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Weimar is a city
City

A city is an urban area with a high population density and a particular administrative, legal, or historical status.Large industrialized cities generally have advanced systems for sanitation, utilities, land usage, house, and transportation and more....
 in Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
. It is located in the Bundesland
States of Germany

Germany is a federation consisting of sixteen states, known in German language as L?nder . Since Land is the literal German word for "country", the term Bundesl?nder is commonly used colloquially, as it is more specific, though technically incorrect within the corpus of German law....
 of Thuringia
Thuringia

The Free State of Thuringia is located in central Germany. It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen States of Germany ....
 , north of the Thüringer Wald, east of Erfurt
Erfurt

Erfurt is a city in central Germany. It is the Capital of the state of Thuringia with a population of 202,929 . Erfurt is located 100 km SW of Leipzig, 150 km N of N?rnberg and 180 km SE of Hannover....
, and southwest of Halle
Halle, Saxony-Anhalt

Halle is the largest city in the Germany States of Germany of Saxony-Anhalt. It is also called Halle an der Saale in order to distinguish it from Halle, North Rhine-Westphalia in North Rhine-Westphalia....
 and Leipzig
Leipzig

Leipzig is, with a population of over 511,252, the largest city in the States of Germany of Saxony, Germany....
. 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
Saxe-Weimar

History of Saxony-Weimar was a duchy in Thuringia, Germany. The chief town and capital was Weimar....
 (German Sachsen-Weimar). In the 20th century, the city gave its name to the Weimar Republic
Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic was the democracy and republican period of Germany from 1919 to 1933. Following World War I, the republic emerged from the German Revolution in November 1918....
.

History

18th and 19th centuries
Weimar is one of the great cultural sites of Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
, having been home to such luminaries as Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
, Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

was a Germans writer and according to George Eliot, "Germany's greatest man of letters? and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, humanism and science....
, Schiller
Friedrich Schiller

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller [johan/jo?han kr?st?f fri?t??? f?n ??l??/??l?] was a Germany poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright....
, and Herder; and in music the piano virtuosi Hummel
Johann Nepomuk Hummel

Johann Nepomuk Hummel or Jan Nepomuk Hummel was a composer and virtuoso pianist of Austrian origin who was born in Pressburg , but a part of Kingdom of Hungary when he was born....
 (a pupil of Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
) and Liszt
Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt was a Kingdom of Hungary composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher.Liszt became renowned throughout Europe for his great skill as a performer during the 19th century....
.






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Weimar is a city
City

A city is an urban area with a high population density and a particular administrative, legal, or historical status.Large industrialized cities generally have advanced systems for sanitation, utilities, land usage, house, and transportation and more....
 in Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
. It is located in the Bundesland
States of Germany

Germany is a federation consisting of sixteen states, known in German language as L?nder . Since Land is the literal German word for "country", the term Bundesl?nder is commonly used colloquially, as it is more specific, though technically incorrect within the corpus of German law....
 of Thuringia
Thuringia

The Free State of Thuringia is located in central Germany. It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen States of Germany ....
 , north of the Thüringer Wald, east of Erfurt
Erfurt

Erfurt is a city in central Germany. It is the Capital of the state of Thuringia with a population of 202,929 . Erfurt is located 100 km SW of Leipzig, 150 km N of N?rnberg and 180 km SE of Hannover....
, and southwest of Halle
Halle, Saxony-Anhalt

Halle is the largest city in the Germany States of Germany of Saxony-Anhalt. It is also called Halle an der Saale in order to distinguish it from Halle, North Rhine-Westphalia in North Rhine-Westphalia....
 and Leipzig
Leipzig

Leipzig is, with a population of over 511,252, the largest city in the States of Germany of Saxony, Germany....
. 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
Saxe-Weimar

History of Saxony-Weimar was a duchy in Thuringia, Germany. The chief town and capital was Weimar....
 (German Sachsen-Weimar). In the 20th century, the city gave its name to the Weimar Republic
Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic was the democracy and republican period of Germany from 1919 to 1933. Following World War I, the republic emerged from the German Revolution in November 1918....
.

