
The Klassik Stiftung Weimar (roughly "Weimar Classicism Foundation") is one of the largest and most significant cultural institutions in Germany. It owns more than 20 museums, palaces, historic houses and parks, as well as literary and art collections, a number of which are
World Heritage Sites.
[Klassik Stiftung Weimar. About us.]
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It focuses on the
Weimar Classicism period (most famously associated with
Johann Wolfgang Goethe and
Friedrich Schiller
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), but also covers 19th and 20th century art and culture with properties associated with
Franz Liszt
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,
Friedrich Nietzsche
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,
Henry van de Velde and the
Bauhaus.
Eleven of its properties are listed as part of the
Classical Weimar World Heritage Site and the
Haus am Horn is part of the
Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau World Heritage Site.
Bauhaus University Weimar. Freundekskreis. Haus am Horn.
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The foundation was created on 1 January 2003 through the merger of the ''Stiftung Weimarer Klassik'' (Weimar Classics Foundation, successor to East Germany's "National Research and Memorial Centres of Classical German Literature in Weimar") and the ''Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar'' (Weimar Art Collections). It was known from 2003 to 2006 as the ''Stiftung Weimarer Klassik und Kunstsammlungen''.
The Klassik Stiftung Weimar is a member of the Konferenz Nationaler Kultureinrichtungen, a union of more than twenty cultural institutions in the five new states of Germany which were formerly part of the German Democratic Republic
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.
Weimarer Fürstengruft and Historical Cemetery
The Weimarer Fürstengruft is the ducal burial chapel of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and is located in the Historical Cemetery (''Historischer Friedhof Weimar''). It houses the tombs of Goethe
Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on Western literature, literary, Polit ...
and Schiller. It is part of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and since 1998 it and the cemetery have been part of the Classical Weimar World Heritage Site. The cemetery also houses the Monument to the March Dead.
Gallery
Coudr 05.jpg, The Fürstengruft from the north
Historischer Friedhof mit Fürstengruft & Kapelle.jpg, The Fürstengruft from the west, showing the Russian Orthodox Chapel behind it
Historischer Friedhof Weimar - Gräber.jpg, Graves in the west half of the cemetery
References
External links
Klassik Stiftung Weimar
UNESCO.Classical Weimar
UNESCO. Bauhaus and its sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau
Ducal Vault
– official site
2003 establishments in Germany
Furstengruft
Cemeteries in Weimar
Furstengruft
Culture in Weimar
Cultural organisations based in Germany
Education in Weimar
Friedrich Schiller
History of Weimar
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Organizations established in 2003
Protected areas of Thuringia
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