The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-04-18
VIZ TEIMAR, the little city which
NM is the capital of the duchy
v of Saxe-Weimar and which


was selected as the meeting
place for the German national assem-
bly,, has long been denominated the
ATHENS of Germany" 1t stands for
what was the best in German life.
For Weimar was once great CAPT.
tai in the world of letters; around
1t cluster many Of the finest recOl-
lections and traditions of the Cor
many that was.
Goethe and Schiller, tOpnOst among
the German poets, lived and died
there. Some Of the finest cOmpO-
sitions of List and Mendelssohn were
conceived in Weimar. In this quaint
old town SchOpenhauer dwelt I'm the
unutterable gloom that permeates his
philosophy. To it's restful solitude
and its greatest memories came Metz
sche, apostle of dreadfulness, to die.
And it drew George Eliot, Thackeray.
Bayard Taylor and many other no
tables Of other lands who sought in
SEPARATION in this spot which had
lured the immOrtals of an earlier
day, remarks the Kansas City Star.
Where Famous Women Lived.
Weimar it was which produced two
of the best remembered of German
women, the Grand Duchess Anna
Amalie, whose efforts gave Germany
its first real standing in art and let
tiers, and Charlotte Won Stein. the
gifted, brilliant woman whom Goethe
loved long and in vain. All Germany
has laid homage at the feet of Duchess
Anna Amalie. And of Charlotte Won
Stein it has been said that no other
woman, not even Dante's Beatrice
or Petrarchs Laura, has been so hon
ored in song.
All the glory of Weimar belongs to
tho time before the Prussian arch
militarist and materialist. With the
ascendancy of the HohenZollernS and
the elevation of force and greed above
the things of the mind and spirit Wei
mar faded into a background memory.
It's selection by the new government
as a seat for deliberatiOn may serve
to bring back to it some Of it's depart
ed glory.
The beginning of Weimar's great
ness came about 1856, when Anna
Amalie, niece of Frederick the Great,
went there as bride of the duke.
She summoned Weiland, poet and stu
dent, to act as tutor for her boys.
Three years later young Goethe went
to Weimar. Others followed. Elm
siedel, the poet, musician and actor;
Rode, the translator of Smollett and
Cervantes; Knebel, the classicist;
Corona Schroter, the brilliant and
beautiful actress and singer; Herder.
the preacher poet and father of Ger
man folk song, and finally Schiller.
who eventually was to take rank with
Goethe.
Goethe the Master There.
The names of Goethe and Schiller
dominate Weimar. The former lived
in the town fifty-six years. He was
all things to Weimar, the adviser of
it's rulers, architect Of its chief struc-
lures, dictator of it's thought, and
finally Its greatest and best loved
memory. His house on the Goethe
Plata is one of the towns Sights"
and monuments Of him occupy the
most prominent positions. Even his,
garden house has been preserved in
reverent memory.
An indication of the way in which
Goethe was regarded in old Weimar is
cleaned from an oft told incident.
The poet coveted the house that later
was to be his. Its owner would not
sell to him, however. So Duke Karl
August went forth one day and I'M
tremendously took charge of the
house.
"But me no butts" he replied to the
reluctant owner. Goethe wants it
and we must give it to him or we
shall not keep him."
The thousands of letters the adoring
Goethe wrote to Charlotte Won Stein
all are kept in the building that
houses the Goethe and Schiller ar