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Weimar, Germany

Weimar
Weimar - Blick zu Herderkirche & Stadtschloss.jpg
Coat of arms of Weimar
Coat of arms
Weimar   is located in Germany
Weimar
Weimar
Coordinates: 50°59′0″N 11°19′0″E / 50.98333°N 11.31667°E / 50.98333; 11.31667Coordinates: 50°59′0″N 11°19′0″E / 50.98333°N 11.31667°E / 50.98333; 11.31667
Country Germany
State Thuringia
District Urban district
Government
 • Lord Mayor Stefan Wolf (SPD)
Area
 • Total 84.420 km2 (32.595 sq mi)
Elevation 208 m (682 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
 • Total 64,131
 • Density 760/km2 (2,000/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 99401–99441
Dialling codes 03643, 036453
Vehicle registration WE
Website www.weimar.de
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Classical Weimar
Name as inscribed on the World Heritage List
Park an der Ilm, Römisches Haus, Weimar.JPG
Park an der Ilm
Location Germany
Type Cultural
Criteria iii, vi
Reference 846
UNESCO region Europe and North America
Inscription history
Inscription 1998 (22nd Session)

Weimar (German pronun­cia­tion: [ˈvaɪmaɐ]; Latin: Vimaria or Vinaria) is a city in the federal state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately 80 kilometres (50 miles) southwest of Leipzig, 170 kilometres (106 miles) north of Nuremberg and 170 kilometres (106 miles) west of Dresden. Together with the neighbour-cities Erfurt and Jena it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, whereas the city itself counts a population of 65,000. Weimar is well known because of its large cultural heritage and its importance in German history.

The city was a focal point of the German Enlightenment and home of the leading characters of the literary genre of Weimar Classicism, the writers Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller. In the 19th century, famous composers like Franz Liszt made a music centre of Weimar and later, artists and architects like Henry van de Velde, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger and Walter Gropius came to the city and founded the Bauhaus movement, the most important German design school of the interwar period. However, the political history of 20th-century Weimar was inconsistent: it was the place where Germany's first democratic constitution was signed after the First World War, giving its name to the Weimar Republic period in German politics (1918–33), as well as one of the cities mythologized by the National Socialist propaganda.


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