Weimar - Goethe and Schiller Archives

On the far side of the Ilm, reached by way of the Kegelbrücke to the north of Weimar's Schloss, are the Goethe and Schiller Archives (built 1896), with the papers of some sixty German writers (including Wieland, Herder, Mörike, Hebbel, Otto Ludwig and Fritz Reuter), together with manuscripts in the hand of some 450 notable people from the 18th to the early 20th C - altogether almost 600,000 manuscripts.