Weimar Things to Do

Some of the buildings date back to the 16th century. All buildings on the north side were destroyed on February 9, 1945, when the market square was hit in an Allied bombing raid.
The white building on right side is the Municipal Building, was used first as a town hall and trade centre. In World War Tow it was badly destroyed by Allied air raids and was rebuilt in 1970/71. Today it houses the "Tourist Information Centre" and a restaurant.

In the German National Theatre Goethe directed for 26 years. Masterpieces like This "Egmont", "Maria Stuart", "Die Braut von Messina", "Wilhelm Tell", "Wallenstein" and "Tasso" had their premieres here. The building itself has been destroyed and rebuilt several times. This is now the fourth theatre, built in 1948.
The Goethe and Schiller Memorial in front of the theatre is the symbol for Weimar as the city of culture.

Friedrich Justin Bertuch (1747-1822), a writer and businessman built this house in Neo-classical style between 1780 and 1802. Today this house hosts the City Museum.

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We were taken to the Schiller Museum and spent several hours there seeing the great number of exhibits about the poet's life and creative ativities.

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The beautiful building on the Market Square this is the house, where lived from year 1552 until his death on 16 October 1553 the great German painter Lucas Cranach.

This palast was the residence of the Duchess Anna Amalia after the fire in the town palace and it was used as a guest-house and meeting place by the Masonic Lodge.