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title: "Klopstockhaus"
url: "https://www.harzinfo.de/en/experiences/poi/klopstockhaus"
description: "Klopstock was through his works and his thinking the founder of our classic German literature. Other exhibitions in this house inform about Dorothea Christiana Erxleben, the first German post-doctoral doctor, Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths, an eminent teacher of the 18th century and Carl Ritter, the founder of geography as a science. Since 1899, the Klopstockhaus mediated as biographical literary history museum and gives you a glimpse of life and work of the poet, which performance shaped the new literary of its time significantly. His epic works \"The Mesias\" and his poetry (odes, hymns, songs) mark impressively a turning point in the history of poetry. Today his greatest achievement is considered the renewal and expansion of poetic language and versification."
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Klopstockhaus
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- Half-timbered house
- Specialist museum of history and culture
- Museum

The museum is the birthplace of the poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724-1803), a half-timbered house from the 16th century.

 Klopstock was through his works and his thinking the founder of our classic German literature. Other exhibitions in this house inform about Dorothea Christiana Erxleben, the first German post-doctoral doctor, Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths, an eminent teacher of the 18th century and Carl Ritter, the founder of geography as a science. Since 1899, the Klopstockhaus mediated as biographical literary history museum and gives you a glimpse of life and work of the poet, which performance shaped the new literary of its time significantly. His epic works "The Mesias" and his poetry (odes, hymns, songs) mark impressively a turning point in the history of poetry. Today his greatest achievement is considered the renewal and expansion of poetic language and versification.

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Good to know
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Openings

Wed-Sun: 10.00 am – 5.00 pm

last entrance 30 min before closing time
Open on holidays (Mon + Tue as well)

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Price info

3,50 €

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Directions &amp; Parking facilities

parking available - nearby

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- Event
    
    
    - Christmas market
- Place of interest
    
    
    - Romanesque Road
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    - Half-timbered house
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    - Regional museum
- Tours
    
    25.10 km
    
    
    - Bicycle
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    12.32 km
    
    
    - Walking / hiking
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    4.83 km
    
    
    - Walking / hiking

Contact

Schlossberg 12

06484 Quedlinburg