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Goethe's house of birth in Frankfurt City Breaks: Online Travel Guide for Frankfurt am Main
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Goethe wrote down his childhood memories in 'Truth and Fiction' - called in a different translation 'Poetry and Truth'. Frankfurt has changed dramatically since then. However, in the Goethe house, in the narrow streets leading to the City's Council and the Cathedral, on the river Main, looking at the excavated foundations of the Jewish ghetto near the Old Jewish cemetery, you still have a chance to see Frankfurt through Goethe's eyes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "Truth and Fiction relating to my life", translation by John Oxenford "On the 28th of August, 1749, at mid-day, as the clock struck twelve, I came into the world, at Frankfort-on-the-Main. My horoscope was propitious: the sun stood in the sign of the Virgin, and had culminated for the day; Jupiter and Venus looked on him with a friendly eye, and Mercury not adversely; while Saturn and Mars kept themselves indifferent; the moon alone, just full, exerted the power of her reflection all the more, as she had then reached her planetary hour. She opposed herself, therefore, to my birth, which could not be accomplished until this hour was passed." Goethe was born in Frankfurt in the house of his parents and of his grandmother Cornelia Goethe in the Grosse Hirschgraben. The house was reconstructed after 1945. The interior furnishing is in original condition. top of page <<
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