Classical Weimar (World Heritage Site)

UNESCO World Heritage Site
Classical Weimar
Name as inscribed on the World Heritage List

Type	Cultural
Criteria	iii, vi
Reference	846
UNESCO region	Europe and North America
Inscription history
Inscription	1998 (22nd Session)

Classical Weimar is a UNESCO World Heritage Site consisting of multiple structures related to Weimar Classicism located in and around the city of Weimar, Germany. The site was inscribed on 2 December 1998. UNESCO cites both the artistic quality of the buildings and the fact that Weimar was a cultural centre of Europe during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.^[1]

Contributing buildings

Goethe's House, the home of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, built in the Baroque style between 1707 and 1709,^[1] and Schiller's House, also a Baroque-styled house, built in 1777, though incorporating a sixteenth-century outbuilding^[1]
Town church St. Peter und Paul, Herder House and Old High School, a three-aisled church, a sixteenth-century house built on the foundation of a Renaissance structure, and a Baroque high school, respectively^[1]
Schloss Weimar (Palace at Weimar), a four-winged palace in the town centre, the interior being in the Classical style^[1]
The Dowager's Palace, consisting of a group of two- and three-storey buildings in the Baroque style, the Duchess Anna Amalia Library, the main structure being a three-storey Baroque-style building, and the Princes' Tomb and Historic Cemetery^[1]
The Park on the Ilm, consisting of the Roman House, Goethe's Garden and Garden House^[1]
Schloss Belvedere, a two-storey Baroque palace with connecting and a U-shaped orangery^[1]
Schloss Tiefurt, a two-storey building built in the Baroque style, linked to a former farm building by a wooden frame^[1]
Schloss Ettersburg, a four-storey structure consisting of three wings and a courtyard^[1]
Wieland Manor, consisting of four wings and a central courtyard^[1]

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Classical Weimar unesco.org. Retrieved 2011-02-02

World Heritage Sites in Germany

For official site names, see each article or the List of World Heritage Sites in Germany.

Northern	Fagus Factory in Alfeld Berlin Modernism Housing Estates Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of Bremen Mines of Rammelsberg, Historic Town of Goslar and Upper Harz Water Management System Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus in Hamburg St. Mary's Cathedral and St. Michael's Church at Hildesheim Hanseatic City of Lübeck Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar

Central	Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar and Dessau Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz ~~Dresden Elbe Valley~~ (delisted in 2009) Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski¹ Collegiate Church, Castle, and Old Town of Quedlinburg Wartburg Castle Classical Weimar

Western	Aachen Cathedral Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at Brühl Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey Cologne Cathedral Upper Middle Rhine Valley Speyer Cathedral Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St. Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier Völklingen Ironworks Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen

Southern	Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch Town of Bamberg Frontiers of the Roman Empire:² Upper Germanic & Rhaetian Limes Maulbronn Monastery Complex Margravial Opera House Bayreuth Old Town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof Monastic Island of Reichenau Pilgrimage Church of Wies Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens and Residence Square Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps³

Natural	Ancient Beech Forests⁴ Messel Pit Fossil Site Wadden Sea⁵

¹ Shared with Poland ² Shared with the United Kingdom ³ Shared with Austria, France, Italy, Slovenia and Switzerland ⁴ Shared with Slovakia and Ukraine ⁵ Shared with the Netherlands and Denmark

Coordinates: 50°59′00″N 11°19′00″E / 50.9833°N 11.3167°E / 50.9833; 11.3167

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