OBERHOF, GERMANY

'Oberhof' is a municipality in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district of Thuringia, Germany. It is a winter sports center and health resort. It has roughly 1,600 inhabitants (2005), but is visited by tenfold as many tourists every year. The town got its official city status in 1985.

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History
International sports events
Twin towns
External links

History


Oberhof was settled in 1641, and remained a small town until the late 1800s, when the town was connected to the railroad line from Erfurt to Ritchenhausen, and skiers and other tourists discovered the place.
From the early 1900s, Oberhof became a center for winter sports, with bobsleigh, nordic skiing and ski jumping taking place in the town's regularly updated sports facilities. In recent years the town has also seen the construction of lift-equipped alpine skiing slopes and an international competition standard biathlon stadium.

International sports events



★ 1931 Two-seat Bobsleigh World Championship and FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

★ 1973 Bobsleigh World Championship

★ 1985 Luge World Championship

★ 2004 Biathlon World Championship

Twin towns



Winterberg, Germany

Bad Neustadt an der Saale, Germany

Lillehammer, Norway

External links



Official website





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