Crawinkel

Crawinkel
Crawinkel
Location of Crawinkel within Gotha district
Coordinates	50°47′0″N 10°47′0″E / 50.783333°N 10.783333°E / 50.783333; 10.783333Coordinates: 50°47′0″N 10°47′0″E / 50.783333°N 10.783333°E / 50.783333; 10.783333
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Thuringia
District	Gotha
Mayor	Stefan Schambach
Basic statistics
Area	25.27 km2 (9.76 sq mi)
Elevation	469 m  (1539 ft)
Population	1,563 (31 December 2010)[1]
- Density	62 /km2 (160 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	GTH
Postal code	99330
Area code	03624
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.

References

1. ^ "Bevölkerung nach Gemeinden, erfüllenden Gemeinden und Verwaltungsgemeinschaften" (in German). Thüringer Landesamt für Statistik. 31 December 2010. http://www.statistik.thueringen.de/datenbank/TabAnzeige.asp?tabelle=gg000102%7C%7C.