Gräfenroda

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Gräfenroda is a municipality in Thüringen in the northeast of the Thüringer Wald forest, Ilm-Kreis district. Gräfenroda is the seat of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Oberes Geratal.

It has a population of 3,643 on an area of 23.32 km².

Gräfenroda was founded in 1290. At the end of the 19th century Gräfenroda was the birthplace of the Garden gnome (German: Gartenzwerg). The municipality has a museum of the history of garden gnomes.

During the Nazi era anti-Semite Artur Dinter lived in Gräfenroda.

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Coordinates: 50°45′N 10°48′E

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