Weimar town house
The town house in Weimar is a green and white Renaissance building from the 15th century on the east side of the market square (corner building facing the Green Market).
Landgrave Friedrich the simple-minded left the building to the city in 1432 and has remained in the hands of the city ever since. At that time it was a town house with a taproom in the basement. From 1526 to 1547 it was used as a council and trading house. On the first floor there were stalls for bakers, butchers and shoemakers. In Goethe's time it was converted into a “town house” and masked balls, concerts and lectures were held here. Important men like Franz Liszt , Hoffmann von Fallersleben , Hector Berlioz and Ernst Rietschel were guests here.
A closed tracery made of decorative stone carvings (geometric patterns) can be seen on the windows and walls of the Renaissance gable . During the Second World War it was completely destroyed by a bomb attack on February 9, 1945 , and the ruins were torn down in 1956. During the reconstruction in 1968–1971, the historic facade was restored, but the interior was modernized. An underground corridor led to the Weimar Town Hall opposite and can still be seen from the Ratskeller today.
Today the building houses a restaurant (the " Ratskeller "), a tourist information office , a travel agency and several apartments.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ "RATSKELLER WEIMAR". Retrieved January 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Buildings. (No longer available online.) Weimar.de, archived from the original on February 2, 2017 ; accessed on January 24, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 46 ″ N , 11 ° 19 ′ 50 ″ E