after German reunification, there were several Heiligenstadts in Germany. Initially the government declined to rename the town Heilbad Heiligenstadt because of a lack of evidence that it was a spa, but the town lodged an appeal and used the one and a half years before an official visit and the relative lack of oversight immediately after reunification to create spa facilities and integrate the word Heilbad into official usage. Permission for the renaming was then granted since the town was evidently a spa and using that name. Culture and sights Theatre Eichsfeld Kulturhaus Museums Theodor Storm Literary Museum Eichsfeld Heimatmuseum (local history collection) Heiligenstadt (Ost) Station Museum The Borderland Museum Eichsfeld is located a few miles outside the city of Heiligenstadt and deals with the inner-German border and the history of the GDR Buildings and monuments Mainz Schloss, seat of the administrator for Eichsfeld when it was a dominion of the Archbishopric of Mainz Klausmühle (1748 Fachwerk mill on the site of the birthplace of Tilman Riemenschneider) Einheitsdenkmal German Unity Monument in front of the town administration building, 2009 Churches and chapels St. Aegidius, also known as the Neustädter Kirche (new-town church): begun in the 13th century St. Mary's, also known as the Altstädter Kirche (old-town church), Liebfrauenkirche (Our Lady's) and Propsteikirche (abbey church): a 14th-century monastic foundation which replaced a 13th-century Romanesque building St. Anne's chapel, possibly built as an ossuary, facing the north portico of St. Mary's St. Martin's, also known as the Bergkirche (mountain church) Monastery of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer and St. Gerhard's church, also known as the Paterkloster St. Nicholas', also known as the Klausbergkirche Klöppelsklus Convent of the Sisters of Mary Magdalene Postel, with convent church and school church Cemeteries The Jewish cemetery in Ibergstraße was last used for burial in 1940. The deportation of six Jewish residents to Theresienstadt concentration camp in September 1942 put an end to a Jewish community in the town which was first mentioned in writing in 1212 and which had built a synagogue and their own school in the 19th century. The Soviet cemetery and monument in Dingelstädter Straße commemorate 70 Soviet prisoners of war and impressed workers who died in the town due to forced labour during World War II. Parks Heinrich Heine Kurpark (spa park) Regular events Heiligenstadt, like the rest of Eichsfeld, is traditionally Roman Catholic, so there are several annual religious