History


Goethe Schiller Weimar

18th and 19th centuries


Weimar is one of the great cultural sites of Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
, having been home to such luminaries as Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
, Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

was a Germans writer and according to George Eliot, "Germany's greatest man of letters? and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, humanism and science....
, Schiller
Friedrich Schiller

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller [johan/jo?han kr?st?f fri?t??? f?n ??l??/??l?] was a Germany poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright....
, and Herder; and in music the piano virtuosi Hummel
Johann Nepomuk Hummel

Johann Nepomuk Hummel or Jan Nepomuk Hummel was a composer and virtuoso pianist of Austrian origin who was born in Pressburg , but a part of Kingdom of Hungary when he was born....
 (a pupil of Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
) and Liszt
Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt was a Kingdom of Hungary composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher.Liszt became renowned throughout Europe for his great skill as a performer during the 19th century....
. It has been a site of pilgrimage
Pilgrimage

File:Supplicating Pilgrim at Masjid Al Haram. Mecca, Saudi Arabia.jpgIn religion and spirituality, a pilgrimage is a long quest or search of great moral significance....
 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
Elective Affinities

Elective Affinities is the third novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published in 1809. The title is taken from a scientific term once used to describe the tendency of chemical species to combine with certain substances or species in preference to others....
 (1809) is set around the city of Weimar.

Weimar Republic

The period in German history
History of Germany

Despite the lack of a German nation state before 1871, the countrydates back to the era of the Germanic tribes. Following the migration period, the Franks subsequently subdued the West Germanic tribes, who made up for most of East Francia after the Frankish Empire fell apart....
 from 1919 to 1933 is commonly referred to as the Weimar Republic
Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic was the democracy and republican period of Germany from 1919 to 1933. Following World War I, the republic emerged from the German Revolution in November 1918....
, as the Republic's constitution
Constitution

A constitution is a system for government — often codified as a written document — that establishes the rules and principles of an autonomous political entity....
 was drafted here because the capital, Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
, with its street riot
Riot

A riot is a form of civil disorder characterized by disorganized groups lashing out in a sudden and intense rash of violence, vandalism or other crime....
ing after the 1918 German Revolution
German Revolution

The German Revolution was the politically-driven civil conflict in Germany at the end of World War I. The period lasted from 1918#November until the formal establishment of the Weimar Republic in August 1919....
, was considered too dangerous for the National Assembly
Weimar National Assembly

The Weimar National Assembly governed Germany from February 6 1919 to June 6 1920 and drew up the Weimar Constitution which governed History of Germany, technically remaining in effect even until the end of Nazi Germany in 1945....
 to use it as a meeting place. Weimar was, beside Dessau
Dessau

Dessau is a town in Germany on the junction of the rivers Mulde and Elbe, in the States of Germany of Saxony-Anhalt. Since 1 July 2007, it is part of the merged town Dessau-Ro?lau....
, the center of the Bauhaus
Bauhaus

' is the common term for the ', a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught....
 movement. The city houses art
Art

Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music and literature....
 galleries, museums and the German national theatre
Theatre

Theatre is the branch of the performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one or more actor, isolated in time and/or Theater , present themselves to Audience." By this broad definition, theatre has existed since the dawn of man, as a result of human tendency for story telling....
. The Bauhaus University and the Liszt School of Music Weimar
Liszt School of Music Weimar

The Liszt School of Music Weimar is a college of music in Weimar, Germany....
 attracted many students, specializing in media and design, architecture, civil engineering and music, to Weimar.

World War II

During World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, 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
Buchenwald concentration camp

Buchenwald concentration camp was a Nazi concentration camps established on the Ettersberg near Weimar, Thuringia, Germany , in July 1937, and one of the largest and first camps on German soil....
 provided slave labour for local industry (arms industry of Wilhelm-Gustloff-Werk).

German Democratic Republic

Weimar was part of the German Democratic Republic
German Democratic Republic

The German Democratic Republic was a self-declared socialist state created in the Soviet Zone of occupied Germany and the East Berlin of Allied Occupation Zones in Germany....
 from 1949 to 1990.

