12. Weimar Roman House & Classical Literature
Episode 12 of the Iphigenia Inquiry considers the work of three literary figures of the Weimar classical period. It looks at:
a) Wieland and nature
b) Novalis and epiphany
c) Goethe and morality
d) Goethe and learning
Das Römische Haus in Weimar
Das Römische Haus im Park an der Ilm entstand von 1791 bis 1797 unter der Leitung Johann Wolfgang Goethes. Der tempelartige Bau erweckt hier den Eindruck, als sei er auf den Ruinen eines antiken Bauwerks errichtet worden und gilt als klassizistisches »Musterhaus« der architekturtheoretischen Überlegungen Goethes vor dem Hintergrund seiner Italienreise.
Video: André Kühn, Klassik Stiftung Weimar
Places to see in ( Weimar - Germany ) Park an der Ilm
Places to see in ( Weimar - Germany ) Park an der Ilm
The Park an der Ilm is a large Landschaftspark in Weimar, Thuringia. It was created in the 18th century, influenced by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and has not been changed much, preserving a park of the period. It forms part of the World Heritage Site Classical Weimar.
The park is located on both banks of the river Ilm for 1.0 kilometre (0.62 mi) from the Schloss in the north to the suburb of Oberweimar in the south. The park is part of a much longer greenway along the river, including the park of Schloss Belvedere in the north and the park of Schloss Tiefurt. The Park an der Ilm is divided into the Goethe-Park and the Dux-Garten.
Landscaping for the park began in 1778, influenced by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in the style of an English landscape garden, in modification of a Baroque garden. Goethe had purchased a garden house in the park in 1776, which now carries his name. The Wörlitz park, which Goethe had visited regularly from 1776 and which served as the setting of his 1809 novel Die Wahlverwandtschaften, was a model.
After planting special trees from 1778, systematic work began in 1785. Goethe's house and the opposite Roman House (de) are among many architectural features of the park, including bridges and monuments. The design was finished in 1823 with the Tempelherrenhaus. A suspension bridge was built in 1833. From 1848 to 1852, court gardener Eduard Petzold created views to Goethe's garden house and the Roman house. A monument to Shakespeare was erected in 1904 by Otto Lessing on a commission of the Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, founded in Weimar in 1864. Poets Louis Fürnberg, Adam Mickiewicz, Sándor Petőfi and Alexander Puschkin were also honoured by busts in the park.
The park contains valuable trees, mostly local varieties, but also some foreign trees, especially from North America. In 1993, 770 maples, 455 ash trees, 381 linden, 291 chestnuts and 257 hornbeams were counted, with an average age of 80 to 150 years at the time. From 1969, the park was taken care of by Gartendirektion der Nationalen Forschungs- und Gedenkstätten der klassischen deutschen Literatur. Since 1998, it has become part of the World Heritage Site Classical Weimar.
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Römisches Haus Weimar
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Sex And The Swastika (World War 2 Documentary) | Timeline
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Road to Germany #01 - The Holy Roman Empire
The start to a series that explores how a nation gets created. In this episode: migration of germanic tribes, foundation of the HRE, as well as a brief explanation of feudalism.
Obviously, I had to simplify a few details here and there, so here are a couple of things I couldn't point out else the video would have become quite a drag:
- the imperial succession law was not a concept invented by Otto I. like one might take from this video and rather something that had established itself amongst eastern frankian nobles in the years prior.
- the ones deciding over who became emperor in the early days of the HRE weren't clearly defined. Usually that would depend on wealth and power. The Prince Electors seen in this video gained their position somewhere between 1200 and 1300 after a war between two big noble families had left the electorial landscape devastated.
- yes, I am well aware that liberalism is not a german invention, but since France and the UK also had feudal structures in place, that point still stands
- as pointed out by some of you by now, the Netherlands never got fully conquered by Rome. I messed up that part of the map, I'm sorry.
