Ettersberg

To the north of Weimar rises the Ettersberg (478m/1,568ft). Here in 1937 the Nazis established the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp in which 56,000 people died. It is now a memorial site (Gedenkstätte Buchenwald).

The memorial site, with the Grove of Honor and a bell-tower, was laid out between 1954 and 1958 on the southern slope of the hill, the site of the mass graves. On the site of the camp itself is a Museum of the Resistance.