- Thuringia

Kingdom of Thuringians

about 400 to 531 AD

During the fifth century, the Kingdom of the Thuringians formed along the west bank of the Elbe river. It extended from the Kingdom of the Saxons in the north to the Danube river at Ratisbon (Regensburg) in the south and was bounded on the east by the Kingdom of the Franks. The Kingdom of the Thuringians was formed from members of various tribes, including the Angles and the Warns.

It was at this time that Saxons, Angles and Jutes began their conquest of Roman Britain and the Franks were extending their Kingdom east of the Rhine river.

The Franks and the Saxons combined in 531 to defeat the Thuringians. The land north of the Harz mountains passed to the Saxons and Thuringia became part of the Kingdom of the Franks.

One of the oldest European trade routes, the via regia connecting Paris and Kiev, passes through Thuringia.

For centuries, Thuringia has been an area of great cultural diffusion, which may be why we are considered the most easy going of all Germans.

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