Listed half-timbered house from 1602 in Behringen am Hainich, near Wartburg Castle Behringen is a village with 1600 inhabitants that was first mentioned in documents in the 9th century. With a renovated castle, an old village centre through which a small stream flows, a church and now many renovated houses, Behringen is now a lively little village in which new buildings have been constructed since 1990 and more are being built. There is a supermarket, a butcher's, a bakery, a bank and a pharmacy in the village. Behringen is located directly next to the Hanich National Park, and there is a tourist information centre for the Hainich in the village. Wartburg Castle, a World Heritage Site, is certainly the most famous sight in the immediate vicinity, while the town of Eisenach (with the Bach Museum, Luther House and the largest villa colony in Germany) is 10 kilometres away.Your holiday home is a former village tavern from 1602. The listed half-timbered house was extensively renovated in all trades between 2009 and 2011 and today presents itself as a contemporary gem with two living rooms (one with a fireplace and play corner for the kids), an eat-in kitchen from 2018 with a large old dining table, four bedrooms (three of them with double beds, one with bunk beds), two bathrooms (one with a shower and one with a bathtub), adjoining rooms and a 200 m2 garden. The house is located directly in the old village centre of Behringen (near the castle and the church) and has a living space of 120 m2. In the 3rd quarter of 2021, all rooms were renovated and then refurnished. The old floorboards in the two living rooms and one bedroom were sanded down and resealed, the floor coverings in the other rooms were renewed and then the entire house was repainted.a small stream flows in front of the property, a bridge leads to the property! In the rooms on the upper floor, the ceiling height is lower than in new buildings, as is usual in these old houses.A well-tended cottage garden of 200m2 invites you to relax. A sheltered seating area with barbecue facilities is located directly in front of the house.There are two car parking spaces right next to the property!Please contact Mrs Jacki Rödiger a few days before your arrival, she will tell you the code for the key safe, which is attached to the right door of the house. You will find the keys to your holiday home in the small safe!The following destinations can be reached by car within an hour: Nature: - Hainich National Park with treetop path, the last valuable copper beech forest in Europe, 26 orchid species, wild cats, 7 woodpecker and 15 bat species and 2,150 beetle species! 16,000 hectares of deciduous forest, 7,500 hectares of which are specially protected as a national park. A 1st class nature experience! - Werra Valley with old mills, boat hire, hiking trails, castles and fortresses - Landgrave and Dragon Gorge with specially marked and varied hiking trails, Wartburg Castle always in view - Trusetal Waterfall - the two highest mountains in the Thuringian Forest: Beerberg (983 m) and Schneekoppe (978 m) - Rhön biosphere reserve - Rhön landscape conservation area - Thuringian Forest landscape conservation area - Thuringian Forest Nature Park - Eichsfeld- Hainich-Werratal Nature Park - Kyffhäuser Nature Park with monument, Barbarossa Cave and Königspfalz Cities: - Eisenach with Bach House and Bach Museum, Luther House, Nikolai Church, market square, the old narrow house with a width of 2.05 metres - Gotha, a "baroque universe" with Friedenstein Castle, main market, town hall, Neumarkt and zoo - Erfurt, the state capital of Thuringia, with Krämerbrücke, St. Mary's Cathedral, St. Marien, St.Severi Church, old town centre, museums, Petersberg Citadel, Egapark (for plant lovers), Avenida thermal baths, fish market and Latin Quarter - Bad Salzungen with graduation tower, old town, brine world with thermal baths - "Rose City" Bad Langensalza with various themed gardens, e.g. a Japanese garden and aMühlhausen with Bachkirche church, town hall from 1300, one of the most beautiful old town centres in Thuringia, town wall (2.8 km), tower town, as there used to be 59! Schmalkalden with the four-winged Wilhelmsburg Castle, half-timbered adventure house, renovated old town and the memory of the Schmalkaldic League for the protection of Protestant towns against the Catholic Emperor - Weimar, World Heritage city, "Anna-Amalia" library, theatre square, Goethe and Schiller houses, city palace, park on the Ilm, museums, national theatre, Buchenwald concentration camp, - Arnstadt and Ohrdruf as "Bach towns" - Treffurt with Romanesque Normannstein Castle dating from the 9th century and a half-timbered old town - Arnstadt and Ohrdruf as "Bach towns". Zella-Mehlis with its aquarium - Oberhof, THE winter sports resort in Thuringia with its winter sports centre and the H2Oberhof thermal spa: You can't avoid the four greatest Thuringians anyway: - Martin Luther, the great reformer - Johann Sebastian Bach, certainly one of the greatest composers - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, prince of poets, universal genius, active in Weimar for over 50 years - Friedrich Schiller, the great poet of Weimar Classicism Culture: - Wartburg Castle, where Martin Luther translated the Bible into German as Junker Jörg - Creuzburg Castle: situated above the Werra with a museum and beer garden - Drei Gleichen, three landgrave castles dating from the 8th to 11th centuries. Merkers adventure mine: explore a potash salt mine at a depth of 500 metres (no worries: lift!) - Marienglashöhle: insights into gypsum mining - 120 km of signposted hiking trails through the Hainich alone - Falkenstein, the highest free-standing climbing rock in Thuringia at 96 metres - Erfurt Lakes, a local recreation area for swimming, diving, surfing, sailing and fishing - Cycling: The "Thuringian Chain of Towns" long-distance cycle route connects the most important and beautiful towns in Thuringia (Eisenach, Gotha, Erfurt, Weimar and Jena) - very rewarding! - Well-signposted cycle paths - Well-signposted hiking trails, the most famous of which is the 170 km long "Rennsteig" trail Don't miss the following Thuringian attraction: the "Thüringer Bratwurst"! Really delicious and a must-try! In the small village of Holzhausen there is now the 1st German Bratwurst Museum ....... And the dumplings are delicious too!