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Lock Tiefurt is about four kilometers east the city centre convenient a small land lock to the Ilm in Weimar local part the Tiefurt. It was the summer seat of the duchess Anna Amalia of Saxonia Weimar iron oh.

History

The lock was originally the tenant house of a herzoglichen chamber property. The building, end 16. Century establishes and 1765 converted and extends, consists of main building, whose upper floor areas sieve enclosure, and a smaller auxiliary building. Both are connected by a considered course.

1776 furnished itself duke Carl August younger brother Konstantin under the guidance of his educator Karl Ludwig von Knebel in the lock its own yard attitude. , His nut/mother Anna Amalia the lock selected itself four years later, during a longer absence of the prince to the summer seat. It referred the upper floor with two servants; in the auxiliary building its yard lady Luise of was accommodated. On the lying close meadow area, from a Ilmschleife set in, one began with the plant of a landscape park in the English style, which was accessible also to the public. The lock became for approximately 25 years the favourite seat Anna Amalias and to a center Weimar poet circle.

After the death of the duchess 1807 the building was neglected, but introduced Grand Duke Carl Friedrich, the son Carl August, still during Goethe's lifetimes the renovation. For the park care the well-known landscape gardner Eduard Petzold was appointed. 1907 were out-arranged the lock to a museum and opened for visitors. A comprehensive renovation in the taste of the time around 1800 took place from 1978 to 1981. In the upper floor the sequence of space was restored from the time Anna Amalias.

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