| 1 | Erik Niedling was born in 1973 in Erfurt, Thuringia. He now lives and works in Berlin. | |
| 2 | Agriculture figures highly into the diet of Thuringia with about half of the state being used for agriculture. | |
| 3 | A man skiis after heavy snowfall in theThuringian Forest in Oberhof, Germany, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010. | |
| 4 | One-third of Thuringia is covered in forest, and is considered to be one of the best game hunting regions in Germany. | |
| 5 | This summer, the photographer Mark Simon and I spent a three-day weekend cycling a 100-mile section of the route in the German states of Hesse and Thuringia. |