Saxe Weimar
or SAXE WEI- SAXE-WEI- Grand-Duchy, since 1919 part of Thuringia, a state of the German Republic. Area, 1,397 square miles. The forests cipal wealth of the grand-duchy. The are very extensive, and form the prinminerals are unimportant. In Eisenach woolen, cotton, and linen tissues, ribbons, and carpets, etc., are made. The chief town is Weimar, and there is a university at Jena. Pop. (1919) 270,015. invented by Adolph Sax, constructed in