Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
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Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach was a German state, created as a duchy in 1809 by the merger of the Ernestine duchies of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach, which had been in personal union since 1741. It was raised
Schloss Weimar, the ducal palace
Wartburg Castle near Eisenach
The former Ducal Palace of Eisenach, finished in 1748 by Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Grand Duke Charles Alexander (1853–1901). He joined the German Empire with his duchy in 1871 and rebuilt the world-famous Wartburg as a national monument.
Saxe-Weimar
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Saxe-Weimar was one of the Saxon duchies held by the Ernestine branch of the Wettin dynasty in present-day Thuringia. The chief town and capital was Weimar. The Weimar branch was the most genealogical
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
…Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (German: Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach) was a German state, created as a duchy in 1809 by the merger of the Ernestine duchies of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach, which had been in personal union since 1741. It was raised to a grand duchy in 1815 by resolution of the Congress of Vienna. In 1903…
Schloss Weimar, the ducal residence
Theobald von Oer: The Weimar Court of the Muses (1860); Schiller reads at Schloss Tiefurt, Wieland, Herder and Goethe among the listeners
Arms of Saxe-Weimar displayed in Buttstädt