Hebbel-Museum, Literature museum in Wesselburen, Germany.
The Hebbel Museum is a literature museum in Wesselburen housed in an 18th-century building where dramatist Friedrich Hebbel lived for seven years. Ten historical rooms display furniture, household items, pictures, and documents from his life.
The museum opened in 1911 on the upper floor of a house on Süderstraße, initiated by writer Adolf Bartels. In 1949 the town bought and restored the Alte Kirchspielvogtei, an 18th-century building where Hebbel had lived and worked for seven years, and the museum moved there in 1952.
The museum occupies the actual rooms where Hebbel once lived and worked, making his personal world directly tangible to visitors. The displayed furniture and household objects give a sense of how he moved through and used these spaces every day.
The museum occupies the Alte Kirchspielvogtei, bought and restored by the town in 1949; the building stands in Wesselburen, Kreis Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein. Ten historic rooms and the Hebbel library are inside, and a research office of the Hebbel Society is attached to the house.
The library's core is the collection of museum founder Engelhard Herwig, who handed it to the town of Wesselburen in 1911 in return for reimbursement of his expenses. It now numbers over 6,000 works, and a research centre of the Hebbel Society is attached to the house.
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