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Weimar „Park an der Ilm“ in 3 Minuten | HD/4K Video
Erleben Sie den „Park an der Ilm“ inmitten von Weimar in diesem 3-Minuten-Video*. Von der Sternbrücke zu Goethes Gartenhaus, über die Schaukelbrücke, führt Sie das Video weiter zum Römischen Haus und dem Tempelherrenhaus. Und das zu einer der schönsten Jahreszeiten. Dem Herbst.
Hinterlassen Sie einen Daumen nach oben, wenn Ihnen der Park im Herbst gefällt.
*Alle Aufnahmen wurden aus der Hand ohne zusätzliche Hilfsmittel gefilmt.
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Experience the Park an der Ilm in the middle of Weimar in this 3-minute video*. From the star bridge to Goethe's garden house, via the swing bridge, the video will take you to the Roman House and the Tempelherrenhaus. And that's one of the most beautiful seasons. The fall.
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Beautiful German Town - Ilmenau
Beautiful German Town - Ilmenau
Germany is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. Depending on where you go, you might find Roman ruins, medieval villages, sparkling new cities, or Baroque city centers. It’s tough to know where to go first.
Ilmenau is situated in the northern part of the Thuringian forest, in an attractive scenery in the valley of the river Ilm, that lend its name for the town. There is not much known about the beginning of the settlement of Ilmenau. But it will have existed in worth mentioning size already in the 13th century. The location on a trading way, that led from Erfurt to Nuremberg, encouraged the development of Ilmenau. In the 14th century Ilmenau was mentioned several times, the town first time in 1341.
The earliest known masters over Ilmenau were the earls of Kaefernburg, who sold the town to the earls of Henneberg in 1343. Till the end of the 15th century the masters over Ilmenau changed several times by disposal and pawn. But in the end Ilmenau came back under the reign of the Hennebergs. After they died out Ilmenau came under the reign of the House of Saxon and was granted to the duchy of Sachsen-Weimar in 1660/61, where it remained until 1918.
In 1894 the Thuringian college of technology in Ilmenau was founded, a higher educational establishment for mechanical and electrical engineering. In 1926 renamed to engineer school of Ilmenau, it had a good reputation beyond the borders of Germany because of its solid and practice-oriented education. This was the decisive factor for the establishment of an technical college in 1953. The education in Ilmenau got its recognition in 1992 by the promotion to the Technical University of Ilmenau.
Today there live about 30.000 inhabitants in Ilmenau. Many tourists come to the town every year, which is because of its location a popular starting-point for walks and trips to the Rennsteig, and the cultural cities Erfurt and Weimar are within easy reach. The visitor of the town can follow the tracks of Goethe and enjoy the nature on the Goethewanderweg.
When you live in Ilmenau, you feel like you’re a part of a big family. Statistically speaking, one out of every four residents is a student, and many events and activities take place on campus. Ilmenau is one of the three most affordable cities in Germany for students, and if you love nature, you’ll find it right at your doorstep.
The Thuringian Forest offers a diverse array of opportunities for recreational activity. There are countless hiking trails around Ilmenau which highlight different themes. On the “Nature Trail”, you can learn about the distinctive geographical features of the Thuringian Forest, and if you take the trail “From Bach to Goethe”, you can enjoy breath-taking views of the landscape.
If you ever feel a desire for more variety and want to see something new, it’s only an hour away to Erfurt with public transportation.
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Totem Skin - live - (full set) @ Wunderbar, Weimar, germany 12/9 - 2014
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3. To live is to be haunted
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Reichstagsufer, Berlin, Germany
The Reichstag building (German: Reichstagsgebäude; officially: Plenarbereich Reichstagsgebäude) is a historical edifice in Berlin, Germany, constructed to house the Imperial Diet (German: Reichstag), of the German Empire. It was opened in 1894 and housed the Diet until 1933, when it was severely damaged in a fire. After World War II, the building fell into disuse; the parliament of the German Democratic Republic (the Volkskammer) met in the Palast der Republik in East Berlin, while the parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany (the Bundestag) met in the Bundeshaus in Bonn.
