Erfurt - Statthalterei

Along Erfurt's Anger, past a monumental fountain of 1889-90 and the Wigbertikirche (1210), the court church of the Electoral governors of the town, is the Statthalterei, the old governor's residence, the town's most monumental secular building. Formed in 1711-20 from two older patrician houses, it has magnificent Renaissance decoration and a handsome Baroque facade. The Great Hall (area 200 sq. m/2150 sq. ft) was the scene of a memorable meeting between Napoleon and Goethe in 1808. Goethe frequently stayed in a nearby house belonging to the Dukes of Saxony-Weimar at Regierungsstrasse 72.