Claim: Klassik Stiftung Weimar, which was created on January 1, 2003, owns more than 20 museums, palaces, historic houses and parks, as well as literary and art collections that are listed under World Heritage sites, landmarks or areas that are designated by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance.
Evidence: It owns more than 20 museums, palaces, historic houses and parks, as well as literary and art collections, a number of which are World Heritage sites. The foundation was created on 1 January 2003 through the merger of the Stiftung Weimarer Klassik and the Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar. It focuses on the Weimar Classicism period, but also covers 19th and 20th century art and culture with properties associated with Franz Liszt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henry van de Velde and the Bauhaus. It was known from 2003 to 2006 as the Stiftung Weimarer Klassik und Kunstsammlungen. The Klassik Stiftung Weimar (Classical Foundation Weimar) is one of the largest and most significant cultural institutions in Germany. Eleven of its properties are listed as part of the Classical Weimar World Heritage site and the Haus am Horn is part of the Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau World Heritage site. Classical Weimar (German: Klassisches Weimar) is a UNESCO World Heritage site consisting of 11 sites related to Weimar Classicism located in and around the city of Weimar, Germany. Goethe's House, the home of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, built in the Baroque style between 1707 and 1709, and Goethe´s Garden and Garden House in Park an der Ilm Schiller's House, also a Baroque-styled house, built in 1777, though incorporating a sixteenth-century outbuilding Herder Church (Church of St Peter and Paul), Herder House and Old High School, all associated with the philosopher, theologian and poet Johann Gottfried Herder (1774-1803). Schloss Weimar (Residence Castle) and Bastille ensemble The Dowager's Palace (Wittumspalais), consisting of a group of two- and three-storey Baroque buildings Duchess Anna Amalia Library Park on the Ilm with the Roman House Schloss Belvedere and Orangery a two-storey Baroque palace with a U-shaped orangery Schloss Ettersburg and Park, a four-storey structure consisting of three wings and a courtyard Schloss Tiefurt and Park, a stately home that was the summer residence of duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1739-1807). Historical Cemetery, Weimar and the Princes' Tomb