Berthold Auerbach Museum
The Berthold Auerbach Museum in the Horber district of Nordstetten is a literature museum that commemorates the writer Berthold Auerbach who was born here . In 1986 it was set up in the Nordstetter baroque palace .
exhibition
With manuscripts, pictures, first editions and other documents, the exhibition shows the life and work of the narrator and novelist Berthold Auerbach, who was born on February 28, 1812 as a child of a Jewish family in modest circumstances in Nordstetten. The once Upper Austrian village, now part of the large district town of Horb am Neckar, is also the scene of his Black Forest village stories (1843–1854), with which Auerbach became a successful author of the 19th century and became a European celebrity. The Auerbach Literature Circle regularly organizes lectures and readings by authors in the museum. The Nordstetter literature walks are offered on four Sundays a year . Members of the Nordstetten Culture and Theater Forum lead the participants in the footsteps of Auerbach through the writer's home village.
Others
Auerbach's birthplace at Am Fabrikweg 2 (memorial plaque) and his honorary grave in the Jewish cemetery have been preserved in Nordstetten . The settings of the Black Forest village stories include the former inn "Zum Adler", in whose rooms the teacher Lauterbacher maintained his village university, and the "Ziegelhütte", where the hero of the war pipe was nursed to health. In Bad Niedernau there is Kilian von Steiner's summer villa "Waldhaus" at Raidtweg 15 , where Auerbach stayed for a long time in 1879 and 1881.
literature
- Scheuffelen, Thomas: Berthold Auerbach 1812–1882 (Marbacher Magazin 36) , Marbach am Neckar 1986.
Web links
- Berthold Auerbach Museum - City of Horb am Neckar
- Berthold-Auerbach-Museum in the castle, Horb am Neckar - literary land of Baden-Wuerttemberg
- Berthold Auerbach and the Jewish community in Nordstetten
Coordinates: 48 ° 26 '13.7 " N , 8 ° 42' 13.1" E