Classical Weimar
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How it came to be
Classical Weimar is a group of buildings and parks in and around Weimar, a small town in Thuringia in central Germany. Weimar became the capital of the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach in 1572. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries writers and scholars gathered here, and the town became a cultural centre of Europe.
It began when Duchess Anna Amalia appointed the poet Christoph Martin Wieland as tutor to her sons in 1772. Goethe settled in Weimar in 1775 after Carl August succeeded to the duchy, and Herder arrived in 1776. The partnership between Goethe and Schiller began in 1794, and when Schiller moved to Weimar in 1799 the town's cultural influence reached its peak.
The inscribed places include Goethe's House and Garden House, Schiller's House, the Herder Church, the Residence Castle, the Duchess Anna Amalia Library, the Park on the Ilm and Belvedere Castle. War damage meant much restoration and reconstruction, guided by detailed records and mostly using original materials. The library was restored after a fire in 2004 and reopened in 2007. Classical Weimar was inscribed in 1998.
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