The Goethe-Schiller Monument is located in Weimar and was designed by the German sculptor Ernst Rietschel in 1857 AD. It is a bronze statue that includes two important figures in the history of German literature, the German poet and novelist Johann Goethe and the German philosopher Friedrich Schiller. ), as they are considered one of the most important and respected figures in German literature, and this monument is the original monument to them, as dozens of memorials were built for them later in Europe and the United States.