SCHILLERHAUS - SCHILLER HOUSE
Welcome to Leipzig's oldest residential house! This very small, beautifully baroque residence, which appears to be cut in half, is not only a beautiful discovery in the most pleasant street of Gohlis. It is in this small building, built in adobe in 1707, that the great national poet Friedrich Schiller, master of Sturm und Drang and romanticism, with his contemporary Goethe, spent his summer of 1785. Summer when he composed the Ode to Joy, a poem that was later set to music by Ludwig Van Beethoven in his 9e symphony and, later still, to become the official text of the European anthem. It was in 1841 that the house's link with Schiller was rediscovered. In 2002, the city of Leipzig restored its vegetable garden according to the original plan. Schiller's House presents the poet's link with Leipzig, and brilliantly recreates an 18th century Saxon interior.
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