Holderlin House

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Hölderlinhaus Nürtingen (2011)

The Hölderlinhaus in Nürtingen is the house in which Friedrich Hölderlin spent his childhood and youth and where he returned again and again until 1798.

Building history

The Schweizerhof once stood on the site of today's Hölderlinhaus , planned in 1622 as a large agricultural building for Nürtingen Castle by master builder Heinrich Schickhardt (1558–1635). In 1748 the dilapidated building was purchased by Jakob Friedrich Duttenhofer (1696–1769). This was the hospital and mayor of Nürtingen and also Nürtingen's representative in the state parliament . He had the building renovated, the house burned down in the great city fire in 1750 and was rebuilt by Duttenhofer in 1751 according to the late Baroque ensemble planning by the ducal master builder Johann Groß the Elder. Ä. (1697–1757)rebuilt. The destroyed residential buildings in downtown Nürtingen and the building of the hospital, which had also burned down, were built according to the same planning. The Hölderlinhaus has been preserved in its cubature to this day, but has undergone some changes due to the 200 years of mainly school use in the interior and in the attic (1811, 1884, 1904).

Usage history

In 1622 the house was part of the Nürtingen Castle as a Schweizerhof (agricultural building). From 1751 it served as the residence of the hospital master Duttenhofer. From 1774 it was the home of the Hölderlin-Gok family, and their wine wholesalers were located in the cellar. After 1795 it served the Maier family's bakery and home. It had been owned by the hospital since 1811. The building was used as a versatile schoolhouse , as a soup kitchen for feeding the poor, as a kindergarten and a teachers' seminar. It later came into the possession of the city of Nürtingen. It has been used as a school building since the 19th century: boys' school, elementary school , Hölderlin grammar school, and is still a community college building today.

Residence of the Hölderlin-Gok family

The building, known today as the Hölderlinhaus, was the home of the Friedrich Hölderlin family for 24 years, from 1774 until his mother moved out in 1798 . Here he spent his childhood and youth. During the student years the house was a place to stay for vacancies and in the years that followed "the mother's house" was also a place of refuge for the desperate Holderlin who was looking for a position in society.

Jakob Kocher, the discoverer of the history of the Hölderlinhaus, wrote in 1918 in the Swabian Merkur: “The boys' school in the Neckarsteige has a very interesting history.” It would take a few more decades before the historical dimension of this historic building was generally recognized. Only with the building history report by the building historian Johannes Gromer (1941–2011) commissioned by the city of Nürtingen and made public at the beginning of 2009 can the living situation of the Hölderlin family be understood.

The Monument Foundation Baden-Württemberg named the building Monument of the Month for September 2017 .

literature

  • Jakob Kocher: History of the City of Nürtingen . Emphasis. Zimmermann, Nürtingen , DNB  550558349 (Fraktur).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jakob Kocher: History of the City of Nürtingen.
  2. ↑ Swabian Mercury. With Swabian Chronicle and Handelszeitung. Thursday 11 July 1918, No. 321.
  3. ↑ Swabian Homeland , 2011/1.

Coordinates: 48 ° 37 ′ 39.6 ″  N , 9 ° 20 ′ 10.8 ″  E