The ruined building was made safe against the elements and partially refurbished in the 1960s, but no attempt at full restoration was made until after German reunification on 3 October 1990, when it underwent a reconstruction led by architect Norman Foster. After its completion in 1999, it once again became the meeting place of the German parliament: the modern Bundestag.
The term Reichstag, when used to connote a diet, dates back to the Holy Roman Empire. The building was built for the Diet (German: Reichstag) of the German Empire, which was succeeded by the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic. The latter would become the Reichstag of Nazi Germany, which left the building (and ceased to act as a parliament) after the 1933 fire and never returned; the term Reichstag has not been used by German parliaments since World War II. In today's usage, the German word Reichstag (Imperial Diet Building) refers mainly to the building, while Bundestag (Federal Diet) refers to the institution.
Reichstagsufer, Berlin, Germany
The Ancient Roman Town of Herculaneum | Euromaxx Extratour
We visit the old town of Herculaneum near Naples. Herculaneum was destroyed by hot gas and rocks over 2000 years ago because of volcanic eruption, but the ruins are still standing and make for a very interesting trip.
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Max Klinger's Galatea Sculpture | MetCollects
Curator Denise Allen discusses Max Klinger’s Galatea and its provenance.
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Max Klinger (German, 1857–1920). Galatea, 1906. Cast silver; marble, 43 3/4 x 12 1/2 x 18 3/4 in. (111.1 x 31.8 x 47.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, by exchange, Anonymous and Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust Gifts, and Gifts of Irwin Untermyer and Mrs. Robert M. Hillas, by exchange, 2018 (2018.25a, b)
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In the Park, from A Love (Opus X), 1887. Pen and black ink and black chalk heightened with white bodycolor, 16 3/8 x 9 7/8 in. (41.6 x 25.1 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Friends of Drawings and Prints Fund, and Ian Woodner Family Collection and Mr. and Mrs. Francis D. Logan Funds, 2019 (2019.67)
Three Studies of Heads of Women, 1883. Pen and black ink, 12 1/4 x 10 3/8 in. (31.1 x 26.4 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Alexander B.V. Johnson and Roberta J.M. Olson, 2012 (2012.539.3)
Recto: Phantasie und Künstler (Imagination and the Artist); Verso: Studie zu Phantasie und Künstler (Study for Fantasy Artists), 1873. Pen and black ink, black chalk and pencil; Verso: Pencil and pen and black ink. Promised Gift L.2019.7.2
Paar im Grase–Umarmung in einer Landschaft (A Couple on the Grass–An Embrace in a Landscape),1883. Pen and brown ink and pale brown wash. Promised Gift L.2018.10.1
Historical photographs of Galatea, first published in 1907, photographer unknown
Photograph by Louis Held of Klinger and Galatea at the Third Exhibition of the Artists Society, Weimar, 1906, courtesy of Daxer & Marschall.
Family photographs and Gustav Kirstein's poem courtesy of the Leo Baeck Institute, New York.
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괴테의 생가와 박물관은 프랑크푸르트 시내 한복판에 위치하고 있다. 요한 볼프강 폰 괴테. 라이프치히대학교 법학과 출신인 그는 고전주의 시인이자 궁정극장 감독, 변호사를 거쳐 바이마르 공국의 재상이라는 정치인으로 까지 변신한다. 괴테는 여행을 무척 좋아했는데 37살 되던 해 인 1786년 독일에서 아무도 몰래 이탈리아로 혼자 여행을 떠난다. 괴테어록을 보면 ‘사람이 여행을 하는 것은 목적지에 도착하기 위해서가 아니라 여행하기 위해서다’라고 쓰여 있다. 여행에 관한 그의 철학을 엿볼 수 있는 대목이다. 이 라오콘 상은 괴테의 책상 옆에 놓여 있었는데 괴테는 유명작품을 집필할 때 이런 강단용 책상에서 작업을 했다고 한다. 이것은 샤를로테의 실루엣인데 25살 되던 해, 괴테는 한 달 만에 서한소설 ‘젊은 베르테르의 슬픔’을 써냈다. 내적인 동요와 짝사랑의 괴로움 때문에 결국 어두운 종말을 맞게 되는 한 젊은이의 이야기다. 2일자 신문에 출생과 동시에 세례를 받았다는 광고를 낼 정도였으니 상당한 재산가의 집안출신이라는 것을 알 수 있다. 제2차 세계 대전 때 프랑크푸르트가 연합군의 폭격으로 잿더미가 되었으나 괴테가 쓰던 가구와 소품들은 다른 곳에 갖다놓아 이렇게 다시 전시할 수 있게 되었다고 한다.
