This meadow is located in the village of Bischofroda in Thuringia, Germany. On the 1st of May 1920 the new state of Thuringia was proclaimed. Thus came an end to an eccentric patchwork of eight small principalities. When previously traveling through the Thuringian region, one never knew one’s whereabouts, for each country had numerous enclaves scattered in the area of its neighbour. Saxen-Meiningen for instance, with an average width of 15 km, contained 14 enclaves of other principalities, some of which were hardly distinguishable on the German map.