Close to the Herzog August Library where he worked as librarian, there is no other place where one comes nearer to the great writer and thinker.
The building was designed as a house for important court officials to the nearby Schloss, and is in the late French baroque style. The five years that Lessing lived and worked here were amongst the most productive and saddest of his life. Shortly after moving in here his wife Eva König and their child died. But Lessing made the very room where Eva died into his work room and wrote the world famous drama Nathan the Wise here. This was after his great quarrel with Hauptpastor Goetze, one of the highest Church authorities in Hamburg, which concluded in Lessing’s censure by the Duke.
Today, this house and literature museum is a memorial to one of the greatest German poets of the enlightenment, and of the creation of works which of the highest literary worth.
The building was designed as a house for important court officials to the nearby Schloss, and is in the late French baroque style. The five years that Lessing lived and worked here were amongst the most productive and saddest of his life. Shortly after moving in here his wife Eva König and their child died. But Lessing made the very room where Eva died into his work room and wrote the world famous drama Nathan the Wise here. This was after his great quarrel with Hauptpastor Goetze, one of the highest Church authorities in Hamburg, which concluded in Lessing’s censure by the Duke.
Today, this house and literature museum is a memorial to one of the greatest German poets of the enlightenment, and of the creation of works which of the highest literary worth.
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Dayoff: Monday
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For Lessing’s House only: 3 Euro
Day ticket, which includes entry to the Herzog August Bibliothek and all exhibitions:
• Adults: 5 Euro
• Reduced ticket price: 2 Euro (For seniors, students, those in local further education instutions, apprentices, young people in military or civic service, handicapped people, unemployed people)
• Young people between 13 and 18 years old: 1 Euro
• Children up and including the age of 12 years: Free
• Workshop visit: 3 Euro
Day ticket, which includes entry to the Herzog August Bibliothek and all exhibitions:
• Adults: 5 Euro
• Reduced ticket price: 2 Euro (For seniors, students, those in local further education instutions, apprentices, young people in military or civic service, handicapped people, unemployed people)
• Young people between 13 and 18 years old: 1 Euro
• Children up and including the age of 12 years: Free
• Workshop visit: 3 Euro
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