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Goethe's birthplace and Museum is located in the middle of downtown Frankfurt. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He classicism of Law from the University of Leipzig court poet and theater director, turned to the prime minister of the Weimar politicians in the Principality and through a lawyer. Goethe liked very much to travel alone, leaving the tour at 37 years old in 1786, Germany is to release anyone sneaking into Italy. Ana can look at the Goethe says, It is people who travel wihaeseoda not to travel to reach your destination. A passage that could glimpse his philosophy on travel. The award was raohkon placed on the desk of the Goethe Goethe is said to work at the desk when you wrote the famous pulpit for this work. This silhouette of the release of 25-year-old syareulrote inde year, Goethe wrote in a letter found novel The Sorrows of Young Werther in a month. Eventually the story of a young man that is for the dark end because of the bitterness of unrequited love, and inner agitation. Date of birth be approximately two blows and at the same time received the baptism in the newspaper ad can be seen that the family of origin of a significant jaesanga. The Second World War when the Frankfurt Goethe and furniture, but the ashes of Allied bombings sseudeon with props that are able to do so again put on display get elsewhere.
[German: Google Translator]
Goethes Geburtshaus und Museum ist in der Mitte der Innenstadt von Frankfurt. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Er Klassizismus der Rechtswissenschaften an der Universität Leipzig Hofdichter und Theaterregisseur, wandte sich an die Ministerpräsidenten der Weimarer Politiker im Fürstentum und über einen Anwalt. Goethe sehr gut gefallen, allein zu reisen, so dass die Tour 37 Jahre alt im Jahr 1786 ist Deutschland zu jedermann heimlich in Italien freizugeben. Ana können an der Goethe aussehen sagt: Es sind Menschen, die wihaeseoda reisen nicht zu reisen, um Ihr Ziel zu erreichen. Ein Durchgang, der seine Philosophie zu Reisen erblicken konnte. Die Auszeichnung wurde raohkon auf dem Schreibtisch des Goethe Goethe gelegt wird gesagt, um zu arbeiten der Schreibtisch, wenn Sie die berühmte Kanzel für diese Arbeit schrieb. Diese Silhouette der Freigabe der 25-jährige syareulrote inde Jahr, schrieb Goethe in einem Brief gefunden Roman Die Leiden des jungen Werther in einem Monat.
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Popes Pius XI (1922–39) and Pius XII (1939–58) led the Roman Catholic Church through the rise and fall of Nazi Germany. Around a third of Germans were Catholic in the 1930s. The Church in Germany had spoken against the rise of Nazism, but the Catholic aligned Centre Party capitulated in 1933 and was banned. In the various 1933 elections the percentage of Catholics voting for the Nazis party was remarkably lower than the average. Nazi key ideologue Alfred Rosenberg was banned on the index of the Inquisition, presided by later pope Pius XII. Adolf Hitler and several key Nazis had been raised Catholic, but became hostile to the Church in adulthood. While Article 24 of the NSDAP party platform called for conditional toleration of Christian denominations and the 1933 Reichskonkordat treaty with the Vatican purported to guarantee religious freedom for Catholics, the Nazis were essentially hostile to Christianity and the Catholic Church faced persecution in Nazi Germany. Its press, schools and youth organisations were closed, much property confiscated and around one third of its clergy faced reprisals from authorities. Catholic lay leaders were targeted in the Night of the Long Knives purge. The Church hierarchy attempted to co-operate with the new government, but in 1937, the Papal Encyclical Mit brennender Sorge accused the government of fundamental hostility to the church.
