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GPS Coordinates

1 -- City Hall Weimar, Marktplatz
Decimal Lat: 50.9793393 / Lon: 11.3293712
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2 -- National Goethe Museum and Goethe House
Decimal Lat: 50.977653 / Lon: 11.328590
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3 -- Schiller Museum
Decimal Lat: 50.978826 / Lon: 11.327448
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4 -- Bauhaus Museum
Decimal Lat: 50.979988 / Lon: 11.325853
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5 -- Buchenwald Concentration Camp & Memorial
Decimal Lat: 51.0193202 / Lon: 11.247787
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6 -- Duchess Anna Amalia Library
Decimal Lat: 50.978519 / Lon: 11.3319670
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7 -- Weimar Town Museum
Decimal Lat: 50.9831059 / Lon: 11.325645
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8 -- Horn House
Decimal Lat: 50.9735490 / Lon: 11.3390580
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'Must-see', top attractions

• UNESCO World Heritage 'Bauhaus Sites' & UNESCO World Heritage 'Classical Weimar'
• National Goethe Museum and Goethe House
  Typical Classical Weimar. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lived in this baroque home from ca. 1782 - 1832.
  Address: Goethes Wohnhaus, Frauenplan 1, 99423 Weimar
• Schiller Museum
  Address: Schillerstraße 12 (entrance Neugasse), 99423 Weimar
• Bauhaus Museum
  Address: Am Theaterplatz, 99423 Weimar
• Buchenwald Memorial
  The Buchenwald Memorial is located approximately ten kilometres north of the Weimar city centre. Bus line 6 goes from Goetheplatz or the main train station to Buchenwald (take direction Buchenwald not Ettersburg).
  Address: Buchenwald 1-2, Weimar
• Duchess Anna Amalia Library
  Anna Amalia had the ‘Green Palace’ turned into a library comprising a unique combination of books, an art collection and architecture.
  Address: Platz der Demokratie 1, 99423 Weimar
• Am Horn House
  This model house by Georg Muche is the only example of Bauhaus architecture in Weimar and was built in connection with the first major Bauhaus exhibition in 1923.
  Address: Am Horn 61, Weimar
• Weimar Town Museum
  Weimar Town Museum is located in the Bertuch House and shows the history of Weimar in the time from 1919.
  Address: Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 5-9, Weimar

Many of the major attractions in Weimar are connected to the Bauhaus era and the Classical Weimar period. The official website for Classical Weimar is the 'Klassik Stiftung Weimar' and you can find the web addresses of the Weimar attractions below.

Wartburg Castle is an attraction closeby to Weimar, just 50 min drive in western direction.
'Near' Weimar attractions

Guided Tours

...can be booked at the official Tourist-Information Center Weimar located at Markt 10 or at the Welcome center at Weimar Atrium, Friedenstraße.
See also: Weimar, Germany, Visitor Info & Getting Around

Further attractions

• German National Theatre (town center)
  Formerly the Weimar Court Theatre where Goethe was the director. The neoclassical structure was completed in 1908.
• Duke's Palace (town center)
• Town Hall (town center / market square)
• Cranach House (town center)
  Cranach House bears witness to the early Renaissance period.
• Town House (town center)
  The Renaissance-style building was destroyed during World War II and restored with a modern interior between 1968–71. However, the historical façade restored according to its original appearance.
• House of Charlotte von Stein (town center near Park on the river Ilm)
  The friend and close confidante of Goethe, Charlotte von Stein lived here for 50 years until her death in 1827.
• Royal Stables (town center / town castle)
  The building complex was designed by Ferdinand von Streichhan in neo-Renaissance style.
• Bauhaus University (town center)
  Designed by Henry van de Velde, this is one of the most important art school buildings from the turn of the century and is the place where the Bauhaus was founded in 1919.
• Goethe-Schiller Archives (near town center)
  Modelled on the Petit Trianon in the Park of Versailles, Grand Duchess Sophie had the oldest literatur archive in Germany built to preserve handwritten manuscripts by Goethe and Schiller.
• School of Arts and Crafts (Geschwister-Scholl-Strasse, Weimar)
• Franz Liszt School of Music (Platz der Demokratie 2 + 3, Weimar)
  See also Franz Liszt in Weimar

Official web sites of Weimar attractions, sights, must-see's

Web Addresses: Weimar attractions

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