Recent years

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

On September 3, 2004, a fire
Fire

Fire is the oxidation of a combustion material releasing heat, light, and various Chemical reaction products such as carbon dioxide and water....
 broke out at 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 library contains:...
. The library contains a 13,000-volume collection including Goethe's masterpiece Faust
Faust

Faust or Faustus is the protagonist of a classic German folklore who makes a pact with the Devil in exchange for knowledge. Faust's tale is the basis for many literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical works, such as those by Christopher Marlowe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Mann, Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt, Charles Gounod, Gu...
, in addition to a music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
 collection of the Duchess. An authentic Lutheran
Martin Luther

Martin Luther was a Germans monk, theology, university professor, priest, father of Protestantism, and Protestant Reformers whose ideas started the Protestant Reformation and changed the course of Western culture....
 Bible
Bible

The Bible is the central religious text of Judaism and Christianity. The exact Books of the Bible is dependent on the religious traditions of specific denominations....
 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
UNESCO

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on 16 November 1945....
 world heritage, and is one of the oldest libraries in Europe. The fire, with its destruction of much historical literature
Literature

Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" . In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction....
, 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.

Famous residents of Weimar


  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
  • Uziel Gal
    Uziel Gal

    Uziel "Uzi" Gal , born Gotthard Glass , was a Yekke- Israeli gun designer best remembered as the designer and namesake of the Uzi.Gal was born in Weimar, Germany....
  • Hector Berlioz
    Hector Berlioz

    Louis Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic music composer and guitarist, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Requiem . Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation and by utilizing huge orchestral forces for his works; as a conductor, he performed several c...
  • Hans von Bülow
    Hans von Bülow

    Hans Guido Freiherr von B?low was a German Conducting, virtuoso pianist, and composer of the Romantic music. He was one of the most famous conductors of the 19th century, and his activity was critical for establishing the successes of several major composers of the time, including Richard Wagner....
  • Peter Cornelius
    Peter Cornelius

    Carl August Peter Cornelius was a Germany composer, writer about music, poet and translator. He was born and died in Mainz where his grave in the Hauptfriedhof survives....
  • Lucas Cranach the Elder
    Lucas Cranach the Elder

    Lucas Cranach the Elder was a Germany Painting and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was born Lucas Sunder at Kronach in upper Franconia, and learned the art of drawing from his father....
  • Marlene Dietrich
    Marlene Dietrich

    Marlene Dietrich ; was a German-born American actress, singer and entertainer.Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself....
  • Lyonel Feininger
    Lyonel Feininger

    Lyonel Charles Feininger was a German-American painters and caricature....
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    was a Germans writer and according to George Eliot, "Germany's greatest man of letters? and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, humanism and science....
  • Walter Gropius
    Walter Gropius

    Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a Germany architect and founder of Bauhaus who along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture....
  • Nina Hagen
    Nina Hagen

    Nina Hagen is a singer from East Berlin, Germany....
  • Johann Gottfried Herder
    Johann Gottfried Herder

    Johann Gottfried von Herder was a Germany philosophy, Theology, poet, and literary critic. He is associated with the periods of Age of Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism....
  • Johann Gottfried Walther
    Johann Gottfried Walther

    Johann Gottfried Walther was a Germany music theory, organ , composer, and lexicography of the Baroque music era. Not only was his life almost exactly contemporaneous to that of Johann Sebastian Bach, he was the famous composer's cousin....
  • John Horrocks
    John Horrocks

    John Horrocks is the name of:* John Horrocks , British cotton manufacturer* John Ainsworth Horrocks, South Australian explorer...
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel
    Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Johann Nepomuk Hummel or Jan Nepomuk Hummel was a composer and virtuoso pianist of Austrian origin who was born in Pressburg , but a part of Kingdom of Hungary when he was born....
  • Johannes Itten
    Johannes Itten

