Schloss Ettersburg

Schloss Ettersburg was built by Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Saxe-Weimar who liked to hunt in the forests on the Ettersberg, a mountain range of 474 metres (1,555 ft) north of Weimar.

His nephew, Duke Ernest Augustus, transformed the palace, also adding an outside staircase in the south, between 1728 and 1740.

She held a literary circle of authors such as Wieland, Goethe, Herder, Johann Karl August Musäus, and the actress Corona Schröter.

It is used mostly by the Bauhaus Akademie Schloss Ettersburg, founded in 2008 as an academy for architects, engineers and other professionals around building.

The ensemble of palace and park was awarded the 2009 Nationaler Preis für integrierte Stadtentwicklung und Baukultur [de] by the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport.