Classical Weimar is a UNESCO

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 World Heritage Site

World Heritage Site

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 consisting of multiple structures related to Weimar Classicism

Weimar Classicism

Weimar Classicism is a cultural and literary movement of Europe. Followers attempted to establish a new humanism by synthesizing Romantic, classical and Enlightenment ideas...

 located in and around the city of Weimar, Germany

Weimar

Weimar is a city in Germany famous for its cultural heritage. It is located in the federal state of Thuringia , 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...

. The Site was inscribed on 2 December 1998. UNESCO cites both the artistic quality of the buildings and the fact that Weimar was a cultural centre of Europe during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Contributing buildings

• Goethe's House
  Goethe House (Weimar)
  The Goethe House is the main house lived in by the poet Goethe whilst in Weimar, though he did live in several others in the town.-External links:* - official site...
  
  , the home of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath. He is considered the supreme genius of modern German literature. His works span the fields of poetry, drama, prose, philosophy, and science. His Faust has been called the greatest long...
  
  , built in the Baroque
  Baroque
  The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...
  
   style between 1707 and 1709, and Schiller's
  Friedrich Schiller
  Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life , Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
  
   House, also a Baroque–styled house, built in 1777, though incorporating a sixteenth–century outbuilding
• City Church, Herder House and Old High School, a three-aisled church, a sixteenth century house built on the foundation of a Renaissance
  Renaissance
  The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...
  
   structure, and a Baroque high school, respectively
• City Castle, a four–winged building, the interior being in the Classical style
• The Dowager's Palace, consisting of a group of two– and three–storey buildings in the Baroque style, the Duchess Anna Amalia Library
  Duchess Anna Amalia Library
  The Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar, Thuringia, Germany, houses a major collection of German literature and historical documents...
  
  , the main structure being a three–storey Baroque–style building, and the Princes' Tomb
  Weimarer Fürstengruft
  The Fürstengruft is the ducal burial chapel of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, located in the Historical Cemetery in Weimar. It also houses the tombs of Goethe and Schiller. It is part of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and since 1998 it and the cemetery have also been part of the Classical Weimar World Heritage...
  
   and Historic Cemetery
  Historical Cemetery, Weimar
  The Historical Cemetery is the main cemetery of Weimar. It includes the Weimarer Fürstengruft, with which it forms part of the Classical Weimar World Heritage Site....
  
  
• The Park on the Ilm, consisting of the Roman House, Goethe's Garden and Garden House
• Belvedere Castle
  Schloss Belvedere, Weimar
  The Baroque Schloss Belvedere, Weimar on the outskirts of Weimar, is a pleasure-house built for house-parties, built in 1724-1732 to designs of Johann August Richter and Gottfried Heinrich Krohne for Ernst August, Duke of Saxe-Weimar. The corps de logis is flanked by symmetrical pavilions...
  
  , a two–storey Baroque castle with connecting and a U–shaped orangery
  Orangery
  An orangery was a building in the grounds of fashionable residences from the 17th to the 19th centuries and given a classicising architectural form. The orangery was similar to a greenhouse or conservatory...
  
  
• Tiefurt Castle, a two–storey building built in the Baroque style, linked to a former farm building by a wooden frame
• Ettersburg Castle, a four–storey structure consisting of three wings and a courtyard
• Wieland Manor, consisting of four wings and a central courtyard