Klassik Stiftung Weimar

The Foundation of Weimar Classics is one of the biggest cultural foundations in Germany. It serves an ensemble of about 20 historic houses, castles, museums and parks in and around Weimar, as well as with the Duchess Anna Amalia Library and the Goethe and Schiller Archives also major research institutions.

  • 2.1 Master Plan

History

The Weimar Classics Foundation evolved from the merger of the Weimar Classics Foundation with the art collections at Weimar on 1 January 2003. They first called Weimar Classics Foundation and art collections until it was given its present name in 2006.

Foundation of Weimar Classics

The beginnings of today's foundation goes back to the founding of the National Goethe Museum and Goethe and Schiller Archive in 1885.

After the formation of the federal state of Thuringia, the Goethe National Museum was transferred to the ownership of the land along with a number of other buildings of Weimar from the classical period as well as the Weimar locks. In the twenties of the 20th century more buildings of Weimar were assigned to the Goethe National Museum. Also in 1918, the State Art Collections developed to Weimar from the former princely possession.

In 1953 they were in the National Research and memorials of classical German literature (in short: NFG ) summarized. 1954 came Dornburger castles, 1956, the Nietzsche Archive, 1961 Etter Castle, 1968, the Thuringian State Library (now the Duchess Anna Amalia Library ), later the park on the Ilm, and Belvedere Palace and Park Tiefurt added.

After the reunification in 1991, the facilities and collections of the NFG were transferred to the newly formed Weimar Classic Foundation.

Art collections to Weimar

The art collections in Weimar, founded in 1919, originated mainly in the years 1922-1928 from the museums and collections held by the abdicated Grand Ducal House of Saxe -Weimar- Eisenach. Numerous donations, purchases and loans since been complemented by the historic holdings, making the collection also linked to contemporary art developments.

Structure, financing, master plan

The Classic Foundation is a charitable foundation under public law. Your core responsibilities and the organizational structure determines the Thuringian Law on the Klassik Stiftung Weimar.

Support of the Foundation of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media, the Free State of Thuringia and the city of Weimar. The amount of the grant will be controlled by a financing agreement. For 2011, they amounted to 19.74 million euros. In addition, about 3.5 million euros on its own revenues and other third party funds for additional projects.

The Classic Foundation has approximately 390 employees. (As of December 2009)

Master Plan

In 2008, the federal government and the state of Thuringia have launched a special investment program for the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, with a total of around 150 million euros. These funds are to be implemented within the framework of the Master Plan Kosmos Weimar several major projects: the reconstruction of the destroyed by fire in 2004 book collections of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library, the renovation of the Goethe and Schiller Archive, restoration of manuscript collections, a central art depot ( ten million euros are earmarked) and a new Bauhaus Museum. In addition, the City Palace Weimar is to be extended to the center of the Foundation to take up a permanent exhibition on the cosmos Weimar.

UNESCO

In 1998, UNESCO included the ensemble Classical Weimar on the World Heritage List. This ensemble combines several Weimar buildings and parks, one of which includes most of the Klassik Stiftung.

As an important document in the world literature in 2001, the entire manuscript estate of Goethe, which is preserved in the Goethe and Schiller Archives, included by UNESCO in the Memory of the World Register.

Institutions of the Weimar Classics Foundation

In Weimar:

  • Goethe National Museum with Goethe's house
  • Bauhaus Museum Weimar
  • City Castle of Weimar
  • Schiller's house and Schiller Museum
  • Neues Museum Weimar
  • Wittumspalais
  • Park on the Ilm with Goethe's Garden House
  • Roman House
  • Parkhöhle

In the Thuringian environment:

  • Wielandgut Oßmannstedt ( at Apolda )
  • Palace and Park Ettersburg (the castle is currently leased )
  • Castle Kochberg with park and theater lovers ( at Rudolstadt )
  • Goethe Museum Stuetzerbach ( Ilmenau )
  • Schiller Museum Bauer Bach ( near Meiningen )

Scientific institutions and collections:

  • Duchess Anna Amalia Library
  • Goethe and Schiller Archive
  • College of Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Graphical Collections
  • Natural Science Cabinet in Goethe National Museum
  • Collection of carriages in the Carriage Museum Auerstedt ( in Bad Sulza )
  • Centre for Classical Research

Related or affiliated clubs are:

  • Goethe Society in Weimar eV
  • Friends of the Goethe National Museum eV
  • Bauhaus.Weimar.Moderne. The art lovers e.V.
  • Association of Friends of Castle Theatre lovers Kochberg eV
  • Society Anna Amalia library eV
  • Society of Friends of the Goethe and Schiller Archive eV
  • Green affinities eV ( Association for Weimar's historic Green)
Nietzsche-Archiv Tiefurt House Schloss Belvedere, Weimar Classical Weimar (World Heritage Site) Goethe House (Weimar) Bauhaus Museum, Weimar Henry van de Velde Goethe-Gesellschaft Jacobsfriedhof Russian Orthodox Chapel, Weimar Konferenz Nationaler Kultureinrichtungen Wartburg Staatliches Museum Schwerin Lindenau-Museum German Hygiene Museum German Maritime Museum Integrated Authority File
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