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___ Republic, toppled in 1933
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weimar
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Weimar ( Latin : Vimaria) is a city in the federal state of Thuringia , Germany . It is located between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig , north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden . Together with the neighbour-cities ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in reference to the pre-1933 democratic government of Germany, 1932, from name of city in Thuringia where German constitution was drawn up in 1919. The place name is a compound of Old High German wih "holy" + mari "lake" (see mere (n.)).
Usage examples of weimar.
They intimate the classic temper to which his mind tended more and more, and amidst the multitude of sculptures, pictures, prints, drawings, gems, medals, autographs, there is the sense of the manymindedness, the universal taste, for which he found room in little Weimar, but not in his contemporaneous Germany.
Weimar was as much awake at that hour as at any of the twenty-four, and the tranquillity of its streets, where he encountered a few passers several blocks apart, was their habitual mood.
Weimar was the home of Wieland and of Herder before the young Grand-Duke came back from his travels bringing Goethe with him, and afterwards attracting Schiller.
Bergstrasse, Upper Franconia including the Fichtel Mountains, even Weimar in the Russian occupation zone -- where he stops at the Hotel Elephant -- and the Bavarian Forest, an underdeveloped region.
This was in the Belvedere, the country house on the height overlooking Weimar, where the grand-ducal family spend the month of May, and where the stranger finds himself amid overwhelming associations of Goethe, although the place is so full of relics and memorials of the owners.
In one quarter only is he well received--namely, by the famous Duke of Weimar.
It said he was Martin Hahn, farm worker, and had been issued by the Weimar administrative district.
During a stay of several months at Weimar he met Goethe, and years afterwards used his reminiscences of the Grand Ducal Court there in his description of Pumpernickel in “.
The great Edict of Technological Control - the means by which the Seven had kept change at bay for more than a century - was to be relaxed, the House of Representatives at Weimar reopened, in return for guarantees of population controls.