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Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach

Senior Ernestine Wettin duchy in Thuringia and the largest of the Thuringian states; raised to a grand duchy at the Congress of Vienna, it was the Weimar of Goethe, Schiller and Herder and the first German state to receive a liberal constitution (1816).

Proclaimed a republic in November 1918 in the German Revolution; the Free State of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach was merged into the new State of Thuringia in 1920, with Weimar as its capital.

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Further reading

• Culture and Society in Classical Weimar 1775-1806 W. H. Bruford · 1962

  The standard English study of the Weimar duchy's court and society under Karl August — polity-specific, verified on Open Library (ISBN 9780521099103).

• Germany and the Holy Roman Empire, Vol. II: The Peace of Westphalia to the Dissolution of the Reich, 1648-1806 Joachim Whaley · 2012

  Places the Ernestine duchies inside the Imperial constitution up to 1806; verified on Open Library (ISBN 9780199688838).

Sources

• Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed., vol. XXIV, 'Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach' (geography, constitution, History section)
• The Statesman's Year-Book 1888, 'X. Saxe-Weimar' and the German area/population table
• The Statesman's Year-Book 1919, 'Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach'