Riethnordhausen, Thuringia

Nöda is a municipality in the Sömmerda district of Thuringia, Germany.

Elxleben is a municipality in the Sömmerda district of Thuringia, Germany.

Walschleben is a municipality in the Sömmerda district of Thuringia, Germany.

Andisleben is a municipality in the Sömmerda district of Thuringia, Germany.

Maschinenfabrik Christian Hagans (Christian Hagans Engineering Works) was a German locomotive manufacturer founded on 1 July 1857 in Erfurt, Germany, by Christian Hagans. By the mid-1860s, the company had started building locomotive boilers and other components; in 1872 the first locomotive followed, a narrow gauge engine for a rail gauge of 750 mm. As a result of shortages of space, Hagans often had to limit its operations. For example, the T 15 was built by Henschel because Hagans did not have the necessary capacity. In 1903 the factory site was moved to Ilversgehofen north of the city; only then was large-scale production possible. On 30 June 1915 the locomotive factory was sold, with effect from 1 April 1916, to the Maschinenbau R. Wolf Magdeburg-Buckau. In 1928, steam locomotive manufacture finally came to an end in Erfurt. By then Hagans had built 1,251 locomotives. The last Hagans engine was a DRG Class 64.

The Rieth is a district in the north of the Thuringian state capital Erfurt, Germany. Rieth is a prefabricated housing estate with 5650 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2012) on an area of 0.72 km², built in 1969. Before the fall of communism, however, considerably more people lived in this district. Neighbouring districts are Hohenwinden-Sulza (industrial area) in the east, Ilversgehofen (Gründerzeit district) in the south, Berliner Platz (prefabricated housing area) in the west, Moskauer Platz (prefabricated housing area) in the northwest, Gispersleben (village) in the north and Roter Berg (prefabricated housing area) in the northeast. The district is situated on the river Gera, its centre is the Platz der Völkerfreundschaft with the shopping centre Vilnius-Passagen. The adjoining district Berliner Platz is de facto regarded by many Erfurters as belonging to the Rieth and is often referred to as the Rieth. The Rieth is connected to the Erfurt city centre by Erfurt Stadtbahn tram lines 1 and 6. The name Rieth frequently appears in Thuringia as a component of place names. These are river floodplains reclaimed in the Middle Ages, which had previously become marshy and had been drained. Today's Rieth district is also located in such a floodplain between the Gera River in the west and the river Schmale Gera in the east. The Rieth was the first GDR housing estate with a complex centre in its centre, but the Johannesplatz was the first prefabricated housing estate to be built in Erfurt in 1965.

Erfurt Ost station is a railway station in the eastern part of Erfurt, capital city of Thuringia, Germany.

Erfurt Nord station is a railway station in the northern part of Erfurt, capital city of Thuringia, Germany.

The Erfurter Bahn (EB, lit. "Erfurt railway") is a railway company and public transit system serving the city of Erfurt, the capital of Thuringia, Germany. Erfurter Bahn is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Erfurt city council, and Süd-Thüringen-Bahn, operating between Erfurt and Meiningen, is a subsidiary of the former. Services are operated by Regio-Shuttle RS1 and Bombardier Itino trains. Operations began in 1912 under the name of Städtische Industriebahn (Municipal industrial railway), rebranded as the Erfurter Industriebahn in 1990 to coincide with its acquisition by the city council, and as the Erfurter Bahn in 2007 after passenger transport was added.

The University of Erfurt (German: Universität Erfurt) is a public university located in Erfurt, the capital city of the German state of Thuringia. It was founded in 1379, and closed in 1816. It was re-established in 1994, three years after German reunification. Therefore it claims to be both the oldest and youngest university in Germany. The institution identifies itself as a reform university, due to its most famous alumnus Martin Luther, the instigator of the Reformation, who studied there from 1501 to 1505. Today, the main foci centre on multidisciplinarity, internationality, and mentoring. The university is home to the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, the Gotha Research Center for Cultural and Social Scientific Studies, and the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy. The Gotha Research Library, which has one of Germany's largest collections of early modern manuscripts, is part of the university. The University Library is also the keeper of the Bibliotheca Amploniana, a collection of nearly 1000 medieval manuscripts collected by the scholar Amplonius Rating de Berka (c.1363–1435), who was a former Rector of the university.

The Flutgraben is a canal in Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany. It is a flood control channel, created between 1890 and 1898 in order to prevent flooding of the river Gera in the city centre of Erfurt.

The Erfurt massacre was a school shooting that occurred on 26 April 2002 at the Gutenberg-Gymnasium, a secondary school in Erfurt, Germany. 19-year-old expelled student Robert Steinhäuser shot and killed 16 people, including 13 staff members, 2 students, and 1 police officer before committing suicide. One person was also wounded by a bullet fragment. According to students, he ignored them and aimed only for the teachers and administrators, although 2 students were unintentionally killed by shots fired through a locked door.