (alternatively spelled Burgo[[meister]], literally translated meaning master of the town or master of the Fortress Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. 32 km² (9 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 400 m (1312 ft) |
| Population | 3,523 (31/12/2006) |
| - Density | 151 /km² (391 /sq mi) |
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| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | IK |
| Postal code | 99330 |
| Area code | 036205 |
| Website | www.graefenroda.de |
Gräfenroda is a municipality in Thuringia in the northeast of the Thüringer Wald forest, Ilm-Kreis district. The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume Central European Time ( CET) is one of the names of the Time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. Central European Summer Time ( CEST) is one of the names of UTC+2 Time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+1 is used in the following locations Central European Time West Africa Time Western European Summer Time UTC+2 corresponds to the following Time zones Eastern European Time Egypt Standard Time Central Africa Time German car number plates ( Kfz-Kennzeichen) show the place where the car carrying them is registered __FORCETOC__ Postal codes in Germany, Postleitzahl (plural Postleitzahlen abbreviated to PLZ consist of five digits which indicate the wider area (first two digits and the see also Telephone numbering in Germany for further codes including service numbers cell phones etc A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. The Free State of Thuringia (Freistaat Thüringen is located in central Germany. The Thuringian Forest ( Thüringer Wald in German) running northwest to southeast forms a continuous stretch of ancient rounded mountains posing ample difficulties Ilm-Kreis is a district in Thuringia, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise the city of Erfurt, the districts of Weimarer Land Gräfenroda is the seat of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Oberes Geratal. " Amt " is a type of Administrative division of some Northern European countries Oberes Geratal is a Verwaltungsgemeinschaft ("collective municipality" in the district Ilm-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany
Gräfenroda was founded in 1290. At the end of the 19th century Gräfenroda was the birthplace of the Garden gnome (German: Gartenzwerg). A gnome is a Mythical creature characterized by its extremely small size and subterranean lifestyle The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. The municipality has a museum of the history of garden gnomes.
In the year 1705 the composer Johann Peter Kellner was born in Gräfenroda. Johann Peter Kellner (variants Keller Kelner) (28 September 1705 - 19 April 1772 was a German organist and Composer. He was a student of Johann Sebastian Bach. WikipediaWikiProject Composers#Lead section.2 This article is written in British English including maximised use of "-ise"
During the Nazi era anti-Semite Artur Dinter lived in Gräfenroda. Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Artur Dinter ( 27 June 1876 – 21 May 1948) was a German Writer and Nazi Politician.