Historic Cemetery & Princely Crypt
Historischer Friedhof & Weimarer Fürstengruft
The coffins of Goethe and Schiller rest side by side in the Princely Crypt, and the surrounding old cemetery holds many other notable figures of Weimar's classical era.
The Princely Crypt was built in the 1820s as the burial place of the ducal family of Saxe-Weimar. Duke Carl August allowed Goethe and Schiller to be interred here, and their oak coffins lie side by side in the underground vault. (The remains in Schiller's coffin were found in a 2008 analysis not to be his.) Beside the crypt is a small Russian Orthodox chapel. In the historic cemetery outside, you can look for the graves of Charlotte von Stein and others. Admission to the crypt is about €5, and it is generally closed on Tuesdays. The cemetery itself is free. It is about an eight-minute walk from Goethe's House.
Opening hours
Tombs about 10:00–16:00 (shorter in winter; per Classical Foundation notices); cemetery open by day
Nearby sights
- Bauhaus University Van de Velde Buildings
- Liszt House Weimar
- Goethe's House Weimar
- Schiller's House Weimar
- Wittumspalais
- Goethe–Schiller Monument
- House of the Weimar Republic
- Nietzsche Archive