Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Eisenach, Germany

The Georgenkirche is the city and main church of Eisenach, centrally located in the southern area of the market. Martin Luther preached here during the Reformation, making it one of the oldest Protestant places of worship. Johann Sebastian Bach was baptized in it. It served as a court church for a time and was the episcopal church of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Thuringia until the merger of the Protestant church provinces of Saxony and Thuringia to form the Evangelical Church in Central Germany on 1 January 2009.

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Das Residenzschloss war ein Bauwerk in der Altstadt von Eisenach, das im 18. Jahrhundert zu weiten Teilen abgebrochen wurde. Die erhaltenen Teile sind heute als Alte Residenz und Residenzhaus bekannt und stehen unter Denkmalschutz. Das Schloss befand sich am Südrand des Eisenacher Marktes, unmittelbar südlich der Georgenkirche.

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The Georgsbrunnen – also known as the "Gülden-Manns-Brunnen" – is a running fountain built in 1549 in the Wartburg town of Eisenach in Thuringia and a monument to the city's history. It commemorates the city's patron saint Saint George and was also a symbol of the city's market jurisdiction in the late Middle Ages.

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The Eisenach City Palace is a castle on the north side of the market square of the city of Eisenach in Thuringia. It was the residence of the Dukes of Saxe-Eisenach and later a residence of the Grand Dukes of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Today, it houses offices of the city administration (cultural office), the Eisenach city archive and, since 1931, the Thuringian Museum.

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The Luther monument in Eisenach on Karlsplatz was inaugurated in 1895. The monument honours the reformer Martin Luther, who stayed at Wartburg Castle near Eisenach from 1521 to 1522. It was created by the sculptor Adolf von Donndorf.

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Bach monuments were erected in honour of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach, especially from the 19th century onwards and in German-speaking countries.

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The Bach House in Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany, is a museum dedicated to the composer Johann Sebastian Bach who was born in the city. On its 600 m2 it displays around 250 original exhibits, among them a Bach music autograph. The core of the building complex is a half-timbered house, ca. 550 years old, which was mistakenly identified as Bach's birth house in the middle of the 19th century. In 1905, the Leipzig-based Neue Bachgesellschaft acquired the building. In 1907, it was opened as the first Bach museum.

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The Golden Lion Memorial commemorates the founding congress of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) in Eisenach in 1869.

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The monument to the history of the German workers' movement at the Eisenach Party Congress Memorial 1869 – also known under the propagandistic working title Party – Power of the Class – is a monument in the city of Eisenach.

Wikipedia: Denkmal zur Geschichte der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung an der Gedenkstätte Eisenacher Parteitag 1869 (DE)

The Kartausgarten Eisenach is the oldest botanical garden in the Wartburg city of Eisenach and is now located in the listed villa area of the Südstadt.

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