Weimar

Weimar was the seat of an Ascanian branch of the County of Weimar-Orlamünde in Thuringia. In 1337 Count Otto VI ruled the Weimar line, weakened by partition and debt.

The Thuringian Counts' War of 1342–1346 ended with the Treaty of Dresden, making Weimar a Wettin fief. After the 1485 Treaty of Leipzig it belonged to the Ernestine Wettins and became the capital of Saxe-Weimar in 1547. In the late eighteenth century Duke Charles August brought Goethe and Schiller to his court.