Weimar (deu)

Weimar

Weimar ranks 331st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Fort Worth, Texas, Trieste, and Glendale, California. Memorable people born in Weimar include Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Carl Zeiss, and Herbert Kroemer. Memorable people who died in Weimar include Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Friedrich Schiller. Weimar has been the birth place of many politicians, and noblemen and the death place of many politicians, and noblemen. Weimar is located in Germany.

Weimar is a city in the German state of Thuringia, in Central Germany between Erfurt to the west and Jena to the east, 80 km (50 mi) southwest of Leipzig, 170 km (106 mi) north of Nuremberg and 170 km (106 mi) west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouring cities of Erfurt and Jena, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia, with approximately 500,000 inhabitants. The city itself has a population of 65,000. Weimar is well known because of its cultural heritage and importance in German history. Read more on Wikipedia