2010 Winter Olympics. Saalfeld is a popular base for hikers taking on the mountainous 168 km Rennsteig ridge, one of Germany's best known hiking trails. The main sights of Saalfeld on OpenstreetMap. Twin towns – sister cities Saalfeld is twinned with: Kulmbach, Germany Samaipata, Bolivia Sokolov, Czech Republic Stains, France Zalewo, Poland Notable people Britta Bilac (born 1968), high jumper Hugo Eberlein (1887–1941), politician (SPD, USPD, KPD) Petra Felke (born 1959), track and field athlete, Olympic winner Karl Friedrich Geldner (1852–1929), professor of linguistic and noted Sanskrit scholar Wolfram Grandezka (born 1969), actor Jörg-Wolfgang Jahn (born 1936), violinist and music educator Johann Kirnberger (1721–1783), composer and royal music director, student of J. S. Bach Paul Oßwald (1905–1993), football manager Erasmus Reinhold (1511–1553), mathematician and the most influential astronomer Michael Schönheit (born in 1961), conductor and organist Heinrich Schulz (1893–1979), officer and political assassin Johann Semler (1725–1791), theologian and father of German rationalism Ror Wolf (1932–2020), artist, writer, and poet See also The Saalfeld Fairy Grottoes (die Feengrotten), a subterranean tourist site near Saalfeld Citations General and cited sources Port, Andrew I. (2007). Conflict and Stability in the German Democratic Republic. Cambridge University Press. External links Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen Saalfeld-Rudolstadt