Theaterplatz

The Bauhaus Museum is the central visitor information point during the anniversary exhibition "The Bauhaus is coming" (1 April - 5 July 2009). An introductory film and an image panorama provide insights into the artistic and cultural history of the 1920s and the early Bauhaus years. Other exhibition venues for "The Bauhaus is coming" are the Goethe National Museum, the New Museum Weimar and the Schiller Museum. 
Open: 
Tuesday - Sunday 10am - 6pm

"The Bauhaus at the Kiosk - The New Line 1929-1943" 

Weimar Classics Foundation and Erfurt University

16 Aug - 8 Nov 2009 

Geschwister-Scholl-Strasse 7 (formerly Kunstschulstrasse)


The Henry van de Velde Building, one of the most influential art school buildings from the turn of the 20th century, is where the Bauhaus was founded in 1919. This legacy can still be seen in murals, reliefs and the reconstructed Gropius room. Today the building is used by the Bauhaus University and is open to the public. Guided tours are available as part of a Bauhaus walk .
 

Geschwister-Scholl-Strasse 8 (formerly Kunstschulstrasse)


This building was also designed by Henry van de Velde and later used by the Bauhaus. Today it is used by the Faculty of Design. The staircase has stunning, unusual lighting and three reconstructed wall paintings by Oskar Schlemmer. Closed for renovation until August 2009.

Am Horn 61


This model house, which was built in 1923 for the Bauhaus exhibition, was designed by Georg Muche. The only example of Bauhaus architecture in Weimar, it is now a UNESCO world heritage site. The original house can still be admired today as an illustration of the beginnings of modern, 20th century residential design.

Exhibitions in 2009
Ideas for a Bauhaus housing estate in Weimar
1 Apr - 5 Jul 2009
The Bauhaus artist Dörte Helm in Weimar
18 Jul - 30 Aug 2009
Open: Tuesday to Sunday, 10am - 6pm

Theaterplatz
The German National Theatre (the successor to Weimar's court theatre) is where the National Assembly was convened on 11 August 1919 for the signing of the Weimar Constitution, the basis for the first German republic. The plaque commemorating the National Assembly was designed by Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus, in 1922.

Historical Cemetery
Although Walter Gropius was one of the pioneers of Neues Bauen in the 1920s, regrettably none of his architectural designs were realised in Weimar. The town's only example of Gropius's architecture is the Monument to the March Dead (a replica) in the historical cemetery. The original monument was erected by the trade union in honour of workers who died during the Kapp putsch. The Nazis had Gropius's sculpture destroyed but in 1946 a near replica was created and erected in its place. 

Tempelherrenhaus (ruins) in the Park on the Ilm
In 1786 the glasshouse which originally stood here was converted into a "salon in the park" for the duke and his court. Later it was restyled as a neo-Gothic temple and a tower was added. This became the painting studio of the Bauhaus artist Johannes Itten. In February 1945 it was destroyed in a bombing raid on the town. All that remains today is a ruin in the park landscape.

Gelmeroda
This church was the favourite motif of the Bauhaus artist Lyonel Feininger during his time in Weimar. Of all the churches in Weimar's surroundings, this is the one he depicted most frequently, and he used these sketches again and again in later works. The church had been badly damaged but was rebuilt between 1979 and 1991. Peter Mittmann's light sculpture, which was put in place in 1999 when Weimar was European City of Culture, reflects Feininger's artistic impressions.

Taubacher Strasse 25, Oberweimar
The "Ilmschlösschen's" heyday was in the early 1920s when it was discovered by the Bauhaus teachers, who held impromptu parties and lantern evenings in the garden with music played by the Bauhaus band. Even when he visited Weimar in the 1980s, Paul Klee's son Felix recalled coming here with his father. Today guests can enjoy the restaurant's Thuringian cuisine.
 
Open:
Mon-Sat 5pm-midnight

Sun 11.30am-3pm 

Between Leibniz-Allee and Am Horn
This quarter across the Park on the Ilm is a homage to Weimar's planned but never realised Bauhaus housing estate. It arose from an opportunity to combine the historical Bauhaus project with a local disused barracks, its guiding principle being and continuing to be a more frugal use of energy, materials and space. The architectural designs are subject to relatively strict regulations. neues bauen am horn was an Expo 2000 project.