b_179_129_16777215_00_images_BAC1444aa001.jpegBERLIN - Museums, archives, palaces and memorials are dotted around the German cultural city of Weimar celebrating famous writers Goethe and Schiller, Bauhaus painters Kandinsky and Klee and other important cultural figures over hundreds of years. But for one of Weimar's most famous former residents, the composer Johann Sebastian Bach, it is a car park that stands on top of the place where he lived for more than 10 years.

A group of Bach fans now want to see that change and are campaigning to buy the site, under which the foundations of Bach's house remain under heritage protection, and to rebuild the house the composer moved to with his pregnant wife when he was 23.

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