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  • Tourist information Weimar: Theaterplatz, get more information on Bauhaus Weimar and Goethe Weimar - s. right pictures Weimar of sights Weimar
  • Pictures Weimar: If you like to see more pictures of Weimar, click "PLAY" on right near pictures Weimar
  • Facts about Bauhaus Weimar: founded in 1919, in 1925 closure of Bauhaus Weimar and move to Dessau
  • Bauhaus Weimar - memorial of modern architecture, model house of Bauhaus Weimar Haus am Horn is situated at Am Horn 61, 99425 Weimar
  • Goethe Weimar history: in the Goethe House at Frauenplan in Weimar you get information on Goethe in Weimar (see pictures Weimar)
  • Bauhaus Weimar: there are ca. 4640 students, who study at the Bauhaus University Weimar
  • Goethe Weimar - Did you know? In 1782 Goethe got his title of nobility, Schiller was the same in 1802

Goethe in Weimar - World Heritage and classical Weimar

Because of the foundation of Bauhaus Weimar and working of Goethe in Weimar almost everything is under protection of UNESCO.
Since 1998 the "classical Weimar" has been on the World Heritage's list with 11 sites, because its famous role as intellectual center of Germany in the 18th century (e.g. Town's Castle, Wittumspalais, Anna-Amalia-Library, Belvedere Castle, house of Goethe in Weimar, Schiller House - s. pictures Weimar).

Goethe Weimar

Goethe Weimar: The names of Goethe, Weimar and Schiller are well connected. The famous Goethe in Weimar was in reality a little bit smaller than Schiller and as shown at the Goethe Schiller statue. Those both guys are on the most pictures of Weimar.

Weimar got a second UNESCO World Heritage „Bauhaus Weimar und Dessau“ thanks to Walter Gropius, who founded the Bauhaus Weimar in 1919, one of the most important art- and architecture schools of the 20th century. The Bauhaus Weimar aimed to connect all arts in ideal unity, with clearness, objectivity and advisability.
Famous artists such as L. Feininger, P. Klee und W. Kandinsky joined the Bauhaus Weimar movement. Under the pressure of the Nazis the Bauhaus Weimar was closed and moved to Dessau in 1925.

Bauhaus Weimar, Bauhaus Museum

Bauhaus Weimar: Here in the Bauhaus Museum Weimar you can find out things about the history of Bauhaus in Weimar. After the end of Bauhaus in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin the Bauhaus Movement went to Chicago (USA) and made it popular there.

Goethe Weimar - Weimar drew the most important people of that time and experienced a period of prosperity.
Cranach, Herder, Wieland, Schiller and lots more were here but the name Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is still on top of the list.
In 1775 Duke Carl August invited from Frankfurt the studied lawyer Goethe to Weimar, where Goethe assumed some political functions, e.g. leadership of war commission - Goethe in Weimar was prime minister in principle. But his tendencies were research, art and literature, which let him write world literature.

Did you know, that Goethe must have been a real heart-throb?
Starting with his youth love Gretchen, Charlotte von Stein, Marianne von Willemer, Charlotte Buff and some more - all loved him and influenced his works.
In 1805 only Christiane Vulpius got married with Goethe in Weimar and gave birth to five children, but only one of them survived infancy.

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Bauhaus Weimar & Goethe Weimar - discover the World Heritages of Weimar around Bauhaus Weimar and classic

    Goethe Weimar, Garden House

    Goethe Weimar: You can find the garden house of Goethe in Weimar in the romantic "Park on Ilm river", which was created by Goethe after his Italy trip. Here you find lots of motives for your romantic pictures of Weimar.

  • Goethe Weimar history: Visit the Goethe House and learn where Goethe in Weimar has been living and studiing for 47 years until he died there in 1832, aged 82. The original interior is still here including Goethe's manuscripts as well as his picture collection, nothing has been changed. Look right at the pictures Weimar.
  • Highlight Goethe Weimar: Already in Goethe's time the park at the river Ilm was a nice place to relax, whose design Goethe influenced himself. Inspired by his Italian travel he even let build an artificial ruin and the Roman House. The Goethe Garden House is the park's tourist magnet; you can visit the former favourite place of Goethe in Weimar as it is a museum today.
  • Bauhaus Weimar

    Bauhaus Weimar: Today you find only some parts of Bauhaus in Weimar but the spirit lives on. The first model of Bauhaus Weimar, "Haus am Horn 61, Weimar", you can see it at right in pictures Weimar.

  • World Heritage Bauhaus Weimar: Three sites belong to the World Heritage Bauhaus Weimar, the main building of former Kunsthochschule, nowadays Bauhaus University, the little Van de Velde House and Haus am Horn, which is the only model house of Bauhaus Weimar that can be found and visited in Weimar.
  • Closest friend of Goethe in Weimar was Friedrich Schiller - just nearby the Museum of Bauhaus Weimar, you find the Schiller House in the Schiller street No 12, which is original equipped. Here the famous poet lived with his wife and four children until he died in 1805, aged 45. - Look right at the pictures Weimar.
  • day trip Weimar, Wartburg castle

    Only 50 minutes away from World Heritage Bauhaus Weimar and the places of Goethe and Weimar, you find the next World Heritage "Wartburg Castle". Here Martin Luther translated the Bible into the words we know today.

  • Day trips Weimar: If you finally have enough pictures of Weimar and have seen everything, a day trip to Erfurt (15 min by car) would be a great idea. Or go further to Eisenach with the Wartburg Castle, which is less than one hour from the sights around Goethe, Weimar and Bauhaus Weimar away.

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Pictures Weimar: See at pictures of Weimar the 1st model of Bauhaus Weimar, the "Haus am Horn. - House at Horn"

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