Weimar is a city in Germany. It is located in the Bundesland of Thuringia (German: Thüringen), north of the Thüringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle and Leipzig. Its current population is approximately 64,000. The oldest record of the city dates from the year 899. Weimar was the capital of the duchy (after 1815 the grand duchy) of Saxe-Weimar (German Sachsen-Weimar). The city ,also, gives its name to the Weimar Republic.