Category: Weimar, Thüringen
Categories: Districts and Independent Cities of Thuringia | Landkreise und kreisfreie Städte in Thüringen
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Weimar is a city in the federal state of Thuringia, Germany. The city was a focal point of the German Enlightenment and home of the leading characters of the literary genre of Weimar Classicism, the writers Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller. In the 19th century, famous composers like Franz Liszt made a music centre of Weimar and later, artists and architects like Henry van de Velde, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger and Walter Gropius came to the city and founded the Bauhaus movement, the most important German design school of the interwar period. However, the political history of 20th-century Weimar was inconsistent: it was the place where Germany's first democratic constitution was signed after the First World War, giving its name to the Weimar Republic period in German politics (1918–1933), as well as one of the cities that got mythologized by the National Socialist propaganda.
Until 1948, Weimar was the capital of Thuringia. [1]
Before it was the capital of the Duchy of Saxony (1547-1572), the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar (1572-1741), the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1741-1815), the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1815-1918) and the Free State of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1918-1920).
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