Sonneberg
Sonneberg | |
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Location of Sonneberg within Sonneberg district  | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Thuringia |
| District | Sonneberg |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Sibylle Abel (CDU) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 45.44 km2 (17.54 sq mi) |
| Highest elevation | 640 m (2,100 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 330 m (1,080 ft) |
| Population (2022-12-31)[1] | |
| • Total | 23,507 |
| • Density | 520/km2 (1,300/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 96501–96515 |
| Dialling codes | 03675 |
| Vehicle registration | SON |
| Website | www.sonneberg.de |
Sonneberg is a city in Thuringia, Germany, which is seat of the district Sonneberg. It has long been a centre of toy making and is still well known for this. It is the home of PIKO, a model railway manufacturer which became one of the few such enterprises in the Warsaw Pact countries and as such supplied model trains depicting railway stock of all the Soviet bloc countries. Sonneberg is home to the German Toy Museum ("Deutsches Spielzeugmuseum").
In the divided post WWII Germany Sonneberg found itself 'unnaturally' cut off from its large neighbouring city of Coburg and had to look only to the north. It was served by an unnaturally sinuous railway route and felt thus somewhat isolated from the rest of the DDR.
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Noted residents
- Jan Eichhorn, luge
- Cuno Hoffmeister, Astronomer
- Felix Loch, 2010 Olympic luge gold medalist
- Silke Kraushaar-Pielach, luge
- August Schleicher, Linguist
- Detlef Ultsch, Judo
- Reinhard Häfner, footballer
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