Beethoven House Baden

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Beethoven House Baden
Inscription on the Beethoven House

The Beethoven House Baden is a museum in the former home of Ludwig van Beethoven in Baden near Vienna . The composer spent his summers in Baden for 15 years. In the summers of 1821, 1822 and 1823 Beethoven stayed for a cure in the house at Rathausgasse 10. During this time he wrote essential parts of the Ninth Symphony . The Beethoven House in Baden is also known as the “House of the Ninths”. It is a listed building .

History of the house

Today's Beethovenhaus Baden is located on an area that was only mentioned in a document in the early 16th century in the Herzogbad's guarantee book ( land register ). The building is one of the oldest inhabited structures in Baden. The irregular two-storey town house is essentially from the 16th century, as is the facade (which was changed during the Baroque ). At that time Rathausgasse was still called Bäckengasse and was one of the most important road connections in the city. The Beethoven House No. 10 and the neighboring house No. 8 formed one building. The first mentioned owners were Claus Khern and his wife. Both disappeared without a trace in the course of the turmoil of the first Turkish invasion in 1529 .

The property changed hands frequently, including an imperial Capellsinger, a furrier , master bricklayer, locksmith, coppersmith, baker and a doctor of medicine and philosophy. The purchase of the brothers Bartholomäus and Hans Klotz in 1678 was important for the development of the property. They divided the property into the two houses that still exist today. The core of the late medieval, in the 17th and 18th centuries expanded and repeatedly rebuilt craftsman's house in the center of Baden was acquired in 1808 by the coppersmith and country coachman Johann Bayer and his wife Ursula. Wall paintings that were discovered and uncovered in the course of building research can be traced back to this couple.

In addition to the house, the Bayer couple also acquired the garden to the north, which is now the gallery of the Baden Art Association. Dendrochronological studies show that the house was adapted to accommodate tourists between 1808 and 1810. Among the guests in 1821, 1822 and 1823 were “Ludwig van Beethoven, clay composer” - as can be read in the health resort list of those years. Among other things, the composer wrote essential parts of his Ninth Symphony here.

Beethoven spent at least thirteen summers in Baden from 1804, assuming the scientifically proven stays. His lodging provider here in the late summer of 1821 was the coppersmith Johann Bayer, who owned the property. The composer also lived on the first floor of the house in 1822 and 1823. The apartment on the street side was divided - as can still be seen today - into an anteroom, bedroom and study. In the absence of paper, Beethoven sometimes had the habit of using the apartment's window shutters that opened onto Rathausgasse to take notes . In 1823 the composer, who, as a restless, unabashed tenant, was almost never given a second room, only returned to the house on the condition that he agreed to take the window bars, which the landlord Bayer had in the meantime sold as Beethoven memorabilia , at his own expense to replace. In the same year work on Kanon Kühl, not lukewarm of the Ninth Symphony , was carried out in the apartment . As a craftsman's house, the building housed a bakery after a coppersmith's shop from around 1870; In 1962 it was taken over by the city of Baden, and on June 18, 1965, Deputy Governor Rudolf Hirsch opened Beethoven's living quarters as a memorial (expanded in 1989/90). The bakery was replaced by a souvenir and antique shop. The memorial plaque attached to the street facade was dedicated in 1872 by the Baden men's choir.

In 1962, the municipality acquired the town house, which was last used as a bakery. On June 18, 1965, the Beethoven memorial, which was expanded in 1989, was opened on the first floor. The first floor was last leased from an antique shop. In 2012 the last apartment in the house became vacant and the fundamental renovation of the property could begin. The accompanying comprehensive building research brought to light the history of the house since the late Middle Ages.

Conversion to the new Beethoven House in Baden

The house has been adapted by Messner-Lotterberger Architects since 2013 under the direction of City Councilor for Culture Hans Hornyik. Rapp & Wimberger staged a contemporary presentation in the house in which the person Ludwig van Beethoven can be experienced as well as his music. Alfred Willander provided the team with scientific advice. The new Beethovenhaus Baden opened in autumn 2014.

  • Beethoven House Baden, bedroom

  • Beethovenhaus Baden, former living rooms

  • Beethovenhaus Baden, workplace in Baden

  • Beethovenhaus Baden, people around Beethoven

  • Beethovenhaus Baden, listening station

  • Beethovenhaus Baden, hearing laboratory

Design of the new Beethoven House in Baden

The showrooms are set up on three levels. The former living quarters can be seen on the top floor. The room sequence follows a dramaturgy tailored to the house. A separate room is dedicated to the compositions that Beethoven created in Baden. For example Wellington's Victory (op. 91), the most popular work during his lifetime, the Missa Solemnis (op. 123) or the late string quartets (op. 130, op. 132).

On the ground floor and in the basement, which Beethoven himself does not use, his music, especially the Ninth Symphony and the secrets of listening to music, are thematized with modern digital means. On the ground floor, the aim is to convey the Ninth Symphony to visitors in different ways. Most of it was composed in Baden. A separate exhibition room is dedicated to the fourth movement of the symphony, the basis of the European anthem.

literature

  • Peter Aichinger-Rosenberger (among others): Lower Austria south of the Danube. Band 1: A to L . Dehio-Handbuch , Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs, topographic monuments inventory. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-364-X .
  • Julius Böheimer: Streets and alleys in Baden near Vienna. Lexicon of streets, alleys, squares, paths, walkways, bridges . Grasl, Baden 1997, ISBN 3-85098-236-X .
  • Kurt Drescher (Ed.), Family Drescher: Forays in and around Baden - taking into account a lot of historical data . Drescher, Baden 1982, OBV .
  • Viktor Wallner: Houses, people and stories - a Baden anecdotal walk. Society of Friends of Baden, Baden 2002, OBV .

Web links

Commons : House of the Ninth  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Viktor Wallner: Ludwig van Beethoven and Baden (A difficult contemporary in Lower Austria). In: Neue Badener Blätter, 9th volume, number II, Baden 1998.
  2. ^ A b c Alfred Willander: Beethoven and Baden. City of Baden, Baden Cultural Office 2001.
  3. ^ Alfred Willander: Baden near Vienna. City of music. Berndorf 2007.
  4. ↑ a b Drescher: Forays . P.56.
  5. ^ Aichinger-Rosenberger: Lower Austria south of the Danube . P. 213.
  6. ^ Wallner: Houses . P. 101.
  7. ^ Wallner: Houses . P. 103.
  8. ^ A b Wallner: Houses . P. 102.
  9. ^ Böheimer: Streets & Alleys . P. 20.
  10. ↑ Beethovenhaus reopened. In: orf.at. October 26, 2014, accessed April 27, 2016 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 0 '27.9 "  N , 16 ° 13' 58.4"  E