Editing Weimar (section)

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{{Infobox German place
|type                = Stadt
|image_flag          = Hissflagge Weimar.svg
|image_coa           = DEU Weimar COA.svg
|coordinates         = {{coord|50|58|52|N|11|19|46|E|display=inline,title}}
|image_plan          = Thuringia WE.svg
|plantext            = Location of Weimar within Thuringia
|image_photo         = {{photomontage 
 |border=0 
 |size=250 
 |spacing=1 
 |color=none
 |photo1a = Weimar - Blick zu Herderkirche & Stadtschloss.jpg
 |photo2a = Goethe Schiller Weimar.jpg
}}
|image_caption      = View over Weimar with [[Schloss Weimar]] and the [[Goethe–Schiller monuments|Goethe-Schiller Monument]] in front of the [[Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar]]
|state              = Thuringia
|district           = Kreisfreie Stadt
|elevation          = 208
|area               = 84.48
|postal_code        = 99423, 99425, 99427, 99428
|area_code          = 03643, 036453
|licence            = WE
|Gemeindeschlüssel  = 16 0 55 000
|divisions          = 12 districts
|website            = {{URL|https://www.weimar.de/|weimar.de}}
|mayor              = Peter Kleine<ref>[https://wahlen.thueringen.de/datenbank/wahl1/wahl.asp?wahlart=BM&wJahr=0000&zeigeErg=LAND&auswertung=2 Gewählte Bürgermeister - aktuelle Landesübersicht], Freistaat Thüringen. Retrieved 25 June 2024.</ref>
|leader_term        = 2024&ndash;30
|Bürgermeistertitel = Oberbürgermeister
|party              = 
}}

'''Weimar'''{{Efn|{{IPA|de|ˈvaɪmaʁ|-|De-Weimar.ogg}}; {{langx|la|Vimaria or Vinaria}}}} is a city in the [[state (Germany)|German state]] of [[Thuringia]], in [[Central Germany (cultural area)|Central Germany]] between [[Erfurt]] to the west and [[Jena]] to the east, {{cvt|80|km|0|abbr=off}} southwest of [[Leipzig]], {{cvt|170|km|0|abbr=off}} north of [[Nuremberg]] and {{cvt|170|km|0|abbr=off}} west of [[Dresden]]. Together with the neighbouring cities of Erfurt and Jena, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia, with approximately 500,000 inhabitants. The city itself has a population of 65,000. Weimar is well known because of its cultural heritage and importance in German history.

The city was a focal point of the [[German Enlightenment]] and home of the leading literary figures of [[Weimar Classicism]], [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] and [[Friedrich Schiller]]. In the 19th century, composers such as [[Franz Liszt]] made Weimar a music centre. Later, artists and architects including [[Henry van de Velde]], [[Wassily Kandinsky]], [[Paul Klee]], [[Lyonel Feininger]], and [[Walter Gropius]] came to the city and founded the [[Bauhaus]] movement, the most important German design school of the [[interwar period]].

The political history of 20th-century Weimar was volatile: it was the place where [[Weimar Constitution|Germany's first democratic constitution]] was signed after the [[First World War]], giving its name to the [[Weimar Republic]] (1918–33). It was also one of the cities mythologized by [[Propaganda in Nazi Germany|Nazi propaganda]].

Until 1948, Weimar was the capital of Thuringia. Many places in the city centre have been designated as [[UNESCO World Heritage Site]]s, either as part of the [[Classical Weimar (World Heritage Site)|Classical Weimar]] complex (containing monuments to the classical period of Weimar in 18th and 19th centuries) or the [[Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau|Bauhaus complex]] (containing buildings associated with the Bauhaus art school).<ref name=unesco1>{{cite web |url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/846 |title=Classical Weimar |website=UNESCO World Heritage Centre |publisher=United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization |access-date=29 July 2022 |archive-date=29 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220729182249/https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/846 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=unesco2>{{cite web |url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/729 |title=Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau |website=UNESCO World Heritage Centre |publisher=United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization |access-date=29 December 2018 |archive-date=26 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226210010/https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/729 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Heritage tourism]] is one of the leading economic sectors of Weimar.

Noted institutions in Weimar are the [[Bauhaus University, Weimar|Bauhaus University]], the [[Hochschule für Musik "Franz Liszt", Weimar|Liszt School of Music]], the [[Duchess Anna Amalia Library]], and two leading courts of Thuringia (the Supreme Administrative Court and Constitutional Court). In 1999, Weimar was the [[European Capital of Culture]].