Hölderlin Tower

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Hölderlin tower with punt boats (2016)
Blackboard on the tower. Inscription:
“1807–1843.
Here u lived Hölderlin fell asleep "
The tower room on the first floor

The Hölderlin Tower in Tübingen was named in the late 19th century after the poet Friedrich Hölderlin , who lived there from May 3, 1807 until his death in 1843. The building is one of the most famous memorials in Tübingen.

history

The history of the Hölderlin Tower can be traced back to the 13th century. The base of the tower was part of the medieval city wall along the northern bank of the Neckar . The existence of a house directly adjacent to the tower base has been documented since the early 17th century. Connected to this under one roof in the late 18th century was an octagonal storey placed on the base.

In 1807 the building was acquired by the master carpenter Ernst Friedrich Zimmer. In the same year he took in Holderlin, whose Hyperion he admired, who had been discharged from the Autenrieth Clinic as terminally ill . The poet lived in a modestly furnished room on the first floor of the tower for 36 years.

During the tower era, Hölderlin continued to write - mostly under the pseudonym Scardanelli - and also received visitors, such as the poets and students at the Tübingen monastery, Wilhelm Waiblinger and Eduard Mörike . In 1914, Hermann Hesse describes in his story Im Presselschen Gartenhaus a visit by the two of them to the sick Hölderlin in the tower.

Zimmer had the two-story building expanded several times until 1828. He died in 1838, and from then on his daughter Charlotte took care of the sick Hölderlin. In 1874 the master shoemaker Carl Friedrich Eberhardt bought the house, had it expanded again and set up a bathing establishment there. On December 14 of the following year, the tower burned down to the ground floor. Soon a new, round tower with a pointed roof and a larger adjoining house were built on the foundation walls. The name "Hölderlin's Tower" can be found in the construction plans.

The city of Tübingen acquired the house in 1921 with the support of the “Association for the Preservation and Acquisition of the Hölderlin Tower”. In 1984, as part of a renovation, the interior of the house was brought closer to the room layout in Hölderlin's time. From August 2017 to February 2020, the building was again fundamentally renovated and redesigned, and the permanent exhibition was revised.

The Hölderlin Museum with a permanent exhibition, special exhibitions and a reference library is located in the tower and the adjoining house. The Hölderlin Tower is managed by the city of Tübingen in close cooperation with the Hölderlin Society , which was founded in 1943 and is based in the building.

literature

drawing

The artist Wolfgang Teucher, born in 1950, illustrated a text edition of Pressel's garden house with the pen drawing Hölderlin in the tower by the window .

Web links

Commons : Hölderlinturm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hölderlinturm in Tübingen festively reopened , Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 15, 2020.
  2. ↑ Reclams Universal Library No. 694, Leipzig 1977 & 1979, without ISBN. In this anthology there are further drawings by Teucher for the other Hesse stories. An approximate overview of the printed editions of the short story ..Gartenhaus from 1914, often printed in anthologies, can be found in Lemma Waiblinger, Literature

Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '9.7 "  N , 9 ° 3' 20.4"  E