Wanderer's Nightsong
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"Wanderer's Nightsong" is the title of two poems by the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Written in 1776 and in 1780, they are among Goethe's most famous works. Both were first edited together
1827 edition
Schubert: Song "Wandrers Nachtlied" I, Op. 4, No. 3 (D 224), autograph, 1815
Cabin where Goethe wrote the poem
English plaque in the cabin
Ilmenau
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Ilmenau is a town in Thuringia, central Germany. It is the largest town within the Ilm district with a population of 38,600, while the district capital is Arnstadt. Ilmenau is located approximately 33
Wanderer's Nightsong
…language. Goethe probably wrote it on the evening of September 6, 1780, onto the wall of a wooden gamekeeper lodge on top of the Kickelhahn mountain near Ilmenau where he, according to a letter to Charlotte von Stein, spent the night. Goethe's friend Karl Ludwig von Knebel mentioned the writing in his diary, it…
Ilmenau in winter
Sights around Ilmenau in 1873
View around 1900
View from the Teichgebiet over the town to the Thuringian Forest with Kickelhahn mountain on the right