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Weimar is a small city in western Colorado County, in the heart of the Texas-German belt, and it was founded and named by German emigrants after the city of Weimar in Germany.

The land Weimar occupies was once part of Stephen F. Austin's colony, the first Anglo-American colony in Texas.

Weimar was founded in 1873 in anticipation of the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway building through the site; it was first called Jackson, after landowner D. W. Jackson, before being renamed Weimar in tribute to the German city that railroad president Thomas W. Peirce admired.

D. W. Jackson donated half the land for the townsite, and Peirce and Jackson shared the profits from the sale of town lots.

Weimar's post office opened in 1873, and the town incorporated just two years later, in 1875.

By 1887 Weimar was enjoying a prosperous cotton economy with many stores and two newspapers, and its own newspaper, The Weimar Mercury, founded in 1888, remains in publication.

Weimar's 1925 railroad depot has had a second life in public service — the Southern Pacific Railroad donated the building in 1972, and it now houses the Weimar Public Library.

Weimar's population grew slowly and steadily for a century, peaking near 2,400 in 1976, and stood at 2,076 at the 2020 census, down slightly from 2,151 in 2010.

Weimar had 817 households at the 2000 census, a reminder of how stable this small railroad town's size has remained across the decades.

Weimar covers just 2.3 square miles on U.S. Highway 90 and Interstate 10, about 87 miles west of Houston, with the county seat of Columbus roughly fifteen miles to the east.