Weimar{{otheruses4|See also Weimar Republic. For the locality in Texas called ''Weimar'' see Weimar, Texas, there is also Weimar bei Kassel and Weimar (Lahn)|Weimar in Marburg-Biedenkopf}} {| border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" style="float:right; empty-cells:show; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:0,5em; background:#FFDEAD;" ! Coat of arms ! Map |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | align="center" | ! |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" ! align="center" | Image:Weimar-coat_of_arms.png|Weimar's coat of arms  ! align="center" | Image:Lage_weimar.PNG|Germany, with Weimar as a red dot. |- ! colspan="2" | Statistics |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | States of Germany|State: || Thuringia |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Districts of Germany|District: || Independent city |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Area: || 84.27 km² |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Population: || 63,691 ''(12/31/2002)'' |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Population density: || 755.8/km² |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Elevation: || 208.6 m |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | List of postal codes in Germany|Postal code: || 99421, 99423-99427 (''old:'' 5300) |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Area codes in Germany|Area/distance code: || 036-43 |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" valign="top" | Location: || {{coor dm|50|58|N|11|19|E|region:DE}}. |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Municipal code: || 16055000 |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | License plates in Germany|Car designation: || <code>WE</code>  |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Address of the city administration: || 17 Schwanseestr. Weimar 99421 |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Website: || [http://www.weimar.de/ www.weimar.de] |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" ! colspan="2" | Politics |---- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Mayor: || --> |} '''Weimar''' is a city in Germany. It is located at 50° 58 min 6 s north / 11° 18 min 6 s east, in the States of Germany|Bundesland of Thuringia (German language|German: ''Thüringen''), close to the Thüringer Wald to the south, shortly to the northeast of Erfurt, and approximately fifty miles (75 kilometre|meters) southwest of Halle, Saxony-Anhalt|Halle and Leipzig. Its current population is approximately 62,000. The oldest record of the city dates to the year 899. Weimar is one of the great culture|cultural sites of Europe, since it was the home to such luminaries as Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|Goethe, Friedrich Schiller|Schiller, and Johann Gottfried von Herder|Herder. It has been a site of pilgrimage for the German intelligentsia since Goethe first moved to Weimar in the late 18th century. The tombs of Goethe, Schiller, and Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche may be found in the city, as may the archives of Goethe and Schiller. The period in History of Germany|German history from 1919-1933 is commonly referred to as the Weimar Republic, as the Republic's constitution was drafted here while the capital, Berlin, with its streets rioting after the 1918 revolution, was considered too dangerous for the National Assembly to convene. Weimar was the center of the Bauhaus movement. The city houses art galleries, museums, the German national theatre, and the Bauhaus University. During World War II, there was a concentration camp near Weimar, at Buchenwald, a little wood that Goethe had loved to frequent. UNESCO selected the city as cultural capital of Europe ("Kulturstadt Europas") for 1999. On September 3, 2004, a fire broke out at the Duchess Anna Amalia Library. The library contains a 13,000-volume-strong collection of Goethe's masterpiece ''Faust'', in addition to a music collection of the Duchess. An authentic Martin Luther|Lutheran Bible from 1534 was saved from the fire. The damage toll measures 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. The library belongs to the UNESCO world heritage, and is one of the oldest public libraries in Europe. The fire, with its destruction of much historical literature, 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. ==Districts:== *Ehringsdorf *Gaberndorf *Gelmeroda *Weimar-Holzdorf|Holzdorf *Weimar-Kromsdorf|Kromsdorf *Legefeld *Niedergrunstedt *Oberweimar *Possendorf *Weimas-Schöndorf|Schöndorf *Süßenborn *Taubach *Tiefurt *Tröbsdorf ==Twinnings:== *Hämeenlinna, Finland *Blois, France *Trier, Germany *Siena, Italy ==Transportation:== It is connected by one freeway and two routes: *Autobahn **[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesautobahn_4 A4] *Routes: **German route 7|7 **German route 85|85 ==Sporting clubs== *[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/TC_Weimar_1912_e.V. TC Weimar 1912 e.V.] ==External links== * [http://www.weimar.de/en/ Weimar's official website] * [http://www.augentier.de/kusa/index_en.php Art galleries in Weimar] * [http://www.Mythos-Ginkgo.de Ginkgo Museum, Weimar] * [http://www.nationaltheater-weimar.de Deutsches Nationaltheater] Category:Thuringia Category:Towns in Germany ca:Weimar da:Weimar de:Weimar eo:Vajmaro es:Weimar fr:Weimar id:Weimar it:Weimar he:%D7%95%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%A8 nl:Weimar ja:ヴァイマル no:Weimar pl:Weimar pt:Weimar fi:Weimar sv:Weimar First page | Prev | Next | Last page |

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