Among the most courageous demonstrations of opposition inside Germany were the 1941 sermons of Bishop August von Galen of Münster. Nevertheless, wrote Alan Bullock [n]either the Catholic Church nor the Evangelical Church... as institutions, felt it possible to take up an attitude of open opposition to the regime. In every country under German occupation, priests played a major part in rescuing Jews, but Catholic resistance to mistreatment of Jews in Germany was generally limited to fragmented and largely individual efforts. Mary Fulbrook wrote that when politics encroached on the church, Catholics were prepared to resist, but that the record was otherwise patchy and uneven, and that, with notable exceptions, it seems that, for many Germans, adherence to the Christian faith proved compatible with at least passive acquiescence in, if not active support for, the Nazi dictatorship.Catholics fought on both sides in the Second World War. Hitler's invasion of predominantly Catholic Poland ignited the conflict in 1939. Here, especially in the areas of Poland annexed to the Reich—as in other annexed regions of Slovenia and Austria—Nazi persecution of the church was intense. Many clergy were targeted for extermination. Through his links to the German Resistance, Pope Pius XII warned the Allies of the planned Nazi invasion of the Low Countries in 1940. From that year, the Nazis gathered priest-dissidents in a dedicated clergy barracks at Dachau, where 95 percent of its 2,720 inmates were Catholic (mostly Poles, and 411 Germans) and 1,034 priests died there. Expropriation of church properties surged from 1941.
The Vatican, surrounded by Fascist Italy, was officially neutral during the war, but used diplomacy to aid victims and lobby for peace. Vatican Radio and other media spoke out against atrocities. While Nazi antisemitism embraced modern pseudo-scientific racial principles, ancient antipathies between Christianity and Judaism contributed to European antisemitism. During the Nazi era, the church rescued many thousands of Jews by issuing false documents, lobbying Axis officials, hiding them in monasteries, convents, schools and elsewhere; including in the Vatican and papal residence at Castel Gandolfo. The Pope's role during this period is contested. The Reich Security Main Office called Pius XII a mouthpiece of the Jews. His first encyclical, Summi Pontificatus, called the invasion of Poland an hour of darkness, his 1942 Christmas address denounced race murders and his Mystici corporis Christi encyclical (1943) denounc ...
Weimar Berlin: Dajos Béla Tanz-Orch. - Alabastra, 1922
Sándor Józsi (Dajos Béla) Tanz-Kapelle: Alabastra, Foxtrot (uncredited composer) Odeon Record c. 1922/23 (Germany; accoustical recording)
NOTE: Next to Marek Weber, Paul Godwin and Otto Dobrindt, Dajos Béla (né Leon Golzmann) was the most popular and most prolific dance bandleader in Germany of the Goldene Zwanziger Jahre. The number of his recordings is unaccountable, as he recorded under his adopted name Dajos Béla , under the pseudonyms e.g. Sándor Józsi, Kapelle Merton, and anonymously (Odeon Tanz-Orchester - which covered also Otto Dobrindt's Dobbri Saxophon-Orchester). Born in Kiev from the Ukrainian Jew and the Hungarian mother, he studied law, yet with the onset of the 1stWW, as Russian citizen he served in the Tzarist army until 1917. After outbreak of the Bolshevik revolution, he stayed for some time in St. Petersburg (then renamed as Piotrogrod) and in Moscow, where he studied music in the class of violine. In 1920, he managed to leave Soviet Russia and he settled in Berlin.
