Jewish life in Weimar
Seven hundred years of Jewish Weimar, walked in two hours — the flourishing as well as the destruction.
In 9 days
23 September 2026 · 10:30 Uhr
Weimar's Jewish history runs to roughly seven centuries, and for most of that time it was not a footnote to the classical city but a part of it. This walk covers the whole arc: medieval settlement, expulsion and return, the nineteenth-century community that built and prospered here, and then the years in which a town that traded on Goethe and Schiller sat at the foot of the hill Buchenwald was built on. The route stays in the old town and on ground that is easy to walk, which is its own kind of argument — most of what it points at is not a memorial but an ordinary address. Two hours, on a handful of announced dates rather than a weekly clock.
21 March – 1 November 2026 · freitags und samstags ab 20:30 Uhr
Fridays and Saturdays from 20:30, 21 March to 1 November
Ninety minutes through the old town after dark, on the round a night watchman would once have walked.
Fridays at 18:00 and Saturdays at 16:00, about ninety minutes
Ninety minutes on the decades that made the town's name, walked on a Friday evening or Saturday afternoon.
Fridays and Saturdays at 14:00, and Wednesdays too from 21 March to 1 November
Students walk you through the buildings the Bauhaus actually worked in — starting in the courtyard where it was founded.
Daily at 10:00 and 14:00, about two hours
Two hours and two and a half kilometres covering most of what Weimar is known for, twice a day.
Meeting point: the Stadtschloss, in front of the Löwenportal on the Burgplatz.
Organiser
Tourist-Information Weimar
Tickets
15 € per person, reduced 8 €. Book online in advance or at the Tourist Information Weimar.
Facts checked against the organiser on 29 August 2026
Burgplatz 4, 99423 Weimar
The walk sets off from the Löwenportal on the Burgplatz.
Buchenwald, 99427 Weimar
The camp on the Ettersberg, in the memorial's own words before the gates of the city, is where this history arrives.