Max Eyth House
The Max-Eyth-Haus is a historic building in Kirchheim unter Teck . Today it houses a literary museum about the poets and writers associated with the city.
history
The building, erected in 1540 as a Latin school , is the oldest half-timbered house in the city center. It has been called the Max-Eyth-Haus since 1923 , in memory of the engineer and writer Max Eyth , who lived here on May 6, 1836, as the eldest son of the then senior president of the Latin school, the Heilbronn-born poet and writer Eduard Eyth and his wife Julie Eyth b. Capoll was born. In 1994 the current literature museum was opened in the Max-Eyth-Haus after the city library, which was previously housed in the building, had moved to a new building.
museum
Editions of Max Eyth's books as well as photos and some of his drawings are presented on the upper floor. We also remember the Reutlingen writer Hermann Kurz , who lived with his family in Kirchheim unter Teck from 1862–1863, as well as the Berlin poet, essayist and translator Hans Bethge , who spent the last years of his life here from 1943–1945 and who died in Göppingen district hospital in 1946 , also to Hermann Hesse , who met his friends in Tübingen in Kirchheim's Gasthof Krone in 1899 . Hesse's story Lulu (1901), later included in his book Hermann Lauscher , takes place in Kirchheim.
The history of the former Latin school, which existed until 1909, is presented on the ground floor. It reminds of former Latin students and important personalities of the city's history, such as the Tübingen mathematics professor Johannes Scheubel, the theologian and sacred song writer Albert Knapp , who made his vicariate in Kirchheim, and also Johann Simon Kerner, professor of botany at the Hohen Karlsschule in Stuttgart , whose works can be seen, as well as to Eduard Eyth, the former Senior Preceptor of the Latin School, and his wife Julie Eyth, who also appeared as a writer, and finally to the philologist and folk writer Franz Kaim.
Others
The Gasthaus Krone in Alleestraße 35 was the meeting place of Hermann Hesse, Ludwig Finck and Julie Hellmann, of Lulu in Hesse's eponymous narrative. The former house of Hans Bethges is at Paradiesstrasse 16; his grave is in the old cemetery in Herdfeld.
literature
- Bernd Löffler: Hans Bethge in Kirchheim / Teck. German Schiller Society, Marbach am Neckar 1991, ISBN 3-928882-60-0 ( tracks 12).
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Coordinates: 48 ° 38 '55.7 " N , 9 ° 27' 0.1" E