A testimony to the early Renaissance: the Cranach House on the market square in Weimar. In the 16th century, the painter Lucas Cranach the Elder lived here with his son Lucas Cranach the Younger until his death in October 1553. Lucas Cranach the Elder founded a workshop in the house and took in two more pupils in the year before his death. In his "painter's room" he worked on the famous three-winged altarpiece for the town church of St. Peter and Paul - the work that his son completed.
The Cranach House in Weimar is located on the east side of the market square. The listed Renaissance building was built between 1547 and 1549 by the master builder Nikolaus Gromann for the politician Christian Brück.The Cranach House was badly damaged during the Second World War and was later restored to its original design. This is now in the Cranach HouseTheater housed in the vault, which primarily presents smaller pieces by Goethe, Schiller and other classics. The building is otherwise no longer accessible to the general public.