    Johannes Itten was a Swiss Expressionist architecture Painting, designer, teacher, writer and theorist associated with the Bauhaus school . Together with German-American painter Lyonel Feininger and German sculptor Gerhard Marcks, under the direction of German architect Walter Gropius, Itten was part of the core of the Weimar Bauhaus....
  • Joseph Joachim
    Joseph Joachim

    Joseph Joachim was a Hungarian people violinist, conducting, composer and teacher. He is regarded as one of the most influential violinists of all time....
  • Wassily Kandinsky
    Wassily Kandinsky

    Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian Painting, printmaker and art theorist. One of the most famous 20th-century artists, he is credited with painting the first modern abstract art works....
  • Harry Graf Kessler
    Harry Graf Kessler

    Harry Kessler was an Anglo-German count, diplomat, writer, and patron of modern art.His diaries "Berlin in Lights" published in 1971 revealed anecdotes and details of the artistic and theatrical life in Europe, mostly in Germany, from the collapse of Germany at the end of World War I until his death in 1937....
  • Paul Klee
    Paul Klee

    Paul Klee was a Switzerland Painting of Germany nationality. His highly individual style was influenced by many different art trends, including expressionism, cubism, and surrealism....
  • Franz Liszt
    Franz Liszt

    Franz Liszt was a Kingdom of Hungary composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher.Liszt became renowned throughout Europe for his great skill as a performer during the 19th century....
  • Martin Luther
    Martin Luther

    Martin Luther was a Germans monk, theology, university professor, priest, father of Protestantism, and Protestant Reformers whose ideas started the Protestant Reformation and changed the course of Western culture....
  • László Moholy-Nagy
    László Moholy-Nagy

    L?szl? Moholy-Nagy , July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Hungary Painting and photographer as well as professor in the Bauhaus school....
  • Friedrich Nietzsche
    Friedrich Nietzsche

    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th century philosophy Germans philosophy and classical philology. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, using a distinctive German language style and displaying a fondness for metaphor and aphorism....
  • Friedrich Preller
    Friedrich Preller

    Friedrich Preller may refer to one of two German painters:*Friedrich Preller the Elder , landscape painter, etcher and professor*Friedrich Preller the Younger , landscape and marine painter...
  • Joseph Joachim Raff
  • Friedrich Schiller
    Friedrich Schiller

    Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller [johan/jo?han kr?st?f fri?t??? f?n ??l??/??l?] was a Germany poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright....
  • Oskar Schlemmer
    Oskar Schlemmer

    Oskar Schlemmer was a Germany Painting, sculptor and designer associated with the Bauhaus school. In 1923 he was hired as Master of Form at the Bauhaus theatre workshop, after working some time at the workshop of sculpture....
  • Arthur Schopenhauer
    Arthur Schopenhauer

    Arthur Schopenhauer was a Germany philosopher known for his atheistic pessimism and philosophical clarity. At age 25, he published his doctoral dissertation, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, which examined the fundamental question of whether reason alone can unlock answers about the world....
  • Frédéric Soret
    Frédéric Soret

    Fr?d?ric Soret, , Switzerland private scholar in physics and Oriental numismatics....
  • Rudolf Steiner
    Rudolf Steiner

    Rudolf Steiner was an Austrians philosopher, literary scholar, educator, architect, playwright, social thinker, and Esotericism. After gaining initial recognition as a literary critic and cultural philosopher, at the beginning of the twentieth century he founded a new spiritual movement, Anthroposophy, as an esoteric philosophy growing...
  • Richard Strauss
    Richard Strauss

    Richard Georg Strauss was a German composer of the late Romantic music and early modern eras, particularly of operas, Lieder and tone poems. Strauss was also a prominent Conducting....
  • Henry van de Velde
    Henry van de Velde

    Henry Van de Velde was a Belgium painter, architect and interior designer. Together with Victor Horta he can be considered one of the main founders and representatives of Art Nouveau in Belgium....
  • Richard Wagner
    Richard Wagner

    Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, Conducting, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas . Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner wrote both the scenario and libretto for his works....
  • Christoph Martin Wieland
    Christoph Martin Wieland

    Christoph Martin Wieland was a Germany poet and writer....
  • Carl Zeiss
    Carl Zeiss

    File:4microssopes4.jpgCarl Zeiss was an optician commonly known for the company he founded, Carl Zeiss AG. Zeiss made contributions to lens manufacturing that have aided the modern production of lenses....


