Pure wellness in the Thuringian Forest

With air-climatic advantages, scenic locations, vitality training concepts and healthy lifestyle positioning, the renewed Thuringian spas surprise their guests in this years winter wellness season.

Above all stands Bad Liebenstein, the oldest spa in Thuringia with 4ooo inhabitants, a spa town with no commercial and industrial features. Here, the hosts will welcome you with their  holistic attitude of man. It consists of the columns more life energy and good health in the Health-Activity Center, traditional healing – and maintaining rituals supplemented with caring packages and special massage, a sauna world with ice – and experience showers and a salt grotto, a physiotherapy center with a cold — and heat therapy and electrotherapy, a tradional healthy kitchen with nutritional advice and practical courses offered, and last but not least with the carbonated mineral spring.
Top Tip for your stay: The Spa Hotel Kaiserhof

Another way goes Friedrichroda, especially the part Finsterbergen. Here, everything is set up for an unusual success – and spa treatment – The Healthy Climate treatment. Low heat stress, increased gentle cold stimuli and a largely clear air with fresh air cures and Helio therapies will stimulate metabolism and blood flow and allow carefree breathing. After hiking, you can also visit the Ramada Hotel with his 16oo square meters of wellness areals, join the massage area with natural therapy, beauty farm and fitness programs for new energy.
Top Tip for accomodation and spa: Ramada Hotel

A third bid for your perfect gateaway is presented in the lovely Thuringian Forest town of Tabarz. The most famous German “Höhenwanderweg”, called Rennsteig, is located practically on the doorstep and the Inselberg with its 916 meters is nearby this small community. Here, all the Kneipp fans will come into their own. Two Kneipp locations with sevaral basins and footbaths are available. In addition, you shouldn`t miss the famous water park TABBS, with its warm 14oo square meters of water (3o degrees spa pool, spa house in the saltwater pool, sauna), where you can dive for the perfect relaxing.  However, even the  famous “Struwwelpeter” author and neurologist Henry Hoffmannn has made it for vacation to Tabarz with his family each year – because of his faible for good air. A fairy tale meadow in Laucha  today recalls of these times.
Hotel Top Tip: Akzent-Hotel “Zur Post”

Mountain bike marathon & Festival

Mountain bike marathon & Festival at Tabarz: The last event – The rush into the biking season on the last weekend in April exceeded all expectations by far.

According to the perfect weather, about 135 drivers took the downhill route and looked at the pros JD Swanguen (USA) and Mio Suamesa (JPN) from MS Intense Factory Racing team. But not only the international stars came to Tabarz, also the national prominence represented by Antje Kramer, the German champion in downhill, followed the invitation.

At the press conference on Saturday, Soren Schmidt, the chief organizer for the marathon and the downhill, announced a further improvement of cooperation with the municipality Tabarz, who will be the organizer of both upcoming events.

Mountain bike marathon – New Websites

Both the website of Tabarzer marathon as well as the downhill on the Inselsberg are redesigned and given a modern and striking layout.

The revision of the page to Tabarzer Mountain Bike Marathon, fahrrad-schmidt.de/marathon has been completed a few days ago and is available including the online registration for the marathon.

This is also an appropriate site to purchase professional bikes, as well as Fahrrad Erfurt Shop in the region of Thuringia.

Tabarz, Thuringia: New events and partners

Thuringia is always worth a visit, and during the past years especially for marathon or downhill.

Having perceived this new trend, The Thuringia Tourism Company is the new partner and main sponsor of the Tabarz Mountain Bike Marathon on 31.5./1.6. 2008, with his presence to visit the “green heart of Germany”.

The new event will include a kids mountainbike competition, a short race and last but not least, a family program with a brilliant celebration finish.

Through the further development of biking paths and special mountain bike trails around the Inselsberg region, cyclotourists will even find more attractive destinations to enjoy their passion in Thuringia.

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Event Pictures (c) Mountain bike marathon

Thuringia is glowing!

Just two more weeks and the Thuringian barbecue season will be opened with a celebration at the Cathedral Square in Erfurt! The three “originals” from the 1st German bratwurst museum, Propst Johann von Siebeleben, master`s butcher Huldreich Jacobi and journeyman Hans Wurst, are wearing their garp already – to ignite the bratwurst sausage fire at the museum in Holzhausen. A ceremony, which can not be taken seriously. But those guys always invent something new to promote Thuringias most delicious piece of culture.

On Wed 26th, they did the same for the festival at the Erfurt Cathedral Square. Everything will revolve around the sausage for the third time in a row – “Rusting Culture 2008 – Thuringia is glowing” on April 12th.
Better said, around the “Thuringian sausage” first mentioned in a Arnstädter abbey bill back in the year 1404 – and protected since December 2003 in Brussels. “In the past year, 33000 tons of those were produced!”, said Horst Schubert, managing director of the association “Thuringian / Eichsfelder sausage and meat”.

Easter in the snow

The Rennsteig municipalities are happy that the winter yet taken hold.
Tourists and locals look like the snow kings: Since one week the Rennsteig region presents itself in a magnificent white dress. Not the Christ child, but the Easter Bunny brought, albeit belated, winter sports fun in the western Thuringian Forest.

Meanwhile, South Thuringia supplies an approximately 400 km long network of trails and rambling routes. “People wanted their Easter not just for skiing and running. But hardly anybody is really upset about that. This year, no one is fed up with the snow. There wasn`t so far that much” said Renate Stengel from the Tourist Office Floh-Seligenthal. Even the Brotteroder are pleased with the additional Easter surprise. “People take their chances on our special sport offers. Usually you can`t do such things around this season, “said Dagmar Köllner, the managing director of the Inselberg tourism Inc.