{"id":15347,"date":"2019-12-16T05:50:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T03:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/?p=15347"},"modified":"2021-12-14T12:11:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T10:11:44","slug":"middle-of-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/germany\/thuringia\/middle-of-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is the middle of Germany?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
To be honest, that is a question I never had until I visited the World Heritage region Wartburg-Hainich. I had heard of places like the Greenwich meridian or of traditions that come with crossing the equator or the arctic circle. Do they do something like that in the middle of Germany, too?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
My research showed that there are different methods to calculate the geographic centre and all of them result in a different place. I am not going to explain exactly how it is done, it is just too much math. It is surprising, though, which formula brings out which spot as the exact centre. <\/p>\n\n\n\n