Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Weimar, Germany
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3.5 km
102 m
Explore Weimar in Germany with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Individual Sights in WeimarSight 1: Hauptfriedhof
The Klassik Stiftung Weimar is one of the largest and most significant cultural institutions in Germany. It owns more than 20 museums, palaces, historic houses and parks, as well as literary and art collections, a number of which are World Heritage Sites.
Wikipedia: Historical Cemetery, Weimar (EN), Heritage Website
Sight 2: Russisch Orthodoxe Kirche
The Russian Orthodox Chapel is a funerary chapel built in Weimar in 1860 for Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia. It was constructed in the Historical Cemetery behind the Weimarer Fürstengruft, to which it is connected by an underground passage. Maria Pavlovna's coffin is located in the passage, with her husband Charles Frederick's coffin placed directly beside it. A spiral staircase leads to another underground connection to the Fürstengruft, though this is now closed by a metal plate.
Sight 3: Fürstengruft
The Klassik Stiftung Weimar is one of the largest and most significant cultural institutions in Germany. It owns more than 20 museums, palaces, historic houses and parks, as well as literary and art collections, a number of which are World Heritage Sites.
Sight 4: Museum für Ur-und Frühgeschichte Thüringens
The Museum of Prehistory and Early History of Thuringia in Weimar combines a museum with a 1000 m² exhibition area and the Thuringian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and Archaeology under one roof, which is the sponsor of the museum. The address of the museum is: Humboldtstraße 11, 99423 Weimar. However, the entrance is in Amalienstraße.
Wikipedia: Museum für Ur- und Frühgeschichte Thüringens (DE), Website, Website
Sight 5: Christoph Martin Wieland
Christoph Martin Wieland was a German poet and writer. He is best-remembered for having written the first Bildungsroman, as well as the epic Oberon, which formed the basis for Carl Maria von Weber's opera of the same name. His thought was representative of the cosmopolitanism of the German Enlightenment, exemplified in his remark: "Only a true cosmopolitan can be a good citizen."
Sight 6: Goethe-National-Museum/Goethes Wohnhaus

The Goethe-Nationalmuseum is a museum devoted to the German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in the town of Weimar in Germany. Originally comprising the Goethe House, where Goethe lived intermittently for 50 years from 1782 to 1832, the museum was founded on 8 August 1885 as a result of the will of Goethe's last living heir, his grandson Walther von Goethe, who left the Goethe House to the state.
Sight 7: Fakultät Architektur und Urbanistik- Hauptgebäude
The Grand-Ducal Saxon Art School, Weimar was founded on 1 October 1860, in Weimar, Germany, by a decree of Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. It existed until 1910, when it merged with several other art schools to become the Großherzoglich Sächsische Hochschule für Bildende Kunst. It should not be confused with the Weimar Princely Free Drawing School, which existed from 1776 to 1930 and, after 1860, served as a preparatory school.
Wikipedia: Grand-Ducal Saxon Art School, Weimar (EN), Website, Heritage Website
Sight 8: Fakultät Kunst und Gestaltung - Van-De-Velde-Bau
The Grand Ducal Saxon School of Arts and Crafts Weimar was a private educational institution founded and financed on 1 April 1908 by Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Saxe-Weimar on the initiative of the Belgian architect Henry van de Velde (1863–1957), which existed in Weimar until 30 September 1915. It is not to be confused with the neighbouring former Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar. After the end of the First World War, her legacy was transferred to the State Bauhaus in Weimar in 1919. The associated building, the Kunstgewerbeschulebau, erected in 1906, has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site as a Bauhaus site since 1996.
Wikipedia: Kunstgewerbeschule Weimar (DE), Website, Heritage Website
Sight 9: Roman House
The Roman House is a building on the edge of the park on the Ilm in Weimar and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1998 as part of the "Classical Weimar" ensemble.
Sight 10: Ilmpark
The Park an der Ilm is a large Landschaftspark in Weimar, Thuringia. It was created in the 18th century, influenced by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and has not been changed much, preserving a park of the period. It forms part of the World Heritage Site "Classical Weimar along with other sites across Weimar bearing testimony to the city's historical importance as a cultural hub during the Weimar Classicism movement in the late 18th and 19th centuries".
Sight 11: Haus am Horn
The Haus am Horn is a domestic house in Weimar, Germany, designed by Georg Muche. It was built for the Bauhaus Werkschau exhibition which ran from July to September 1923. It was the first building based on Bauhaus design principles, which revolutionized 20th century architectural and aesthetic thinking and practice
Sight 12: Goethes Gartenhaus
Goethe's garden house in the park on the Ilm in Weimar was a home and workplace of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Since 1998, it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of the "Classical Weimar" ensemble. The Corona-Schröter-Weg runs past it. It stands at the foot of the Horn.
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