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 |
| Coordinates | 50°58′43″N 11°19′56″E / 50.97861°N 11.33222°E |
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(German: Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek) in Weimar, Germany, houses a major collection of German literature and historical documents.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. 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.
In 2004 a fire destroyed the main wing and a substantial part of the collection; restoration of salvaged volumes lasted until 2015.