Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Weimar, Germany

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Christopher is located in the Tiefurt district of the city of Weimar in Thuringia. It belongs to the parish of Weimar in the Weimar church district of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany and is historically closely associated with Tiefurt Castle.

Wikipedia: St. Christophorus (Tiefurt) (DE), Website

Tiefurt House is a small stately home on the Ilm river in the Tiefurt quarter of Weimar, about 4 km east of the city centre. It was the summer residence of duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Because of its importance as a centre of culture during the Weimar Classicism movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the Tiefurt House was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1998 as part of the Classical Weimar site.

Wikipedia: Tiefurt House (EN), Heritage Website

The tea house or salon in the castle park of Tiefurt was built in 1805. Previously, a bark-clad pavilion stood in its place. It has a rectangular floor plan with two angular porches in front. The large light-flooded windows and the hipped roof, which is reminiscent of Chinese models of pagoda construction, are striking. The walls consist of a half-timbered structure with brick lining. The two steps are made of sandstone. The tea salon is reminiscent of the tea party around Duchess Anna Amalia.

Wikipedia: Teehaus im Schlosspark Tiefurt (DE)

The Herder Monument in the Tiefurt Palace Park near Weimar is a monument that is reminiscent of the Dessauerstein in the Park on the Ilm in its simplicity, which was made according to the design of Adam Friedrich Oeser from 1782 and which was provided with the words "FRANCISCO / DESSAVIAE PRINCIPI" in 1787. The monument only shows the name "Herder" on a stone tablet decorated with a butterfly, which is located on a pyramidal rock arrangement. The rock stands for steadfastness and endurance. The execution does not correspond to the original wishes of Duchess Anna Amalia, who wished to see dedicated Latin verses by the Archbishop of Taranto Giuseppe Capecce-Latro on the death of Herder on his grave (!) together with a translation in the "Neues Teutschen Merkur". For the translation, she chose the form of the elegy, which she wrote herself and which Christoph Martin Wieland corrected and commented on. This was published in 1804.

Wikipedia: Herderdenkmal (Tiefurt) (DE)

The Musent temple with a Kalliope by Martin Gottlieb Klauer on a square base in the middle was built in 1803 in the 21 hectare castle park at Weimar. The fact that Klauer says Kalliope and not Polyhymnia emerges from his Toreutik catalog. The polyhymnia also has a lyra here, but the Kalliope with the same posture as the one in Tiefurt, on the other hand. In addition to the tea house, it is one of the most important components of the Parkkarchitecture of Tiefur. However, he had already prompted Anna Amalia and built in 1784, which was supposed to commemorate the ancient tibur. Previously, the figure group Kaunos and Byblis, which was also created by Martin Gottlieb Klauer in 1780, was also here. This is a copy of this group after a cast from the Mannheim anti -navigation hall, which Anna Amalia ordered from Johann Heinrich Merck. This group of figures came to the Herzogin-Anna-Amalia library in 1807.

Wikipedia: Musentempel im Schlosspark Tiefurt (DE)