Heinrich Heine House (Lüneburg)

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Gable of the Heinrich Heine House in Lüneburg
The Heinrich Heine House

The Heinrich-Heine-Haus at Ochsenmarkt 1 in Lüneburg is a patrician house from the 15th / 16th century. Century, in which the parents of the poet Heinrich Heine lived. It is now used by city authorities and cultural institutions and contains a grant-holder apartment for writers .

history

Remnants of the wall in the area of ​​the cellar indicate a previous building from around 1300; for the 14./15. A second building on the corner of Am Ochsenmarkt and Burmeisterstraße has been documented in the 19th century. This building came into the possession of the sod master Hans Witzendorff in 1484 as a dowry from his wife Ilsabe Lange, a granddaughter of the mayor Hinrik Lange.

Around 1500 the new house of the Witzendorff patrician family was built on the remains of the wall of both buildings. The reformer Urbanus Rhegius lived here between 1531 and 1534 . Around 1565, the area was doubled again and today's Heinrich-Heine-Haus was built with an adjoining building (today Volksbank) using the old building fabric. In 1592 the house came into the possession of the ducal chancellor of Celle, Friedrich von Weyhe. In the following 200 years the main and side houses were separated, a baroque staircase was built and the walls on the upper floor were decorated.

In 1779 the council surgeon and theater patron Christian Gotthard Niemeitz acquired the house and left the rococo medallion hall on the upper floor as a venue for traveling troops . In 1810 the banker Wolf Abraham Ahrons bought the house; Presumably today's entrance door dates from this time. In 1824 he sold it to the bookseller Wahlstab.

From 1822 to 1826 the parents of the poet Heinrich Heine lived on the upper floor. Heine's father Samson (Sigmund) Heine (1764–1828) was suffering from epilepsy at the time. The Hanoverian government granted the couple a temporary residence permit on July 2, 1822.

Her son Heinrich, who wanted to support his mother Betty Heine (1771-1859) in caring for them, came here for the first time on May 21, 1823. Even though he called Lüneburg the “residence of boredom” and missed the “macaroni and spirit dishes” enjoyed in the Rahel Varnhagen salon in Berlin , he came to Lüneburg repeatedly during his studies, sometimes for several months. In 1901 a memorial plaque was therefore put up and the house was known as the "Heinrich-Heine-Haus". At that time the house was still owned by the Wahlstab family of booksellers and publishers. The municipality bought it in 1941.

Extensive renovation work was carried out to mark the millennium of Lüneburg and the 100th anniversary of Heinrich Heine's death. The painting on the wall and ceiling was only exposed when a new restoration project was carried out in 1989; since then the Heine memorial plaque has been missing. The renovation measures lasted until 1992. On January 15, 1993, the building was inaugurated for its new use.

Institutions

The culture department of the Hanseatic City of Lüneburg is located on the ground floor of the Heinrich-Heine-Haus; the early baroque dance hall is used as a wedding room (the registry office is located in the Bürgeramt on Bardowicker Straße).

The “Lüneburg Literature Office” resides on the upper floor. V. ”, the“ Literary Society Lüneburg e. V. ”, the“ Lüneburg district group of the BBK ”, as well as the“ Kunstverein Lüneburg ”.

deals

The Heinrich-Heine-Haus sees itself as a cultural forum and meeting point for those interested in literature and art. The event rooms are also available for exhibitions.

The Lüneburg Literature Office organizes a program of events with German and international authors.

The state of Lower Saxony and the city of Lüneburg are jointly offering a literary scholarship of currently € 1,400 per month for German-speaking authors as an award for previous publications and to promote further literary work. The scholars can pursue their literary work in a six- or three-month stay in the Heinrich-Heine-Haus. A separately accessible apartment is available for them in the rear extension. The board of the Lüneburg Literature Office decides on the award, which takes place every two years, following the recommendation of a "literary advisory board".

Once a year, the Literary Advisory Board also invites a guest of honor. The guests of honor can live in the Heinrich-Heine-Haus for one month and are asked to give a public reading.

Heinrich Heine scholarship holders

Guests of honor in the Heinrich-Heine-Haus

Series of publications and catalogs

  • Lüneburg Literature Office, Lüneburg Literary Society (ed.): Literature in the Heinrich Heine House Lüneburg
    • Heinz Kattner: Festschrift opening of the Heinrich-Heine-Haus Lüneburg 1993. Lüneburg 1993, ISBN 3-929737-00-0 .
    • Werner Preuß: Lüneburg authors of the 18th and 19th centuries. Lüneburg 1993, ISBN 3-929737-02-7 .
    • Katja Behrens, Heinz Kattner (eds.): "... I am brought to sleep." Literary texts by fourteen authors. Lueneburg 1993.
    • Werner Preuß: The Heinrich Heine House in Lüneburg. History and present. Lüneburg 1994, ISBN 3-929737-04-3 .
    • Joseph A. Kruse: Heine's province of Lüneburg - Heine as a theologian. Lüneburg 1994, ISBN 3-929737-03-5 .
    • Hans-Martin Koch: “The best time of my life.” Wolfgang Borchert in Lüneburg. Lüneburg 1995, ISBN 3-929737-05-1 .
    • Mechthild Fendel: Lower Saxony, a land of literature. Lüneburg 1996, ISBN 3-929737-06-X .
  • Ute Flemming: “To the edge of the word.” Painting and drawing 2000–2008. Exhibition in Heinrich-Heine-Haus Lüneburg, January 11th to 25th, 2009. Text: Matthias Oppermann. Flemming, Bispingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-9811915-6-1 .

literature

  • Joseph A. Kruse: A spiritual year. Heinrich Heine's stays in Lüneburg. In: Lüneburg leaves. Vol. 21/22 (1970/71), pp. 21-47.
  • Werner Preuss: Heinrich Heine and Lüneburg. Loreley at the Lösegraben. Christians, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-7672-1030-4 .
  • Rolf-Jürgen Grote, Matthias Seefried: The Lüneburg patrician house at Ochsenmarkt 1 - a spatial art and restoration phenomenon. In: Hans-Herbert Möller (Ed.): Restoration of cultural monuments. Examples from the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony (= reports on preservation of monuments , supplement 2), Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Hameln: Niemeyer, 1989, ISBN 3-87585-152-8 , pp. 175-182.
  • Heinz Kattner: Festschrift opening of the Heinrich Heine House Lüneburg 1993. Lüneburg, Lüneburg Literature Office, Lüneburg Literary Society 1993, ISBN 3-929737-00-0 .
  • Werner Preuß: Heinrich Heine and the Heine House in Lüneburg. Husum 2007, ISBN 978-3-89876-358-5 .

Web links

Commons : Heinrich-Heine-Haus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guest of Honor in the Heinrich-Heine-Haus. In: Website of the Lüneburg Literature Office. Retrieved December 11, 2019 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 15 ′ 2.5 ″  N , 10 ° 24 ′ 27.5 ″  E