Brothers Grimm House
Coordinates: 50 ° 18 ′ 43.8 " N , 9 ° 27 ′ 33.7" E
The Brothers Grimm House is a special museum in the East Hessian town of Steinau an der Straße , which was founded in 1998 by the town of Steinau and the Brothers Grimm Society .
It is located in the former office building of Steinau and is one of the largest and most important museums dealing with the Brothers Grimm and their work.
history
The Amtshaus building was built in 1562 during the Renaissance period. It was part of a courtyard complex, which included a coach house and a larger Amtshof barn . The Amtshof and the Amtshaus were used as the regional administrative seat of bailiffs who were in service from the beginning of the independent County of Hanau-Munzenberg or from 1642 to 1685 of the County of Hanau , later from 1736 of the then reunited County of Hanau in the imperial principality of Landgraviate Hesse- Kassel .
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The lawyer and father of the Brothers Grimm, Philipp Wilhelm Grimm (1751–1796) had worked in various administrative positions in Hanau since 1778 and in 1791 was appointed bailiff of the Hanau offices of Schlüchtern and Steinau . This resulted in the move of Philipp Wilhelm Grimm and his wife Dorothea Grimm (née Zimmer , 1755–1808) with their five children at the time to Steinau an der Straße, where the Grimm family lived in the Amtshof and the Amtshaus.
The living and common rooms were on the ground floor of the office building. The bailiff Philipp Wilhelm Grimm had his office on the upper floor. Philipp Wilhelm Grimm was the chief administrative officer as well as the judge and the notary of the offices of Schlüchtern and Steinau, the area of which roughly corresponds to the greater part of the later district of Schlüchtern (incorporated into today's Main-Kinzig district in 1974 ).
The Brothers Grimm , Jacob Grimm (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), together with their three other brothers and their only sister, Charlotte Grimm (1793–1833), who was born in Steinau, stayed in the Steinauer Amtshaus in the period from 1791 until 1796 her childhood. While the mother, Dorothea Grimm, was responsible for the housekeeping, the cultural education of the Brothers Grimm was incumbent upon the father as well as the widowed aunt, Juliane Charlotte Friederike Schlemmer (née Grimm , 1735–1796) , as in Hanau before .
“Aunt Schlemmer”, as the Brothers Grimm called her, was the oldest and childless sister of Philipp Wilhelm Grimm. Just a few weeks after his family moved, she also moved into her brother's office in Steinau and from then on lived with the family, where she mainly worked as a tutor for the Brothers Grimm. She also took care of the cultivation of the field and the maintenance of the garden.
The Brothers Grimm visited the Reformed School near the Steinau town hall, where they received "lessons in violin, piano, arithmetic, religion and Latin" from the town's preceptor Johann Georg Zinckhan (1739–1804).
After the death of Philipp Wilhelm Grimm in January 1796, the Grimm family had to leave the office and moved to the Huttische Spital in Steinau, where Juliane Charlotte Friederike Grimm died in December 1796. In 1798 Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm left Steinau and came into the care of their mother's aunt, Henriette Philippine Zimmer (1748–1815), to Kassel , where they attended the local lyceum.
After further use of the Steinauer Amtshaus as the administrative seat of the appointed bailiff, the building served as a district court until 1975 . After that it was used by various offices of the Steinau city administration as well as by associations.
At the end of the 1990s, the city made the former office building available for the establishment of a memorial to the Brothers Grimm (→ #Museum Brothers Grimm-Haus Steinau ).
The Steinau Museum , which opened in 2005, is located in the former Amtshof barn, which is directly opposite the Amtshaus ... the Museum an der Straße with which the Brothers Grimm House cooperates.
Architecture of the building
The former office building, which today bears the name Brothers Grimm House, is a stately Renaissance building with a stone plinth and an upper floor, which is decorated with a rich decorative framework facing the courtyard. The building was embedded in a landscaped courtyard that is surrounded by a wall.
The basement of the building is divided by numerous, profiled segment arch windows.
The upper floor, which can be reached through a stair tower on the courtyard side, is indicated here by elaborate decorative framework, which is placed on 21 richly carved wooden consoles and is decorated with curved St. Andrew's crosses in the areas under the windows. The console above the ogival entrance door is particularly striking. The lower part, shaped like the head of a mythical animal, had a "ghost-warding" function.
The stone gable walls support a high tiled roof. Under the hip of the front gable, a small wooden man carries the weight of the roof ridge on his back.
The coach house connected to the building dates from the time it was built. A stairwell built on the south side in late Gothic forms dates from the first years of the 20th century.
Museum Brothers Grimm House Steinau
The museum
The former office building was set up as a museum jointly by the city of Steinau and the Brothers Grimm Society , which is based in Kassel, and opened in 1998 under the name Brothers Grimm House Steinau . In the meantime, an extensive exhibition has been set up in a total of 18 rooms that deals with the life, work and impact of the Brothers Grimm . Their childhood and youth in the region is the focus of the museum offer.
