Hartmann-Reinbeck's house

Salon of the Hartmann-Reinbeck house. Watercolor by Mariette Zoeppritz geb. Hartmann (1802–1874), undated.

The Hartmannsche Haus and the Hartmann-Reinbecksche Haus were nationally important centers of cultural life in Stuttgart in the first half of the 19th century.

The houses of Johann Georg Hartmann , August von Hartmann and Emilie and Georg Reinbeck were popular, hospitable meeting places for local and foreign writers, artists, civil servants, scholars and merchants.

Civil conviviality

Towards the end of the 18th century, the focus of cultural life in Württemberg gradually shifted from the nobility to the bourgeoisie, which also developed a new self-confidence due to a new self-image. In the private sphere, intellectual centers grew up that cultivated a sophisticated sociability and not only united local artists, writers and scholars, but also attracted famous guests from abroad. The leading figures belonged to the Württemberg upper class, which not only included the educated bourgeoisie, but also successful, ambitious civil servants, craftsmen and merchants. Smaller bourgeois circles were formed which had their center in the houses of individual outstanding families, but which became all the more important for the cultural life of the city the more the nobility lost its influence and attraction. In addition to private circles, the citizens of Stuttgart also came together in associations, including the Museum Society (from 1807), the Stuttgart Reading Club (from 1822), the Stuttgarter Liederkranz (from 1824) and the Stuttgarter Kunstverein (from 1827).

The centers of private bourgeois cultural life included the Hartmann House and Hartmann-Reinbeck House, the houses of the following Stuttgart celebrities.

Johann Heinrich Dannecker

The house of the sculptor Johann Heinrich Dannecker , the so-called Danneckerei, stood directly at the New Palace . “As a place of lively intellectual life, the 'Danneckerei', museum and studio, art school and apartment in one, quickly became a household name, and for many years those who were decisive in matters of art and literature, but also political ones, were found here every Thursday leading men of the city together. "

Thank God Heinrich Rapp

The hospitable house of the merchant, art lover and writer Gottlob Heinrich Rapp stood in the middle of Stuttgart near the collegiate church . Like the Danneckerei, the Rappsche Haus (“Schiller-Goethe-Haus”) was a popular place to go for those interested in culture inside and outside of Württemberg. Dannecker was married to Heinrike Rapp, a sister of Gottlob Heinrich Rapp, and both men and their families were closely related. In 1794, Schiller, a friend of Dannecker's, had enjoyed the hospitality of the Rapps together with his wife during his last stay in Stuttgart. He recommended Rapp to Goethe, who stopped in Stuttgart for a week in 1797 and was kindly looked after by Dannecker and Rapp. The reading of his epic “ Hermann and Dorothea ”, which Goethe held in the Rappschen house , became famous .

Eberhard Friedrich Georgii

Another meeting point was the garden hall behind the house of the High Tribunal President Eberhard Friedrich Georgii at Büchsenstrasse 50. From 1804 to 1828, a good dozen dignitaries of the city, high officials, doctors, lawyers and artists met here every Monday for a weekly bowling party . In 1810 the philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling held his famous “Stuttgart Private Lectures” in the garden hall, in which August von Hartmann and Georg Reinbeck also took part.

Gustav Schwab

The house of the pastor, high school professor and writer Gustav Schwab , “famous for its cozy and spirited sociability, became a kind of literary headquarters for the city, and the chain of visitors from abroad, who often stayed for days, even weeks, did not break from. “They came from all over Germany and also from other European countries. The Schwab family lived in Hohen Strasse 8 (1829-1837) and in the parsonage of the Leonhardskirche (1841-1845).

Justinus Kerner

The house of the doctor and writer Justinus Kerner , the so-called Kernerhaus , was in Weinsberg , but was closely connected to Stuttgart due to Kerner's diverse relationships. For many years it was a “always hospitable, open, warm and sometimes a bit bizarre meeting place for the Swabian group of poets and their friends”.

Danneckerei, 1845.

Rapp's house, 1938.
Georgii House, right: Garden Hall. Drawing by Eduard Mörike, before 1861.

Hartmann's house

Johann Georg Hartmann's house, before 1874.

Johann Georg Hartmann (1731–1811), the ancestor of the Stuttgart Hartmann clan, rose from a humble background to become stud master in Marbach and court and domain councilor. He wrote a widely acclaimed book about breeding horses and mules, was the editor of a collection of Wuerttemberg church laws, was a tree and silkworm breeder, was an ironworks partner, collector of paintings and books and a member of the theater management.

Johann Georg Hartmann was the owner of the rental house Fritz-Elsas-Straße 49 / corner of Leuschnerstraße, where he lived with his family. The house was demolished in 1874 to make way for the new municipal school buildings. A plaque commemorates Johann Georg Hartmann at today's house at Fritz-Elsas-Straße 49. The name of the nearby Silk Road is also reminiscent of Hartmann's attempts at breeding silkworms.

“In his hospitable home, artistic endeavors of all kinds found a home; Scholars, artists and poets went in and out. ”When Goethe and his Duke Karl August visited Stuttgart in 1779, Hartmann was the tour guide. Goethe is said to have returned to his house and enjoyed the singing rehearsals of his daughter Henriette. Johann Caspar Lavater , the poets Friedrich von Matthisson and Karl Mayer were guests, also Christian Daniel Schubart after his release from the Hohenasperg fortress , the enlightener Friedrich Nicolai , the parents of Schiller and on his last visit to Stuttgart in 1794 also Friedrich Schiller himself.

