Come I'll show you Weimar .....

Hi, after I have already introduced you in my youtube channel a few other cities, I would like to introduce you to my hometown Weimar today. This little town in the heart of Germany has approximately 65 000 inhabitants. So it's not a big city, but the genius of the people living here in the past makes it world famous. Come along and let me show you my beautiful hometown. Weimar is world famous for its cultural heritage. In 1999 it was the cultural capital of Europe. This is also where a large part of my biography Lost Boy in the City of Culture is set. The cultural heritage not only includes names like Wieland, List, Goethe, Schiller, Herder, but also the Bauhaus and other cultural treasures. Among these are Lukas Kranach, Johann Sebastian Bach, Richard Strauss, Friedrich Nietzsche and the Kunsthochschule Weimar. Other than the already mentioned academies, there are also the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt and the Anna Amalia library. This museum was one of the first in Germany and was built in 1869. Since 2019 it is a part of the museum quarter called Weimarer Moderne. Since the 15th century Weimar was the capital of the Grand Duchy and seat of the Grand Duke of Saxony Weimar Eisenach. It was also the first city in Germany that gave itself a constitution. Between 1920 and 1952 it was the capital of the state Thuringia. Here the bronze statue Great Spirit No. 4 takes a bow. This is the entrance to the Baroque Jakobschurch. Here Johann Wolfgang von Goethe got married. In the adjacent graveyard Lukas Kranach and Friedrich Schiller are buried. The oldest written records about Weimar are from 899. The town's name means holy pond. The Duchess Anna Amalia and her son Duke Carl August attracted many of the already mentioned great minds of the time and gave them creative freedom at their court. This is the Weimar hall with its park in the town center. Normally this place would be full of the rich and beautiful but Hollywood needed them for a film. The Goethe society is active worldwide and has more than 7 000 members. Next to this park we find the new Bauhaus museum. A bit further in the town center there is the Seattle square with the old Bauhaus museum and the national theater Weimar. Before that you see the Goethe and Schiller monument. In this theater the Weimarer Republik was founded. Many tourists come to the many museums, galleries and other cultural highlights here. This is the Wittemspalais where Duchess Anna Amalia spent her last years. What are you doing here? We collect signatures for a petition to the United Nations. We are campaigning against people in China being that practice Falun Dafa being killed for their organs. That's very good. Thank you for your effort. In the Schiller street we very surprisingly find the Schiller house. Back then Schiller had to take a massive loan to pay for this place. Today the Schiller museum can be found here. Every year in October the Zwiebelmarkt or so-called onion market, a huge fair with music, drinks and a market, takes place not only on this street but spans the entire town center. Up to 350 000 people come every year just for this weekend to celebrate. This humble place is where Goethe used to live. He lived there for 50 years until he died in 1832. This is the Goethe fountain. Every year at the prince of Poets birthday people celebrate the wine festival in front of his house. This is the sunken giant. I'm standing in front of market number 15 right now. Its facade looks lovely again but the inside was not very nice to look at for me. In here the Stasi, the secret police of communist East Germany used to interrogate me. So for me this is not a beautiful place at all. Another not beautiful place at all is the concentration camp Buchenwald. Until 1945 56 000 people were busily murdered there. Even after 1945 the communists tortured and killed there. In 2004 a fire destroyed 50 000 historic books in the Anna Amalia library. But it's rebuilt now and very much worth a visit. This is the music academy Franz Liszt. Since medieval times there has been a castle, the Residenzschloss. The gallery there displays paintings from the 15th until the 19th century. Weimar's oldest coffee house the Café Resi is right next to it. Back in the days the soldiers of the castle got warm beer there when it was below 10 degrees celsius. These are the townhouse and the Kranachhaus. The Hotel Elephant is the luxury hotel with the restaurant Elephant Cellar. This is the town hall built in 1841. Next to it is the so-called Neptune fountain. This is the herder church. During the peaceful revolution in 1989 it was a gathering place for the opposition. In spring 1989 the pastor of this church invited everyone to open talks after the rigged election. This was the starting point for mass demonstrations that demanded democracy and the opening of the Stasi archives. Here you can see more of the lovely town center. This catholic church is lovely to look at. Opposite you can get the best cake in town. The origins of the Bauhaus date back to 1860. Today 4,000 students study at the Bauhaus university. This is the music school Johann Nepomuk Hummel. About seven percent of the people living in Weimar are university students. The Hansa Haus at the Wieland square is a typical art nouveau house. At the north end of the square one can find the statue of the poet Christoph Martin Wieland. This is the Gleitschenke also called the house of the black beer. A bit further down the road is the restaurant Scharfe Ecke or hot corner. Here they serve very good Thuringian food. Usually you need a reservation to get a table. This is the Listhaus where the composer lived until his death in 1886. Weimar is a very green city with lots of parks. Here you see the huge Park an der Ilm. At the end of our tour through the town of the poets and thinkers we see Goethe's garden house. I hope you liked our little tour through my wonderful hometown. Have a good time and see you.