Zella-Mehlis

Zella-Mehlis occupies the southern slopes of the Thuringian Forest in central Thuringia. The town lies just south of the Rennsteig, Germany’s well-known long-distance trail following the forest’s ridge country. Formed in 1919 from Zella St. Blasii and Mehlis, it grew from communities with longstanding metalworking and arms-manufacturing traditions. That industrial past is recorded at the Technical Museum Gesenkschmiede, housed in a former drop forge. Compact urban districts soon give way to wooded ridges and the hiking and winter-sport terrain around Oberhof. Explore nearby webcam locations that provide complementary perspectives on Zella-Mehlis and the Thuringian Forest.

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