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
Altstadtführung Klassisches Weimar
Classical Weimar old town walk
Ninety minutes on the decades that made the town's name, walked on a Friday evening or Saturday afternoon.
Fridays at 18:00 and Saturdays at 16:00, about ninety minutes
Fridays at 18:00 and Saturdays at 16:00, about ninety minutes
About Altstadtführung Klassisches Weimar
Ninety minutes narrowed to the classical decades — the years when Goethe, Schiller, Herder and Wieland were all working in the same small town — and to the places they worked in.
Narrower than the general walk
The big city circuit covers everything Weimar is known for. This one does the opposite: it takes a single period and stays inside it, which means fewer stops and more said at each. If you already know why the town matters, this is the walk that adds something; if you do not, take the general one first.
Two kilometres, and the addresses do the arguing
The market and the palace, the town church, the theatre square, both poets' houses, the Park an der Ilm with the garden house, the Platz der Demokratie with the Anna Amalia Library, and the Fürstenhaus. Walked in sequence, the distances make the point no book quite manages — these people were neighbours, and the whole of it fits in an afternoon's stroll.
Dates
Fridays at 18:00 and Saturdays at 16:00, about ninety minutes
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Fridays and Saturdays at 14:00, and Wednesdays too from 21 March to 1 November
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Großer Stadtrundgang
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Where
Organiser
Tourist-Information Weimar
Tickets
10 € per person, groups of up to twenty-five. Book online in advance or at the Tourist Information Weimar.
Facts checked against the organiser on 29 August 2026
Places and people
Historical figures
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749–1832 • writer • statesman • naturalist
Friedrich Schiller
1759–1805 • writer • poet • historian
Historic sites
Stadtschloss WeimarPalace
Burgplatz 4, 99423 Weimar
The residence the whole period is organised around.
Herderplatz, 99423 Weimar
Herder was the town's chief pastor here from 1776 to 1803 — the church is on the route and carries his name.
Frauenplan 1, 99423 Weimar
The Frauenplan house, on the route.
Duchess Anna Amalia LibraryLibrary
Platz der Demokratie 1, 99423 Weimar
The ducal library that carries the duchess's name, passed on the Platz der Demokratie.