GR O U P O F F E R
2012
EISENACH &
the WARTBURGREGION
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CONTENT Group offer 2012
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Adventure trip into the middle of Germany Martin Luther and his „…dear town“ Bach meets Luther Advent at the Wartburg
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Daily program Eisenach 2012
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Discover Eisenach
It will be our pleasure to assist you, to coordinate and book your stay. Your travel will be well-designed with Eisenach-Wartburgregion Tourismus GmbH.
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City tour Eisenach 2012
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General City Tour/ Foreign language City tour with tour guide in costume Theme-City tour Tour on coach/ Travel guidance Eisenach active
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Information Press Release
Monika Dombrowsky
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Managing Director
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Editor Eisenach-Wartburgregion Touristik GmbH Markt 9 99817 Eisenach
phone: 0049 (0) 3691 - 79 230 fax: 0049 (0) 3691 - 79 23 20 info@eisenach.info www.eisenach.info
Design [bbsMEDIEN] - Kreativagentur Baller/Baller/Suhren GbR Lutherstraße 33 99817 Eisenach
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Group offer 2012
Hotline: 0049 (0) 3691 79 23 0 or www.eisenach.info
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Adventure Booking-No TG 07/12
Adventure trip into the middle of Germany An interesting short trip will abduct you to the city at the foot of the Wartburg. Located in the “green heart of Germany”, Eisenach counts among the most wonderful excursion destinations of Middle Germany and is becoming increasingly popular to its guests. We will not only offer you historico-cultural sights, but we will also entertain you with a variety of sagas, anecdotes and stories about people and events in Eisenach.
Curious? We are looking forward to meeting you! Without transfer payment, bookable on request.
Surcharge for city tours in English language per person 2.00 EUR
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Our services: • 1 overnight stay in a four star hotel with comfortable equipment • Breakfast buffet • Tour through the premises of the Wartburg • City tour through Eisenach • A visit to the Bachhaus with a live rendering on historic instruments • 1 evening arrangement of your choice (dinner at the hotel or a thematic evening with a Luther meal or a robbers’ feast) Booking dates
bookable throughout the year from 20 persons
Price per person in a double room
98.00 EUR
Single room supplement
18.50 EUR
Additional night/double room per person
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48.50 EUR
Booking Hotline Eisenach-Wartburgregion Touristik GmbH Markt 9 99817 Eisenach
phone: 0049 (0) 36 91 - 79 23 0 fax: 0049 (0) 36 91 - 79 23 20 info@eisenach.info www.eisenach.info
phone availability: Monday: 9.00 - 17.00 Tuesday: 10.00 - 17.00 Wednesday - Friday: 9.00 - 17.00
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Group offer 2012
Hotline: 0049 (0) 3691 79 23 0 or www.eisenach.info
LUTHER Booking-No TG 10/12
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Martin Luther and his ”… dear town“ The history of Luther and the reformation … Follow the traces of original locations in Eisenach and the beautiful vicinity. Learn about his childhood, about the story of Junker Jörg, and how Martin Luther translated the bible in the Wartburg, later on. During a visit to the Wartburg with a viewing of the Lutherstube (Luther room) you will have the opportunity to look for the legendary ink stain. Will you discover it?
allow you to get close to this famous personality. In the evening we will care for your physical well-being like in the Luther times.This trip to Eisenach will leave nothing to be desired. Come and visit Luther`s dear town – we are looking forward to you. Without transfer payment, bookable on request.
Your stopover at the Luther valley, the location of the apparent capture, will
Our services: • 2 overnight stays in a four star hotel with comfortable equipment • 2 x breakfast buffet • Tour through the premises of the Wartburg • Visit to the Lutherhaus including guided tour • Thematic city tour Martin Luther
Booking dates
bookable throughout the year from 20 persons
• 5-hour round trip with one of our tour guides on the traces of Luther to Möhra including Lutherkirche, Bad Liebenstein, Schmalkalden and to the Luther
Price per person in a double room
177.00 EUR
valley (on our own coach)
Single room supplement
18.50 EUR
• 1 thematic evening with a four-course Luther-meal at the restaurant Zwinger and full evening entertainment with music and jugglery.
