Schiller House (Lorch)
The Schillerhaus in Lorch is a reminder of the stay of the poet Friedrich Schiller there . In January 1764, Schiller, who was born in Marbach am Neckar , came to the Remstalort with his family. Shortly before, his father Johann Caspar Schiller had worked as a Württemberg recruiting officer in the neighboring imperial city of Schwäbisch Gmünd .
The Schillers rented a property from Lorch blacksmith and armorer Johann Michael Molt, who ran his business in a building between Remsbrücke and Stuttgarter Strasse. This accommodation was cheaper than an apartment in the expensive imperial city. The young Schiller attended elementary school in Lorch, where he learned to read and write. He had his first Latin and Greek lessons with the Lorch pastor Philipp Ulrich Moser. At that time Schiller wanted to become a pastor himself. He later set a literary monument to the Lorch clergyman in the drama Die Räuber (1781). One of Schiller's playmates in Lorch was the later poet and writer Karl Philipp Conz . On December 23, 1766 the Schillers left Lorch again and moved to Ludwigsburg .
Two houses in Lorch are considered to be Schiller houses: the former Molt forge, a building erected in 1705/06 in today's Stuttgarter Straße, which was only recently identified as the Schillerhaus, and a new forge built by Molt in 1766/67, which has been in operation since 1876 was mistaken for the Schillerhaus and has since been provided with a bronze plaque above the entrance ( 48 ° 47 ′ 50.7 ″ N , 9 ° 41 ′ 22.2 ″ E ).
literature
- Friedrich Pfäfflin among others: Literary museums and memorials in Baden-Württemberg , 2nd edition Marbach am Neckar 1991.
Web links
- Schiller House in Lorch (PDF file; 115 kB)
- Schmiede Molt / "Schillerhaus" (PDF file; 256 kB)
Coordinates: 48 ° 47 ′ 49.3 " N , 9 ° 41 ′ 13.5" E