After visiting Goethe’s home, we walked around town–we looked in on a castle/palace courtyard (being restored), the main church (closed), the Goethe-Schiller Square, we walked the promenade, and we saw lots of people eating ice cream cones (it was cold and windy). This town was a magnet for great thinkers –they seemed to come here and stay here.
Then we circled back to the Schiller Haus, where Friedrich Schiller and his family lived. His story is different from Goethe’s. He came here poor, from Wuerttemberg, after leaving life as a soldier. He wanted to write, so he lived in exile, away from his family from age 22 on.
Interesting pavement:
These pavers look like wood:
Our Frankfurt Germany Mission 