Duchess Anna Amalia Library

Duchess Anna Amalia Library
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Location	Weimar, Germany
Part of	Classical Weimar
Criteria	Cultural: (iii)(vi)
Reference	846-006
Inscription	1998 (22nd Session)
Website	www.klassik-stiftung.de/en/institutions/herzogin-anna-amalia-bibliothek
Coordinates	50°58′43″N 11°19′56″E / 50.97861°N 11.33222°E
	Location of Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Germany Duchess Anna Amalia Library (Thuringia)

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Duchess Anna Amalia Library

Duchess Anna Amalia Library, Weimar

The Duchess Anna Amalia Library (German: Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek) in Weimar, Germany, houses a major collection of German literature and historical documents. In 1991, the tricentennial of its opening to the public, the Ducal Library was renamed for Duchess Anna Amalia. Today, the library is a public research library for literature and art history. The main focus is German literature from the Classical and the late Romantic eras. The ducal library was supplied, among others, by the bookseller Hoffmann from Weimar as well as with publications from France and Europe by the Strasbourg publishing house Bauer, Treuttel and Würtz.^[1] The library was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as part of the Classical Weimar site because of its testimony to the global cultural importance of Weimar during the late 18th and early 19th centuries during the Weimar Classicism movement.^[2]^[3]

In 2004 a fire destroyed the main wing and a substantial part of the collection;^[3] restoration of salvaged volumes lasted until 2015.

^ Haß, Annika (10 August 2023). Europäischer Buchmarkt und Gelehrtenrepublik: Die transnationale Verlagsbuchhandlung Treuttel & Würtz, 1750–1850 (in German). Heidelberg University Publishing. doi:10.17885/heiup.817. ISBN 978-3-96822-073-4.
^ "Classical Weimar". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
^ ^a ^b "Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek". Weimar Kulturstadt Europas. Archived from the original on 29 September 2020. Retrieved 23 November 2022.

[1] Haß, Annika (10 August 2023). Europäischer Buchmarkt und Gelehrtenrepublik: Die transnationale Verlagsbuchhandlung Treuttel & Würtz, 1750–1850 (in German). Heidelberg University Publishing. doi:10.17885/heiup.817. ISBN 978-3-96822-073-4.

[unesco-2] "Classical Weimar". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. Retrieved 29 July 2022.

[weimar-3] "Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek". Weimar Kulturstadt Europas. Archived from the original on 29 September 2020. Retrieved 23 November 2022.

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