![Meiningen The fountain Heinrichsbrunnen and the palace Elisabethenburg in Meiningen, Germany.](/sites/default/files/page/DE_TH_Meiningen.png)
Meiningen is a city in the Franconian part of Thuringia. From 1008 it belonged to the high diocese of Würzburg, later to the Henneberger Land. Under Duke Georg II of Saxony-Meiningen, the city flourished as a city of culture and theatre. The court orchestra and the Meiningen Court Theatre still exist today.