Eisenach is a town in Thuringia, Germany with 42,000 inhabitants, 50 kilometres west of Erfurt, 70 km southeast of Kassel and 150 km northeast of Frankfurt. It is the main urban centre of western Thur
View over Eisenach with Wartburg castle to the left
Nikolaikirche (left) and Nikolaitor (right)
Car, produced in Automobilwerk Eisenach in 1898
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety of instruments and forms, including the orchestral Brandenburg
Eisenach
…lived at the court of the Ludowingians here between 1211 and 1228. Later Martin Luther came to Eisenach and translated the Bible into German. In 1685 Johann Sebastian Bach was born here. During the early modern period Eisenach was a residence of the Ernestine Wettins and was visited by numerous representatives of Weimar…
1748 portrait of Bach holding a copy of the canon BWV 1076
Johann Ambrosius Bach, 1685, Bach's father. Painting attributed to Johann David Herlicius [de]
Current version of the Wender organ in the Bach Church, Arnstadt.
Organ of the St Paul's Church in Leipzig, tested by Bach in 1717