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Domplatz, Erfurt, DE 2009
View from Petersberg citadel
Keep your eyes peeled, you'll usually see one
MuralsTown of Famous Individualists
Martin Luther
In 1505 he graduated with a Masters from the university's faculty of philosophy. It is said that a violent storm close to Erfurt that same year prompted him to become a monk at the Augustinian Monastery in gratitude for his survival. Martin Luther stayed in Erfurt until 1511 and was ordained as a priest in the cathedral. It is more than 500 years since Luther was a student at the collegium maius, the old Erfurt university's main building, which is now being restored. On 10 November every year, Erfurt celebrates Martin Luther's birthday and remembers St. Martin with the St. Martin's Festival on Domplatz. "
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach in 1685.The Thuringian Bach Festival, held annually in March and April, bears eloquent witness to this unparalleled musical legacy. Musical life in Erfurt is greatly indebted to the Bachs, various members of Johann Sebastian's family, who were engaged as organists and town musicians. On the Bach trail: Merchants' Bridge, Fischmarkt, Kürschnergasse or Junkersand.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Erfurt is close to Weimar and it is not difficult to find traces of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the great man of letters, here too. A number of buildings in Erfurt have Goethe inscriptions, for example. Goethe often travelled to Erfurt, both on business and privately, and he liked the city so much that he called it Thuringia's Rome.
Adam Ries
Adam Ries, a well-known German mathematician, worked in Erfurt from 1518 to 1522/23. He lived in Drachengasse, just a few metres from the collegium maius, Erfurt university's main building. Academically, Adam Ries' Erfurt years were the most fruitful of his life.
Christian Reichart
was born on 4 July 1685 in Erfurt His work, which quickly lifted horticulture in Erfurt to new and greater heights, contributed to the city developing a reputation in Europe for its flowers and horticulture. ---> ega Erfurt
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