Location: Weimar
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Weimar was quite the intellectual hotspot back in the day, with Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Bach, Liszt, Lucas Cranach and the Weimar School all spending time here. Goethe groupies will enjoy visiting his home, his tomb and the museum dedicated to him. If you’re in search of great food, visit during the Weimar Onion Market, held in October. (Just don’t forget your mints.)
Restaurants in Weimar
1. Stadtfuhrungen Weimar - Goethe bis Bauhaus
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5.0 based on 48 reviews
Weimar is a place of art and culture and, unlike any other city in Germany, reflects the ups and downs of the nation. The Classics, the Bauhaus and the Weimar Republic on the one hand, the Third Reich and Buchenwald on the other. I would like to explore this place together with you in an English guided city tour.
2. Park an der Ilm
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4.5 based on 536 reviews
The 48-hectare Park on the Ilm is a marvellously landscaped garden situated on the edge of Weimar’s historic downtown. It was here that Duke Carl August and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe made their gardening ideas a reality. They created a walkable work of art with diverse views of the landscape, park structures and numerous places to sit down and contemplate. Today, the Park on the Ilm continues to offer visitors a place to relax, learn and enjoy nature’s beauty.
Reviewed By inemarien - Brussels, Belgium
A walk in this beautiful park should be part of any visit to Weimar. Large lwns, beatiful trees and the lovely river Ilm. Invites to reading Goethe or Schiller and thus complete the visits of their homes. Certainly visit Goethes Gartenhaus: it gives good insights in his first years in Weimar.
3. Markt
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4.0 based on 254 reviews
The city's old cobblestone outdoor marketplace.
Reviewed By 419rolandk - Potsdam, Germany
Market place with historical town house, Hotel zum Elephant, Restaurant zum Schwarzen Bären and daily fresh market and imbiss for Thüringer Rostbratwürste.
4. Theaterplatz
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4.0 based on 73 reviews
This historic theater was the local stage where both Goethe and Schiller directed their performances.
Reviewed By 476jael - Long Island, United States
During our stay in Leipzig, we had a day excursion to Weimar by train. Theaterplatz was a pleasant and vibrant square with proud history. The square was dominated by the famous twin institution “Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar and Staatskapelle Weimar”, simply called National Theater. Impressive Goethe-Shiller Monument was in front of the theater. Goethe was the most famous Director of the theater. Later on, Franz Liszt and Richard Staruss became its well known music directors. In the case of Liszt, he presented his Faust Symphony at this theater. He also premiered his friend Richard Wagner’s Opera Lohengrin at this theater by conducting the opera himself. Since we had visited Eisenach, Leipzig, and Dresden before coming to Weimar during our current travel, the history of this theater became more appealing to us. Eisenach’s Wartburg Castle was the backdrop of Wagner’s Opera Tannhauser, Leipzig’s Auerbach Keller was the place where Goethe’s Faust first met Mephisto, and Dresden was where Wagner composed his Opera Lohengrin. Besides the National Theater and the Goethe-Schiller Monument, the surrounding buildings of the square were beautiful. This square was the center of the Weimar’s cultural landmarks. From here we could walk to Schiller House, Goethe House & Goethe Square, Franz Liszt Music Academy, to name a few. Weimar and Theaterplatz area had too many cultural landmarks to visit during one-day excursion. We will be back again.
5. Goethes Gartenhaus
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4.0 based on 236 reviews
This former vineyard house in the Park on the Ilm was Goethe’s first residence in Weimar in 1776. This is where he wrote the ballad of the “Erlkönig” and the poem “To the Moon”. The cottage, furnished with original pieces of furniture such as the high desk and sitting trestle, was an important retreat for Goethe in his later years.
Reviewed By simonrA6064FX
Set by the river Ilm in a beautiful park in Weimar, this simple house and garden personally landscaped by Goethe coneys so much of his philosophy and thinking. There are a few simple rooms to view and some poignant drawings by the author on its walls. This was Goethe’s first ever home as a young man and although later in life he lived in a more elaborate town house with is family, he always kept his “ garden house ‘ as his retreat and studio. The list of the important personages of his age who sought him out here is impressive.
6. Schloss und Park Tiefurt
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4.0 based on 39 reviews
The 21-hectare park surrounding Tiefurt Mansion extends along both sides of the Ilm River. The sweeping meadows with beautiful clusters of shade trees gently descend to the edge of the water. On the opposite side of the Ilm, a densely wooded slope rises steeply to a high plateau from which one can get a good view of the surrounding landscape and park grounds.
7. Weimar Haus
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4.0 based on 140 reviews
Multimediales Geschichtserlebnis: Zeitreise durch Thüringens und Weimars Geschichte von der Frühzeit bis zur Weimarer Klassik. Zum Weimar Haus gehört ein origineller Geschenkeladen.
8. Park Cave
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3.5 based on 14 reviews
The Park Cave consists of a system of tunnels beneath the Park on the Ilm which were originally excavated at the end of the 18th century for use as a beer brewery. Today the tunnels located twelve metres underground shed light on 200,000 years of geological and human history. A presentation room is available for events of all kinds.
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