Crawinkel

Crawinkel (German pronunciation: [ˈkʁaːvɪŋkl̩]) is a village and a former municipality in the district of Gotha, Thuringia, Germany. Since 1 January 2019, it is part of the town Ohrdruf. Crawinkel was first mentioned in 1088.

Crawinkel
Ortsteil of Ohrdruf
Market square
Coat of arms
Location of Crawinkel
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Coordinates: 50°47′N 10°47′E
Country	Germany
State	Thuringia
District	Gotha
Town	Ohrdruf
Area
• Total	25.23 km2 (9.74 sq mi)
Elevation	469 m (1,539 ft)
Population  (2017-12-31)
• Total	1,446
• Density	57.31/km2 (148.4/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	99330
Dialling codes	03624
Website	www.crawinkel.de

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 carriage where both armistices were concluded.^[1] 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.

The Crawinkel concentration camp, a satellite camp attached to the Ohrdruf subcamp of Buchenwald, was opened in 1944. 30,000 inmates worked on railway tunnels and in a quarry.^[2]