Now in Thuringia and the charming town on Weimar. It's a very modest place, not at all the place you would expect to have a whole republic named after it, even on that only lasted 14 years.

It was the home of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who I didn't know much about, but who is incredibly popular in Germany. He wrote Faust as well as writing poetry, painting and exploring the properties of light. A right clever dick. He certainly had a lovely house and garden. His rooms are exactly as they looked when he died. Ok they moved the corpse and emptied the chamber pot, but other than that he would feel right at home. Very evocative of early 19th century life.