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The longer reads: a theme followed across the town — the architecture of a quarter, a tradition, a walk — with the places and people it touches linked from the text.

A Jugendstil house front in Weimar: pale yellow façade, a bay with a peacock spreading its tail in relief above the window, moulded plant ornament over the arched loggia, a balcony with flowers, red-tiled roof with dormers

The Jugendstil villas of Weimar

Weimar's Jugendstil is a style of houses: the villa streets west and south of the old town, built between the 1890s and 1914, with Rudolf Zapfe's façades and Henry van de Velde's own buildings.

Published: 2026-08-30