© Raimond Spekking · CC BY-SA 4.0château de WeimarWeimarWeimar’s Stadtschloss stands at the northern edge of the Ilm park in the centre of the town. A medieval moated castle first recorded in the 10th century, it became the ducal residence in the mid-16th century. After fires in 1424 and again in 1618, Italian architects rebuilt it in symmetrical Baroque form with three… lire la suiteVoir le lieu
© sailko · CC BY-SA 3.0Musterhaus Am HornWeimarThe Haus am Horn stands in Weimar, a quiet street of large villas built in the late 19th century. It is a single-storey cubic house with a flat roof, the first building to put Bauhaus design ideas into practice. Steel and concrete form its structure, while thick walls with a peat-based insulating layer keep the… lire la suiteVoir le lieu
© Mario Binar · CC BY-SA 3.0 dechâteau du BelvédèreWeimarSchloss Belvedere stands on the edge of Weimar in Thüringen. The Baroque palace was built between 1724 and 1732 as a pleasure-house for house-parties by Ernst August, Duke of Saxe-Weimar. Johann August Richter and Gottfried Heinrich Krohne designed the building, which has a central corps de logis flanked by… lire la suiteVoir le lieu
© DWRZ David Wen Riccardi-Zhu · CC BY 2.5Nietzsche-ArchivWeimarThe Nietzsche Archive stands in Weimar, a town in the German state of Thuringia. It occupies the Villa Silberblick, a villa built in the late 19th century. The archive was founded in 1894 by Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, the philosopher’s sister. She moved it to Weimar in 1897 and led it for decades. The archive once… lire la suiteVoir le lieu
© Steffen Schmitz (more photos) · CC BY-SA 4.0musée BauhausWeimarThe Bauhaus Museum Weimar stands in the heart of Weimar, a town in central Germany known for its cultural heritage. It is dedicated to the Bauhaus design movement and houses the historic collections of the State Bauhaus, founded in the town in 1919. The museum is managed by the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and is located… lire la suiteVoir le lieu
© · Public domainmonument aux morts de marsWeimarThe Monument to the March Dead stands in Weimar’s Central Cemetery. It was designed by Walter Gropius with Fred Forbát for workers killed in the 1920 Kapp Putsch. A competition organised by the Union Cartel and the Weimar Municipal Museum chose their entry in 1920. The memorial was built between 1920 and 1922 and… lire la suiteVoir le lieu
© Christian Bohr · CC BY-SA 3.0Goethe-NationalmuseumWeimarThe Goethe-Nationalmuseum stands in Weimar, Thuringia, on Frauenplan where Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lived for half a century. The core is his own house, built in the late 18th century and extended in 1935 to create the Goethe-Museum. The ensemble also includes 22 other historic houses and museums across Weimar… lire la suiteVoir le lieu
© Tsungam · CC BY-SA 4.0Schloss und Park EttersburgEttersburgSchloss Ettersburg stands on the Ettersberg, a forested hill north of Weimar in Thuringia. The palace began in 1706 as a three-wing hunting lodge for Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Saxe-Weimar. A larger New Palace was added in 1722, and his nephew Duke Ernest Augustus added an outside staircase between 1728 and 1740. The… lire la suiteVoir le lieu
© Andreas Trepte · CC BY-SA 2.5Schillerhaus WeimarWeimarSchillerhaus stands in the quiet Schillerstraße in Weimar, a town in Thüringen. The house was built in 1777 for a merchant and is the oldest building on the street. It once belonged to a mint where coins were struck. The street itself was laid out after the old town walls came down in the 18th century. In 1802 the… lire la suiteVoir le lieu
© Most Curious · CC BY-SA 3.0Liszt-Haus WeimarWeimarThe Liszt-Haus in Weimar stands on Marienstraße 17, beside the Ilm Park. It was built in 1798–99 as the residence and office of the court gardener. The architect Johann Friedrich Rudolf Steiner designed the building. In 1819 the upper storey was remodelled in the classical style by Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray and Carl… lire la suiteVoir le lieu
