Schloss Weimar was the residence of the Dukes of Saxe-Weimar from the mid-16th century. The first documented moated castle dates to the end of the 10th century, and the Bastille tower is the oldest part. After a fire in 1618, Giovanni Bonalino planned a reconstruction from 1619, and the church was completed in 1630. Johann Moritz Richter redesigned it in the 1650s as a symmetrical Baroque three-wing building.
A fire in 1774 led to a Neoclassical interior by Johann August Arens, Nikolaus Friedrich Thouret and Heinrich Gentz, with Goethe directing the commission. Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray planned the west wing from 1816, and it reopened in 1847. The text names no materials or dimensions.
Several Bach works premiered in the Schlosskirche from 1708 to 1717. Memorial rooms honor Goethe, Herder, Schiller and Wieland. It opened as a museum in 1923 and is part of the Classical Weimar UNESCO site. The article gives no hours.
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