Holiday Destination: Weimar

Weimar is a city in Germany famous for its cultural heritage. It is located in the federal state of Thuringia, north of the Thüringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle and Leipzig. Its current population is approximately 65,000. The oldest record of the city dates from the year 899. Weimar was the capital of the Duchy of Saxe Weimar. Weimar's cultural heritage is vast. It is most often recognised as 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, of 1918–1933. However, the city was also the focal point of the German Enlightenment and home of the leading characters of the literary genre of Weimar Classicism, the writers Goethe and Schiller. The city was also the birthplace of the Bauhaus movement, founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius, with artists Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, and Lyonel Feininger teaching in Weimar's Bauhaus School. In the valley of the river Ilm river the federal Motorway 87 runs from Ilmenau to Leipzig and two railways: the Ilmbahn between Kranichfeld and Weimar and the highspeed railway from Berlin to Frankfurt am Main between Weimar and Grossheringen.

Climate

Summer 46.4 °C (96.30 °F), Winter 3 °C (36.80 °F)

Tourist Season

Winter is a best season for tourism.

Accommodation

Hotels and Apartments.

General Information Of Weimar

• Land Area: 32.53 sq mi (84.26 km2)
• Population: 65 Thousand.
• Capital City: Weimar.
• Language: German and French.

Tourist Attraction in or Near by Weimar

Buchenwald concentration camp

Buchenwald concentration camp was a German Nazi concentration camp established on the Ettersberg near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937, one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps on German soil. Camp prisoners from all over Europe and Russia Jews, non Jewish Poles and Slovenes, religious and political prisoners, Roma and Sinti, Freemasons, Jehovah's Witnesses, criminals, homosexuals, and prisoners of war worked primarily as forced labor in local armament factories. Originally the camp was named after the hill Ettersberg but it was later renamed to Buchenwald and the stump of the tree is preserved as part of the memorial at KZ Buchenwald

Goethe House

The Goethe House in the old town of Frankfurt am Main was the family residence of the Goethe family, most notably Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, until 1795. Johann Wolfgang was himself born here in 1749 to his parents, Johann Caspar Goethe, a lawyer, and Katherine Elisabeth Textor, daughter of the mayor of Frankfurt. Johann Wolfgang lived here along with his sister Cornelia until 1765, aged sixteen, when he moved to Leipzig to study law, returning sporadically thereafter. Goethe subsequently wrote about his childhood spent here in his autobiography Aus Meiner Leben Dichtung und Wahrheit and describing his birth thus. Today the visitor can see the study with its writing desk as it would have been used by Goethe to pen these early works.

Goethe National Museum

The Goethe Nationalmuseum is a museum devoted to the German author Goethe, in the town of Weimar in Germany. It was founded on 8 August 1885 as a result of the will of Goethe's last living heir, whose will left the Goethe House to the state. Goethe National Museum For many Germans, and scholars of German literature, a visit to Weimar is first and foremost a pilgrimage to the houses of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Domkirche St. Marien

Domkirche St. Marien is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Sankt Georg, Hamburg, Germany, and the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hamburg. The cathedral stands in Danziger Strasse and was built between 1890 and 1893 to the designs of Arnold Güldenpfennig. The church was erected in Romanesque revival style at the instigation of Bishop Bernhard Höting of Osnabrück, then simultaneously officiating as Vicar Apostolic of the Vicariate Apostolic of the Nordic Missions of Germany, then competent for Hamburg's Catholics. It was the first new Roman Catholic church built in Hamburg since the Reformation.

Bauhaus Museum

The Bauhaus Museum is a museum dedicated to the architectural style of Bauhaus. Since 1995 it has been housed in a former coach house on Theaterplatz rebuilt by Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray. This is only a temporary home it is to move to a new site in 2014 and includes ruins of the Weimarer Zeughaus or arsenal. A new Bauhaus Museum is scheduled to open in 2015. It displays about 250 works by teachers and students of the Bauhaus school, including seminal works by Walter Gropius, Johannes Itten, Lyonel Feininger and Marcel Breuer, along with several works from the movement's precursor, the 1907 Henry van de Velde School.

Accessibility

Bus Terminal

Comfort Hotel Weimar

Ernst Busse Strasse 4
Weimar, Germany

Park Inn by Radisson Hotel Weimar

Kastanienallee 1
Weimar, Germany

Airports

Erfurt Airport: For international flight.

Eisenach Airport: For international flight.

Railway Stations

Weimar station

Weimar, Germany