Host of the Hartmann houses
Johann Georg Hartmann.
Mariette Hartmann.
August von Hartmann.
Emilie Reinbeck.
Georg Reinbeck.

Hartmann-Reinbeck's house

Hartmann-Reinbecksches Haus, Friedrichstrasse 14, Stuttgart, street side, around 1890.

Garden side, around 1860.

August von Hartmann , a son of Johann Georg Hartmann, was a teacher at the Hohen Karlsschule and after its dissolution held high offices in the Württemberg administration. After his release in 1818, he devoted himself to charitable tasks. Last but not least, the open-minded spiritual atmosphere in his parents' house allowed his love for art and science to flourish. In 1827 he founded the Stuttgart Art Association together with Gottlob Heinrich Rapp and Johann Heinrich Dannecker .

After his father's death in 1811, he moved into a rented apartment in Lange Strasse 59/61. By 1816 at the latest, he lived on Postplatz, by today's Postplatz fountain on Rotebühlplatz . His daughter Emilie Hartmann was active like her younger sister Mariette Zöppritz nee. Hartmann as a painter. In 1817 Emilie married the writer and high school professor Georg Reinbeck . The couple lived in the house of Emilie's parents. In 1826 Georg Reinbeck built a house at Friedrichstrasse 14, which the Hartmann and Reinbeck families lived together. The term Hartmann-Reinbecksche Haus refers in a broader sense to all three houses in which the two families lived.

The Hartmann couple, later together with the Reinbeck couple, continued the hospitable family tradition of Johann Georg Hartmann. Some visitors came occasionally when they came to Stuttgart, others came frequently or regularly. For years there was a reading circle in the Hartmannschen and then in the Hartmann-Reinbeckschen houses, alternately in the apartment of the Hartmann couple and the Wangenheim couple, who lived in the same house. Participants were Karl August von Wangenheim and his wife, August von Hartmann with his wife and daughters Emilie, Julie and Mariette, Emilie's husband Georg Reinbeck , Therese Huber and her daughter Luise von Herder, Friedrich von Matthisson with his wife, Luise Duttenhofer and her husband Christian Friedrich Traugott Duttenhofer and Friedrich Rückert .

Up until Hartmann's death in 1849, many local and foreign celebrities came and went in the house. In addition to the participants in the reading circle, the guests included Gustav Schwab , Justinus Kerner , Ferdinand Freiligrath , Emanuel Geibel , Wilhelm Hauff , Ludwig Tieck , Wolfgang Menzel , Heinrich Voss , Emma Niendorf and many others. Two guests remained in special memories:

In 1819 Jean Paul stayed in Stuttgart for a few weeks, where he was received with great enthusiasm. Emilie Reinbeck reported about the visitor:

“He came here for several weeks and lived across from us and was often our guest at the simplest lunch, as he found it when he was uninvited but always warmly welcomed. I recognized a very pure, loving mind in him, and that is why this time my shyness did not get in the way as much as it usually does when I have excellent, important people in front of me. I soon made a warm friend in him. "

When Nikolaus Lenau , a famous star poet of his time, came to Stuttgart for the first time, he also met Emilie Reinbeck. A close friendship developed between the eight years younger poet and her, and when Lenau was in Stuttgart he lived in the Hartmann-Reinbeck house, where Emilie furnished him his own room. In 1844, when he was once again living with the Reinbecks, a mental illness broke out in him and he had to be admitted to a mental institution.

literature

General

Irene Ferchl : Reading wreaths and salons. Stuttgart's literary society in the 19th century. Bad Boll 2007, here pages 10–18, online .
Werner Fleischhauer : The portrait in Württemberg: 1760-1860; History, artists and culture. Stuttgart 1939, pages 199-200.
Bernhard Gerlach: The literary significance of the Hartmann-Reinbeckschen house in Stuttgart, 1779 - 1849. Münster 1910, page 17-28, especially 24-26.
Wilhelm Heinrich Gwinner : Joh. Georg August v. Hartmann. In: Monthly for the Württemberg Forestry , Volume 5, 1854, Pages 87-102, here 100-101, online .
Hartmanns book [1]. Family tree. Cannstatt 1878, pp. 98-99.
Bernhard Zeller : Literary life in Stuttgart town houses around 1800. In: Christoph Jamme (editor); Otto Pöggeler (editor): “O princess of home! Glükliches Stutgard “: Politics, culture and society in the German southwest around 1800. Stuttgart 1988, pages 77–97, especially 89–90.

Auxiliary literature

Hartmanns book [2]. Continuation and addition of the family books from 1878, 1885 and 1892. Cannstatt 1898, pages 25–29.
Hartmanns book [3]. Cannstatt 1913, pages 22-26.
Theobald Kerner : The Kernerhaus and its guests. Reprint of the 2nd edition from 1897, Freiburg 2006.
Maria Köhler: Explanations [to the plan of the city of Stuttgart around 1830]. In: Christoph Jamme (editor); Otto Pöggeler (editor): “O princess of home! Glükliches Stutgard “: Politics, culture and society in the German southwest around 1800. Stuttgart 1988, pages 419–433. - Addresses of prominent Stuttgart residents, 1800–1830.
Carl Lotter: History of the Museum Society in Stuttgart. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the company. Stuttgart 1907.
Gustav Ströhmfeld: GH Rapp: his house and his guests. Stuttgart 1892.