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 tourSeasonal
Unterwegs mit dem Weimarer Nachtwächter
Out with the Weimar night watchman
Ninety minutes through the old town after dark, on the round a night watchman would once have walked.
Fridays and Saturdays from 20:30, 21 March to 1 November
21 Mar– 1 Nov
Now on, until 1 November 2026
21 March – 1 November 2026 · freitags und samstags ab 20:30 Uhr
About Unterwegs mit dem Weimarer Nachtwächter
Ninety minutes through the old town after dark, following the shape of a round a night watchman would once have walked.
The costume is a device; the route is not
From the Neptune fountain on the market square the walk goes to the Frauenplan and Goethe's front door, down the Seifengasse past the house where Charlotte von Stein lived, on to the Anna Amalia Library, into the Park an der Ilm, up to the city palace and back to the Herderplatz. Every one of those is a stop on some daytime tour; the sequence is what makes this one different.
What the dark does to it
At half past eight in the evening these places are mostly empty, and the distances between them — which is to say how small the classical world actually was — become obvious in a way no map conveys. Goethe's door on the Frauenplan and Charlotte von Stein's in the Seifengasse are on the same short stretch of the route. You feel the scale of the thing by walking it, not by reading about it.
When it does not run
Only in the lighter half of the year, and not on the Onion Market weekend, when the streets belong to something a great deal louder. If you are in Weimar in winter this is one of the things you have to come back for.
Dates
- 21 March – 1 November 2026, freitags und samstags ab 20:30 Uhr
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Where
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Organiser
Tourist-Information Weimar
Tickets
17 € per person, reduced 12 €, free for children under 14. 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
The route passes his front door on the Frauenplan and Charlotte von Stein's in the Seifengasse in the same stretch — which is the walk's point about scale.
Historic sites
Duchess Anna Amalia LibraryLibrary
Platz der Demokratie 1, 99423 Weimar
A stop on the round, seen from outside and after hours.
Park an der IlmPark
Ilm Park, 99425 Weimar
The walk drops into the park before climbing back to the palace.
Herderplatz, 99423 Weimar
The Herderplatz, where the round ends.
Frauenplan 1, 99423 Weimar
The Frauenplan comes early on the route.