Districts


  • Ehringsdorf
  • Gaberndorf
  • Gelmeroda
  • Holzdorf
  • Legefeld
  • Niedergrunstedt
  • Oberweimar
  • Possendorf
  • Schöndorf
  • Süßenborn
  • Taubach
  • Tiefurt
  • Tröbsdorf


Education

  • Bauhaus-University Weimar
    Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

    The Bauhaus-Universit?t Weimar is a university for creative studies in Weimar. Since 1993 it has hosted the European Summer Academy....
  • Liszt School of Music Weimar
    Liszt School of Music Weimar

    The Liszt School of Music Weimar is a college of music in Weimar, Germany....
     


Transportation

It is connected by one motorway and two routes:

  • Autobahn
    • A4
      Bundesautobahn 4

      is an Autobahn that crosses Germany in a west-east direction. The western segment has a length of 134 km , the part in the east is 381 km long....
  • Routes:
    • 7
    • 85


There are railways running from Weimar to Erfurt
Erfurt

Erfurt is a city in central Germany. It is the Capital of the state of Thuringia with a population of 202,929 . Erfurt is located 100 km SW of Leipzig, 150 km N of N?rnberg and 180 km SE of Hannover....
 (westbound), Halle
Halle, Saxony-Anhalt

Halle is the largest city in the Germany States of Germany of Saxony-Anhalt. It is also called Halle an der Saale in order to distinguish it from Halle, North Rhine-Westphalia in North Rhine-Westphalia....
/Leipzig
Leipzig

Leipzig is, with a population of over 511,252, the largest city in the States of Germany of Saxony, Germany....
 (north-east-bound), Jena
Jena

Jena is a university city in central Germany on the river Saale. With a population of 103,000 it is the second largest city in the federal state of Thuringia, after Erfurt....
-Gera
Gera

Gera is the third largest city in the German state of Thuringia after Erfurt, the Thuringian capital, and Jena. It is situated in east Thuringia on the river Wei?e Elster , approximately 60 kilometres to the south of the city of Leipzig and 80 kilometers to the east of Erfurt....
-Chemnitz
Chemnitz

Chemnitz is a city in eastern Germany. With a population of approximately 245,000 in its city limits, Chemnitz is the third-largest city of the Free State of Saxony....
 (eastbound) and Kranichfeld
Kranichfeld

Kranichfeld is a town in the Weimarer Land district, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated on the river Ilm , 18 km southeast of Erfurt, and 16 km southwest of Weimar....
 (southbound). The ICE-line-trains from Frankfurt
Frankfurt

is the largest city in the German States of Germany of Hesse and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants in Germany, with a 2008 population of 670,000....
 to Dresden
Dresden

Dresden is the capital city of the Germany Federal Free state of Saxony. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon triangle metropolitan area....
 arrive in Weimar every hour.

Sister cities

  • Blois
    Blois

    Blois is a the capital of the Loir-et-Cher Departments of France in central France, situated on the banks of the lower river Loire River between Orl?ans and Tours....
    , France
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
  • Hämeenlinna
    Hämeenlinna

    H?meenlinna is a List of cities and towns in Finland and Municipalities of Finland of about inhabitants in the heart of the historical province of Tavastia in the south of Finland....
    , Finland
    Finland

    Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
  • Siena
    Siena

    Siena is a city in Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the province of Siena.The historic centre of Siena has been declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site....
    , Italy
    Italy

    Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
  • Trier
    Trier

    Trier is a city in Germany on the banks of the Moselle River. It is the oldest city in Germany, founded in or before 16 BC. Trier is not the only city claiming to be Germany's oldest, but it is the only one that bases this assertion on having the longest history as a city, as opposed to a mere settlement or army camp....
    , Germany
    Germany

    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....


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