Crawinkel

Crawinkel

Market square

Coat of arms
Crawinkel

Coordinates: 50°47′0″N 10°47′0″E / 50.78333°N 10.78333°E / 50.78333; 10.78333Coordinates: 50°47′0″N 10°47′0″E / 50.78333°N 10.78333°E / 50.78333; 10.78333
Country Germany
State Thuringia
District Gotha
Government
  Mayor Stefan Schambach
Area
  Total 25.27 km2 (9.76 sq mi)
Population (2015-12-31)[1]
  Total 1,490
  Density 59/km2 (150/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 99330
Dialling codes 03624
Vehicle registration GTH
Website www.crawinkel.de

Crawinkel is a municipality in the eastern part of Germany in the district of Gotha, Thuringia. Crawinkel was first mentioned in 1088.

After the Armistice with France in 1940, during World War II, German forces took numerous memorials from the forest of Compiègne, where the Armistice with Germany that ended World War I was also signed, as prizes to Crawinkel. These included the actual railway carriage where both armistices were concluded. In 1945, the car was dynamited and its pieces buried. Since the German reunification in 1989, numerous artifacts have been recovered and returned to France.

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