Forester's lodge Moditten
The forester's house Moditten was built in Moditten , northwest of Königsberg between Juditten and Metgethen , as the chief forester of Groß Holstein Castle. The forester's house and outbuildings no longer exist.
Secretary house
The complex included - apart from the actual forester's house - the secretary's house built for the chief forester's secretary with an almost square floor plan. Since Immanuel Kant lived and worked there during his frequent stays at the Moditten forest house, the secretary's house was later called "Kant's house". One entered the half-timbered, thatched-roof house from a hallway, next to which was a small kitchen on the left. A small part of the living room was separated as a relaxation room. At the suggestion of the Society of Friends of Kant , the house was converted and expanded as a memorial in 1927/28 by the Königsberg architect Walter Kuhrke. The living room was decorated with a replica of a Kant bust by Carl Friedrich Hagemann (1801) and with reproductions of contemporary pictures. Replicas of Kant's manuscripts and book titles as well as the work Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime were displayed in a showcase . The thatched roof was replaced by a tiled roof.
Kant did not leave anything in writing about his stays at a young age in the forester's house and secretary's house. Ludwig Ernst von Borowski reports that Kant would have been there several times. The forester Wobser, who lives in the forester's house, was a landlord that Kant wanted for his country stay, a man with a very good natural mind. In Moditten, Kant wrote Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime . It is reported that his friends Joseph Green , Robert Motherby and Wilhelm Ludwig Ruffmann (1737–1794) also frequented there.
Next to Kant's summer house grew a huge, protected linden tree with a memorial plaque and Kant's saying: "The night is sublime, the day is beautiful."
The actual forester's house in Moditten had a bar for a long time and was a destination for the Königsbergers, especially the student body. It was particularly known for its Kopskiekel wine . The forester's house was acquired by Max Roeckner in 1921 in a desolate state. He expanded it generously in the 1920s with a large hall, dance hall and hunting room. This made it even more attractive for guests from Königsberg.
In 1939 Moditten and its forester's house were incorporated into Königsberg.
The forester's lodge Moditten was converted in 1944 as a command post in the outer defensive ring around Königsberg, with an air raid shelter next to it. The switchboard came to the Kant house after the inventory had been moved to the Königsberg Castle . The forester's house went down when the Red Army stormed Königsberg at the beginning of April 1945, only presumed remains of the foundation or the fortifications are left. Perhaps it was blown up by the Wehrmacht. Nothing at all has been preserved from the Kant house.
Nearby, in the area of the former Spittelkrug, there is a small new building. Some Russians mistakenly claim this as a Kant house.
See also
literature
- Eduard Anderson : The Kanthäuschen in Moditten . Koenigsberg i. Pr. 1936
- Fritz Gause , Jürgen Lebuhn: Kant and Königsberg until today. Current travel report and historical review. Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg, Leer 1989, ISBN 3-7921-0418-0 .
- Immanuel Kant : works. Edited by Arnold Kowalewski . Volume 1: Sabina Laetitia Kowalewski, Werner Stark: Königsberger Kantiana. With an appendix. Meiner, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-7873-1556-X , p. 46 ( Kant research 12).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Wilhelm Heinrich Erbkam: Borowski, Ludwig Ernst . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 177 f.
- ↑ Statement and inspection with a local Kaliningrader 2014
- ^ Preussische Allgemeine Zeitung , April 22, 2006: Where Kant went on vacation - memories of a place where the philosopher was born 282 years ago , by Heinrich Lange [1]
Coordinates: 54 ° 42 '50.6 " N , 20 ° 25' 5.8" E