Gontard's dollhouse

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The Gontard dolls house is an exhibit in the Frankfurt Historical Museum . The dollhouse came from the d'Orville family to the Gontard banking family in the 18th century and has been part of the history museum since 1879.

From d'Orville via Gontard to Jügel

The dollhouse comes from Holland . Susanna d'Orville (1735–1800) got it from friends in 1748. Her cousin Agathe d'Orville, daughter of Offenbach's mayor Peter Georg d'Orville , probably also got a Dutch doll's house from the same friends in 1758, now in the House of City History exhibited in Offenbach.

In 1752 Susanna married the Frankfurt banker Daniel Andreas Gontard (1727–1781). The couple had five children, including three girls who played with them: Johanna Helene (1755-1820), Maria Magdalena (1763-1823) and Margarete (1769-1814).

The doll's house later came into the household of Maria Magdalena, who married Johann Friedrich Schönemann (1756–1832), the brother of Goethe's " Lili ". Here it was Mimi Schönemann (1787–1838) who was the only child in the family who played with this heirloom. In 1816 she married the bookseller Carl Christian Jügel (1783–1869).

It was Carl Jügel who published the book Das Puppenhaus, an heirloom in the Gontard family in 1857 , arguably the most important source on the history of the dollhouse. For some time it passed to cousin Maria Belli-Gontard . She was the daughter of Franz Gontard (1759–1829), brother of Mimi Gontard's mother. Finally it returned to the Jügel family.

The donation

In 1879 the Historical Museum of the City of Frankfurt received this dollhouse as a donation from Jügel's sons Franz and August. They must have acted in the interests of their father, who died in 1869 and who was a great benefactor. His foundation made it possible, for example, to build the Jügelhaus , a main building of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University .

description

The doll's house consists of six rooms. At the bottom in the middle you will find the entrance hall with a grandfather clock and oak stairs to the upper floor. To the right of this is the elegant, lavishly furnished salon. An open fireplace, cupboards, tables and chairs can be found here. Pictures on the walls, as well as book shelves. Everywhere very loving details like a quadruple hourglass on the fireplace. To the left of the entrance hall is a pantry with lots of supplies.

On the upper floor you can see the landing, the upper forecourt again in the middle of the house. To the right of this is another well-equipped kitchen, to the left of which is the bedroom.

literature

  • Carl Christ Jügel: The doll's house, an heirloom in the Gontard family: fragments from the memories and family papers of a seventies . Self-published, 1857 ( full text in the Google book search).
  • Christa von der Marwitz: Gontard's dollhouse in the Historical Museum in Frankfurt am Main . In: Histor. Museum Frankfurt am Main (ed.): Small writings of the historical museum . tape 37 . Kunz Verlag, Kelkheim / Taunus 1987, ISBN 3-89282-007-4 .

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