Classical Weimar (World Heritage Site)
Classical Weimar means a included in the UNESCO World Heritage List on 2 December 1998 entry, which includes eleven different, mostly " associative " monuments of the city of Weimar and the value of which, formed from the combination of historic events structural shell and authentic features.
Culture Historical classification
The ensemble " Classical Weimar " represents a unique testimony of a past, but continuing effects epoch - the " Weimar Classicism ", prepared by the European, bourgeois enlightenment courtly and bourgeois culture in a central European residence around 1800.
The inclusion of Weimar in the World Heritage List, UNESCO established the
The " Weimar Classicism " took traditions and progressive influences of the world culture, passed to complete, meaning and effect far national borders and became part of world culture. It created literary works of outstanding importance which is characterized by openness to the world, universal education and humanistic aspiration claim. Weimar became a focal point of European intellectual thought: 1772 the poet Christoph Martin Wieland, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1775, a year later Johann Gottfried Herder and 1799 Friedrich Schiller in the residence. Goethe's death in 1832 marked the end point of the " Weimar Classicism ".
In Goethe and Schiller Archives and Duchess Anna Amalia library manuscripts and books in rem testimonies of classical Weimar literature. Many, resulting in an impressive density and authenticity monuments tell of the lives of the poets, their patrons and of the prototypical liable artistic, architectural, urban and landscape design achievements of the time.
Sites of "Classic Weimar "
Declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site " Classical Weimar " include:
- Goethe's house ( house wife plan)
- Schiller's house
- The Herder venues ( City Church of St. Peter and Paul, Herder's house and Old Grammar School Weimar)
- The Weimar Stadtschloss
- Wittumspalais
- The Duchess Anna Amalia Library
- The Park on the Ilm with Roman House, Goethe's Garden House and Goethe's garden at the star
- Palace and Park Belvedere Orangery
- Palace and Park Ettersburg
- Palace and Park Tiefurt
- And the Historical Cemetery of Weimar with the royal crypt
Film
- Geisler, Ute ( Writer and Director ) and Holger Schüppel (camera): Treasures of the World - Weimar - The City in the Park ( 14:33 min)