Classical Weimar (World Heritage Site)
Classical Weimar is a UNESCO World Heritage site consisting of 11 sites related to Weimar Classicism located in and around the city of Weimar, Germany. The site was inscribed on 2 December 1998. The properties are all related to Weimar as a centre of the Enlightenment during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. A number of notable writers and philosophers lived there.
Component sites
- Goethe's House, the home of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, built in the Baroque style between 1707 and 1709, and Goethe´s Garden and Garden House in Park an der Ilm
- Schiller's House, also a Baroque-styled house, built in 1777, though incorporating a sixteenth-century outbuilding
- Herder Church, Herder House and Old High School, all associated with the philosopher, theologian and poet Johann Gottfried Herder.
- Schloss Weimar and Bastille ensemble
- The Dowager's Palace, consisting of a group of two- and three-storey Baroque buildings
- Duchess Anna Amalia Library
- Park on the Ilm with the Roman House
- Schloss Belvedere and Orangery a two-storey Baroque palace with a U-shaped orangery
- Schloss Ettersburg and Park, a four-storey structure consisting of three wings and a courtyard
- Schloss Tiefurt and Park, a stately home that was the summer residence of duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.
- Historical Cemetery, Weimar and the Princes' Tomb
