Klaus Groth Museum

Front of the Klaus Groth Museum

The Klaus Groth Museum in Heide is the birthplace of the Low German poet Klaus Groth and has not been an independent museum since 2004, but part of the Museum Island Lüttenheid . The museum was established in 1914 to commemorate Groth's life and work. After the acquisition by the town of Heide, extensive renovation work was carried out on the ailing house, in which the original structure of the gabled house built in 1796 after a fire in the old house was largely preserved. The house was furnished with furniture donated by the citizens of Heid. Among other things, Groth's birth room was reconstructed based on a drawing by the painter Otto Speckter .

The museum provides an insight into the everyday life of a miller's household in the 19th century. The Groth family ran a flour mill in the house after Klaus Groth's grandfather, Claus Reimer Groth, married into the Klehn family's milling business in 1790. In the former craftsmen's quarter of Lüttenheid in particular, the interlinking of living and working life was particularly close. The furnished rooms as well as the milling devices exhibited in the attic illustrate this.

The collection also includes an extensive inventory of original documents from Groth's estate, some of which are part of the permanent exhibition. Personal items, paintings and photos are also part of the museum's inventory. The extensive library is now being professionally preserved in the Kiel State Library . It is composed partly of the poet's private property and partly of works that were added after the museum opened.

Birth room in the Klaus Groth Museum, reconstructed from a drawing by Otto Specker from 1853

The entire ensemble of the Museum Island has been a listed building since 2017.

literature

Inge Bichel, Ulf Bichel , Joachim Hartig (Eds.): Klaus Groth. A picture biography , Heide 1994, ISBN 3-8042-0642-5 .
Lüttenheid Museum Island (Ed.): 100 Years of the Klaus Groth Museum, Heide 2014.

Individual evidence

↑ Lüttenheid Museum Island (Ed.): 100 Years of the Klaus Groth Museum . Heide 2014, p. 26 .
↑ Lüttenheid Museum Island (Ed.): 100 Years of the Klaus Groth Museum . Heide 2014, p. 8-9 .
^ Inge Bichel, Ulf Bichel, Joachim Hartig (eds.): Klaus Groth. A picture biography . Heide 1994, p. 12 .
↑ Klaus Groth's estate. Retrieved March 26, 2019 .

Web links

Side of the Museum Island Lüttenheid
Klaus-Groth-Museum - entry at www.museen-sh.de
Page of the Klaus Groth Society on the museum

54.192888888889 9.0962777777778Coordinates: 54 ° 11 ′ 34.4 " N , 9 ° 5 ′ 46.6" E

[1] Lüttenheid Museum Island (Ed.): 100 Years of the Klaus Groth Museum . Heide 2014, p. 26 .

[2] Lüttenheid Museum Island (Ed.): 100 Years of the Klaus Groth Museum . Heide 2014, p. 8-9 .

[3] Inge Bichel, Ulf Bichel, Joachim Hartig (eds.): Klaus Groth. A picture biography . Heide 1994, p. 12 .

[4] Klaus Groth's estate. Retrieved March 26, 2019 .