Guide to Bach Tour

Guide to Bach Tour
The Guide to Bach Tour is a section of the Bach Cantatas Website (BCW), which contains information about every place associated with Bach: [L] = Places J.S. Bach lived in · [V] = Places Bach visited · [F] = Bach family places. The Guide can also be used for planning a Bach Tour. The Guide contains: Life history of J.S. Bach; Maps; Page/s for each place, 39 in total, including: Description and history of the place and its Bach connection, Relevant events in life history of J.S. Bach, Performance dates of J.S. Bach’s vocal works, Features of interest, Information & links, Photos, Maps; Recommended routes. If you would like to contribute written material, photos, maps, etc, and/ or find any errors, please send it to me in accordance with the guidelines at: How to contribute.

Contents
Life History of J.S. Bach \| Performance Dates of J.S. Bach’s Vocal Works \| Maps \| Places associated with Bach \| Route Suggestions \| Symbols \| Links \| Sources \| Discussions of Bach Tour
Maps of Places associated with Bach Symbols (Coats of Arms) of Places associated with Bach

Places associated with Bach
Place	Region	Activities	Photos	Maps
Altenburg	Thuringia	[V]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2 \| Part 3 \| Part 4 \| Town Guide	Maps
Ammern	Thuringia	[V]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2	Maps
Arnstadt	Thuringia	[L] [F]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2 \| Part 3 \| Part 4 \| Part 5 \| Town Guide \| On the trail of J.S. Bach	Maps
Bad Berka	Thuringia	[V]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2 \| Part 3	Maps
Berlin	Berlin	[V] [F]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2	Maps
Brandenburg	Brandenburg		Photos	Maps
Bückeburg	Lower Saxony	[F]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2	Maps
Celle	Lower Saxony		Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2	Maps
Collmen	Saxony	[V]	Photos	Maps
Dörna	Thuringia			Maps
Dornheim	Thuringia	[V]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2	Maps
Dresden	Saxony	[V]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2	Maps
Eisenach	Thuringia	[L] [F]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2 \| Part 3 \| Part 4 \| Part 5 \| City Guide \| The Bach House Eisenach	Maps
Erfurt	Thuringia	[V] [F]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2 \| Part 3 \| City Guide	Maps
Gehren	Thuringia	[F]	Photos	Maps
Gera	Thuringia	[V]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2 \| Part 3	Maps
Gotha	Thuringia	[V]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2 \| Part 3	Maps
Halle (Saale)	Saxony-Anhalt	[V] [F]	Photos \| City Guide	Maps
Hamburg	Hamburg	[V] [F]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2	Maps
Heiligengrabe	Brandenburg	[V]	Photos	Maps
Jena	Thuringia	[F]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2	Maps
Karlsbad	Bohemia	[V]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2	Maps
Kassel	Hessen	[V]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2 \| Part 3 \| Part 4 \| City Guide	Maps
Kleinzschocher	Saxony	[V]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2 \| Part 3	Maps
Köthen (Anhalt)	Saxony-Anhalt	[L] [V]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2 \| Bach in Köthen	Maps
Langewiesen	Thuringia	[V]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2	Maps
Leipzig	Saxony	[L] [V] [F]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2 \| Part 3 \| Part 4 \| Part 5 \| Part 6 \| Part 7	Maps
Lübeck	Schlezwig-Holstein	[V]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2	Maps
Lüneburg	Lower Saxony	[L]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2 \| Part 3	Maps
Meiningen	Thuringia	[F]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2 \| Part 3	Maps
Merseburg	Saxony-Anhalt	[V]	Photos	Maps
Mühlhausen	Thuringia	[L] [V] [F]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2 \| Part 3	Maps
Naumburg	Saxony-Anhalt	[V] [F]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2 \| Part 3	Maps
Ohrdruf	Thuringia	[L] [F]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2 \| Part 3	Maps
Pomßen	Saxony	[V]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2	Maps
Potsdam	Brandenburg	[V]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2	Maps
Ronneburg	Thuringia	[V]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2	Maps
Sangerhausen	Saxony-Anhalt	[V] [F]	PhotosL Part 1 \| Part 2 \| Part 3	Maps
Schleiz	Thuringia	[V]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2 \| Part 3	Maps
Stöntzsch	Saxony	[V]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2 \| Part 3: Hohnstein	Maps
Störmthal	Saxony	[V]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2 \| Part 3	Maps
Taubach	Thuringia	[V]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2	Maps
Wechmar	Thuringia	[F]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2	Maps
Weimar	Thuringia	[L] [F]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2 \| Part 3:	Maps
Weißenfels	Saxony-Anhalt	[V]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2	Maps
Weißensee	Thuringia	[V]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2 \| Part 3	Maps
Wiederau	Brandenburg	[V]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2	Maps
Zeitz	Saxony-Anhalt	[F]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2 \| Part 3 \| Part 4 \| Part 5 \| Part 6 Town Guide	Maps
Zerbst	Saxony-Anhalt	[V]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2 \| Part 3 \| Town Guide	Maps
Zschortau	Saxony	[V]	Photos: Part 1 \| Part 2	Maps

Symbols
[L] = Places J.S. Bach lived in [V] = Places Bach visited [F] = Bach family places

Links
Performance Dates of J.S. Bach’s Vocal Works Discussions of Bach Tour The J.S. Bach Tourist (Jan Koster) On the traces of J.S. Bach (Germany Tourism) [English/German] J.S. Bach – Biographie (Martin Schlu) [German] J.S. Bach Education & Career (Timothy A. Smith) Leipzig Bach Festival Bach Organs from August 2002 trip to Germany (Gregory Savord) Bach and the Cities of Germany (Joy Schroeder - Michigan University) See also links for each of the places associated with Bach in the place pages above.

Sources
a. Christoph Wolff: Johann Sebastian Bach - The Learned Musician (W.E. Norton & Company, 2000) b. Malcolm Boyd (Editor): Oxford Composer Companion - J.S. Bach (Oxford University Press, 1999) c. Hans T. David & Arthur Mendel (editors): The Bach Reader (J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., revised edition, 1966) d. Stanley Sadie (editor): The New Grove Bach Family (Papermac MacMillan London, 1983) e. Martin Petzoldt: Bachstäten Ein Reiseführer zu Johann Sebastian Bach (Insel Verlag, 2000) f. Reisewege zu Bach - Travelling Ways to Bach (Michael Imhof Verlag, 2003) g. Article ‘A tour in the footsteps of Johann Sebastian’ by Noa Blass (‘Musica’ magazine, October 1987) h. Various brochures & leaflets from Thuringia’s Tourist Information Offices (1999) i. Personal knowledge from two Bach Tours in Germany: the 1^st, in October 1999, included visit to 17 towns & villages connected to J.S. Bach; the 2^nd, in May 2004, included 40 places (Aryeh Oron) j. Websites of places associated with Bach (see links section in the pages dedicated to each place) k. Tourist guides, such as Michelin - The Green Guide: Germany (2000) & Lonely Planet: Germany (2002)

Prepared by Aryeh Oron (October 2003 - December 2009)

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Last update: ‎December 31, 2009 ‎16:44:03