Tempelherrenhaus Ruins, Park an der Ilm

The temple mansion was destroyed in World War II and only the tower remained. Today the meadow in front of the building is a popular meeting place for students. Today you will find "the Green Laboratory" here as an external location for BUGA 2021. There have been plans for a reconstruction of the temple for many years.

The ruins of the Templar House built in 1786 are located in the Park on the Ilm on the western bank of the river, between the Roman House, the Park Caves and the Residential Palace. The neo-Gothic temple was created from a former greenhouse and from then on served the Weimar court as a meeting place for events, exhibitions and concerts.
A year after its construction, the court sculptor Martin Gottlieb Klauer created four life-size statues of the Templars out of wood. These were placed on the corner battlements of the temple and later gave the building its name.
In 1818 the statues were replaced by sandstone figures and the wooden Templar statues found their new place in the corners of the salon.

In 1816, based on Goethe's idea, a tower was built on the east side of the temple. In the same style as the windows, the tower received a pointed arched entrance gate. Now the magnificent house was complete and was used as a concert hall. Many musicians, including Franz Liszt, gave their skills to the ears of the Weimar court. Liszt sometimes played all night long in this building, since his house was only a few meters from the Templar House.

For several years, the Tempelherrenhaus served as the concert hall and studio of the Bauhaus until it was destroyed in March 1945 by a bomb attack during the Second World War. Only the tower of the temple, built in 1816, remained and was restored in 1998. Some of the sandstone figures can still be seen today on remains of the temple house.
The manor house is often confused with the artificial ruin.
As part of the "New Nature" theme year and as one of the six external locations of the BUGA 2021, the Tempelherrenhaus in the Park an der Ilm is presenting itself with a newly constructed outbuilding: the Green Laboratory.
Source: weimar-lese.de/sehenswuerdigungen/gebaeude/tempelherrenhaus

In the middle of the enchanting Weimar Park are the ruins of the Templar House, which was bombed in 1944 and used as a summer salon in Goethe's time.
At the end of the 18th century it was converted from a former greenhouse into a drawing room. A short time later, the eponymous figures of the Templars found their place there. Used for decades as a place for various cultural events, the Tempelherrenhaus saw Franz Liszt as a concert artist, among others. It later served as a studio for Johannes Itten.
Partially destroyed by bombs on February 9, 1945, it was so severely damaged by another hit in March of that year that most of it was later demolished.