Additional night/ double room per person
48.50 EUR
Surcharge for city tours / round trip in English language per person 4.00 EUR
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Booking Hotline Eisenach-Wartburgregion Touristik GmbH Markt 9 99817 Eisenach
phone: 0049 (0) 36 91 - 79 23 0 fax: 0049 (0) 36 91 - 79 23 20 info@eisenach.info www.eisenach.info
phone availability: Monday: 9.00 - 17.00 Tuesday: 10.00 - 17.00 Wednesday - Friday: 9.00 - 17.00
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Group offer 2012
Hotline: 0049 (0) 3691 79 23 0 or www.eisenach.info
Luther
BACH MEETS Booking-No TG 11/12
Reformation and music 2012 - Bach meets Luther Where else do Johann Sebastian Bach and Martin Luther get as close to each other as in Eisenach? Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, and about 200 years later he attended the same Latin school as Martin Luther. Both of them sang in the Eisenacher Kurrende, the oldest protestant choir of Eisenach that still exists today. Seat yourself in the pews of the Georgenkirche in which once the 14-year-old Martin Luther and the 9-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach were sitting. Luther and Bach are to the fore of an exhibition that can be visited from 25 February to 11 November 2012 in the Bachhaus. Come and visit the sounding museum and the world’s largest exhibition on life and works of the famous composer Johann Sebastian Bach during an exclusive evening tour through the Bachhaus. Indulge in a glass of sparkling wine which will be served in the garden of the Bachhaus
in good weather. You can experience the ensuing evening-music with an exceptional joining of reformation and music live on historic instruments such as chamber organ, spinet, clavichord and harpsichord. This is unique throughout Germany. Without transfer payment, bookable on request.
Our services: • 1 overnight stay in a 4 star hotel with comfortable equipment • Breakfast buffet • Tour through the premises of the Wartburg • Visit to the Bachhaus including guided tour • Exclusive evening music at the Bachhaus with champagne reception • Thematic city tour “musical Eisenach“ • 1 four-course-Luther-meal at the restaurant Zwinger Booking dates
bookable throughout the year from 20 persons
Price per person in a double room
120.00 EUR
Single room supplement
18.00 EUR
Additional night/ double room per person
48.50 EUR
Surcharge for city tours in English language per person 2.00 EUR
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Booking Hotline Eisenach-Wartburgregion Touristik GmbH Markt 9 99817 Eisenach
phone: 0049 (0) 36 91 - 79 23 0 fax: 0049 (0) 36 91 - 79 23 20 info@eisenach.info www.eisenach.info
phone availability: Monday: 9.00 - 17.00 Tuesday: 10.00 - 17.00 Wednesday - Friday: 9.00 - 17.00
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Group offer 2012
Hotline: 0049 (0) 3691 79 23 0 or www.eisenach.info
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WART Booking-No. TG 06/12
Advent at the Wartburg
Our services: • 1 overnight stay at the Steigenberger Hotel Thüringer Hof**** in the heart of Eisenach • Breakfast buffet
12th Historic Christmas Market at the Wartburg We are inviting you to a very special pre-Christmas event in Eisenach. The historic Christmas market at the Wartburg will open its gates for visitors from far and wide. Experience long forgotten handicraft, historic trade; music and play in the peerless setting of the Wartburg above the Thuringian Eisenach. Candlemakers, costume interpreters, lantern makers, soap boilers, coopers, ropemakers and pedlars will expose their goods for sale. Minstrels, storytellers and puppeteers will ensure entertainment.You will be able to indulge in culinary specialities like confectionary with scrumptious sweets, roast apple, honey, mulled wine and mead. Likewise, savoury delicacies will be available at the castle kitchen.
and the stories of its residents. Experience with one of our friendly tour guides the charm of the historic town centre with its infinite variety of cultural and tourist sights. Without transfer payment, bookable on request.
