23Sep
Guided tour
Jüdisches Leben in Weimar
23 September 2026 · 10:30 Uhr
Two hours, on announced dates
Seven hundred years of Jewish Weimar, walked in two hours — the flourishing as well as the destruction.
Guided tourWeekly
Bauhaus-Spaziergang
Bauhaus walk
Students walk you through the buildings the Bauhaus actually worked in — starting in the courtyard where it was founded.
Fridays and Saturdays at 14:00, and Wednesdays too from 21 March to 1 November
Fridays and Saturdays at 14:00, and Wednesdays too from 21 March to 1 November
About Bauhaus-Spaziergang
The walk starts where the Bauhaus started, and the person leading it studies in the building — a student guide taking you through the school's own founding sites.
The courtyard it begins in
The main building of today's Bauhaus-Universität went up between 1904 and 1911 to Henry van de Velde's plans, as the studio building of the Grand-Ducal Saxon School of Fine Arts. Gropius opened the Bauhaus inside it in 1919 — so the school began in rooms designed a decade earlier by someone else, for a different idea of what an art school was.
Two lengths, and the longer one is a different walk
The short version runs about ninety minutes and stays on the campus. The long one, about two and a half hours, continues to the Haus Am Horn — the single piece of Bauhaus architecture ever completed in Weimar, built in 1923 as the school's prototype house to Georg Muche's design. If you only do one, the difference is between seeing where the Bauhaus taught and seeing what it built.
When it runs
Fridays and Saturdays at 14:00 all year, with Wednesdays added from 21 March to 1 November. The long walk runs only in that summer half — so if the Haus Am Horn is the reason you are going, you have to come between those dates. Book online in advance or at the Tourist Information.
Dates
Fridays and Saturdays at 14:00, and Wednesdays too from 21 March to 1 November
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Where
Meeting point: Bauhaus.Atelier, in the courtyard of the Bauhaus-Universität main building, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 6a.
Organiser
Tourist-Information Weimar
Tickets
Short walk 13 €, reduced 11 €; long walk 21 €, reduced 16 €. Book online in advance or at the Tourist Information Weimar.
Facts checked against the organiser on 29 August 2026
Places and people
Historical figures
Walter Gropius
1883–1969 • architect • founder and director of the Bauhaus • teacher
Founded the school here in 1919, in rooms someone else had designed.
Henry van de Velde
1863–1957 • architect • designer • founder of the Weimar arts and crafts school
Designed the buildings the Bauhaus inherited, a decade before it existed.
Historic sites
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 8, 99423 Weimar
The walk moves through the school's own buildings, and its guides study in them.
Bauhaus Museum WeimarMuseum
Stéphane-Hessel-Platz 1, 99423 Weimar
Holds the collection the walk describes; the buildings and the objects are best taken together.
Haus Am HornHouse
Am Horn 61, 99425 Weimar
The only building the Bauhaus finished in Weimar — the far point of the longer walk.