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

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.Klassik Stiftung Weimar. About us.
Retrieved 25 November 2018 It focuses on the

Weimar Classicism Weimar Classicism () was a German literary and cultural movement, whose practitioners established a new humanism from the synthesis of ideas from Romanticism, Classicism, and the Age of Enlightenment. It was named after the city of Weimar in th ...

period (most famously associated with

Johann Wolfgang 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 literary, political, and philosoph ...

and

Friedrich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (, short: ; 10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian. Schiller is considered by most Germans to be Germany's most important classical playwright. He was born i ...

), but also covers 19th and 20th century art and culture with properties associated with

Franz Liszt Franz Liszt (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic music, Romantic period. With a diverse List of compositions by Franz Liszt, body of work spanning more than six ...

Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher. He began his career as a classical philology, classical philologist, turning to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, aged 24, Nietzsche bec ...

Henry van de Velde Henry Clemens van de Velde (; 3 April 1863 – 15 October 1957) was a Belgian painter, architect, interior designer, and art theorist. Together with Victor Horta and Paul Hankar, he is considered one of the founders of Art Nouveau in Belgium ...

and the

Bauhaus The Staatliches Bauhaus (), commonly known as the , was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined Decorative arts, crafts and the fine arts.Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edn., ...

. Eleven of its properties are listed as part of the

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World Heritage Site and the

Haus am Horn The Haus am Horn is a domestic house in Weimar, Germany, designed by Georg Muche. It was built for the Bauhaus ''Werkschau'' (English: ''Work show'') exhibition which ran from July to September 1923. It was the first building based on Bauhaus de ...

is part of the

Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau are World Heritage Site, World Heritage Sites in Germany, comprising six separate sites which are associated with the Bauhaus art school. It was designated in 1996 with four initial sites, and i ...

World Heritage Site.Bauhaus University Weimar. Freundekskreis. Haus am Horn.
Retrieved 25 November 2018 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

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, a union of more than twenty cultural institutions in the five

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which were formerly part of the

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Weimarer Fürstengruft and Historical Cemetery

The Weimarer Fürstengruft is the ducal burial chapel of

Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach () was a German state, created as a duchy in 1809 by the merger of the Ernestine duchies of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach, which had been in personal union since 1741. It was raised to a grand duchy in 1815 by resolutio ...

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 Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (, short: ; 10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian. Schiller is considered by most Germans to be Germany's most important classical playwright. He was born i ...

. 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 Classical Weimar () is a UNESCO World Heritage Site consisting of 11 sites located in and around the city of Weimar, Germany. The site was inscribed on 2 December 1998. The properties all bear testimony to the influence of Weimar as a cultural ce ...

. 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 {{Thuringia-struct-stub