Schiller House (Stuttgart)
The Schillerhaus in Stuttgart was a house at Eberhardstrasse 63, where Friedrich Schiller lived in 1781 and 1782. The house was demolished in 1855.
The Schillerbau , which owes its name to a portrait of Schiller above the entrance portal, is also located on Eberhardstrasse .
Schiller House
The house, which is 6 window axes wide and 3 axes deep and covered with a gable roof, was located on the Kleiner Graben, today's Eberhardstrasse. It consisted of a ground floor, two main floors and an attic with a dwelling and two dormers. The house had Balthasar Haug , professor of rhetoric and German studies at the High School Charles and father of the poet Friedrich Haug acquired in the year 1774th He did not live in the house himself, but used the second floor for his lectures, while he rented out the remaining floors. He had given the ground floor to Luise Dorothea Vischer née. Andreae (1751-1816) rented out, the widow of a captain in the Augé Grenadier Regiment, the same regiment in which Schiller had joined in 1780 as a regimental doctor.
Schiller as a tenant
Schiller was forced to live very frugally, as he received only 18 guilders a month and the duke forbade him to have any private practice. He and his friend, Lieutenant Franz Josef Kapf, rented a room with Luise Dorothea Vischer on February 1, 1781. She gave them a cheap, heatable room with a stove and a large room on the ground floor facing the street.
Schiller lived in these poor circumstances for two years. Here he completed his "robbers" and began his "Fiesco", which at least in the manuscript was still completed before his escape to Mannheim. His friend Georg Friedrich Scharffenstein describes the poverty of the room as a hole in which it stank of tobacco and all sorts of other things. Apart from a large table, two benches, two simple camp beds and a narrow cloakroom hanging on the wall, there was nothing to be found but whole bales of “robbers” in one corner, a pile of potatoes, empty plates, bottles and all kinds of utensils in another. On September 23, 1782, Schiller fled to Mannheim to avoid the Duke's pursuit.
The Schillerhaus was acquired by the watchmaker Hettenbach in 1834 and demolished in 1855. The old building was replaced by the "Krauss-Hettenbachsche Haus" Eberhardstrasse 63 with a memorial plaque referring to the earlier building. This was later replaced by a reminder sign on the front door. In 2015 or 2016, the Schillerhaus and the neighboring building (former carpet gallery) were demolished to make way for the new building of the so-called Eberhardhöfe.
Luise Dorothea Vischer
In 1781 Schiller's landlady Luise Dorothea Vischer was 30 years old. According to a tradition from Schiller's sister-in-law Karoline von Wolehmen , the enthusiastic six Laura poems by the 22-year-old Schiller, which he published in the “Anthology of the year 1782”, were the captain's widow Vischer. Luise Vischer was, according to Karoline von Wolhaben, neither pretty nor witty, but she was good-natured and yet had something attractive about her being. In any case, she accompanied the poet on his second secret trip to Mannheim in 1782.
literature
- J. Minor: Schiller houses in Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg. A hundred year memory. In: Über Land und Meer, Volume 72, 1894, Pages 562–563, pdf .
- Hildegund Oßwald: Schiller House in Stuttgart. New life under the Tagblattturm. In: Stuttgarter-Zeitung.de, March 6, 2013, online .
- Gustav Wais : Old Stuttgart's buildings in the picture: 640 pictures, including 2 colored ones, with explanations of city history, architectural history and art history. Stuttgart 1951, reprint Frankfurt am Main 1977, page 381.
- Gustav Wais : The Schiller City Stuttgart. A representation of the Schiller sites in Stuttgart. Stuttgart 1955, page 34, plate 49.
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Footnotes
- ↑ #Wais 1955.1 , page 34.
- ↑ # Oßwald 2013 .
- ↑ anthology for the year 1782 .
- ↑ #Wais 1955.1 , page 34, Lauralieder (poems) ( Memento from May 9, 2018 in the Internet Archive ).
Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 22.7 " N , 9 ° 10 ′ 34.1" E