Gehren is a town and a former independent municipality in the

Ilm-Kreis Ilm-Kreis is a district in Thuringia, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the city of Erfurt Erfurt () is the capital (political), capital and largest city of the Central Germany (cultural area), Central German state of Th ...

district, in

Thuringia Thuringia (; officially the Free State of Thuringia, ) is one of Germany, Germany's 16 States of Germany, states. With 2.1 million people, it is 12th-largest by population, and with 16,171 square kilometers, it is 11th-largest in area. Er ...

, Germany. It is situated 7 km southeast of

Ilmenau Ilmenau () is a town in Thuringia, central Germany. It is the largest town within the Ilm district with a population of 38,600, while the district capital is Arnstadt. Ilmenau is located approximately south of Erfurt and north of Nuremberg w ...

. It officially became a town in its own right ('Stadt') in 1855. However, since July 2018, it has been part of the town of

. Between 1881 and 1998, Gehren was linked to Ilmenau by a railway. The castle of Gehren burned down in 1936. Until 1920, Gehren was the capital of the ''Amt Gehren'' in the state of

Schwarzburg-Sondershausen Schwarzburg-Sondershausen was a small principality in Germany, in the present day state of Thuringia, with its capital at Sondershausen. History Schwarzburg-Sondershausen was a county (earldom) until 1697. In that year, it became a principal ...

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Ilm-Kreis Former municipalities in Thuringia {{IlmKreis-geo-stub