Tourist attractions Weimar

Goethe lived in this Frauenplan Baroque house for more than twenty years, from 1809 to his death in 1832. The interior is for the most part the way he left it. The living rooms, workroom and library are all open to the public. An annex has been turne..

This residence was Goethe's favourite retreat. The great man lived here from 1776 to 1782. It was here that he drafted many manuscripts, including certain parts of Iphigenia .

Weimar is a city with plenty of parks and gardens. A green belt runs from Tiefurt to Belvedere, with, at its centre, the park laid out along the Ilm, just a stone's throw from the city centre. In designing this landscaped garden, Goethe's aim was not..

The writer moved here in 1802 to be nearer to his great friend Goethe. It was here that he wrote William Tell and The Bride of Messina . Part of the house has been converted into a museum.

Here, 500 years of the history of optics is traced through a major collection of optical instruments.

The planetarium, built beside the botanical garden by the Zeiss firm, takes spectators on a journey through outer space to explore star systems and the movement of the planets.

The present home of the German National Theatre was built in 1907 on the site of the 1779 Baroque edifice. It was in this old building that Schiller's great plays were first staged and directed by Goethe. It was here that, in 1850, the first perfor..

Selected objects here trace the evolution of artistic activity in Weimar between 1900 and 1930. The museum evokes the projects of the School of Decorative Arts. The main collection is based around Walter Gropius.

After the death of her husband the Grand Duchess Amalia moved to this Baroque palace with its two wings. It came to be known as The Widow's Palace. In it she organized her famous salons attended by such important figures as Goethe, Schiller, Wieland ..

The famous painter spent the last year of his life in this Renaissance house (1549) with scrolled gables. His studio was on the third floor.

This triple-nave Gothic hall-church was built in 1500 and much remodelled in the Baroque style between 1735 and 1745. The church is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul but is also known as Herder's church , in memory of the sermons preached here by ..

In November 1775 Goethe met Charlotte von Stein. The first six years of his stay in Weimar were profoundly influenced by his feelings for her. The house was remodelled in 1776 to his own design.

This neo-Classical castle houses a museum presenting the Weimar art collections. As well as an important Cranach collection , and works by Dürer and painters from the Italian and Flemish schools, the museum also houses drawings, coins and Thurin..

Democracy square holds the equestrian statue of the Grand Duke Carl August of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1757-1858). On the south side, the former palace (1757-74) is occupied by the Franz Liszt academy of music . The Green Castle (16C-18C) today house..

The former summer residence of the Duchess Amalia, Tiefurt Palace (Schloss Tiefurt) is surrounded by English-style gardens. Both the castle and gardens were frequently the scene of the literary gatherings Amalia loved, with visitors such as Goethe,..

In this one-time gardener's lodge at the entrance to the park we can see the rooms where the great composer lived during his second stay in Weimar, from 1869 to 1886.

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche spent the last three years of his life in this house. During his decline into madness and paralysis he was cared for by his sister Elisabeth. After his death, she instituted the Nietzsche Archives and in 1903 she..

Only a few miles from Weimar, cradle of Humanism, the Ettersberg forest concealed one of the largest concentration camps of the Hitler regime for eight years. Established in 1937 for the internment of political opponents, the camp was subsequently us..

The central focus of the historic cemetery is the burial place of the princely family , built in 1825-27 by C.W. Coudray. Behind this monument stands the Russian Orthodox Church , built between 1859 and 1862 for the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlova, dau..

This is one of the most delightful, and artistically successful castles in Thuringia. Comprising a large central block flanked by two low wings, the mansion is completed by four outbuildings and an orangery harbouring a collection of carriages and b..