Weimar - Frauentor Cemetery

Immediately south of the Museum of Prehistory in Weimar lies the Frauentor Cemetery, with the vault in which Goethe and Schiller are buried (Goethe- und Schillergruft). An avenue lined by fine old trees leads to a domed neo-classical chapel (by the court architect C. W. Coudray, 1825-27), under which is the vault containing the remains of Goethe, Schiller and Grand Duke Carl August.

South of this is the Russian Chapel (1862), in which Grand Duchess Maria Pawlowna is buried.

Also in the cemetery are the graves of other members of the Goethe family and many friends and associates of Goethe, including Charlotte von Stein, Johann Peter Eckermann (author of "Conversations with Goethe"), the composer Nepomuk Hummel and C. W. Coudray. There is also a striking monument (by Walter Gropius, 1921) to those who fell in the 1848 Revolution.