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The Goethe House is a writer's house museum located in the Innenstadt district of Frankfurt, Germany. It is the birthplace and childhood home of German poet and playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It is also the place where Goethe wrote his famous works Götz von Berlichingen, The Sorrows of Young Werther, and the first drafts of Urfaust.
- Museum, cultural institution, memorial site
- 23 Großer Hirschgraben, Altstadt, Frankfurt, Germany
- 114,849 (2018)
Students (Goethe-Haus: up to 25 persons, Deutsches Romantik-Museum: up to 15 persons) Admission plus 50 € guide fee: Students – Supplementary focus (30 minutes) 20 € Pupils (min. 50 € / 10 pupils) 5 € per pupil incl. admission: Pupils – Supplementary focus (30 minutes) 20 € Guided tours in foreign languages (Goethe-Haus: up to 25 ...
The Goethe-Haus has experienced a chequered history. It received its present appearance during the reconstruction of 1755/56. Goethe’s father completely remodelled the two attached halftimbered houses, which he had inherited, and erected a building in the style of the bourgeois Rococo. The Freies Deutsches Hochstift acquired it in 1863 and ...
Welcome to Frankfurt’s Goethe House, the heart of the Museum. This is where the poet Johann Wolfgang Goethe was born in 1749, and where he lived until he was 26. This is where he wrote his epochal early works: from the great “Sturm und Drang” poems to the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther , which quickly made him very famous ...
A visit to the reconstructed Goethe House in Frankfurt reveals a lot about the life of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, as this is where he was born, grew up with his parents and penned his first works of literature. According to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's words in his autobiography "Poetry and Truth", he was born "on the stroke of twelve" on 28 ...
Goethe Haus Milwaukee was registered with the state of Wisconsin on March 10, 1958. The founding committee included: Dr. J. Martin Klotsche, UW-Milwaukee; Richard Krug, Milwaukee Public Library; Edward O’Donnell, Marquette University; Henry Reuss, U.S....
After its reconstruction based on historical sources and Goethe's memoirs, every room in the house is furnished as it was back then. Take a tour through the floors and rooms of Goethe’s family home and discover special features, such as the original water pump in the kitchen of Goethe and his mother “Frau Aja”. Transport connection:
