Sonneberg

Sonneberg is a town in Thuringia, Germany, which is the seat of the Sonneberg district.

Sonneberg is a city in the Franconian south of Thuringia. It is a medium-sized center and forms a geographically and economically coherent urban unit with the neighboring Upper Franconian twin town of Neustadt bei Coburg.

Sonneberg became known as the “world toy city” or the "workshop of santa clause" - which the German Toy Museum reminds us of today - and in specialist circles through the Sonneberg observatory founded in 1925. The Thuringian Slate Mountains border the city with the Franconian Forest in the east.