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Coburg, also spelled Koburg, city, northern Bavaria

Land (state), central Germany. It lies on the Itz River, in thefoothills of the Thuringian Forest, some 80 miles (130 km) west ofthe Czech border. Coburg was an imperial possession in the 10thcentury, and it was first mentioned in a document of 1056. The counts of Henneberg
inherited the city in 1248, and it was chartered in 1331. From 1353 to 1918 it belonged to the margraves of Meissen, members of the Wettin family, who, after 1826, took the title of dukes of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha; their line has supplied Europe with many of its crowned heads. Coburg was of considerable importance in the 15th and 16th centuries, largely because of its strongly fortified Veste, or castle, situated on a busy trade route. Martin Luther resided there in 1530, and during the 17th century the castle successfully withstood several sieges in the Thirty Years’ War.