{"id":13440,"date":"2024-07-31T22:30:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T02:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/?p=13440"},"modified":"2024-07-31T22:32:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T02:32:58","slug":"my-epic-germany-trip-day-2-bachhaus-in-eisenach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/?p=13440","title":{"rendered":"My Epic Germany Trip, Day 2 – Bachhaus in Eisenach"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In June, I took a wonderful trip back to Germany after 18 years away. On Wednesday, June 12, I began the day at Tagungskloster Frauenberg in Fulda<\/a> and was planning to end the day a four-hour drive away at my friend Kate’s home in Leipzig. Right in the middle of my route was Eisenach, which is near the village of Sondra. <\/p>\n

More about the village later. When I dragged my family to Sondra in 1998, we visited the Wartburg Castle in Eisenach, but for this trip I had something of a Bach theme going, so I decided to visit the Bachhaus there. They don’t think it’s actually where Bach was born any more, but he was probably born in a home around the corner, and they’ve made a wonderful interactive museum out of this home where he definitely spent some time.<\/p>\n

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As planned, it took me a couple of hours to get to Eisenach and find the Bachhaus. A German man helped me figure out the parking system. (You could pay with a credit card!) And I thought to take a picture of the cute little Fiat that was carrying me around Deutschland.<\/p>\n

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I am not crazy about driving in cities. But Eisenach’s city center was simple enough and had a parking lot right in front of the Bachhaus. I love the old buildings.<\/p>\n

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Then it was on to the Bachhaus!<\/p>\n

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There was a whole lot to explore inside. Old instruments, rooms furnished as they would have been in Bach’s time, and even a back garden. Pretty much everything had a description in English as well as German and the many things set up for audio had narration in English with the push of a button.<\/p>\n

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I liked this room, very much set up for listening. You’d sit in one of these hanging chairs and hear a piece by Bach and get information about it. And there was even a view out the window to the castle on the hill.<\/p>\n

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After an hour of exploring, I had a ticket to attend a half-hour concert where a musician played about a half-dozen different keyboard instruments from Bach’s time.<\/p>\n

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After the lovely concert, I spent a little more time in the garden.<\/p>\n

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Then I had a delicious lunch at the Bach Restaurant out front and was ready for my next destination – the village of Sondra, where I was going to take a new picture of the sign, as I had done with my family 27 years before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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