Freies Deutsches Hochstift
The Freies Deutsches Hochstift is a literary association based in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. It is the owner of the Goethe House, the place where the playwright and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born and spent his early years, which it operates as a museum. The Hochstift also manages the Deutsches Romantik-Museum, a museum dedicated to German Romanticism which opened in 2021.
1859 seal with the black, red and gold colours of the Frankfurt Parliament
Goethe House in Frankfurt in 2011
An appeal from Beutler to the Freies Deutsches Hochstift's members after the destruction of the Goethe House on 22 March 1944
The Goethe House is a writer's house museum located in the Innenstadt district of Frankfurt, 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, displaying period furniture and paintings from Goethe's time in the house.
The facade of the house in 2011
An artist's representation of the property before the 1755–56 renovation.
The completed house as it stood in 1850.
Goethe House reconstruction in May 1949