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In the exhibition rooms on the ground floor, the childhood and youth of the Brothers Grimm spent on Main and Kinzig are shown, with three-dimensional objects being shown. The importance of the two brothers as linguists and literary researchers is presented in a further room on the ground floor through language cards , facsimiles of medieval manuscripts and numerous first editions of their works.
A special room on the ground floor shows the artistic work of the younger brother of the Brothers Grimm, the painter and copperplate engraver Ludwig Emil Grimm (1790–1863), who made an important contribution to Hessian art with his numerous portraits, landscapes and genre representations as well as his caricatures of the 19th century. Sketch sheets on display provide an intimate insight into the life and work of the Grimms.
The entire upper floor of the Brothers Grimm House in Steinau is dedicated to children's and house fairy tales , the most famous work of the Brothers Grimm, which has found distribution in over 160 languages all over the world.
The international tradition of fairy tales is also presented as popular “poems of the people”, with all important European collections being shown in first editions and pictorial representations , from the Neapolitan fairy tales by Giambattista Basile to the French fairy tales by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm.
The international interweaving of fairy tales is illustrated using the example of well-known fairy tales such as Cinderella , Sleeping Beauty or Little Red Riding Hood . A special room installation deals with the fairy tale The Moon and makes it tangible. Another room is available especially for video and computer animation .
The exhibition in the Brothers Grimm House in Steinau is aimed at both children and adults.
Events such as storytelling evenings as well as art and other special exhibitions also take place at irregular intervals . Among other things, the complete “Grimm Cycle” with 39 etchings by the well-known British artist David Hockney was exhibited in the tenth anniversary year of 2008 .
Since the museum opened in 1998, the director of the museum has been the German art historian Burkhard Kling , who contributed to the conception of the museum and who redesigned and modernized the museum exhibition in 2009.
In 2005 the Steinau Museum ... the Museum an der Straße was set up and opened directly across from the Amtshaus, in the former, now renovated and massively expanded Amtshof barn , for which Kling also took over the management. As a special museum, in addition to the city and regional history , it primarily presents the topic of roads and travel as well as the development of the regional pottery trade , but also contains some exhibits and contributions to the Grimm family.
Awards
The two Steinau museums, Brothers Grimm House and Museum Steinau , were awarded the 2008 Museum Prize of the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Hessen-Thüringen for “a particularly successful implementation of a museum concept” .
Comparable facilities
The Brothers Grimm Museum , founded in 1959 in the Palais Bellevue in Kassel, was closed in 2009 and will find a new home in a new building in the uncertain future.
literature
in alphabetical order by authors / editors
- Brothers Grimm Society (ed.): Yearbook of the Brothers Grimm Society, Volume 13-14 . Brothers Grimm-Ges., Kassel 2006, pp. 14, 50 ff.
- Burkhard Kling : The Brothers Grimm - life and work = guide through the Brothers Grimm house in Steinau on the street 1. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2011. ISBN 978-3-88462-318-3
- Bernhard Lauer: Possibilities and limits of museum presentations by the Brothers Grimm - memorials and exhibitions from 1885 to 2015 . In: Yearbook of the Brothers Grimm Society XIX – XX . Kassel 2019, pp. 7–144 [on Steinau see pp. 59ff. u. P. 80ff.]
- Burkhard Kling: The Brothers Grimm and the fairy tale world = guide through the Brothers Grimm house in Steinau an der Straße. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2011. ISBN 978-3-88462-320-6
- Burkhard Kling, Klaus Puth (eds.): Grimms Möhrchen, Hansel and Gretel and Co. Brothers Grimm House, Steinau an der Straße 2005. (Exhibition catalog of the special exhibition in 2005)
- Burkhard Kling (Ed.): David Hockney. Six fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm . Jonas-Verlag, Marburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89445-399-2 . (Exhibition catalog of the special exhibition in 2008)
- Burkhard Kling (Ed.): Kiss me, then you get the remote control! Fairy tale in the cartoon . Jonas-Verlag, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89445-417-3 . (Catalog of the special exhibition in 2009)
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Without counting.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eberhard Michael Iba (Ed.): In the footsteps of the Brothers Grimm. A literary journey along the German fairy tale route with fairy tales, sagas and songs. Part 1 . BoD, Norderstedt 2001, ISBN 2-9599793-0-3 , p. 41.
- ↑ Hockney in Steinau , Web information of the Museum Brothers Grimm House Steinau from 2008 (accessed on September 21, 2009).
- ↑ a b Steinau: Brothers Grimm House ( memento from January 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), information on the Main-Kinzig district website (accessed on September 21, 2009).
- ↑ http://www.hr-online.de/website/rubriken/nachrichten/index.jsp?rubrik=5710&key=hessen_vtx_meldung_34830094 (link not available), news item on hr-online from July 29, 2008 (accessed on September 21 2009).
- ↑ Museum Support Prize 2008 goes to the Brothers Grimm City , article in the Gelnhäuser Tageblatt from June 25, 2008 (accessed on September 21, 2009).