City in Germany
5 things to see
Weimar is a compact cultural powerhouse where Goethe and Schiller lived and the Bauhaus movement started. The parks, squares, and historic streets are all free to explore, and the riverside Park an der Ilm with Goethe’s garden house is a free walk in its own right. A combined day ticket covers most of the city’s museums, which spreads the cost of seeing several in one go. Weimar sits close to Erfurt and within easy train reach of Leipzig, both cheaper bases for the wider region.
What to see
What each one costs, where the cost is known.
Opened in 2019, this museum traces the Bauhaus movement from its 1919 founding in Weimar through original furniture, typography, and design objects. Entry costs a moderate fee, but the collection is the oldest Bauhaus archive in existence and rewards design-minded visitors.
The Buchenwald Memorial is the former concentration camp on the Ettersberg hill above Weimar, where over 56,000 people were murdered between 1937 and 1945. Free.
Goethe lived and worked in this Baroque townhouse for nearly 50 years. Entry costs a modest fee, but seeing the original study where Faust was written and the preserved living quarters makes it one of the most rewarding cultural visits in Germany.
The Park an der Ilm is a UNESCO-listed English landscape garden along the Ilm River, designed partly by Goethe himself. Free.
Weimar is a small city that punches above its weight in cultural history: Goethe, Schiller, Bach, Liszt, Cranach, Nietzsche, the Bauhaus school, and the Weimar Republic all have roots here. The old town is UNESCO-listed and free to walk.
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