Meiningen Attractions

Meiningen has preserved many burghers' houses of the 16th-18th centuries, including the Büchnersches Hinterhaus at Georgenstrasse 20, the Alte Posthalterei at Ernestiner Strasse 14, the Rautenkranz at Ernestiner Strasse 40 and the Steinernes Haus (Stone House) at Anton-Ulrich-Strasse 43.

Elisabethenburg Castle and Baumbach House contains an art collection, theatre museum as well as music and literature. concerts and literary evenings are held here regularly.

The beautiful Goethe Park in Meiningen was originally laid out in 1782 as the English Garden. In an artificial lake in the park is the tomb of Duke Charles, modeled on Rousseau's tomb at Ermenonville, near Paris.

12km/7.5mi northwest of Meiningen is Wasungen, a little town noted for its centuries-old Carnival, with many half-timbered buildings, including the Town Hall, the Amtshaus and numerous burghers' houses and aristocratic mansions. The Town Church in its present form is an aisleless Renaissance building of 1584-96 incorporating earlier work, with a tower which is basically Late Gothic that has fine 17th C carving in the interior. The tower known as the Pfaffenburg (1387) is a relic of the town's medieval fortifications.