• Visit to the Historic Christmas Market at the Wartburg, toll tickets • Tour through the premises of the Wartburg • City tour through Eisenach
During a guide through the Wartburg you will get to know the unmistakable history of the UNESCO world heritage
• 1 pre-Christmas dinner at the hotel Price per person in a double room
105.00 EUR
Single room supplement
28.00 EUR
Booking dates
15th – 16thDec. 2012
Additional night/ double room per person
1st – 2nd Dec., 8th – 9th Dec.,
bookable from 20 persons
53.00 EUR
Surcharge for city tours in English language per person 2.00 EUR
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Booking Hotline Eisenach-Wartburgregion Touristik GmbH Markt 9 99817 Eisenach
phone: 0049 (0) 36 91 - 79 23 0 fax: 0049 (0) 36 91 - 79 23 20 info@eisenach.info www.eisenach.info
phone availability: Monday: 9.00 - 17.00 Tuesday: 10.00 - 17.00 Wednesday - Friday: 9.00 - 17.00
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Daily program 2012
Hotline: 0049 (0) 3691 79 23 0 or www.eisenach.info
Daily
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“Discover Eisenach“ Daily flat rate for travel groups from 25 persons.
Experience the nicest part of the Wartburg town with our all-round package. Wartburg tour: Take a tour through the premises of the Wartburg, approx. 1 hour. Afterwards you are free to explore the museum area including Lutherstube (Luther’s living room) on your own. General Historic City Centre Tour: Follow in the tracks of Saint Elisabeth, Johann Sebastian Bach and Martin Luther. Duration: 1.5 hours. Tour through the Lutherhaus: Short
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tour and sightseeing of the Lutherhaus under the programme of the city tour, approx. 30 mins. Lunch: Common lunch in a good middle-class restaurant (one-course meal + 1 soft drink) Package price: € 39.00 per person (group of min. 25 – 39 persons) € 37.00 per person (group from 40 persons)
Booking Hotline Eisenach-Wartburgregion Touristik GmbH Markt 9 99817 Eisenach
phone: 0049 (0) 36 91 - 79 23 0 fax: 0049 (0) 36 91 - 79 23 20 info@eisenach.info www.eisenach.info
phone availability: Monday: 9.00 - 17.00 Tuesday: 10.00 - 17.00 Wednesday - Friday: 9.00 - 17.00
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City tour 2012
Hotline: 0049 (0) 3691 79 23 0 or www.eisenach.info
Tour
City City tour through the historic city centre of Eisenach World-famous personalities characterised the image of the Wartburg town. Explore the historic buildings, streets and places following the tracks of Saint Elisabeth, Johann Sebastian Bach, Martin Luther and Goethe.
Duration: 1.5 hours € 90.00/group foreign language (max. 25 persons) € 30.00/supplementary hour/group foreign language
Experience a city tour following the tracks of famous personalities of Eisenach. On your way to the Wartburg you will see for instance the Reuter-Wagner-Villa. Further variant: City tour and a visit to two museums.
At choice: Bachhaus, Lutherhaus, Reuter-Wagner-Villa, Automobile Welt, Predigerkloster (Preacher Monastery) Duration: 4 hours € 150.00/group foreign language (max. 25 persons)
Escorted tour to the Wartburg € 30.00 /supplementary hour/group foreign language
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Booking Hotline Eisenach-Wartburgregion Touristik GmbH Markt 9 99817 Eisenach
phone: 0049 (0) 36 91 - 79 23 0 fax: 0049 (0) 36 91 - 79 23 20 info@eisenach.info www.eisenach.info
phone availability: Monday: 9.00 - 17.00 Tuesday: 10.00 - 17.00 Wednesday - Friday: 9.00 - 17.00
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City tour with tour guide in costume 2012
Hotline: 0049 (0) 3691 79 23 0 or www.eisenach.info
Themed tour “Strolling with Luise Reuter” Luise Reuter, spouse of the extremely successful Low German poet Fritz Reuter, will welcome you. Charmingly and competently she will entertain you during a time journey into the 19th century. She will take you for a walk through the largest mansion quarter in Europe.
