Petri house
The Petrihaus was built around 1720 as a half-timbered house on the banks of the Nidda in Rödelheim and is now located directly opposite the Brentano Park on the other side of the river. In 1819 the merchant and banker Georg Brentano bought it from the master baker Johannes Petri for 1,150 guilders and converted it in 1820 into a romantic-classical, pseudo-Swiss style. He used the house as a personal refuge and set up a salon, study and bedroom on the first floor.
The poet Bettina von Arnim , a daughter of Peter Anton Brentano and his wife Maximiliane , met friends and other writers in the Petrihaus.
The Petrihaus is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act and was completely restored in 2003, a work that also received the Hessian Monument Protection Prize in 2002. Right next to the Petrihaus is the Ginkgo in Rödelheim , with an age of around 260 years the oldest specimen of the Ginkgo biloba tree species in Germany and protected as a natural monument.
A Brentano Museum has now been set up on the first floor of the Petrihaus. The ground floor is used for public and private events.
Web links
- Official website
- Official website of the restoration
- Historic photo of the Petrihaus (before 1926) on stadtentwaesserung-frankfurt.de (accessed June 8, 2017)
literature
- Heike Kaiser: Monument topography city of Frankfurt am Main. Supplements. Limited special edition. Henrich, Frankfurt am Main 2000, p. 22 (entry Petrihaus).
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Petrihäuschen In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 26.3 ″ N , 8 ° 36 ′ 51 ″ E