Crawinkel

Crawinkel
Market square
Coat of arms
Crawinkel
Location of Crawinkel within Gotha district
Coordinates: 50°47′0″N 10°47′0″E / 50.78333°N 10.78333°E / 50.78333; 10.78333Coordinates: 50°47′0″N 10°47′0″E / 50.78333°N 10.78333°E / 50.78333; 10.78333
Country	Germany
State	Thuringia
District	Gotha
Government
• Mayor	Stefan Schambach
Area
• Total	25.27 km2 (9.76 sq mi)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	1,490
• Density	59/km2 (150/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	99330
Dialling codes	03624
Vehicle registration	GTH
Website	www.crawinkel.de

Crawinkel is a municipality in the eastern part of Germany in the district of Gotha, Thuringia. Crawinkel was first mentioned in 1088.

After the Armistice with France in 1940, during World War II, German forces took numerous memorials from the forest of Compiègne, where the Armistice with Germany that ended World War I was also signed, as prizes to Crawinkel. These included the actual railway carriage where both armistices were concluded. In 1945, the car was dynamited and its pieces buried. Since the German reunification in 1989, numerous artifacts have been recovered and returned to France.