Experience dreams turned to stone, history and anecdotes with her. Under the programme of our tour you will visit the Reuter-Villa, guided through the premises and the museum.
Duration: 2 hours € 160.00/group foreign language (max. 25 persons) € 35.00 supplementary hour/group € 1.00 per person entrance fee for the museum Reuter-Villa.
A chatty woman in Luther’s “dear town” Duration: 1.5 hours € 160.00/group foreign language (max 25 persons) € 35.00/supplementary hour/group
Johanna, maid in the Cotta house will tell you entertainingly about religious masters and docile Latin students, clerics, monks and little nuns, riotous crowds of farmers, the new teachings of Dr Martinius Luther and many an odd custom at Isenach in the year of our Lord 1525.
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Booking Hotline Eisenach-Wartburgregion Touristik GmbH Markt 9 99817 Eisenach
phone: 0049 (0) 36 91 - 79 23 0 fax: 0049 (0) 36 91 - 79 23 20 info@eisenach.info www.eisenach.info
phone availability: Monday: 9.00 - 17.00 Tuesday: 10.00 - 17.00 Wednesday - Friday: 9.00 - 17.00
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Theme-City tour 2012
Hotline: 0049 (0) 3691 79 23 0 or www.eisenach.info
Erlebniswochenende “I had to be diligent” - J.S. Bach and his childhood Duration: 1.5 hours € 120.00/group foreign language € 35.00/supplementary hour foreign language/group
Born on the 21st March 1685 in Eisenach, a lad visited about 200 years after Luther the local Latin School. Meet 4 generations of the Bach family who wrote music history in Eisenach.
“Martin Luther – Latin student and squire Jörg” Duration: 1.5 hours € 120.00/group foreign language € 35.00 supplementary hour foreign language/group
In this thematic round tour you will learn something about little Martinius in the time around 1500, how he had to earn his money as a busker, and 20 years later - when he made world history.
“Saint Elisabeth – landgravine of Thuringia” Duration: 1.5 hours € 120.00/group foreign language € 35.00 supplementary hour foreign language/group
In the tracks of the Saint in the town of Eisenach. Searching for traces – 16 years of life and work of a Hungarian king’s daughter in Eisenach.
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phone: 0049 (0) 36 91 - 79 23 0 fax: 0049 (0) 36 91 - 79 23 20 info@eisenach.info www.eisenach.info
phone availability: Monday: 9.00 - 17.00 Tuesday: 10.00 - 17.00 Wednesday - Friday: 9.00 - 17.00
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Tour on coach/ Travel guidance 2012
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Erlebniswochenende Historic City Centre Tour on a coach Visit historic streets and places and follow in the tracks of the historic personalities of Eisenach, Saint Elisabeth, Johann Sebastian Bach and Martin Luther.
know one of the largest mansion quarters of Art Nouveau and historism of Europe.
Duration: 2 hours (ca. 1.5 hrs excursion on coach and 30 minutes on foot) € 128.00/group foreign language € 30.00/supplementary hour foreign language/group
Get an insight into the industrial development and get to
A tour into the Thuringian Forest Through densely forested elevations, idyllic valleys, quiet villages, picturesque health- and holiday resorts, internationally renowned winter sport areas – we will give you an impression of this wonderful region in the middle of Germany with interesting stories
and legends…
Duration: 4 hours on our own coach € 150.00/group foreign language € 30.00 supplementary hour foreign language/group Duration: 8 hours on our own coach € 270.00/group foreign language
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phone: 0049 (0) 36 91 - 79 23 0 fax: 0049 (0) 36 91 - 79 23 20 info@eisenach.info www.eisenach.info
phone availability: Monday: 9.00 - 17.00 Tuesday: 10.00 - 17.00 Wednesday - Friday: 9.00 - 17.00
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Tour on coach/ Travel guidance 2012
Hotline: 0049 (0) 3691 79 23 0 or www.eisenach.info
Erlebniswochenende Sightseeing tour in the tracks of Martin Luther During this thematic round-trip you will live to see the little Latin student Martin Luther around 1500 at the Cottas’ home. Follow the tracks of the Luther family to Möhra, the family home of the Luthers with the Luther church. We will walk on to the original scene of the apparent assault in the Luther valley from where Martin Luther came to the Wartburg to live as the squire Jörg for 300 days.
