Haydn House Eisenstadt
The Haydn House in Eisenstadt at Joseph-Haydn-Gasse 21 in Eisenstadt was the property and residence of the composer Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) from 1766 to 1778 . Today it houses the Eisenstadt Haydn Museum. The house is a listed building .
description
The Joseph Haydn alley (formerly Klostergasse) facing the main building of the property in closed development is two-storey, four window axes wide and has a flat sloping gable roof . The light gray facade has a simple baroque white plaster decor on the upper floor .
A wide gate with indicated pilasters leads through the house into a small inner courtyard. The yard is separated from the neighboring property on the left by a wall. This pair of courtyards can be found on several properties on Joseph-Haydn-Gasse. On the right, the front building is followed by a side building that leads to a final rear building. This rear end formerly bordered the old city wall of Eisenstadt. An outside staircase leads to the upper rooms, which are also accessible from the inside.
history
A Gothic window uncovered in the front building indicates that the house was built in the 16th century. The 1747, which can be read at the basement entrance, refers to the last renovation before Joseph Haydn, royal conductor at the Esterházy court, bought the house from a widow in 1766. She lived on the ground floor until her death in 1767. After that, Haydn's students moved in here. Haydn and his wife lived in the five rooms on the upper floor. Installment payments had been agreed for the house, and when the balance fell due after the widow's death, Haydn had to approach his employer for a loan. This also took over the costs when the house was affected by two city fires in 1768 and 1776.
When the Esterházys' court was relocated to Eszterháza Castle , Haydn sold the Eisenstadt house in 1778 and had his main residence here. The subsequent owners made some extensions. The side and rear buildings were built where previously there were only stables and hayloft.
In 1898 a memorial plaque reminding of Haydn was attached to the house. In 1935 the Burgenland Heritage and Nature Conservation Association was able to rent three rooms in the courtyard wing for the first Haydn Museum. After the Second World War, together with various collections, became the property of the Province of Burgenland, and in the 1970s the building was converted into a museum memorial dedicated to Haydn. During the renovation and restoration work for the Haydn Year 2009, the original wall designs from the Haydn period were uncovered in two rooms.
museum
In the permanent exhibition, which is particularly geared towards Haydn's private life, the rooms "Zimmer, Kuchl and Cammer" are recreated with the original wall paintings and furniture from his time. Showing original portraits of him personal letters, notes and musical dedications, as well as an Anton Walter - fortepiano from 1780, a portrait medallion of Haydn's wife Maria Anna Theresia and much more.
Living room
Detail of the kitchen
Bedroom
Haydn's uniform
Anton Walter fortepiano
In 1998 the neighboring house was acquired. Since then, there have been annually changing special exhibitions in the additional exhibition rooms in addition to the permanent exhibition of the Haydn House, for example 2015 Haydn and the Freemasons and 2016 Haydn and the Women .
Haydn herb garden
At the same time as the house in Klostergasse, in 1766, Haydn bought a small vegetable garden that was then outside the city wall, the “Kuchlgärtl beym or behind the Spittal”, today in Bürgerspitalgasse 2 behind the Burgenland bank ( location ). Haydn and his wife Anna Aloisia planted spices and other plants for the kitchen as well as flowers and ornamental plants there. The complex includes a garden shed that already existed in Haydn's time, in which he is said to have composed occasionally and in which he was able to recover from the strenuous work of making music. The garden remained in the hands of the Haydns until 1778 and was later sold.
The garden was revitalized in 2002 and redesigned and planted based on the baroque model. Organizationally, the garden belongs to the Haydn House Museum. In the summer months there are occasional guided tours on the cultivation and use of baroque aromatic, medicinal and aromatic plants.
In 2018, a Haydn memorial was unveiled in Bürgerspitalgasse next to the herb garden. The monument, made of a ten-ton, three-meter-high marble block, was designed by the sculptor Heidi Tschank, the bronze head shows the young Haydn smiling.
literature
- Dehio Burgenland 1976 , Eisenstadt., Joseph-Haydngasse (formerly Klostergasse) No. 21, p. 81.
- Gunnar Strunz: Burgenland: Nature and culture between Lake Neusiedl and the Alps Trescher series of trips . 2012, ISBN 3-89794-221-6 , pp. 62–63 ( online in Google Book Search).
- Margit Pflagner , J. Marco (photos): Burgenland. 80 color pictures with explanations in German and English. Foreword by Governor of Burgenland Theodor Kery , English translation: Ursula Halama, Frick Verlag, Vienna 1970, photo 5, description of the picture: Courtyard of Joseph Haydn's house at Haydngasse 21.
Web links
- Haydn House. Retrieved October 1, 2017 .
- The Princely Kapellmeister and his bourgeois house. In: Website of the Haydn House. Retrieved October 1, 2017 .
- Haydn House Eisenstadt. In: Website Neusiedler See. Retrieved October 1, 2017 .
- Haydn herb garden. In: Website of the Haydn House. Retrieved October 1, 2017 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c The Princely Kapellmeister and his bourgeois house. (No longer available online.) In: Website of the Haydn House. Archived from the original on October 3, 2017 ; accessed on October 1, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Haydn bourgeois. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 3, 2017 ; accessed on October 3, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Special exhibitions - archive. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 3, 2017 ; accessed on October 3, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Gunnar Strunz: Burgenland: Nature and culture between Lake Neusiedl and the Alps Trescher series of trips . 2012, ISBN 3-89794-221-6 , pp. 64 ( online in Google Book Search).
- ↑ Haydn herb garden on the museum website
- ↑ Uschi Zezelitsch in the Haydn herb garden in Eisenstadt
- ↑ orf.at: Haydn monument unveiled in Eisenstadt . Article dated May 1, 2018, accessed May 1, 2018.
Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ′ 49.9 ″ N , 16 ° 31 ′ 22.1 ″ E