Weimar - A city of contrasts | Discover Germany

  • 12 years ago
Weimar is the former residential seat of the dukes of Saxe-Weimar, and owes its international reputation as home to poets and philosophers primarily to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller. Every year, 3.5 million tourists retrace their steps through this city in the state of Th?ringen.There's no other place that offers such an authentic impression of how Goethe and Schiller once lived. More: http://www.dw.de/dw/episode/0,,15821666,00.html