Schillerhöhe (Marbach am Neckar)
The Schillerhöhe is a park and museum area near the center of the city of Marbach am Neckar . It is named after the city's most famous son, Friedrich Schiller . In addition to the German Literature Archive , the Schiller National Museum , the Modern Literature Museum and the Marbach City Hall, the Schillerhöhe is home to the oldest memorial to the German poet of Sturm und Drang and Classical music. The situated overlooking the Schiller National Museum and the Neckarauen Schillerdenkmal is annually the center of the celebrations for the anniversary of Schiller's birthday on 10 November.
The Schillerhöhe was created between 1836 and 1840 by the residents of Marbach on a hill south (and at that time outside) the city. Marbach hoped to be able to erect the then planned Schiller monument in the park, about which a dispute between Marbach and the royal seat of Stuttgart had developed. Marbach asserted his rights as Schiller's birthplace, Stuttgart considered itself the poet's spiritual home. Stuttgart won out, in 1839, the existing today was Schillerdenkmal on the local Schillerplatz built. In Schiller's hometown, this “appropriation” from Stuttgart grew alien. It was not until 1876 that a memorial based on a design by Ernst Rau was unveiled on the Marbacher Schillerhöhe .
In 1903 the Schiller National Museum was built on the Schillerhöhe, which is still one of the landmarks of Marbach am Neckar today. Modeled on Stuttgart's Solitude Palace , it nestles in the landscape of the Neckar floodplains and the Schillerhöhe park and offers permanent and changing cabinet exhibitions on the great Swabian poets, from the holdings of the German Literature Archive: Ludwig Uhland , Friedrich Hölderlin , Christoph Martin Wieland , Justinus Kerner , Wilhelm Hauff , Gustav Schwab , to name but a few besides Schiller. On the other hand, there were and are large annual themed exhibitions, e.g. B. on Expressionism , Theodor Fontane , Rainer Maria Rilke , and in 2005 on the Schiller Year Plans of Gods and Mouse Shops - Schiller 1759–1805 .
With the construction of the town hall in the fifties and the Hermann-Zanker-Bad in the sixties, the Schillerhöhe became a people's park. The city park was built around the Schiller monument, a green area planted with chestnut trees, which placed the monument and museum in a dignified ensemble.
In the late 1970s, the fallow areas adjacent to the Schillerhöhe were combined and settled to form the Marbach-Süd building area, and the “Schillerhöhe” park has been a popular local recreation area ever since.
In 1986 the Schillerhöhe Senior Citizens' Foundation was opened near the Schillerhöhe City Park, probably one of the most renowned and respected retirement and nursing homes in Baden-Württemberg. About 120 residents find their home here "between tradition and the present".
Today the Schillerhöhe is also a meeting point for young people , but above all a popular destination for tourists from all over Baden-Württemberg. The lovingly designed park landscape and the appropriately embedded museums were supplemented in 2006 by the Modern Literature Museum . In the style of an oversized library shelf, the Schiller National Museum and the German Literature Archive provide the opportunity to present additional contemporary exhibitions and permanent exhibits.
literature
- Marbach - Schillerhöhe. Hundred years of architecture for literature , with contributions by Heike Gfrereis, Ulrich Ott and Alexander Schwarz, Marbach 2003, ISBN 3-933679-90-7 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 56 ′ 7.5 ″ N , 9 ° 15 ′ 20.7 ″ E