Mother Beethoven House

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The Mother Beethoven House in Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein

The Mutter-Beethoven-Haus in Koblenz is the birthplace of Maria Magdalena Keverich , mother of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven , in which a museum has been established since 1975 . The house from the 17th century has been preserved in the center of Ehrenbreitstein to this day.

history

The building is said to date from the time before the great Ehrenbreitstein city ​​fire in 1636. Maria Magdalena Keverich was born in the house on December 19, 1746. Her father was Oberhofkoch in the service of the Trier electors , who resided in Philippsburg Palace in Ehrenbreitstein.

Presumably the building had already been redesigned a few years earlier: The original half-timbering was plastered over, the windows were enlarged, perhaps a rear building was already being built in this context, but it was not connected to the front building.

After an initial renovation, a museum was opened in the old building in 1975 as a Beethoven memorial in the Mother Beethoven House . In the course of a renovation in 1985 it had to be demolished down to the ground floor and then rebuilt using the old materials as far as possible. The western front, which was originally covered by a neighboring house that burned down in 1984, as well as the rear building were given a modern design, with a chamber music hall , additional exhibition rooms and sanitary facilities in the rear building . In 2008 an old fountain from Ehrenbreitstein was installed in front of the building .

The museum presents the history of Ehrenbreitstein and the Keverich family. There are exhibitions on Beethoven himself about his youth, his friendships with Franz Gerhard Wegeler and his time in Vienna . Other artists to whom the museum is dedicated are Sophie von La Roche , Clemens Brentano , Bettina von Arnim and Henriette Sontag , who are associated with Koblenz . The current exhibitions have been in this form since the reopening on May 12, 2001 in cooperation with the Middle Rhine Museum in Koblenz .

The non-profit association “Patrons of the Mother Beethoven House eV” was founded in 2011 with the aim of revitalizing the Mother Beethoven House culturally.

construction

The Mutter-Beethoven-Haus has a massive ground floor, above which a slightly cantilevered half-timbered upper floor rises with a two-story gable and a half- hip roof . The appearance of the building is largely shaped today by the renovation in 1985: The half-timbered structure of the gable facing Wambachstrasse, which has been plastered since the 18th century, was partially exposed again, but the changes to the windows from the same period were retained. The western front, which was originally covered by a neighboring house, shows itself with a gable in new glazed half-timbering . Inside, the wooden spiral staircase with carved steps was reinstalled. The rear building was rebuilt in the then modern forms and connected to the front building, reused, but also heavily renewed, an elaborate spiral staircase that has since been protected from the weather by a glass construction. Despite the extensive new construction during the renovation, the current building still reflects its historically grown form, on the other hand, many details of the building history can no longer be traced.

Monument protection

The Mutter-Beethoven-Haus is a protected cultural monument according to the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and entered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located in Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein at Wambachstrasse 204 .

The Mother Beethoven House has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley since 2002 .

literature

  • Jens Fachbach: Johann Georg Judas (around 1645–1726). On the architecture of a clerical electorate on the Rhine and Moselle in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Regensburg 2013, pp. 102-103, ISBN 978-3-7954-2685-9 .

Web links

Commons : Mutter-Beethoven-Haus  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Via the friends' association on the house's homepage
  2. ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Koblenz (PDF; 1.5 MB), Koblenz 2013

Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 35.4 ″  N , 7 ° 36 ′ 39.2 ″  E