Offer for rental buses available on individual request.
Duration: 3 hours € 175.00/group foreign language
Duration: approx 45 minutes € 3.00 per person entrance fee museum (from 10 persons); € 3.00 per person small refreshment € 6.00 per person large refreshment. Visit to the Lutherhaus – short tour with tour guide
Extension 1: Excursion with a stay in the Luther valley, 1 hour on foot. Duration: 4 hours - € 210.00/group foreign language
Extension 2: Excursion to Möhra – Bad Liebenstein – Trusetal – Schmalkalden with a stay/walk to Wilhelmsburg Palace, approx. 1 hour on foot Duration: 5 hours - € 240.00/group foreign language
Additionally bookable to the round trips: Sightseeing of the Lutherhaus with refreshment: Luther-beer, Adam’s ale and freshly-baked bread with herbal quark and lard, daily from 10 am to 5 pm.
Duration: 30 minutes Price: € 2.50 per person entrance fee museum special price (from 10 persons)
Daily support with city walk in Erfurt or Weimar We will be pleased to organise your individual stay in one of these imposing Thuringian cities. Whether in the tracks of Luther, Bach, Wieland or Goethe.
Offers for rental buses available on individual request.
Duration: 4 hours on our own coach € 150.00/group foreign language, € 30.00 supplementary hour/group foreign language Duration: 8 hours on our own coach € 270.00/group foreign language
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phone: 0049 (0) 36 91 - 79 23 0 fax: 0049 (0) 36 91 - 79 23 20 info@eisenach.info www.eisenach.info
phone availability: Monday: 9.00 - 17.00 Tuesday: 10.00 - 17.00 Wednesday - Friday: 9.00 - 17.00
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Erlebniswochenende Unforgettable – moving – different: Segway-City-tour Eisenach “Where the fun gets started” “Float” through Eisenach with the Segway. For the guided tour every guest gets their own “Segway” and a detailed briefing. After about 5 minutes of familiarisation you can ride the Segway thanks to the modern computer system. Experience one of the most state-of-the-art vehicles and be fascinated by this unique tour. The tour is about 10 km long and takes roundabout 3 hours (including ca. 30 minutes of briefing). Enjoy the fresh air and the great feeling of riding the Segway. During the tour our guide will provide all information on the sights that you will pass by. Look forward to an exciting and enthralling tour. Service: briefing for the Segway-de-
vice by competent personnel; a safety-helmet; issuance of your personal Segway driving licence; a trip through the city of Eisenach on Segways, accompanied by a local city guide.
Duration: 3 hours Prices: € 59.00 per person minimum number of participants: 6 maximum number of participants: 10 Requirements for participation: • driving licence for a small moped • minimum age: 15 years • minimum weight: 45 kilos • maximum weight: 110 kilos
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phone: 0049 (0) 36 91 - 79 23 0 fax: 0049 (0) 36 91 - 79 23 20 info@eisenach.info www.eisenach.info
phone availability: Monday: 9.00 - 17.00 Tuesday: 10.00 - 17.00 Wednesday - Friday: 9.00 - 17.00
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Press Release
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Eisenach - Eisenach Wartburgregion Touristik
Š Anna-Lena Thamm
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phone: 0049 (0) 36 91 - 79 23 0 fax: 0049 (0) 36 91 - 79 23 20 info@eisenach.info www.eisenach.info
phone availability: Monday: 9.00 - 17.00 Tuesday: 10.00 - 17.00 Wednesday - Friday: 9.00 - 17.00
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