Reuter Wagner Museum
The Reuter Wagner Museum has been located in the Reuter Villa at the foot of the Wartburg in the Helltal in Eisenach since 1897 . It houses the largely preserved furnishings of the last living rooms of the Low German poet Fritz Reuter as well as the Richard Wagner collection of the Austrian Nikolaus Oesterlein .
History of the house
Fritz Reuter (1810–1874), who in 1863 moved his residence from Neubrandenburg in Mecklenburg to Eisenach and was one of the best-paid writers of his time, had the villa built in the neo-Renaissance style from 1866–1868 and lived there until his death. The then very famous architect Ludwig Bohnstedt created the plans for the villa . Reuter had the villa garden designed according to the plans of his friend and brother in the corps from his student days, the royal Prussian court garden director Ferdinand Jühlke . At Reuter's request, Jühlke drew up a garden plan in 1867 with a list of the types of fruit and vegetables to be planted. Formerly, the garden, nestling against the steep slope, consisted of a kitchen and orchard (which no longer exist today) as well as the living and ornamental garden that surrounds the villa on three sides. The maintenance of this garden was Reuter's favorite occupation, he left the decoration of the house to his wife.
After the death of Reuter's widow Luise in 1894, according to his will, the house was first given to the German Schiller Foundation in Weimar , then after a year it was acquired by the city of Eisenach and converted into a museum for the poet.
Today the Eisenacher Reuter-Haus is next to the Fritz Reuter Literature Museum in the birth house in Stavenhagen the most important Reuter museum. The rooms on the first floor can be viewed with their original furniture, including the salon, in which today cultural events such as concerts, readings or lectures as well as weddings of the registry office take place on a regular basis.
Villa Reuter in 1866 (watercolor by the architect Ludwig Bohnstedt)
Floor plan of the Villa Reuter in Eisenach
Fritz Reuter's study
Wagner library in the Reuter villa
Richard Wagner bust
Villa Reuter (2016)
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Richard Wagner Collection Oesterlein
The passionate Wagnerian Nikolaus Johannes Oesterlein (1841–1898) meticulously collected everything related to the “master” and his works, from tickets, busts, letters, photos, posters and newspaper articles to original scores. In 1882 he published the first "Catalog of a Richard Wagner Library" and in 1887 opened a private museum in Vienna. Soon the collection had grown to over 20,000 objects (around 200 Wagner's manuscripts, 100 busts, 700 theater bills, 1,000 photos and 15,000 newspaper clippings), so that Oesterlein decided to sell them at an advanced age. The lexicographer Joseph Kürschner brokered the sale of the collection to the city of Eisenach in 1895, which integrated it into the Reuter Villa in 1897 and made it accessible to the public as the Reuter Wagner Museum.
The collection is the largest of its kind outside of Bayreuth and was redesigned in 1997. The focus is on the library, which comprises more than 5,000 volumes and, in addition to all of Wagner's works, contains the almost complete inventory of Wagner's secondary literature from the 19th century. You can also see Wagner's original letters, a handwritten Rienzi score with many of Wagner's notes, as well as a selection of “Curiosa” and newspaper articles, including the 2nd profile from 1853 in which Wagner is described as a “dangerous individual”.
Web links
- Literature about Reuter-Wagner-Museum in the state bibliography MV
- Web site of the museums of the city of Eisenach
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 5 ″ N , 10 ° 19 ′ 10.5 ″ E