Weimar
Weimar is known as capital of German classicism, an education and humanism city. In the past, with 1547 year, it was residence of dukes of Saxony and Weimar. The most nitidous season of its history begins since 1770 and is bound to Goethe and Schiller's names. In the beginning of XIX century Weimar becomes the cultural and spiritual centre of Germany, artists, writers and musicians here direct. The well-known Weimar republic has accepted in Weimar in 1919 the constitution which in 1933 was annihilated by nazis.
In Weimar dwellings and Goethe and Schiller's museums are had; Goethe and Schiller's mausoleum in which princes Weimar repose also.
The collection of German painting XV-XVI of centuries is stored In the Palace museum, including Lukasa Kranasa, died in Weimar. In a city there is most well-known of German theatres over whom Goethe supervised, and Ferents Sheet and Rihard Strauss were conductors. At this theatre prime ministers of dramas of Schiller, products Torkvato Tasso and Faust Goethe have taken place. In several kilometres northward from a city there is a memorial of at-sight former nazi concentration camp in Buhenvalde - the terrible neighbourhood with the former capital of German humanism.
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