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Weimar is a city in Germany. It is located in the Bundesland of Thuringia (German: "Thüringen"), north of the Thüringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle and Leipzig. Its current population is approximately 64,000. The oldest record of the city dates from the year 899. Weimar was the capital of the Duchy (after 1815 the Grand Duchy) of Saxe-Weimar (German "Sachsen-Weimar"). In the 20th century, the city gave its name to the Weimar Republic. History: 18th and 19th centuries: Weimar is one of the great cultural sites of Europe, having been home to such luminaries as Bach, Goethe, Schiller, and Herder; and in music the piano virtuosi Hummel (a pupil of Mozart) and Liszt. It has been a site of pilgrimage for the German intelligentsia since Goethe first moved to Weimar in the late 18th century. The tombs of Goethe and Schiller as well as their archives, may be found in the city. It is around the city of Weimar that Goethe's famous 1809 "Elective Affinities" is based. Weimar ... Read more about Weimar on Wikipedia

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