Weimar

Classical Weimar
Classical Weimar*
UNESCO World Heritage Site
State Party	Germany
Type	Cultural
Criteria	iii, vi
Reference	846
Region**	Europe and North America
	Inscription history
Inscription	1998 (22nd Session)
	* Name as inscribed on World Heritage List.; ** Region as classified by UNESCO.

Weimar
	Weimar
Coat of arms	Location
	;
	Administration
Country	Germany
State	Thuringia
District	Urban district
Town subdivisions	12 districts
Lord Mayor	Stefan Wolf (SPD)
	Basic statistics
Area	84.26 km² (32.5 sq mi)
Elevation	208 m (682 ft)
Population	64,720 (31/12/2007)
- Density	768 /km² (1,989 /sq mi)
	Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	WE
Postal codes	99401–99441
Area codes	03643, 036453
Website	www.weimar.de Coordinates: 50°59′0″N 11°19′0″E / 50.98333, 11.31667

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Weimar (IPA: [ˈvaɪmaʁ]) is a city in Germany. It is located in the Bundesland of Thuringia (German: Thüringen), north of the Thüringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle and Leipzig. Its current population is approximately 65,000. The oldest record of the city dates from the year 899. Weimar was the capital of the Duchy (after 1815 the Grand Duchy) of Saxe-Weimar (German Sachsen-Weimar). In the 20th century, the city gave its name to the Weimar Republic.

1 History
2 Famous residents of Weimar
3 Districts
4 Education
5 Transportation
6 Sister cities
7 External links
8 References

The Grand-Ducal Palace.

Goethe and Schiller in front of the Deutsches Nationaltheater.

Weimar is one of the great cultural sites of Europe, having been home to such luminaries as Bach, Goethe, Schiller, and Herder; and in music the piano virtuosi Hummel (a pupil of Mozart) and Liszt. It has been a site of pilgrimage for the German intelligentsia since Goethe first moved to Weimar in the late 18th century. The tombs of Goethe and Schiller as well as their archives, may be found in the city. Goethe's Elective Affinities (1809) is set around the city of Weimar.

The period in German history from 1919 to 1933 is commonly referred to as the Weimar Republic, as the Republic's constitution was drafted here because the capital, Berlin, with its street rioting after the 1918 German Revolution, was considered too dangerous for the National Assembly to use it as a meeting place. Weimar was, beside Dessau, the center of the Bauhaus movement. The city houses art galleries, museums and the German national theatre. The Bauhaus University and the Liszt School of Music Weimar attracted many students, specializing in media and design, architecture, civil engineering and music, to Weimar.

During World War II, there was a concentration camp near Weimar, at Buchenwald, only 8 kilometers from the city center. More than 55,000 prisoners entered the gates bearing the motto "Jedem das Seine" ("to each his due"). The Buchenwald concentration camp provided slave labour for local industry (arms industry of Wilhelm-Gustloff-Werk).^[2]

Weimar was part of the German Democratic Republic from 1949 to 1990.

The European Council of Ministers selected the city as a European Capital of Culture for 1999.

On September 3, 2004, a fire broke out at the Duchess Anna Amalia Library. The library contains a 13,000-volume collection including Goethe's masterpiece Faust, in addition to a music collection of the Duchess. An authentic Lutheran Bible from 1534 was saved from the fire. The damage stretched into the millions of dollars. The number of books in this historic library exceeded 1,000,000, of which 40,000 to 50,000 were destroyed past recovery. The library, which dates back to 1691, belongs to UNESCO world heritage, and is one of the oldest libraries in Europe. The fire, with its destruction of much historical literature, amounts to a huge cultural loss for Germany, Europe, and indeed the world. A number of books were shock-frozen in the city of Leipzig to save them from rotting.

Schiller House.

Goethe's garden house.

Liszt's garden house.

The Altenburg, Liszt's residence in Weimar.

Liszt School of Music Weimar.

It is connected by one motorway and two routes:

Autobahn
- A4
Routes:
- 7
- 85

There are railways running from Weimar to Erfurt (westbound), Halle/Leipzig (north-east-bound), Jena-Gera-Chemnitz (eastbound) and Kranichfeld (southbound). The ICE-line-trains from Frankfurt to Dresden arrive in Weimar every hour.

^ Thüringer Landesamt für Statistik. "Population data". http://www.tls.thueringen.de/. Retrieved on 2007-08-10.
^ Edward Victor.Alphabetical List of Camps, Subcamps and Other Camps.www.edwardvictor.com/Holocaust/List %20 of %20 camps.htm

[0] Thüringer Landesamt für Statistik. "Population data". http://www.tls.thueringen.de/. Retrieved on 2007-08-10.

[1] Edward Victor.Alphabetical List of Camps, Subcamps and Other Camps.www.edwardvictor.com/Holocaust/List %20 of %20 camps.htm

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Weimar
Coat of arms	Location

Administration
Country	Germany
State	Thuringia
District	Urban district
Town subdivisions	12 districts
Lord Mayor	Stefan Wolf (SPD)
Basic statistics
Area	84.26 km² (32.5 sq mi)
Elevation	208 m (682 ft)
Population	64,720 (31/12/2007)^[1]
- Density	768 /km² (1,989 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	WE
Postal codes	99401–99441
Area codes	03643, 036453
Website	www.weimar.de Coordinates: 50°59′0″N 11°19′0″E / 50.98333, 11.31667

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Classical Weimar*
UNESCO World Heritage Site

State Party	Germany
Type	Cultural
Criteria	iii, vi
Reference	846
Region**	Europe and North America
Inscription history
Inscription	1998 (22nd Session)
* Name as inscribed on World Heritage List. ** Region as classified by UNESCO.