Weimar is a lively town with approximately 65,000 inhabitants in the German state of Thuringia. It is not large, but it breathes history and because of the many tourists and students from the art schools in Weimar, it is cozy and has many amenities: museums, shops, restaurants, theater. In 1999, Weimar was European Capital of Culture. The historic center of Weimar has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
History
Weimar was first mentioned in written documents in the year 899 and the city was granted city rights in 1410.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, Weimar was known as a city of art and science, and the famous German writer Goethe, among others, lived in Weimar for a long time. In the chaotic situation at the end of the First World War, Emperor Wilhelm II abdicated. A communist revolution was threatening. Under the leadership of the social democrat Friedrich Ebert, elections were called for the National Assembly. The delegates for this meeting met in Weimar in 1919. The Weimar Republic was named after this meeting. The republic existed until 1933, in which year Hitler took power. In 1937, the Buchenwald concentration camp was built in Weimar.
Tourist attractions
Numerous museums, statues and monuments remind us of the great names who were at home in Weimar: Goethe, Schiller, Herder, Bach, Liszt, Cranach. But also the founders of the Bauhaus movement: Henry van de Velde and Gropius. Weimar was the center of the humanities at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. One of the most famous names is the poet Goethe who lived in Weimar for fifty years. Goethe’s garden house is located in Park An der Ilm.
The writer Friedrich Schiller spent his last years in Weimar and the poet and philosopher Johann Gotfried Herder also ended his career as a preacher in Weimar. A final classic” name is Frans Liszt