Weimar (IPA-de?va?ma?) is a city in Germany famous for its cultural heritage. It is located in the Bundesland (States of Germany) of Thuringia (lang-deTh�ringen), north of the Th�ringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle (Halle, Saxony-Anhalt) and Leipzig. Its current population is approximately 65,000. The oldest record of the city dates from the year 899. Weimar was the capital of the Duchy (after 1815 the Grand Duchy) of Saxe-Weimar (German Sachsen-Weimar).

Weimars cultural heritage is vast. It is most often recognised as the place where Germanys first democratic constitution was signed after the First World War, giving its name to the Weimar Republic period in German politics, of 1918-1933. However, the city was also the focal point of the German Enlightenment and was where writers Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) and Schiller (Friedrich Schiller) developed the literary movement of Weimar Classicism. The city was also the birthplace of the Bauhaus movement, founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius, with artists Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, and Lyonel Feininger teaching in Weimars Bauhaus School. Many places in the city centre have been designated as UNESCO World Heritage sites.