Poets’ Rooms

In granting World Heritage status to the ensemble, UNESCO recognised the great art-historical significance of these buildings and parks, both public and private, dating back to the golden age of “Classical Weimar” and its “outstanding role as an intellectual centre of the late 18th and early 19th century”. Weimar Classicism was shaped by a cosmopolitan worldview, an enlightened spirit and an, oftentimes, highly disparate courtly and civic culture. Famous figures like Goethe, Herder and Schiller, and the ducal dynasty of Saxony-Weimar and Eisenach left their indelible mark on this period of cultural history.