Tiefurt House, Ducal residence in Tiefurt, Germany
Tiefurt House is a small country residence on the banks of the Ilm River, a few miles (about 4 km) east of Weimar's center. The building has a main section with several rooms and a connected service wing, set within a landscape garden that follows the natural course of the river.
The building was originally constructed in the late 1500s as a tenant farmhouse for a ducal estate, then substantially reworked around 1765. Duchess Anna Amalia later used it as a summer retreat, which drew writers and thinkers from the Weimar court to gather here regularly.
Poets and artists gathered here during the late 1700s to discuss their work and share ideas in an informal setting. The rooms show how this intellectual circle spent their free time away from the court.
The house lies about 2.5 miles (4 km) east of central Weimar and is easy to reach on foot or by bicycle along the Ilm riverbank path. The garden terrain is mostly flat, so walking through it does not require special preparation.
The garden contains a grand-ducal burial chamber where the writer Friedrich Schiller was laid to rest. Finding a burial vault inside a pleasure garden is an arrangement that visitors rarely expect when they first arrive.
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