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Gotha (German: [ˈɡoːtaː]) is the fifth-largest city in Thuringia, Germany, 20 kilometres (12 miles) west of Erfurt and 25 km (16 miles) east of Eisenach with a population of 44,000. The city is the capital of the district of Gotha and was also a residence of the Ernestine Wettins from 1640 until the end of monarchy in Germany in 1918.
The coat of arms shows Friedenstein Castle in the top, the largest Baroque building located in the city of Gotha. The wavy line below symbolizes the Leina canal, which was built 1366 to 1369 from Schönau to Gotha, to bring water into the city. The star at the bottom was the symbol of the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.
The Gotha Program was explicitly socialist: "The Socialist Labor Party of Germany endeavors by every lawful means to bring about a free state and a socialistic society, to effect the destruction of the iron law of wages by doing away with the system of wage labor, to abolish exploitation of every kind, and to extinguish all social and political ...
A city is displayed in bold if it is a state or federal capital, and in italics if it is the most populous city in the state. The table below contains the following information: The city rank by population as of 31 December 2021, as estimated by the Federal Statistical Office of Germany; The city name; The name of the state in which the city ...
General map of Germany. This is a complete list of the 2,056 cities and towns in Germany (as of 1 January 2024). [1] [2] There is no distinction between town and city in Germany; a Stadt is an independent municipality (see Municipalities of Germany) that has been given the right to use that title.
The old Thuringian duchies and principalities became free states. The two free states of Reuss E.L. and Reuss Y.L. merged on 21 December 1918 to form the Republic of Reuss, the union between Saxe-Gotha and Saxe-Coburg was dissolved on 12 April 1919 and they formed their own free states.
They were based on the 22 states and three city-states of the German Empire. During the revolution of 1918–1919 , the states abolished their local monarchies and adopted republican constitutions. Several attempts were made to reorganize the states under the Weimar Republic, particularly because of Prussia 's disproportionately large size and ...
In London he met with many geographers and explorers, a task which was made easier because he was fluent in German, French and English. Forced by private worries in 1854 he complied with a request by Bernhardt Perthes (1824–1857) to work for his firm. Shortly after his move to Gotha the Duke of Gotha appointed him Professor in 1854.