Classic Weimar
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UNESCO world heritage ![]() |
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100 Euro gold commemorative coin, motif "Classic Weimar", 2006 |
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Type: | Culture |
Criteria : | (iii) (vi) |
Reference No .: | 846 |
UNESCO region : | Europe and North America |
History of enrollment | |
Enrollment: | 1998 (session 22) |
Classic Weimar has been an entry in the UNESCO World Heritage since December 2nd, 1998 , which includes eleven different, mostly "associative" monuments of the city of Weimar , whose value is based on the combination of historical events, structural shell and authentic furnishings.
Cultural-historical classification
The “Klassisches Weimar” ensemble is a unique testimony to a past, but lasting cultural epoch - the “ Weimar Classic ”, the courtly and bourgeois culture prepared by the European, bourgeois Enlightenment in a Central European residence around 1800.
UNESCO justified the inclusion of Weimar in the World Heritage List with the "great art-historical importance of public and private buildings and park landscapes from the heyday of classical Weimar" and the "outstanding role of Weimar as an intellectual center in the late 18th and early 19th centuries".
The “ Weimar Classic ” took up traditions and progressive influences of world culture, exceeded national borders in claim, meaning and effect far and became part of world culture. Literary works of extraordinary importance were created, characterized by cosmopolitanism, universal educational standards and humanistic striving. Weimar became a focal point for European intellectual currents: in 1772 the poet Christoph Martin Wieland , in 1775 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , a year later Johann Gottfried Herder and in 1799 Friedrich Schiller came to the royal seat. Goethe's death in 1832 marked the end of the “Weimar Classic”.
In the Goethe and Schiller Archives and the Duchess Anna Amalia Library , manuscripts and books are tangible testimonies to the classical Weimar literature. Numerous monuments preserved in impressive density and authenticity tell of the world of the poets, their patrons and of the exemplary artistic, architectural, urban development and landscape design achievements of the time.
Sites of the "Classical Weimar"
The UNESCO World Cultural Heritage "Classic Weimar" includes (see pictures on the right):
- Goethe's house (house on Frauenplan)
- Schiller's house
- the Herderstätten - Herderkirche (city church St. Peter and Paul), Herder's house and the old grammar school in Weimar
as well as (pictures below):
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City Palace | Wittumspalais | Duchess Anna Amalia Library |
- the park on the Ilm with the Roman House , Goethe's garden house and Goethe's garden on the star
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Park on the Ilm | Roman house | Garden shed |
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Belvedere Palace | Ettersburg Castle | Tiefurt Castle |
- the historical cemetery Weimar with the princely crypt
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Princely Crypt |
Movie
- Ute Geisler (script and direction), Holger Schüppel (camera): Treasures of the world - Weimar - The city in the park (14:33 min.)