Classic Weimar

Classic Weimar
UNESCO world heritage
	100 Euro gold commemorative coin, motif "Classic Weimar", 2006
National territory:	Germany
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"

Goethe House

Schiller House

Herder Church

Herderhaus

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):


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


Park on the Ilm	Roman house	Garden shed


Belvedere Palace	Ettersburg Castle	Tiefurt Castle

the historical cemetery Weimar with the princely crypt


Princely Crypt

Movie

Ute Geisler (script and direction), Holger Schüppel (camera): Treasures of the world - Weimar - The city in the park (14:33 min.)

Web links

Commons : Klassisches Weimar - Collection of images, videos and audio files