Fossils

Complete carcasses of early saurians, fossilised fish, tiny Branchiosaurs, palm-sized cephalopods, corals and plant fossils – the UNESCO Global Geopark Thuringia Inselsberg – Drei Gleichen offers fascinating insights into the history of life on earth from the Permian to the Lower Jurassic, a time span of more than 150 million years. Discover the fossils of the geopark in the GeoInformationcentres at the Marienglashöhle in Friedrichroda, in the Kulturscheune Mühlberg, in Ehrenstein Castle in Ohrdruf or in the local history parlour Frankenhain.