Frankfurt am Main: Goethes Heimat - Lübbecke, Fried 1883-1965 (Frankfurt am Main Kramer, 1946)
The Goethe House is a writer's house museum located in the Innenstadt district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is the birthplace and childhood home of German poet and playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It is also the place where Goethe wrote his famous works Götz von Berlichingen, The Sorrows of Young Werther, and the first drafts of Urfaust. The house has mostly been operated as a museum since its 1863 purchase by the Freies Deutsches Hochstift (Free German Foundation), displaying period furniture and paintings from Goethe's time in the house.The Goethe House was destroyed by Allied bombing in World War II, but reconstructed afterwards. It is located adjacent to the Deutsches Romantik-Museum, which opened in 2021.
Ex libris Paul Hindemith (manuscript)
Keywords: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von -- 1749-1832; 20th Century (1901-2000); Theater history; Architecture; History; Frankfurt am Main (Germany)