WEIMAR
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History I
Sightseeing I
Practical I Hotels in Weimar
The 1000-year-old town of
Weimar (60,000 inhabitants) has
played an important role in the development of German culture and
was home to many great men, including Luther,
Bach, Liszt, Wagner and Schiller. Weimar's part in the
politics of Germany is scarcely less significant: It was chosen as the
seat of government of the democratic republic
(Weimarer Republik) established after World War I, a regime
that ended with the Nazi accession in 1933. One of the most notorious
concentration camps was to be built here (Buchenwald)
An important
cultural centre of the past, the city experienced its golden age in the
18th and 19th centuries. Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe lived here for 50 years and was a major influence as
civil servant, theatre director and poet.
It is still the cultural center of the federal state of
Thüringen, and features Franz Liszt Polytechnic and Bauhaus University.
The town "located in a park", offers the German National Theatre, in
which the national assembly was held in 1919 and stages classical and
modern theatre of all types. An extremely attractive alternative scene
also offers younger people the chance to experience a town in
transition. Weimar is a town of literature, music, theatre, educative
art and museums. The Goethe and Schiller houses, the Nietzsche archives,
the Goethe and Schiller archives, art collections and the Bauhaus museum
all are among the town's much loved icons. Concerts by the town's
orchestra, and those of the Franz Liszt Polytechnic and classical and
modern performances in the German National Theatre are complemented by
the alternative modern "arty" bars, galleries and other "happenings" for
freaks and fans alike.
