Weimar 

To some, Weimar is the cultural capital of Germany, for it is here that Germany's humanist traditions run strongest. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, J.S. Bach, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Johann Gottfried Herder, Franz Liszt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, and Vasili Kandinsky are among the luminaries who lived and worked in this town. The City Church of Saints Peter adn Paul which dated from 1500. THe church contains an altar piece by Lucas Cranach the Elder, which was finished by his son following the elder artist's death. Also see the Musikhochschule, a renowned music school founded by Franz Liszt in 1872. Continue on to the central market square to see the neo-gothic town hall, and the Theaterplatz, which boasts a magnificent statue of Goethe and Schiller. It is here that the National German Theater is located, perhaps best known as the place where Germany's Weimar constitution was drafted in 1919. The Goethe House is where this great German playwright lived from 1792 until his death in 1832. The Schiller House is where his most famous work was written, Wilhelm Tell.

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Weimar City Hall
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Weimar Castle
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Other side of Weimar Castle
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Weimar Post Office
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