Roman House (Weimar)

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Southwest view with antique portico
Hillside location from the east park view
Etching by Georg Melchior Kraus (1799)

The Roman House is a building on the edge of the park on the Ilm in Weimar and belongs since 1998 as part of the ensemble " Classical Weimar " for UNESCO - World Heritage Site .

It was built between 1791 and 1798 as a garden house for the then Duke Carl August and is an early classical building in Germany. Its reference to the Roman temple is characteristic . Goethe brought the idea back with him from his Italian trip . Due to its high location on the western longitudinal side of this landscape park, it allows a wide overview of the Ilm Valley, which extends north and south, at this point.

The Hamburg architect Johann August Arens provided the designs for the building . In the beginning, Goethe was in charge of construction. The interior designs came from the Dresden architect Christian Friedrich Schuricht . Johann Heinrich Meyer was also involved in the artistic design of the rooms . After Carl August's death in 1828, the summer house was rarely inhabited. From 1844 the house was left to the Hereditary Grand Duke Carl Alexander . A drawing by Friedrich Gilly from 1797/98 shows the passage from the south below the Roman house with the Doric columns, the fountain that Martin Gottlieb Klauer probably created. Klauer not only created the wall decorations outside, but also inside. The group of gables on the west gable, which he originally created based on a design by Heinrich Meyer , was replaced by Peter Kaufmann in 1819 .

The Roman House passed into the possession of the State of Thuringia in 1922 after the abdication of Hereditary Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst (Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach) in 1918 as a result of the lost First World War . In 1954, the NFG took over the house and had extensive renovation work carried out on the building. Today it is used as a museum open to the public and houses a permanent exhibition on the history of the Weimar Ilmpark.

literature

  • Andreas Beyer (Ed.): The Roman House in Weimar. Series of publications by the Goethe National Museum Weimar. Weimar Classic Foundation. Hanser Verlag, Munich / Vienna 2001, ISBN 978-3-446-19726-8 .

Web links

Commons : Römisches Haus (Weimar)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Susanne Müller-Wolff: A landscape garden in the Ilmpark: The history of the ducal garden in Weimar. Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2007, plate LXII ISBN 978-3-412-20057-2 .
  2. ↑ http://www.smb-digital.de/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=1503604
  3. ↑ https://www.klassik-stiftung.de/uploads/tx_lombkswmargcontent/roemisches_haus_dt.pdf
  4. ↑ https://download.e-bookshelf.de/download/0005/0118/10/LG-0005011810-0002695237.pdf

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 16 ″  N , 11 ° 20 ′ 8 ″  E