Friedrich Engels House, 18th-century timber house in Wuppertal, Germany

The Friedrich Engels House is a late-baroque timber-framed townhouse built in 1775 by Eberhard Haarmann for textile merchant Johann Caspar Engels Sr. Its rooms retain stucco work and wall treatments from around 1800, when the Engels family lived there. The house is a site of the Museum Industriekultur Wuppertal.

The building was constructed in 1775 following late baroque design principles and soon became the Engels family home. The region was undergoing rapid industrial growth at that moment, and this merchant family was directly involved in those economic changes.

The house was built in 1775 for the textile entrepreneur Johann Caspar Engels Sr., great-grandfather of Friedrich Engels, and stands next to the workers' houses of the firm Casper Engels Söhne, where nearly 300 skilled workers made ribbons and braids known as "Barmer Artikel". A bleaching works and a potash plant for paint production were attached. The family's grand-bourgeois setting beside its own workforce is what a visitor can compare here.

The building sits close to Wuppertal's city center and can be reached easily on foot. Plan to spend about two hours there to view all the rooms and read through the displays without rushing.

The pedestrian crossing near Adlerbrücke station has traffic lights showing the face of a young Friedrich Engels. The museum reopened on 11 September 2021, after a closure since 2016, with the unveiling of the international art project Inside out Engels. In 1987, Udo Lindenberg handed Erich Honecker a guitar in front of the house.