Turtle house
The Turtle House ( Dom pod Żółwiem in Polish ) is a reconstructed Baroque building in the old town of Gdansk at ul. Świętego Ducha 111. The writer Johanna Schopenhauer was born in the previous building .
architecture
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It is a narrow three-story residential building with a baroque gable. A metal turtle, after which it is named, is attached to it.
history
The previous building was built (around?) 1650. The merchant Christian Heinrich Trosiener bought it around 1763 . His eldest daughter Johanna was born there in 1766, the mother of the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer . In her memories, she later described the house and her experiences in it (there was a turtle even then, with movable legs and head).
In 1789 Heinrich Trosiener sold the house to Samuel Jacob Fischer. In 1808 Johann Albrecht Hildebrandt and Franz Meyerhold were the owners.
Until 1944 it was used as a residential building with four to five rental apartments, with the address Heilige-Geist-Gasse 81. In 1945 it was badly damaged.
In 1958 it was rebuilt, in 1965 and around 1970 the facade and decorative elements were added. For many years it was an antiquarian bookshop, now it houses a library that also organizes regular cultural events.
Web links
- About the Schopenhauer houses in Gdansk Forum Gdansk
- Świętego Ducha Gedanopedia, History of the Street, with Photo No. 4 (Polish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Heinrich Trosiener Gedanopedia (Polish)
- ^ Johanna Schopenhauer: Youth life and hiking pictures. 2nd Edition. Westermann, Braunschweig 1939. (Annotated new edition: Europäische Hochschulverlag, Bremen 2009. P. 33 and more often) Digitalisate - Internet Archive
- ↑ Świętego Ducha Gedanopedia (Polish)
- ↑ Schopenhauer Houses in Danzig Forum Danzig (German)
Coordinates: 54 ° 21 ′ 0.6 ″ N , 18 ° 39 ′ 21.8 ″ E