weimar
weimar Lexical Profile
• noun
A historic city in the federal state of Thuringia, central Germany, renowned for its classical literary heritage, as the birthplace of the Bauhaus architectural movement, and as the site where the 1919 German constitution was drafted.
"During the late 18th century, Weimar became the intellectual center of Germany, attracting legendary writers like Goethe and Schiller."
The German republic founded at Weimar in 1919 (officially the German Reich), which governed Germany during a period of immense cultural innovation and economic instability until the rise of the Nazi Party in 1933.
"The hyperinflation of the early 1920s severely destabilized the political landscape of Weimar."
Word Origin & Etymology
Derived from Old High German 'wīhmari', meaning 'holy lake' or 'holy swamp'. The city gave its name to the Weimar Republic, as the first democratic German constitution was drafted there in 1919.