Weimar
Weimar is a city in Thuringia, Germany, associated with German classicism, the Bauhaus movement, and the republic established there after World War I.
Weimar Classicism: A German literary and cultural movement centered in Weimar in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The city became the movement’s main setting and namesake.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A German writer, poet, and statesman whose works include Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther. Goethe lived and worked in Weimar for much of his adult life.
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach: A German duchy and later grand duchy that existed from 1741 to 1918. Its ruling court shaped Weimar’s political standing and cultural patronage.
German National Assembly: The elected assembly that drafted and adopted Germany’s constitution in 1919. Its meeting in Weimar connected the city to the new republic’s founding.
Dessau: A city in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, where the Bauhaus operated from 1925 to 1932. The Bauhaus moved from Weimar to Dessau, shifting its center of activity.
Bauhaus: An influential German school of art, design, and architecture founded in 1919. Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in Weimar before it moved elsewhere.
Friedrich Schiller: A German playwright, poet, and philosopher known for works including The Robbers and Wallenstein. Schiller’s collaboration with Goethe made Weimar a center of German classicism.
Ernestine duchies: A group of small German states ruled by branches of the Ernestine line of the House of Wettin. Weimar’s duchy emerged from the political fragmentation of these territories.
Weimar Constitution: The constitution adopted in 1919 for the German Republic established after World War I. The constitution gave the republic—and the city associated with its adoption—lasting political significance.
Berlin: Germany’s capital and largest city, central to the country’s modern political history. Berlin became the Weimar Republic’s political center, unlike the assembly’s namesake city.