Name: Guided tour of the Goethe House
Start: 2026-08-30T15:30:00+02:00

Two exhibition venues, two special exhibitions, various guided tours, plenty of fairy tales, and theater tours with Bettine Brentano—there’s plenty to experience at the Großer Hirschgraben. An art studio and workshops also offer the opportunity to get creative yourself. At the Goethe House, you can experience the unique atmosphere of the home where the poet spent his childhood and youth. The German Romanticism Museum offers insight into a very special era. The stories told there show what Romanticism can be: an era of cultural history, an aesthetic movement, or simply a feeling.

Johann Wolfgang Goethe was born in the house on Großer Hirschgraben and grew up there. This is where the poet spent his childhood and most of his youth until he accepted an invitation to Weimar in 1775. Here, Goethe wrote his impressive early works, *Goetz von Berlichingen* and *The Sorrows of Young Werther* (Die Leiden des jungen Werthers), which made him world-famous overnight. At that time, he also began working on the subject of Faust, which occupied him until the end of his life. In the unique atmosphere of the rooms, furnished in their original style, the Goethe family’s life and 18th-century Frankfurt come to life.

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