For livelihood he played violin in the small venues in North Berlin and he adopted his stage name Dajos Béla from a fellow musician, who died of drugs. (Another version: Béla was his mother's maiden name). His musical skills and Hungarian looks quickly earned him popularity among restaurant owners and hotel managers troughout Berlin, where he was billed as the violin- primas to underline his Hungarian flair. In c. 1921 he established his own band, with which he made first recordings for Carl Lindström's company (brands: Odeon, Parlophon, Beka) under the nickname Sándor Józsi Tanz-Kapelle. The tumbling of the monarchies in Central Europe, left the cosmopolitan audience full of nostalgy for the lost imperial days. Therefore, many recording artists of the time wore Hungarian and Romanian pseudonyms, eg. Take Bănescu, Arpad Városz and Jenő Fesca at Homocord, Gyorgi Vintilescu, Nicu Vladescu and Joan Florescu for Grammophon or Geza Komor for Tri Ergon). This continued until 2nd half of the 1920s, when the changing economic and political situation transformed the image of entertainers.
Béla's Orchestra quickly climbed to the top of popularity in Germany; his discs sold in millions and were exported all over the world. In mid-1920s, in the first heyday of jazz music, Béla, like many of his colleagues started the series of dance-jazz recordings, including newest American hits such as Ain't She Sweet, Black Bottom, Ice Cream or Who. Also, his band's staff absorbed internationally recognized jazz-musicians such as pianist and singer Rex Allen or the banjo player Mike Danzi . From 1927, the ensemble started performing also under the Americanised names of The Odeon Five, Mac's Jazz Orchestra or Clive Williams Jazz Band. With the advent of the talkies Béla took the opportunity to perform with his band in movies. So you saw him, among other things, in 1931 Jeder fragt nach Erika (Everyone Asks Erika), Ein Lied, ein Kuss, ein Mädel (A Song, a Kiss, a Girl) and Gitta entdeckt ihr Herz (Gitta Discovered Her Heart). His band accompanied most popular film actors like Marta Eggerth, Richard Tauber or Max Hansen.
All that came to end, when in the spring of 1933 the Nazis came to power. Béla's Orchestra went on tour, first to Holland, then to Paris and London, to play in the renowned Monseigneur and Palladium. In Vienna he performed the 1935 talkie Tanzmusik, after which he was offered a contract by Radio Splendid in Buenos Aires. On 2 March he left Eorope from Boulogne -sur -Mer in France, accompanied by several members of his orchestra. He was to go back to Berlin not earlier than 1970. In Argentina, Dajos Béla led very active artistic life, first involved with Radio Splendid and later Radio El Mundo, where for years he led a daily radio program. He also played in several dance cafés, including the Richmond and El Galeon. Thanks to his success, he was able to help multiple endangered Jewish musicians emigrate from Europe, by arranging for them the contracts to play with his orchestra. So he saved many lives. (The Hungarian singer Tino Dani was one of them). However, in the pass of years Dajos Béla's popularity started to wane. In Argentina and in other countries the live music slowly disappeared from the coffee houses. He could still hold a few years with engagements at weddings and on cruise ships afloat, but his Mittel-European genre was more and more loosing its attraction. He was happy, when in 1970 he got the invitation of the Senate of Berlin to come to Germany and receive honors. Dajos Béla died at the age of 80 in La Falda, a mountain resort in Argentina. He is buried in the Jewish cemetery of La Tablada, Buenos Aires.
The slideshow in this film are the early-1920s posters from the Weimar Berlin.
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Kurhaus in Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden (Germany) - Travel Guide
Take a tour of Kurhaus in Wiesbaden in Wiesbaden, Germany -- part of the World's Greatest Attractions travel video series by GeoBeats.
The most popular large-scale meeting place in Wiesbaden, Germany is the magnificently designed Kurhaus.
Kurhaus means spa house, which was once its purpose in this well-known spa town.
The building is designed in the neoclassical style, reminiscent of ancient Greece and Rome, with columns, porticos, and even a dome.
The words Aquis Mattiacis are inscribed over the entrance to the Kurhaus and mean the waters of the Mattiaci.
So many people were visiting the Wiesbaden spas that the old spa house was demolished in 1907 to make way for the larger current building.
At night, the Kurhaus transforms into a glowing palace, with a golden dome and a glimmering fountain.