Hermsdorf is a town in the Saale-Holzland district of the state of Thuringia in eastern Germany. It is especially known for the motorway junction "Hermsdorfer Kreuz" where the two German autobahns A 4 (Frankfurt - Dresden) and A 9 (Berlin - Munich) meet.Hermsdorf-Klosterlausnitz station is on the Weimar–Gera railway.Personalities Petra Lux (born 1956), Civil rights activist and Taichi teacher