Weimar [a ] is a city in the German state of Thuringia, in Central Germany between Erfurt to the west and Jena to the east, 80 km (50 mi) southwest of Leipzig, 170 km (106 mi) north of Nuremberg and 170 km (106 mi) west of Dresden.
Weimar, city, Thuringia Land (state), eastern Germany. It lies along the Ilm River, just east of Erfurt. During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Weimar was the intellectual center of Germany.
The Weimar Republic was a liberal democratic republic founded in Germany in the aftermath of WWI. Learn about the era’s political and economic crises and social trends.
Goethe and Schiller alongside Classical Weimar and the Bauhaus as Unesco World Heritage Sites: This city ultivated the stars of Germany's intellectual past.