Weimar

(vi'mahr,) a manuf. city of Germany, C. of grand-duchy of Saxe-Weimar, on the Ilm, 52 m. S.W. of Leipzig. It has long borne a reputation as the literary social centre of Germany, and the former residence of Göthe, Schiller, Wiel and, Herder, and a host of le er writers of mark. Pop. 14,794. [s. 955]