Kirms-Krackow-Haus

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The street view
The courtyard view

The Kirms-Krackow-Haus is located in the city center of Weimar (Thuringia). It houses a museum on bourgeois living culture in the 18th and 19th centuries and is used for events.
Since January 2009, due to a property swap with the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, it has belonged to the Thuringian Palaces and Gardens Foundation .

history

The house at Jakobstrasse 10 has been evidenced by the existing, dated city map since 1569. From 1701 the buildings of the four-sided courtyard were owned by the Kirms family. It is relatively inconspicuous from the street side. The wooden walkway ( arcade ) on the first floor of the house is noteworthy , but it does not evenly encompass all four partial houses. The floor height alone is different. The fourth part of the house doesn't even have one. These whorls rest on support beams. The front building with the archway has two more floors above the floor with the walkway, the topmost being a mansard roof . The courtyard is paved with coarse limestone. There is a stone water basin in front of the entrance to the garden.

In 1750 a neighboring piece of land was purchased to expand the garden, where the baroque garden house was built in 1754. The Weimar Councilor Franz Kirms was one of the Weimar florists, that is, flower lovers, who grew many botanical rarities in his garden. A niece of his wife Erdmuthe Sophie Krackow, hence the name Kirms-Krackow-Haus, was Charlotte Coelestine Krackow. She maintained the inheritance that she inherited until her death in 1915 at the old age of over 90. The interior of the house largely corresponds to what said niece left behind. All in all, the basic Biedermeier character of the interior was preserved, although many stylistic alienations can be observed due to the addition of later elements of the interior.

In 1916 the city of Weimar bought the house and the Biedermeier garden, which had been preserved up to our century, from the heirs, so that it could be made accessible to the public as a museum. That happened on August 28, 1917. From 1940 to 1950 this facility and the garden were closed. The garden was reconstructed from 1956 to 1958 based on plans by the landscape architect Hermann Schüttauf . This in turn was also involved in the design of the park on the Ilm . The garden Marstallstr. 3, which can be reached through the garden. In 1963, a Herder Museum was set up there on the 2nd floor, which no longer exists and is to be set up again in the Herder Gymnasium in 2017. This is related to the 500th anniversary of the Reformation of Martin Luther .

Refurbishment and current use

On the occasion of the cultural capital year 1999, the Kirms-Krackow-Haus was renovated and the garden was restored to its original form.

  • Views of the town house and gardens

  • Wide, arched gate entrance

  • Old water pump in the yard

  • Circular gallery on the 1st floor

  • Inner courtyard with rear building

  • Garden view to the rear building

  • The flower beds of the garden

  • South exits to the garden

  • The baroque summer house

On the upper floors of the front building there is a museum on bourgeois living culture in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The museum in the Kirms-Krackow-Haus in Weimar opens its doors from spring to autumn.

Visiting the gardens with pavilion is free of charge all year round. The flower garden is open daily from morning to night.

The garden house and the rear building are also used for cultural events. At times there were various catering facilities on the ground floor of the rear building.

literature

  • Eduard Scheidemantel: "Memories of Charlotte Krackow", Panses Verlag GmbH Weimar
  • Story about Haus Kirms and Franz Kirms as PDF download Critical comments on the exhibition concept (54 kB)
  • Hans Wahl , Anton Kippenberg : "Goethe and his world", Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1932 p. 155
  • The Kirms-Krackow-Haus in Weimar: the building history, the history of the garden, the house residents, friends and guests, Ulrike Müller-Harang with contributions by Jürgen Beyer, ed. from the Weimar Classic Foundation, Vienna 1999. ISBN 3-446-19725-7
  • Gertrud Ranft: The Kirms-Krackow-Haus in Weimar , national research and memorial sites for classical German literature in Weimar, Weimar, 5th revised. and exp. Ed., Weimar 1978.
  • Christina Didier; Wolfgang Hecht: The Herder Museum in the Kirms-Krackow-Haus in Weimar , National Research and Memorial Sites for Classical German Literature in Weimar, 2nd edition, Weimar 1979.

Web links

Commons : Kirms-Krackow-Haus  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DPA: Museums: Weimar is to have a Herder Museum by 2017. In: Focus Online . January 23, 2010, accessed October 14, 2018 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 54.3 "  N , 11 ° 19 ′ 48.7"  E