Goethe House and Goethe Museum

The Goethe House and Goethe Museum

Visiting the Goethe

family home

The Goethe House in Grosser Hirschgraben was the residence of the Goethe family until 1795.

"With the chime of twelve", as Johann Wolfgang Goethe reported in "Dichtung und Wahrheit", he came into the world on 28 August 1749 and spent his youthful years here.

In 1795 the family sold the house.

After the destruction of the war on 22.3.1944 Goethe's parents' house was rebuilt and furnished with the preserved old furnishings.

The Goethe House is typical of bourgeois residential culture in the late Baroque period and is worth a visit not only because of its famous inhabitant.

The visit offers an interesting glimpse into 18th century lifestyle.

While the furnishings no longer match the original, an attempt has been made to restore each room as faithfully as possible.

Goethe's study on the second floor is furnished as it once was. This is where the master created "Goetz von Berlichingen", "Urfaust" and "The Sorrows of Young Werther".

The Goethe House is owned by the Stiftung Freies Deutsches Hochstift, which also runs the Goethe Museum associated with the Goethe House.

Every year, over 130000 people from all over the world visit the rooms of the Goethe House.

The State Rooms on the first floor, the Music Room, the Father's Library, the Study Room on the second floor and the Birth Room of the Prince of Poets with the Baptismal Display.

The Goethe Museum

The Goethe Museum is located right next to the Goethe House. It is home to the only painting gallery devoted exclusively to the Goethe period.

The Goethe Museum presents an extensive collection of paintings, prints and busts from the 18th and 19th centuries, ranging from late Baroque and Classicism to Romanticism and Biedermeier.

This vividly illustrates the poet's relationship to art and to artists such as Johann Heinrich Füssli, Caspar David Friedrich and Frankfurt painters.

The manuscript collection comprises some 40,000 items. Focal points are: Johann Wolfgang Goethe and his contemporaries, such as Clemens Brentano, Bettine and Achim von Arnim, as well as Joseph von Eichendorff and Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

The Prints and Drawings Collection contains ca. 15,000 objects relating primarily to Goethe and his circle and to Romanticism.

Info at a glance

Address:

Großer Hirschgraben 23-25, 60311 Frankfurt am Main

Opening hours:

Monday to Saturday
10.00 - 18.00<x><BR</x> <x><BR</x> Sunday and public holidays<x><BR</x> 10.00 - 17.30

Unfortunately, the historic Goethe House is not suitable for wheelchairs and prams.

The Goethe Museum can be reached comfortably via a lift.

A disabled toilet is available.

Admission:

Regular admission 7,00 €

Discounted 3,00 <x>.Ampersand</x>euro; (severely disabled, unemployed)

Students 3,00 €

Students 1,50 <x>ampersand</x>euro;

Groups 5,00 <x>ampersand</x>euro; (from 11 persons)

Groups 4,00 € (from 20 persons)

Families with children 10,00 € (max. 2 adults)

Children up to 6 years free

Exhibition tours for regular groups cost 40,00 &euro each; + group admission price.

Exhibition tours for student groups cost 20.00 <x>ampersand</x>euro each; + 3,- <x>ampersand</x>euro; for students.

For more info - including about different opening hours on holidays and to book tours - go to: http://www.goethehaus-frankfurt.de/

You can learn more about Goethe HERE