Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
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Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, or Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, was an Ernestine duchy in Thuringia ruled by a branch of the House of Wettin, consisting of territories in the present-day states of Thuringia and Bavaria
Coburg Fortress
Veste Coburg
Friedenstein Palace, Gotha
Reinhardsbrunn Castle, Gotha
Coburg
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Coburg is a city located on the River Itz in the Upper Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany. Long part of one of the Thuringian states of the Wettin line, it joined Bavaria by popular vote only in 192
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
…Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld received for that the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg, Districts of Königsberg and Sonnefeld from Saxe-Hildburghausen, and the properties of Callenberg and Gauerstadt from Saxe-Meiningen. By then, the Principality of Lichtenberg, on the Nahe River, had already been a part of the Duchy of Coburg for ten…
Coburg Marktplatz with Stadthaus (left)
Ehrenburg Palace, rebuilt after a catastrophic fire in 1690, received its Gothic revival exterior in the 19th century.
Old print image of Coburg, seen from the south