In Arnstadt Johann Sebastian Bach met his first wife Maria Barbara, daughter of the Johann Michael Bach, Cantor of Gehren, who lived with her sisters Friedelena, Margaretha and Catharina Barbara in Arnstadt after the death of their parents from 1704 and whose guardian Martin Feldhaus was related to the Bach family.
Even though the marriage of Johann Sebastian and Maria Barbara Bach only took place after the vocational move of the young musician to Mühlhausen, the seeds of this wedding were sown in Arnstadt.