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Town the state of Thuringia, Federal Republic
of Germany, on the river Elm; population
(1990) 80,000. Products include farm
machinery and textiles. It was the capital of
the grand duchy of Saxe-Weimar 1815-1918; in
1919 the German National Assembly drew up the
constitution of the new Weimar Republic here.
The writers Goethe, Schiller, and Herder and
the composer Liszt lived in the town. The
former concentration camp of Buchenwald is
nearby.