The best source for information about the proposal to create a Bach memorial on the site of his original home can be found at:
What the petition tries to do is put some pressure on the government to put pressure on the owners of the lot, an international hotel holding company which has been completely unresponsive to the various proposals. They do own the ground—the property—but have no immediate plans for building there—anything at all. That's why it remains a parking lot.
|Bach in Weimar [?]|
attr. J. E. Rentsch, the elder (d. 1723)
The plans as to exactly what to do on the proposed Bach-Haus site—the vacant lot—are still up in the air: nobody wants to spend money for architects, detailed planning, and fundraising unless and until there is more legal clarity. The general goal is to have a memorial to Bach there where he lived for nine years and where his oldest children were born. These include both Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel, arguably the most important Weimar-born composer.
|Weimar in the 18th century.|
The Music of Johann Sebastian Bach: The Sources, the Style, the Significance (Schirmer Books, 1989) and, most recently, editor with Robert Curry and David Gable of Variations on the Canon: Essays on Music from Bach to Boulez in Honor of Charles Rosen on His Eightieth Birthday (University of Rochester Press, 2008).