Niederdorla (German pronunciation: [ˈniːdɐˌdɔʁla], lit. 'Lower Dorla', in contrast to "Upper Dorla") is a village and a former municipality in the Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis district of Thuringia, Germany. One of the possible geographical centres of Germany is within its area. The nearest city is Erfurt, which also is the capital city of Thuringia. Since 31 December 2012, it has been part of the municipality of Vogtei.
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Central Germany or Middle Germany, in geography, describes the areas surrounding the geographical centre of Germany.
Hesse, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia are the only landlocked German states without an international border except for the city-states of Berlin and Hamburg.
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The Opfermoor Vogtei is an open-air museum at the location of a prehistoric and protohistoric sacrificial bog in the municipality of Vogtei, Thuringia, in Germany. It lies within the former municipality of Oberdorla, approximately 200 metres from Niederdorla, and the site is also known by those names.
The site, which includes a shallow lake, was a supra-regional cult site from the Hallstatt Period to the Migration Age developed by people whose descendants became, in Friedrich Maurer's nomenclature, the Rhine-Weser Group of Germanic people. It is the largest known Iron Age cult site in Central Europe and has yielded important information about pre-Germanic and Germanic religious practices. Excavations took place there between 1957 and 1964, and recovered artifacts and reconstructions of shrines are presented in an open-air museum on the site, which includes a reconstructed village, and an associated museum in Niederdorla.
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Vogtei is a municipality in the Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis district of Thuringia, Germany.
It was formed on 31 December 2012 by the merger of the former municipalities of Langula, Niederdorla, and Oberdorla. The closest town and the only one that it borders is Mühlhausen northerly. The Hainich National Park is situated westerly.
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Wilder Graben is a river of Thuringia, Germany.
The Wilder Graben springs from the Kainspring west of Oberdorla. It is a headstream of the Seebach. The confluence with the other headstream, the Mühlbach, is located southeast of Niederdorla.
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Vogtei is a former municipal association in the district Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis in Thuringia, Germany. The seat of the association was in Oberdorla. It was disbanded on 31 December 2012.
The Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Vogtei consisted of five municipalities:
Oberdorla,
Kammerforst,
Langula,
Niederdorla, and
Oppershausen.