Location: Weimar
Top Things to do in Weimar
The 9 Best Nature & Parks in Weimar, Thuringia
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. Spielplatz im Poseckschen Garten - detske ihrisko
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. 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.
4. 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.
5. Spielplatz Rollplatz
6. Herdergarten Weimar
7. 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.
8. Wielandgut Estate in Ossmannstedt
Christoph Martin Wieland was one of the most prominent writers of the Enlightenment. Between 1797 and 1803, he spent some of his most productive years at his country estate in Ossmannstedt about ten kilometres northeast of Weimar. The Baroque manor – now a museum with partially original interior furnishings – and the park where Wieland’s gravesite is located, provide an impression of the life and works of this famous poet, translator and publisher.
9. Beethoven Square
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