Projects of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar are funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Free State of Thuringia, represented by the State Chancellery of Thuringia, Department of Culture and the Arts.
The Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek is an archive and research library containing collections dating back to the 9th century.
In addition to historical prints from the Reformation, works of Weimar Classicism and the modernist era in Weimar around 1900, the core of the collection consists of incunabula, medieval manuscripts, musical works, family registers, maps, globes and a military library.
The collection contains the personal libraries which belonged to members of the ducal house, Goethe, von Arnim, Liszt and Nietzsche.
Visitors and researchers can also gain access to special theme-based collections, e.g. on Faust, the libraries of the German Shakespeare and Dante Society, and Buchenwald.
Many of our collections are described in greater detail. Click here to learn more (German only).
You can find selected volumes in our digital collections.
General information on our holdings you can find here.
Projects of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar are funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Free State of Thuringia, represented by the State Chancellery of Thuringia, Department of Culture and the Arts.