Crawinkel

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Crawinkel
Coat of arms Location
Coat of arms of Crawinkel
Crawinkel (Germany)
Crawinkel
Administration
Country Flag of Germany Germany
State Thuringia
District Gotha
Mayor Stefan Schambach
Basic statistics
Area 25.27 km² (9.8 sq mi)
Elevation 469 m  (1539 ft)
Population 1,633  (31/12/2006)
 - Density 65 /km² (167 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate GTH
Postal code 99330
Area code 03624
Website www.crawinkel.de

Coordinates: 50°47′0″N 10°47′0″E / 50.78333, 10.78333

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 carraige 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.