Bad Tennstedt

Bad Tennstedt is a town in the Unstrut-Hainich district, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated 27 km east of Mühlhausen, and 24 km northwest of Erfurt.The Romantic poet Novalis worked here from 1794 until 1796. During his stay he met Sophie von Kühn, his later fiancee.PersonalitySons and daughters of the town Christoph Schmidt, merchant and alderman, grandfather of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock Johann August Ernesti, educator, scholar and theologianThose associated with Tennstedt Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), stayed for curative treatments in 1816 Tennstedt, from this now reminds the 'Goethe House' ' Friedrich von Hardenberg (pseudonym 'Novalis'', 1772-1801), was from 1794 to 1796 employed in Tennstedt in Saxon Management Service Warren William (1894-1948), American film star of the 1930s with ancestors from Tennstedt